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☆ 3M reaches tentative pollution settlement of at least $10 bln - Bloomberg News
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 2 (Reuters) - 3M Co (MMM.N) has struck a tentative settlement of at least $10 billion with a host of U.S. cities and towns to resolve water pollution claims tied to "forever chemicals", Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Shares of 3M were up about 9% in afternoon trade. Last month, the Dutch government said it would hold 3M liable for polluting the Western Scheldt river with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) - dubbed "forever chemicals" because they can last thousands of years in nature without degrading. 3M did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the report. Reporting by Priyamvada C in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Priyamvada, Devika Organizations: Bloomberg, Chemours, DuPont de Nemours Inc, Corteva Inc, Thomson Locations: U.S, perfluoroalkyl, Bengaluru

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Lululemon, SentinelOne, T-Mobile, MongoDB and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

MongoDB — Shares of the data developer rocketed 28% after the company forecast strong fiscal first-quarter earnings and boosted its full-year guidance. The company cited macroeconomic pressure as a contributor to slowing sales growth in a shareholder letter and cut its full-year revenue guidance. PagerDuty — Shares slumped 17.1% after the IT cloud company issued second-quarter revenue guidance that missed expectations. Samsara — The cloud company popped nearly 28% after reporting a smaller-than-expected first-quarter loss and lifting its full-year sales guidance. That's above the expected loss of 5 cents a share and $191.9 million in revenue, according to FactSet.

Persons: Lululemon, Amazon, MongoDB, Wall, SentinelOne, Dupont, Dupont de Nemours, Zscaler, Morgan Stanley, PagerDuty, StreetAccount, Dell, Ginkgo, Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Yun Li, Hakyung Kim, Brian Evans, Alex Harring Organizations: Wireless, Bloomberg News, Verizon, Mobile, Amazon, Dish, Broadcom —, Broadcom, Bank of America, Dupont de, DuPont, U.S . Water Systems, Stifel Locations: New York

Iluka Resources/Handout viaApril 4 (Reuters) - Six projects outside China, which dominates global rare earth production, plan to extract the critical minerals from waste or byproducts. The projects will produce rare earths that are needed to fuel a green revolution of electric cars and wind turbines while trying to avert the shortages expected in coming years. Below are details of the companies and their projects, in order of output of neodymium and praseodymium (NdPr) oxide, the rare earths most in demand. ENERGY FUELS INC (UUUU.A)The main business of U.S. Energy Fuels is producing uranium, but it has moved into rare earths. VHM LTD (VHM.AX)Australia's VHM Ltd is working on the Goschen mineral sands project, which will also produce rare earths.

Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson bought $10 million worth of his company's stock last week, putting him at the top of the list for insider buying, according to VerityData and securities filings. Twilio, like many other tech stocks, deflated in 2022, and the stock is down about 80% since mid-October 2021. A $10 million buy from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson on Feb. 24. A nearly $2 million buy from Impinj chairman Steve Sanghi on Feb. 23. On the smaller side, Charles Rivers Labs director Richard Wallman made his second insider buy in three months.

☆ The chemical industry is critical to advanced electronics, says Chemours CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThe chemical industry is critical to advanced electronics, says Chemours CEOMark Newman, CEO of chemical company Chemours, joins Brian Sullivan and the 'CNBC Special: Taking Stock' to discuss how his company is working to expand the footprint of American manufacturing.

☆ ‘Forever Chemicals’ Maker Defends Their Use, Says It Will Keep Producing Them
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Bob Tita | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chemical maker Chemours Co. said it would continue producing so-called forever chemicals, saying that the controversial substances can be made safely and are critical for semiconductors and electric vehicles. Chemours, one of the largest U.S. makers of fluorine-carbon polymers, said that it is expanding production of some varieties of the chemicals and defending their use. Sales for its fluoropolymer business unit were $1.6 billion in 2022, 16% higher than the prior year, the company reported last week.

☆ A flurry of earnings reports, Fed rate hike, signs of a bull market
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Earnings season continues next week, with Club holdings Linde (LIN), Emerson Electric (EMR) and Walt Disney (DIS) all set to report. Similarly, shares of Meta Platforms (META) have surged over 20% since CEO Mark Zuckerberg reassured investors Wednesday evening that 2023 would be the technology giant's "year of efficiency." The bull case is further supported by continued signs inflation is easing, a still-robust job market and the breadth of market-buying activity since the start of the year. Lastly on Wednesday, the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee raised the federal funds rate by 25 basis points, in line with expectations. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ Earnings and Fed Chair Powell will again drive markets in the week ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Patti Domm | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

With few economic releases and the earnings season starting to wind down, an appearance by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Tuesday could be among the newsiest events for markets in the week ahead. The Fed chair is speaking at the Economic Club of Washington D.C. at midday Tuesday. If he wanted to walk back anything, he could have done it then," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley. Economists said Friday's surprisingly strong jobs report should encourage the Fed to push forward with planned rate hikes. Earnings, earnings, earnings But there continues to be earnings news.

Here are four climate and environment lawsuits that are likely to make headlines in 2023. The oil companies in the nation's high court are hoping to upend a series of circuit court decisions saying the cases belong in state courts where they were filed. If the court takes the appeal and rules for the oil companies, then the cases would be moved to federal court, the preferred venue for the industry defendants. (Bellwether trials are chosen as test cases and are used to work through common legal and factual issues.) "I think it will be a huge year for this issue," Conroy said of 2023.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: Hibbett, Silvergate Capital, Chemours and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Peter Schacknow | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Silvergate Capital (SI) – The digital assets bank's shares fell another 2.4% in the premarket, extending yesterday's 11.1% loss. Chemours (CC) – Chemours tumbled 6.1% in premarket trading after the chemical maker said its full-year earnings were tracking slightly below the low end of its prior guidance range. United Parcel Service (UPS) – UPS gained 1.4% in the premarket after Deutsche Bank upgraded the delivery service's stock to "buy" from "hold." HSBC (HSBC) – HSBC struck a deal to sell its Canadian unit to the Royal Bank of Canada for $10.1 billion in cash. Roku (ROKU) – Roku shares fell 2.9% in premarket action after KeyBanc downgraded the video streaming device company's stock to "sector weight" from "overweight," saying several facets of its bullish thesis on Roku failed to play out.

☆ Earnings are off to a surprisingly decent start. Next week is the big test for tech
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Stocks rallied this week as earnings season ramped up and is so far off to a better-than-expected start. With 20% of the S & P 500 having reported financials so far, sales results have thus far been 1.4% above expectations while earnings results are 5.4% above expectations, in aggregate. That inverse correlation between bond yields and stocks was powerful enough to trump positive earnings reports. Looking back On the earnings front, we got results from Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Procter & Gamble (PG), and Danaher (DHR). As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ David Einhorn says he's bearish because the Fed's 'official policy is to make the stock market go down'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn, who is crushing the market with double-digit returns this year, is selling stocks as the Federal Reserve continues to deflate the market with aggressive rate hikes. However, higher interest rates also discourage investments and in turn crunch supply, which is most evident in the housing market. "The most glaring area might be in housing, where higher rates lead to reduced supply despite widespread shortage," Einhorn said. That compares with a 23.9% decline for the S & P 500 during the same period as the benchmark tumbled into a bear market. Further, high short-term interest rates provide competition for gold," Einhorn said.

☆ Duke Energy is one of the top leakers of a gas that is 25,000 times more polluting than carbon dioxide, EPA records show
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Phil Mckenna | Inside Climate News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +22 min

The emissions were equal to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of more than 59,000 automobiles, according to the EPA’s greenhouse gas equivalency calculator. Under such a scenario Duke Energy would likely have years of low emissions punctuated by a single year of high emissions. While other utilities have participated for decades in a voluntary program with the EPA to reduce SF6 emissions to next to nothing, Duke Energy has not. Brooks said Duke Energy is also targeting its most leaky equipment for faster replacement. The figure is roughly half of 1% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, far smaller than yearly emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary driver of climate change.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Freyr Battery, Stitch Fix, General Mills, Trupanion and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Stitch Fix — Stitch Fix was up about 12%, even after the company posted downbeat quarterly numbers. General Mills — Shares of the food producer jumped 7% after the company posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit. The company now sees adjusted EBITDA between $1.4 billion and $1.45 billion, below prior guidance of $1.475 billion and $1.575 billion. Sotera Health — Sotera Health shares dropped more than 7% after JPMorgan downgraded the company to underweight from overweight, citing risks from more than 700 outstanding trials. Coty — The stock rose 5.6% after the beauty company said it has a strategy to double skincare product sales by fiscal year 2025.

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