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☆ Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: EBay, Tesla, Taiwan Semiconductor, Alaska Air and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Hakyung Kim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing — U.S.-traded shares of the Taiwanese chipmaker fell 2.4% despite beating revenue and profit expectations in the first quarter. Blackstone — The asset manager slipped 2.2% after lowering its dividend to 83 cents per share from 94 cents per share. EBay — Shares of the e-commerce stock rose nearly 4% following a double upgrade at Morgan Stanley to overweight from underweight. Etsy — The e-commerce stock slumped nearly 5% following a downgrade by Morgan Stanley to underweight from equal weight. Match Group — Shares slipped nearly 2% after Morgan Stanley downgraded shares to equal weight from overweight.

Persons: D.R, Horton —, Horton, LSEG, Blackstone, Morgan Stanley, Etsy, Alex Harring, Sarah Min, Jesse Pound, Fred Imbert Organizations: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Deutsche Bank, Alaska Air —, Revenue, Alcoa, EBay, Communications, Rosenblatt Securities Locations: Taiwan, LSEG

☆ The Alaska Air flight was terrifying. It could have been so much worse
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Because for the 171 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots on board Alaska Airlines flight 1282 who experienced all of that on January 5, it could have been so much worse. Passenger oxygen masks hang from the roof next to a missing door plug of an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5. Here’s the ways in which Alaska Air — and Boeing — got lucky to have the plane finally develop problems when and how it did on January 5. Both would not have been the case had the door plug come out at the cruising altitude above 30,000 feet. Damage to the planeThe real nightmare scenario for experts is what happened to the door plug once it blew away.

Persons: “, ” Jennifer Homendy, Max, ”, Anthony Brickhouse, Boeing —, Jennifer Riordan, Brickhouse, “ There’s, Mike Dostert, Joe Jacobsen, Ben Minicucci, Homendy, ” Minicucci, Dave Calhoun, Calhoun Organizations: New, New York CNN, Alaska Airlines, National Transportation Safety, CNN, Boeing, Embry Riddle University, Alaska Air —, Transportation Safety, Max, Foundation for Aviation Safety, FAA, “, Records, Aircraft, Japan Air Lines, NTSB Locations: New York, Instagram, Alaska, Hawaii, Anchorage, Honolulu, Portland

3M posted $7.99 billion in revenue, beating analysts' estimates of $7.87 billion, according to Refinitiv. Elsewhere, RTX reported second-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street expectations, posting $1.29 in adjusted earnings per share on $18.32 billion in revenue. The home appliance company posted revenue of $4.79 billion, lower than the consensus estimate of $4.82 billion, according to Refinitiv. It did beat on earnings expectations, reporting adjusted earnings of $4.21 per share, higher than the $3.76 estimate. The company notched adjusted earnings per share of $3.29, while analysts estimated $2.70 per share.

Persons: Refinitiv, RTX, it's, Biogen, Morgan Stanley, FactSet, General Motors, Invesco, Andrew Schlossberg, BTIG, Sherwin, Williams, Yun Li, Samantha Subin, Sarah Min, Tanaya Macheel, Brian Evans, Alex Harring Organizations: Spotify, Alaska Air, Pratt & Whitney, Airbus, General, GE, Whirlpool, Revenue, LG Electronics, LG Energy, GM, Refinitiv, UPS, Teamsters, Xerox –, Xerox, Packaging Corp, America, Secure

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves before the bell: General Motors, 3M, Spotify, Verizon and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

General Motors — Shares of General Motors rose more than 1% after the automaker raised its full-year guidance and reported second-quarter results that rose on a year-over-year basis. 3M posted $7.99 billion in revenue, beating analysts' estimates of $7.87 billion, according to Refinitiv. The company also raised its full-year earnings guidance and reaffirmed its revenue guidance. The airline's full-year earnings guidance of $5.50 to $7.50 per share was roughly in-line with the average analyst estimates of $6.65, according to FactSet. Verizon — The telecommunications giant traded 2.6% higher after reaffirming its full-year guidance.

Persons: Danaher, FactSet, Lilium, Refinitiv, Piper Sandler, Edward Yruma, —, Samantha Subin, Yun Li, Jesse Pound, Sarah Min, Tanaya Macheel Organizations: General Motors, Xerox, FactSet, General, GE, Spotify, European Union Aviation Safety Agency, Alaska Air, Raytheon, Refinitiv, Verizon, Walmart Locations: Alaska

☆ Stocks making the biggest premarket moves: Tesla, IBM, American Express, KeyCorp and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

IBM — The tech stock rose more than 1% in premarket trading after the company reported an earnings beat. IBM posted adjusted earnings of $1.36 per share, compared to $1.26 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. American Express — Shares dipped 1.3% after the payments company reported adjusted earnings per share of $2.40 for the first quarter, below StreetAccount's estimates of $2.66. F5 — The cloud-based software company's shares were down about 7% after a mixed second fiscal quarter earnings report. Analysts polled by FactSet had estimated 44 cents earnings per share and $1.79 billion in revenue.

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