U.S. stock futures were mixed Thursday morning, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 poised for a higher open and the tech-heavy Nasdaq on track for more losses amid expectations the Federal Reserve will pull back on economic stimulus sooner than expected to tamp down inflation. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones…
OppFi Inc. (” OppFi” or the “Company”) (OPFI) , a leading financial technology platform that powers banks to help everyday consumers gain access to credit, announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program that permits the Company to purchase up to an aggregate of $20 million of its Class A…
© Bloomberg. China Customs officers raise a Chinese flag during a rehearsal for a flag-raising ceremony along the Bund past buildings in the Lujiazui Financial District at sunrise in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. A wall of maturing debt and a surge in seasonal demand for cash will test China’s financial markets this…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: United States one dollar bills are curled and inspected during production at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington November 14, 2014. REUTERS/Gary Cameron/File Photo By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Futures on the federal funds rate on Wednesday have priced in a roughly 80% chance of a quarter-percentage-point…
Pfizer headquarters in New York.Getty ImagesPfizer and Germany’s BioNTech announced on Wednesday that they would develop a potential mRNA-based vaccine for the prevention of viral shingles, working together for the third time after the success of their COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer partnered with BioNTech in 2018 for an influenza vaccine and again in 2020 to develop the…
CLEVELAND, Jan. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Nanotechnology firm, IdentifySensors Biologics, has concluded its proof-of- concept testing at Purdue University, which definitively reveals that electronic nanosensors instantly identify COVID in saliva with greater than 95 percent accuracy. The results pave the way for an all-new approach in high-quality rapid COVID testing without the error rates associated…
HOUSTON, Jan. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Quanta Services, Inc. (PWR) – Get Quanta Services, Inc. Report announced today that company management will participate in the Goldman Sachs Global Energy and Clean Technology Conference on Thursday, January 6, 2022. Duke Austin, Chief Executive Officer, will virtually participate in a fireside chat hosted by Goldman Sachs analyst Neil Mehta…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks before the media at his official residence as an extraordinary Diet session was closed, in Tokyo, Japan December 21, 2021. Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool via REUTERS TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday called on business lobbies and unions to work together to “boldly…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A sign of China Mobile is seen on a street in Shanghai, China January 4, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song 2/2 SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China Mobile Ltd shares gave up strong early gains but finished the day higher in their Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after the company raised 48.7 billion yuan ($7.64 billion)…
© Reuters. By Carjuan Cruz Investing.com – Although 2022 started with another wave of Covid-19 cases, due to the new and more contagious Omicron variant, the market seems to be confident that the effects on the economy will be minor. For now, it is considered unlikely that there could be a reversal in the policies…





