A Toyota bZ Compact SUV is pictured after a briefing on EV (electric vehicle) battery strategies at the companys showroom in Tokyo on December 14, 2021. Behrouz Mehri | Afp | Getty Images Japanese automaker Toyota Motor on Wednesday reported its first quarterly operating profit drop in about two years, as it strives to navigate…
Manuel Augusto Moreno | Moment | Getty Images Bitcoin rallied Tuesday evening, hitting an all-time high as investors bet former President Donald Trump was gaining an edge in the U.S. election as results rolled in. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency touched a record $75,000 on the nose, according to Coin Metrics. It hit its…
An election official works during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., November 5, 2024. Eduardo Munoz | 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 matter where they are. Like what you…
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 5, 2024. Kamil Krzaczynski | AFP | Getty Images Shares in former President Donald Trump’s media company pushed higher as voting wound down in the contentious election campaign Tuesday. In after-hours…
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign town hall meeting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 20, 2024. Brian Snyder | Reuters Trump Media, which experienced a flurry of trading activity Tuesday as a possible proxy for Donald Trump’s presidency chances, revealed after the closing bell Tuesday a loss for…
Charles Liang, chief executive officer of Super Micro Computer Inc., during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. The trade show runs through June 7. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Super Micro, the embattled server maker that’s late in releasing annual financials and at risk of being delisted by…
Restaurant Brands International on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that missed analysts’ expectations as domestic same-store sales growth for all four of its chains fell short of Wall Street estimates. Shares fell about 2% in early trading following the report. Here’s what the company reported for the third quarter compared with what Wall Street was…
Getty Images For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s blood-soaked “dark decade”, in which up to 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed in massacres blamed on Islamists or…
Getty Images Abortion rights supporters rally in Miami, Florida in September in support of Amendment 4. On Tuesday, Betsy Linkhorst, 18, will cast her very first vote not just for who should be in the White House, but on the issue of abortion. Her home state of Florida is one of 10 across the country…
BBC Voters in the US go to the polls on Tuesday to elect their next president. The election was initially a rematch of 2020 but it was upended in July when President Joe Biden ended his campaign and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris. The big question now is – will America get its first woman president…
