Moderna on Thursday posted a surprise profit for the third quarter, smashing Wall Street estimates, as its cost-cutting efforts took hold and sales of its Covid vaccine came in higher than expected. The biotech company posted a net income of $13 million, or 3 cents per share, for the third quarter. That compares with a…
Spanish police and customs officers have intercepted the largest known consignment of cocaine ever to reach the country, seizing more than 13 tonnes of the drug, hidden in a cargo of bananas shipped from Ecuador. Spain’s Policía Nacional said the seizure was the second largest recorded in Europe and one of the largest anywhere in…
The US Department of Justice is in talks with the office of special counsel Jack Smith over winding down the two federal cases he is overseeing against president-elect Donald Trump, according to US media reports. Last year, Mr Smith brought charges against Trump over the alleged mishandling of classified documents and his suspected role in…
An introduction will be made this upcoming Sunday night on Sister Wives. In a sneak peek published by Us Weekly, series patriarch Kody Brown meets his ex-spouse’s boyfriend for the first time… and it goes just about as you’d expect it to go. David Woolley is featured in this scene from Sister Wives. (TLC) During…
Adyen reported a big miss on first-half sales Thursday. The news drove a $20 billion rout in the company’s market capitalization . Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Adyen shares sank Thursday after the company reported a slowdown in the growth of its transaction volumes in the third quarter. Shares of…
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Santander Arena in Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 4, 2024. Brian Snyder | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no…
Ministers may stop new council houses in England from being sold under the right to buy scheme, Angela Rayner has indicated. The deputy prime minister said the government would introduce restrictions on new social housing “so we aren’t losing that stock”. Since it was launched by Margaret Thatcher in 1980, the right to buy scheme…
A flag stall at the Yiwu Wholesale Market in Zhejiang province, China, on May 10, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — China emphasized the need for greater cooperation with the U.S., a day after it became clear President-elect Donald Trump would become the next leader of the White House. “The Chinese side is willing,…
The re-election of Donald Trump to the White House is focusing minds in Europe, and with dozens of leaders meeting in Budapest, they have the perfect chance to talk it through. Trump’s first term in office saw a dramatic souring of relations. He was angry European countries didn’t pay more towards their own security. He…
Donald Trump is “capable of looking past” things people have said about him in the past, one of Keir Starmer’s closest allies has said. Pat McFadden, a Cabinet Office minister, said he thought the new US and UK governments would “get on well” despite the history of senior Labour ministers criticising Trump. David Lammy, the…
