Alexandra Dieck is known for touting the latest fashion trends on her blog Lexicon of Style. Later this week, she’ll be tackling a rather unexpected subject: golf. Dieck, 26, is among a handful of social media influencers hired by the PGA Tour to tout the sport to younger audiences during the Northern Trust tournament this […]
Read moreGoDaddy named chief operating officer Scott Wagner its new CEO on Tuesday, announcing that current CEO Blake Irving would retire at the end of this year. Irving will remain on the board through June 2018, the company said. Tech industry veteran Irving said with a clear trajectory for GoDaddy ahead, it was time to move […]
Read moreSalesforce reported its second quarter earnings on Tuesday after the bell, and the numbers came in above estimates. Despite the overall beat, Salesforce stock is down roughly 1.5% in after hours. Here are the most important numbers: Adjusted EPS: 33 cents vs. 32 cents per share expected by a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate Revenue: $2.56 […]
Read moreIntuit reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations on Tuesday. Here’s how the company did compared to what Wall Street expected: EPS: 20 cents vs. 17 cents expected, according to Thomson Reuters Revenue: $842 million vs. $804.6 million expected, according to Thomson Reuters For the fiscal first quarter, the company said it expects […]
Read moreWarren Buffett‘s failure to clinch a $9 billion takeover of the Texas utility Oncor prompted S&P Global Ratings on Tuesday to say the billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway is no longer at risk of a credit rating downgrade. S&P affirmed Berkshire’s “AA” rating, its third-highest grade, with a “stable” outlook after Sempra Energy struck an agreement with […]
Read moreBroadcom shares are poised for a boost because the chip maker recently had big design wins, including components for the next iPhone, said a JPMorgan analyst in reiterating his overweight rating. The company is slated to report fiscal third-quarter financial results Thursday after the market close. Broadcom should beat estimates by JPMorgan and the rest […]
Read moreRetailers are selling more flowers, fruit and other produce than ever before. Now, a start-up called Iunu is helping greenhouse growers fulfill that demand by using computer vision, the same technology found in self-driving cars or used in facial recognition. Seattle-based Iunu has been quietly operating in the agriculture industry since it was founded in […]
Read moreU.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday welcomed what he called the restraint North Korea has shown recently with its nuclear weapons program and said it could mean a path is opening to a possible dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang. “We have had no missile launches or provocative acts on the part of North […]
Read moreWall Street may finally be warming a bit to Snap. On Tuesday, the stock price rose more than 6 percent — if Snap holds those gains, it will have ended in the green for five of the past six sessions. The jump came amid a forecast that fewer teens would use Facebook this year, opting […]
Read moreThe S&P 500 utilities sector just hit all-time highs, and some strategists see further upside for the group of stocks that’s already gained 12 percent so far this year. Equities in the utilities space, typically seen as defensive plays and bond proxies given their high yields, have rallied this year for several reasons, but one […]
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