A view from the United States Department of the Treasury building in Washington DC, United States on December 30, 2024. The US Treasury Department was cyberattacked by a Chinese state-sponsored actor in early December. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty Images The federal budget sank further into red ink during December, leaving the first fiscal…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce, focusing on the company’s lowest-performing staffers, CNBC confirmed Tuesday. CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed employees about…
The Eli Lilly & Co. logo at the company’s Digital Health Innovation Hub facility in Singapore, on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty Images Eli Lilly cut its revenue guidance on Tuesday as it said demand for its weight loss and diabetes drugs would not meet its lofty expectations. The drugmaker’s…
Customers shop for clothing at a Costco store on December 11, 2024 in Novato, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A measure of wholesale prices increased less than expected in December, providing indication that pipeline inflation pressures eased to close the year though likely not enough to provoke another Federal Reserve interest rate cut anytime…
The 10-year Treasury yield touched a fresh 14-month high as investors looked ahead to key inflation prints. The yield on the 10-year Treasury was last up around 2 basis points at 4.79%, the highest level since Nov. 1, 2023. This followed the 10-year Treasury yield’s jump on Friday following a hotter-than-expected jobs report. The 2-year…
Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Britain’s competition watchdog on Tuesday said that it’s opening a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s search and search advertising services. The Competition and Markets Authority said that it’s looking to assess whether Google has “strategic market status” (SMS) under the new U.K. Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC)….
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Trump Media jumped 21.5% Monday, one week before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. The stock, which trades under the DJT ticker, had its best day since Oct. 28, when shares surged 21.6% following Trump’s campaign rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Trump Media stock…
David Ricks, CEO, Eli Lilly Scott Mlyn | CNBC Eli Lilly expects its experimental weight loss pill will get approved as soon as early next year, CEO David Ricks told Bloomberg TV on Monday. The company is set to release key late-stage trial data on the drug, orforglipron, by the middle of this year. Eli…
Scott Olson | Getty Images Two Robinhood broker-dealers agreed to pay $45 million in combined penalties to settle administrative charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission that they violated more than 10 separate securities law provisions related to their brokerage operations. The violations by Robinhood Securities LLC and Robinhood Financial LLC related to failures to…
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Chinese government is considering a plan that would have Elon Musk acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations to keep the app from being effectively banned, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. The contingency plan is one of several options China is exploring as the U.S. Supreme Court determines whether to…
