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 It is the busiest week of the second quarter earnings season, with 171 S&P 500 companies slated to report. Things start slowly on Monday, before 3M, Advanced Micro Devices, eBay, McDonald’s, Pfizer, Starbucks and Visa reported on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Boeing, Facebook, General Electric, PayPal Holdings, Qualcomm and …
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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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Text size JOSH EDELSON / AFP via Getty Images Centrica’s shares soared more than 17% after it agreed to sell Direct Energy, its North American energy business, to NRG Energy for $ 3.6 billion in cash. Houston-based Direct Energy provides electricity, natural gas, and home services to consumers and businesses …
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