Chinese electric car company Nio announced May 27, 2026, that former NBA player Yao Ming (R) would be a representative for the brand as it launches the ES9 SUV, a car that CEO William Li Bin (L) touted as the largest SUV in China. Lintao Zhang | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING —…
Signage at the Situation Room by Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 20, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket. Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a…
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : Salesforce — Shares were marginally lower after the cloud-based software guided for current-quarter revenue between $11.27 billion to $11.35 billion, while analysts were looking for $11.36 billion, per LSEG. However, Salesforce raised its full-year earnings guidance range. The company also posted a first-quarter earnings and…
Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 4, 2026. Amirhosein Khorgooi | ISNA | WANA | Via Reuters Iran thinks it can get the Strait of Hormuz to its prewar status within one month of a peace deal with the U.S. Traders on prediction market platform Kalshi are more skeptical. They…
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, speaks at the American Business Forum at the Kaseya Center in Miami on Nov. 6, 2025. Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday that his bank could spend up to $20 billion on an acquisition in the coming years. A deal that…
Vlad Tenev, CEO and co-founder of Robinhood, speaks during the Robinhood Markets, Inc. event in New York City, U.S., March 4, 2026. David Dee Delgado | Reuters Retail investors may soon be able to hand the keys to their portfolios, and even their wallet, to artificial intelligence. Robinhood unveiled tools on Wednesday that let AI…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Zscaler — Shares tumbled more than 23% after the cloud security company guided for current-quarter revenue of between $875 million to $878 million, falling short of the $879 million analysts were seeking, per LSEG. However, the company’s fiscal third-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.08 per share beat…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced plans for a new campus in Taiwan during an employee meeting on May 27, 2026. Nvidia Nvidia is expanding heavily in Taiwan with a new campus and a tenfold increase in annual spending, CEO Jensen Huang announced Wednesday, as the chipmaker plans for artificial intelligence-powered growth. Taiwan’s Taiex stock index…
BEIJING — China’s industrial profits in April surged by 24.7% from a year earlier, according to official data released Wednesday, marking the fastest growth since November 2023. The increase accelerated from a 15.8% rise in March, according to China’s biggest financial data provider Wind Information. For the first four months of the year, enterprise profits…
Steam cracker units at the BASF Zhanjiang Verbund site in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, China, on Thursday, March 26, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — More European companies are maintaining or expanding their supply chains in mainland China to remain competitive globally, according to a survey released Wednesday by the European Union Chamber…
