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PayPal sees flat profit in ‘transition year,’ shares fall

PayPal sees flat profit in ‘transition year,’ shares fall

By Manya Saini (Reuters) – PayPal’s forecast of flat growth in adjusted profit for the current year overshadowed its market-beating earnings report, sending shares of the payments giant down 7% in extended trading. On a post-earnings call, newly appointed CEO Alex Chriss laid out a strategic plan to turn the company leaner in its pursuit of driving profitable growth and ease pressure on its shares, which was one of the worst performers on the Nasdaq 100 Index in 2023. “We want to be clear eye… Source link

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Stocks flat after Monday’s rout

Stocks flat after Monday’s rout

U.S. stock futures edged higher Monday morning ahead of a busy week for investors with key inflation data and the Fed’s last policy meeting of the year serving as highlights. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) inched higher by 0.2% in premarket trading, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) ticked up by 0.1%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) increased as much as 0.25%. All three major indexes ended with losses during Friday’s trading session, capping the worst… Source link

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Bed Bath & Beyond’s latest restructuring efforts is falling flat

Bed Bath & Beyond’s latest restructuring efforts is falling flat

Take our debt, please! Struggling retailer Bed Bath & Beyond is coming up woefully short in a key debt exchange designed to give the company some much-needed financial breathing room. The company said Tuesday that it would extend its debt exchange offer to Dec. 19 from Dec. 5. The extension reflects limited appetite by debt-holders in the debt swap, according to data supplied by the retailer (right hand column in chart below). Such limited appetite likely reflects the concern among… Source link

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Bed Bath & Beyond’s latest restructuring efforts is falling flat

Bed Bath & Beyond’s latest restructuring efforts is falling flat

Take our debt, please! Struggling retailer Bed Bath & Beyond is coming up woefully short in a key debt exchange designed to give the company some much-needed financial breathing room. The company said Tuesday that it would extend its debt exchange offer to Dec. 19 from Dec. 5. The extension reflects limited appetite by debt-holders in the debt swap, according to data supplied by the retailer (right hand column in chart below). Such limited appetite likely reflects the concern among… Source link

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Legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller warns there is a “high probability” the stock market will be “flat” for an entire decade

Legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller warns there is a “high probability” the stock market will be “flat” for an entire decade

After a hotter-than-expected inflation reading spooked investors on Tuesday, the Dow Jones industrial average sank over 1,200 points in the stock market’s worst showing since June 2020. That same day, Stanley Druckenmiller, one of Wall Street’s most respected minds, argued that the pain won’t be temporary—and that stocks face an entire decade of sideways trading as the global economy goes through a tectonic shift. “There’s a high probability in my mind that the market, at best, is… Source link

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Oil Boom Falls Flat in Region With a Fifth of World’s Reserves

Oil Boom Falls Flat in Region With a Fifth of World’s Reserves

(Bloomberg) — From Saudi Arabia to West Texas, drillers are pumping more oil to cash in on a scorching price rally. But a region that’s home to a fifth of the world’s crude reserves is mostly missing out. Most Read from Bloomberg All over Latin America, the upside of $100 crude has been blunted by nationalist policies that tightened government control of the energy industry and sidelined the foreign investors who had helped boost production. Output from Brazil and Guyana is rising, but… Source link

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