Calm returns to Wall Street as U.S. stocks stabilize following recent volatility

Calm returns to Wall Street as U.S. stocks stabilize following recent volatility

U.S. stocks are bouncing back, and calm is returning to Wall Street after Japan’s market soared earlier Tuesday to claw back much of the losses from its worst day since 1987. The S&P 500 was rallying by 1.6 per cent in midday trading and on track to break a brutal three-day losing streak. It had tumbled a bit more … Read more

CrowdStrike hit by class action lawsuit from shareholders over massive outage

CrowdStrike hit by class action lawsuit from shareholders over massive outage

CrowdStrike has been sued by shareholders who said the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause the global outage on July 19 that crashed more than eight million computers. In a proposed class action filed on Tuesday night in the Austin, Texas, federal court, shareholders said they learned that … Read more

Pinterest (PINS) Q4 2023 earnings report

Pinterest (PINS) Q4 2023 earnings report

A display for image sharing and social media service Pinterest is seen at the Collision conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 23, 2022. Chris Helgren | Reuters Pinterest shares dropped in extended trading on Thursday after the company issued a weaker-than-expected forecast and reported disappointing revenue. The stock pared some of its losses after Pinterest … Read more

U.S. Federal Reserve leaves key interest rate unchanged, expects 3 rate cuts in 2024

U.S. Federal Reserve leaves key interest rate unchanged, expects 3 rate cuts in 2024

For a third straight time, the U.S. Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday, as it signalled its expectations to make a series of quarter-point cuts to the benchmark interest rate next year. Those envisioned rate cuts — which wouldn’t likely begin until the second half of 2024 — suggest officials think high borrowing rates … Read more