Text size Defense sales stood out in the quarter. Mario Tama / Getty Images Defense and aerospace giant Raytheon Technologies crushed Wall Street’s profit expectations, but the stock fell anyway on Tuesday morning. The commercial aerospace sector is not improving fast enough for investors. Raytheon (ticker: RTX) earned 40 cents …
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Text size AMD EPYC processors Courtesy of AMD. Advanced Micro Devices gave investors reason to cheer on Tuesday when it reported earnings that exceeded expectations and said it would sell more chips at a higher profit than anticipated. Shares of AMD (ticker: AMD) rebounded in the extended session, advancing nearly …
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Text size Digital candles increased 276% in the quarter, while sales in the same store rose 26.5%. Matthew Staver / Bloomberg News Albertsons Cos. He released an optimistic first-quarter fiscal report on Monday, but his shares were falling because investors may have been waiting for more from the supermarket operator, …
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Text size David McNew / Getty Images Oil services company Schlumberger is cutting 21,000 jobs after a disastrous quarter. Analysts are optimistic. Schlumberger’s (ticker: SLB) second-quarter results, released Friday morning, were grim at first glance: a 35% year-over-year revenue decline and a plan to cut a quarter from staff. But …
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Covid-19 vaccines are poised to become big business. Its potential to generate staggering revenue has already added billions of dollars to the market value of drug makers like Pfizer and Moderna. . That promise is also drawing scrutiny in Washington. Rising prescription drug costs are one of the few problems …
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