Television broadcasting and production company AMC Networks (NASDAQ:AMCX) missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales falling 11.7% year on year to $599.3 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.64 per share was 38.8% below analysts’ consensus estimates.
Pakistan's largest bank, HBL, and global financial information and analytics firm S&P Global have launched a new index to track the country's manufacturing sector, the companies said on Friday. Rising taxes and power tariffs have led to social unrest and hammered industries in Pakistan's $350 billion economy, as it navigates a tricky path to recovery under a $7 billion IMF program approved in September. The HBL S&P Global Purchasing Managers' Index will be a standardized economic indicator based on a survey of a diverse panel of industries.
Biotechnology company Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, but sales fell by 65.6% year on year to $966 million. On the other hand, the company’s full-year revenue guidance of $2 billion at the midpoint came in 9.8% below analysts’ estimates. Its GAAP loss of $2.91 per share was 6.7% below analysts’ consensus estimates.
Japan Tobacco International expects a shift towards cheaper cigarette brands in the United States to reach more than 40% of the market by 2027, its finance chief told Reuters. U.S. smokers have been swapping out brands such as Altria's Marlboro and British American Tobacco's (BAT) Newport, which have been raising prices for years, for less expensive brands as high inflation and interest rates stretch their wallets. BAT's U.S. cigarette volumes fell 10.1% last year in part due to this shift, it reported on Thursday, while Altria has also been losing market share.
Coinbase touts a pro-crypto market backdrop for a big quarter.
President Trump’s domestic AI focus is a good sign for Intel, but easy fixes have proven elusive.
Wall Street's main indexes were muted on Friday, as investors awaited more clarity on U.S. President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariff plans after robust gains in the last sessions, with all three benchmarks set for weekly gains. Trump tasked his economics team on Thursday with devising plans for reciprocal tariffs on every country taxing U.S. imports, though the directive stopped short of imposing fresh tariffs. Howard Lutnick, Trump's pick for commerce secretary, said the administration would address each affected country one by one and said studies on the issue would be completed by April 1.
Major stock and bond markets will be closed Monday in observance of George Washington’s birthday, commonly referred to as Presidents’ Day. They will run normal schedules the remainder of the week.
Shareholders of Acadia Healthcare would probably like to forget the past six months even happened. The stock dropped 43.2% and now trades at $41.25. This was partly due to its softer quarterly results and might have investors contemplating their next move.
Alignment Healthcare has been on fire lately. In the past six months alone, the company’s stock price has rocketed 60.1%, reaching $13.88 per share. This performance may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.