Stock futures opened sharply higher Thursday evening as investors looked ahead to a key new report on the labor market and considered a fresh set of earnings results from several major index components. Contracts on the S&P 500 gained more than 1% as the overnight session kicked off. Nasdaq futures also jumped. Earlier, the Nasdaq Composite index sank by 3.7% for its worst single-day decline since September 2020. Oil prices also remained in focus on Thursday as U.S. West Texas intermediate… Source link

Google has announced a new, free tier of its Workspace suite, Workspace Essentials Starter. Basically, it lets workers use tools like Google Docs, Sheets, Chat, etc. with their co-workers without requiring them to switch over to Gmail if they’re already using something like Exchange or Zoho. While employees have long been able to replicate this use case with personal Google accounts, having an official product for it could help with security and make it easier to manage a team of people… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. reported a strong holiday quarter, calming Wall Street’s concerns that the company was headed for a slowdown. Most Read from Bloomberg Profit beat expectations, helped by the cloud-computing division, and investors cheered a price hike for the company’s Prime subscription service. The shares jumped as much as 19% in extended trading. The reaction highlights the importance of Amazon’s diversification from its e-commerce roots. Online store sales actually… Source link

Content warning: This story contains instances of alleged sexual misconduct. Former Washington Commanders employees detailed multiple new accusations of misconduct within the organization Thursday. Multiple former employees spoke about new allegations of misconduct during an episode of HBO’s “Real Sports” podcast. The podcast episode was released the same day Congress held a roundtable with former members of the team to discuss misconduct within the organization. Allegations discussed on the… Source link

Shares of Facebook parent Meta were hammered Thursday, falling 26% after the company revealed that privacy changes Apple made to its iOS platform last year have begun to sink their teeth into the social networking giant’s bottom line. During its Q4 earnings report released Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature, or ATT, will cut $10 billion out of Meta’s earnings in 2022. Apps like Snap and Pinterest, however, appear to be fairing better in… Source link

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Denmark lifted all of its remaining coronavirus restrictions — a moment that millions of Americans have been longing for, especially as the Omicron wave that began in December appears to be subsiding. Recent polling indicates that pandemic fatigue is rising among ordinary Americans, a trend that elected officials have noticed. “We need to move away from the pandemic,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said on Monday, after he and other governors met with… Source link

The entrance to the Activision Blizzard Inc. campus is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake Activision Blizzard (ATVI) reported its Q4 2021 earnings after the bell on Thursday, falling well short of analysts’ estimates on the top and bottom line. The report will be the company’s first since Microsoft (MSFT) announced it will acquire the video game giant for $68.7 billion in January. Here are the most important numbers from the report compared to Wall Street’s… Source link

Ford (F) reported disappointing 4Q 2021 earnings today after the closing bell. The legacy automaker missed consensus estimates amid the global semiconductor shortage and the toll it has taken on its production of vehicles across product lines. Here were the main metrics from Ford’s report, compared to Bloomberg consensus estimates: Revenue: $37.7 billion vs. $34.79 billion expected, $36.0 billion Y/Y Adjusted EPS: $0.26 vs. $0.45 expected, $0.34 Y/Y Ford’s stock is down from a mid-January peak… Source link

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Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Google CEO, Sundar Pichai. REUTERS While Facebook is in the midst of its biggest stock drop ever and is trading at an 18-month low, Google remains near a record and has easily outperformed all of its Big Tech peers over the past year. The difference is Apple. Google and Facebook are the two dominant online ad companies in the U.S. and have been for years. While the companies do very different things and have faced their own unique issues, the… Source link