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☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Wynn Resorts, Rocket Lab USA, Cassava Sciences and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

That came after short-seller Hindenburg Research revealed last month it had taken a short position in the company, citing "fresh evidence of accounting manipulation." Cassava Sciences — The biotech company fell 11% after agreeing to pay $40 million to settle a case with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Wynn Resorts — The stock rose about 6% thanks to an upgrade to overweight from equal weight at Morgan Stanley. Amgen — The biotech's shares rose 2% after Cantor Fitzgerald initiated research coverage with an overweight rating. — The aerospace and defense stock added 16% following a price target increase from KeyBanc Capital Markets, which retained an overweight investment rating.

Persons: Bristol Myers, Hindenburg, Morgan Stanley, Amgen, Cantor Fitzgerald, Olivia Brayer, Michael Leshock, — CNBC's Sean Conlon, Alex Harring, Yun Li, Hakyung Kim, Samantha Subin, Pia Singh Organizations: Bristol Myers Squibb, Food and Drug Administration, Bristol, Nordisk —, JPMorgan, Wall, Costco Wholesale, Revenue, Wall Street Journal, Justice Department, Hindenburg Research, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wynn Resorts, UAE, HP Inc, Bank of America, KeyBanc Locations: Nordisk — U.S, Danish, Las Vegas

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Micron Technology, Starbucks, CarMax and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Hakyung Kim | In Hakyungkim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Starbucks — The coffee chain rose more than 2% after Bernstein upgraded the stock to outperform from market perform. New York Community Bancorp — Shares of the regional lender gained more than 4% after Barclays upgraded shares to overweight as it repositions itself following a rocky patch. Micron Technology , chip stocks — Micron shares surged nearly 17% after offering a stronger-than-expected revenue forecast for the fiscal first quarter. Nvidia rose 2%, while U.S.-traded shares of ASML Holding added nearly 5%. Southwest Airlines — The travel stock rose about 5% after Southwest hiked its third-quarter revenue forecast.

Persons: Bernstein, Brian Niccol, Graham Doyle, Bilibili, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, Elliott, Sonos, Morgan Stanley, Erik Woodring, —, Alex Harring, Samantha Subin, Jesse Pound, Sarah Min Organizations: New York Community Bancorp, Barclays, Micron Technology, Micron, Nvidia, ASML, Bank of America, NRG Energy, GE Healthcare Technologies, UBS, Jefferies, Southwest Airlines, Southwest, Elliott Management Locations: U.S, China, Bilibili —, dealmaking

☆ Goldman makes this stock its top pick for the fourth quarter on AI data center boom
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Digital Realty Trust is a key play on artificial intelligence data centers entering the fourth quarter as interest remains strong in the space, according to Goldman Sachs. Analyst James Schneider has a buy rating and top pick designation for the data center owner. While investors are long on data center stocks, they've recently turned more neutral on tower-focused names, he said. Digital Realty Trust shares rose modestly in early trading on Thursday. DLR YTD mountain Digital Realty Trust, year to date

Persons: Goldman Sachs, James Schneider, Schneider, bode, they've Organizations: Realty, Digital Realty Trust, Realty Trust Locations: Texas, hyperscalers

Analyst Jared Shaw raised his rating on the regional bank to overweight from equal weight and upped his price target by $4 to $14. Analyst Rob Dickerson downgraded the chocolate maker to underperform from hold and slashed his price target by $21 to $163. Analyst Lincoln Kong upgraded U.S.-listed shares to buy from neutral and raised his price target to $22.60 from $16.50. — Alex Harring 5:51 a.m.: BofA hikes Meta price target following Connect event Bank of America sees more room for Meta Platforms to run due to its artificial intelligence possibilities. Starbucks shares are flat year to date, but they have popped more than 20% over the past three months.

Persons: Bernstein, Jared Shaw, NYCB, Shaw, — Alex Harring, Sell Hershey, Jefferies, Rob Dickerson, Dickerson, flatlining, Hershey, Alex Harring, BofA, Ralph Lauren, Christopher Nardone, Justin Picicci, Corey Van der, Nardone, Picicci, Goldman, Bilibili Goldman Sachs, Lincoln, Kong, Bilibili, Justin Post, Post, Metaverse, Meta, Brian Niccol, Danilo Gargiulo, Gargiulo, Niccol, — Fred Imbert Organizations: CNBC, . Bank of America, Barclays, Bancorp New, Bancorp New York Community, Wall, Hershey, America's, Lincoln Kong, Bank of America, Facebook, Meta, Orion, Taco Bell Locations: Bancorp New York, Wednesday's, Thursday's premarket, Bilibili, U.S

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Micron Technology, Super Micro Computer, Southwest Airlines and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Southwest Airlines — The airline jumped 11% after it raised its third-quarter revenue forecast and authorized $2.5 billion in share buybacks. Starbucks — The coffee chain rose nearly 2% after Bernstein upgraded shares to outperform , citing confidence in the company's new CEO . CarMax — The used car retailer jumped nearly 6% after topping sales estimates for the fiscal second quarter. New York Community Bank — Shares of the regional lender jumped nearly 8% after Barclays upgraded the stock to overweight from equal weight. Accenture — The professional services stock rose nearly 5% on better-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter results.

Persons: Bernstein, Jabil, Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Erik Woodring, —, Jesse Pound, Yun Li, Alex Harring, Pia Singh, Hakyung Kim Organizations: Micron Technology, Applied Materials, ASML, Lam Research, Wall Street Journal, Justice Department, Southwest Airlines —, Elliott Investment Management, Starbucks, NRG Energy, GE Healthcare —, UBS, Jefferies, New York Community Bank, Barclays, Bilibili, Accenture Locations: China, Bilibili —

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Flutter Entertainment, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Flutter Entertainment — The sports betting stock rose more than 6% after the FanDuel parent announced a share buyback program of up to $5 billion. Hewlett Packard Enterprise — The tech stock jumped more than 5% after Barclays upgraded the firm to overweight from equal weight. KB Home reported $2.04 in earnings per share, or 2 cents short of consensus estimates, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG. Analysts had expected $1.14 in earnings per share on revenue of $176.2 million, according to FactSet. The workplace uniform company sees revenue of $10.22 billion to $10.32 billion for fiscal 2025, compared to its prior guidance of $10.16 billion to $10.31 billion.

Persons: HPE, Morgan Stanley downgrades, Adam Jonas, Ford, Bilibili, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Cintas, — CNBC's Sean Conlon, Yun Li, Alex Harring, Hakyung Kim, Lisa Han, Pia Singh Organizations: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Barclays, Juniper Networks, General Motors, Ford —, JPMorgan, . Bank of America, LSEG, Trump Media & Technology Locations: Bilibili —

☆ Investors are underweight Nvidia compared to the S&P 500, and it's costing them
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Institutional portfolios will continue to underperform due to a lack of adequate exposure to Nvidia and other winning technology names, UBS warned. Strategist Patrick Palfrey told clients that large-cap managers have 4.4% exposure to Nvidia, despite the artificial intelligence darling accounting for 6.6% of the S & P 500 . That is the biggest underweight position ever in Nvidia, according to Palfrey. As a result, "a continued TECH+ underweight is likely to remain a headwind for many portfolios," Palfrey wrote to clients. The latest evidence came Tuesday as the S & P 500 hit a record high , boosted by a 4% rally in Nvidia as CEO Huang finished selling shares for the time being under a preset trading plan.

Persons: Patrick Palfrey, Jensen, Palfrey, bode, Huang Organizations: Nvidia, UBS, Microsoft, Apple, Google

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: KB Home, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, General Motors and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Rithm Capital – The real estate investing stock more than 4% after announcing a secondary offering of 30 million shares. Hewlett Packard Enterprise – The technology stock added almost 3% on the back of a Barclays upgrade to overweight from equal weight. General Motors , Ford Motor – The auto stocks fell following downgrades from Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas due to rising China competition and a weakening U.S. consumer. The analyst downgraded Ford Motor to equal weight from overweight, while General Motors was lowered to underweight from equal weight. Shares of General Motors and Ford fell roughly 3% and 2%, respectively.

Persons: FactSet, Bilibili –, Rithm, Hewlett Packard, Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas, —, Alex Harring, Sarah Min, Lisa Kailai Han Organizations: JPMorgan, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Barclays, Hewlett, Worthington Enterprises, General Motors, Ford, Ford Motor, General Locations: China's, U.S, China

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Vaguely reassuring Fedspeak
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. In an interview with CNBC, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said, "We still have a strong, healthy labor market. But I want to keep it a strong, healthy labor market." Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic was more circumspect.

Persons: IXIC BRBY, Jerome Powell, Michael Nagle, Neel Kashkari, Raphael Bostic, Austan Goolsbee, Goolsbee, yesterday's Fedspeak, Dow, Jeff Cox, Brian Evans, Alex Harring Organizations: US Federal Reserve, Market, New York Stock Exchange, Bloomberg, Getty, CNBC, Minneapolis, Atlanta Fed, National Association of State, Chicago Fed, Dow, Nasdaq Locations: New York, U.S

☆ Goldman sees this biotech fighting rare diseases rallying 35%
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Analyst Corinne Johnson initiated coverage of the biopharmaceutical stock focused on unique diseases at a buy rating. "Our positive view of the company is based on what we view as multi-blockbuster, first-to-market commercial opportunities ... coupled with the scalable nature of the company's antibody oligonucleotide conjugate platform," Johnson wrote to clients. The first is del-brax, a drug designed to fight facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, or FSHD — which has estimated peak sales of $2.7 billion. The other is del-desiran, a therapy to treat myotonic dystrophy type 1, or DM1 — with a predicted peak sale figure of $4 billion. Shares have soared more than 380% in 2024, reversing course after dropping more than 59% last year.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Corinne Johnson, Johnson, what's Organizations: Avidity Biosciences, LSEG Locations: Monday's

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Visa, Starbucks, Salesforce, Lowe's and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Starbucks — The coffee house chain moved 1.6% lower after Jefferies downgraded the stock to underperform from hold and cut its price target. BioNTech — U.S.-listed shares of the German biotechnology company rose 2.7% on the heels of a Morgan Stanley upgrade to overweight from equal weight. Pinterest — The image sharing company rose more than 1% after Oppenheimer initiated coverage of the stock with an outperform rating. GE Vernova — Shares gained nearly 1% after Guggenheim initiated coverage of GE Vernova with a buy rating, saying that it is "still in the early stages of a multi-year improvement in profitability." Analyst Joseph Osha's $300 price target implies a roughly 19% increase from Monday's closing price for the stock.

Persons: Jefferies, Piper Sandler, Lowe's, Oppenheimer, Morgan Stanley, BioNTech, Joseph Osha's, —, Sarah Min, Michelle Fox, Pia Singh, Sean Conlon, Jesse Pound, Fred Imbert Organizations: Thor Industries, Arlo Technologies, Visa, Bloomberg, Justice Department, Citi, Mastercard, Federal Reserve, GE, Guggenheim Locations: U.S, China, —

☆ Nvidia leads list of 10-bagger stocks the last five years. But be careful
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Nvidia is the latest poster child on Wall Street for "10 baggers," stocks that soar in price 10 times. But the AI chipmaker's path to " 10-bagger " status included what is also a typical slump (or two) along the way, according to Trivariate Research. To find the 84 stocks, Parker looked for names with market capitalizations over $2 billion and average daily trading volume of at least $30 million. He then screened for stocks that achieved 10-bagger status, and further culled the list to only those that accomplished the feat in the past 25 years. The chart below contains the names that achieved 10-bagger status most recently, along with information on their drawdowns.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Adam Parker, Parker, Trivariate, they've, Jensen Huang, Tesla Organizations: Nvidia, Research

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Visa, Smartsheet, JD.com and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Smartsheet — Shares surged more than 6% after Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners agreed to buy the software maker for $56.50 a share in cash, or about $8.4 billion . Unless another offer is made, the deal is expected to close by January 2025, pending shareholder approval. China stocks — Shares of Chinese companies soared after China's central bank unveiled a host of stimulus measures . Thor earned $1.68 per share on $2.53 billion in revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter. Flowserve — The stock moved nearly 5% higher after Bank of America reiterated a buy rating, saying its exposure to nuclear power is "underappreciated."

Persons: Alibaba, Li, Thor, LSEG, Morgan Stanley, BioNTech, Guggenheim, Joseph, Alex Harring, Samantha Subin, Lisa Kailai Han, Jesse Pound, Sarah Min Organizations: Bloomberg, Justice Department, Blackstone, Vista Equity Partners, JD.com, PDD Holdings, Li Auto, Thor Industries, Arlo Technologies, Bank of America, GE, Joseph Osha Locations: —

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Recession concerns still linger
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Brendan McDermid | ReutersThis report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. In terms of financial markets, financial firm BTIG sees a possible pullback. Last week's burst of euphoria was mostly driven by anticipation and celebration of the Fed's rate cut. Markets this week will look at the hard data coming out, like the preliminary measure of PMI, consumer confidence and PCE report.

Persons: QCOM, Brendan McDermid, It's, Piper Sandler, Nancy Lazar, Lazar, BTIG, Jonathan Krinsky, –, Alex Harring, Hakyung Kim, Brian Evans Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, CNBC, Friday, FedEx, Nasdaq, Dow, PMI Locations: New York City, U.S

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Some aren’t convinced of a soft landing
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Stephanie Keith | Getty ImagesThis report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. In terms of financial markets, financial firm BTIG sees a possible pullback. Last week's burst of euphoria was mostly driven by anticipation and celebration of the Fed's rate cut. Markets this week will look at the hard data coming out, like GDP figures for the second quarter, consumer confidence and PCE report.

Persons: Stephanie Keith, It's, Piper Sandler, Nancy Lazar, Lazar, BTIG, Jonathan Krinsky, –, Alex Harring, Hakyung Kim, Brian Evans Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, CNBC, Friday, FedEx, Nasdaq, Dow Locations: New York City

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Micron, Tesla, Ulta, Intel and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Pia Singh | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Micron Technology — Micron edged 2.7% higher after JPMorgan reiterated the stock as overweight ahead of the memory chipmaker's earnings, which are expected Wednesday after market close. Monday's gain put the stock on track for its biggest advance since Aug. 28, when it popped 9%. Ulta — The cosmetics stock lost more than 3% after a downgrade to hold from buy at TD Cowen. Biohaven — Shares surged 12% after the clinical-stage pharma company announced positive trial data for its drug treating spinocerebellar ataxia known as troriluzole. Intel — Shares of the struggling chipmaker climbed 2.4% after Bloomberg News reported on Sunday that Apollo Global Management proposed to make a multibillion-dollar investment in Intel.

Persons: Harlan Sur, General Motors, Bernstein, Cowen, troriluzole, Ciena, Jesse Pound, Alex Harring, Samantha Subin, Sean Conlon Organizations: Micron Technology, Micron, JPMorgan, Tesla, Barclays, U.S . Army, General, pharma, Intel —, Bloomberg, Apollo Global Management, Intel, CNBC, Qualcomm, Citi

☆ Dow futures are little changed after clinching record high following Fed rate cut: Live updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are near flat Sunday night after excitement over last week's interest rate cut propelled the blue-chip index to a record closing level. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures are also both little changed. All three of the major indexes added more than 1% for the week, during which the S&P 500 also reached new records. "But the signal is important nonetheless, and markets responded the following day taking the S&P 500 Index to a new all-time high." They'll also be following speeches from Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee and Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari for insights into what the central bank will do next.

Persons: Dow, Ronald Temple, Raphael Bostic, Austan Goolsbee, Neel Kashkari Organizations: Dow Jones Industrial, Nasdaq, Federal, Atlanta Fed, Chicago Fed, Minneapolis Fed

☆ Big returns before Fed rate cut doesn't mean stocks can't keep rising, history shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Investors don't need to worry that the market got out over its skis on interest rate cuts, according to Bank of America. The S & P 500 rallied to all-time highs this week after the Federal Reserve issued its first interest rate decrease in four years. Said another way, when looking historically, Subramanian found "no relationship" between returns ahead of the Fed's first cut and 12-month forward performance. On top of that, she said the S & P 500 sitting near a 52-week high heading into the cut has mattered "even less." The S & P 500 has climbed 11% on average over the year following an initial rate cute.

Persons: Savita Subramanian, Subramanian, Said Organizations: Bank of America, Federal Reserve

☆ CNBC Daily Open: One day makes all the difference
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. "Recalibration" Fed Chair Jerome Powell's use of the word "recalibration" seemed to reassure investors that the central bank's 50 basis point cut wasn't that worrying. It signaled the Fed wasn't responding to a slowing economy, but shifting focus to ensuring employment doesn't dip further, wrote CNBC's Jeff Cox. At the end of Washington's song, she croons, "What a difference a day makes / And the difference is you."

Persons: BOE, Jerome Powell's, Jeff Cox, Dinah Washington, Oppenheimer, Brian Belski, Powell, –, Alex Harring, Fred Imbert, Hakyung Kim, Lisa Kailai Han Organizations: Nasdaq, CNBC, JPMorgan Chase, of England, Monetary, Fed, Dow, Nvidia, Apple, BMO Locations: New York, Dinah Washington . Washington

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: FedEx, Nike, Constellation Energy and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Constellation Energy – Shares surged more than 17% after the company announced plans to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant and sell that power to Microsoft to satisfy the energy needs of its data centers. ASML – The semiconductor stock slid 3.4% in the wake of a Morgan Stanley downgrade to equal weight from overweight. Morgan Stanley said the risk-to-reward ratio has been "balancing." Centessa Pharmaceuticals – The biotech stock rose more than 4% after Morgan Stanley upgraded it to overweight from equal weight. Valero Energy – The energy stock declined nearly 3% after a Piper Sandler downgrade to neutral from an overweight rating, citing "less room for outperformance."

Persons: Raj Subramaniam, Elliott Hill, John Danahoe, Eli Lilly's orforglipron, Eli Lilly, Vistra, it's, Donald Trump, Lennar, ASML, Morgan Stanley, Piper Sandler, Buddy Chester, Alex Harring, Brian Evans, Samantha Subin, Yun Li, Lisa Kailai Han, Jesse Pound, Michelle Fox Organizations: FedEx, Nike, Constellation Energy, Microsoft, Novo Nordisk –, Deutsche Bank, Corbus Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk's, Viking Therapeutics, Vision, Trump Media & Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Valero Energy Locations: Novo, Texas

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Markets have finally processed the good news
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. [PRO] Commodity price movements Stocks have rallied on the back of the Fed's rate cut. The S&P climbed 1.7% to end at 5,713.64, the first time the broad-based index has broken through the 5,700 ceiling. At the end of Washington's song, she croons, "What a difference a day makes / And the difference is you."

Persons: Stocks, it's, Jerome Powell's, Jeff Cox, Dinah Washington, Oppenheimer, Brian Belski, Powell, –, Alex Harring, Fred Imbert, Hakyung Kim, Lisa Kailai Han Organizations: Nasdaq, CNBC, Citi, HSBC, People's Bank of, Bank of, Fed, Dow, Nvidia, Apple, BMO Locations: New York, China, Japan, Asia, People's Bank of China, Bank of Japan, Dinah Washington . Washington

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Darden Restaurants, Nvidia, DoorDash, Coursera and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Pia Singh | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Darden Restaurants — Shares advanced nearly 11% after the restaurant operator announced a multiyear partnership with Uber for on-demand delivery later this year. The company reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings and revenue, however, as its sales weakened at Olive Garden and its fine dining restaurants. DoorDash — The food delivery stock rose more than 3% after an upgrade to buy from neutral at BTIG. Alibaba – Shares rose more than 4% after the Chinese e-commerce company launched more than 100 open-source artificial intelligence models and a text-to-video tool. FedEx — Shares rose more than 1% ahead of the shipping giant's first-quarter earnings report due after the bell.

Persons: Uber, Jefferies, chipmakers, FactSet, Alibaba, Max, Stocks, bitcoin, — CNBC's Sean Conlon, Alex Harring, Samantha Subin, Jesse Pound, Brian Evans, Sarah Min, Michelle Fox Theobald Organizations: Darden, Olive, NextEra Energy, Nvidia, Arm Holdings, Micron, Micron Technology, FedEx —

☆ There's a new biggest bull on Wall Street as BMO raises year-end S&P 500 target to 6,100
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Chief investment strategist Brian Belski lifted his year-end target for the broad index by 500 points to 6,100. That new forecast implies the S & P 500 can climb 8.6% from Wednesday's close. .SPX YTD mountain S & P 500 YTD Belski said his update came after yet another rebound in equities pushed the index to trade around his prior target. Even if the S & P 500 tests lows seen during September's choppy trading, the investing strategist said he remains confident that it can rise into year-end. The S & P 500 has climbed more than 19% in 2024.

Persons: Brian Belski, It's, Belski, What's Organizations: BMO, CNBC, Federal Reserve Locations: Wednesday's, U.S

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Tesla, Mobileye Global, Darden Restaurants and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Tech stocks — Key tech names rallied a day after the Federal Reserve's supersized rate cut decision. Coursera — The online education platform jumped more than 8% on the back of Bank of America's initiation at a buy rating. Uber shares rose 3%. NextEra Energy Partners — The stock rose more than 3% on the heels of Jefferies initiating coverage with a buy rating. Crypto stocks — Stocks tied to bitcoin's price climbed as the cryptocurrency moved more than 4% higher following the Fed's rate cut on Wednesday.

Persons: Tesla, Meta, Coursera, Uber, DoorDash, Jefferies, Stocks, MicroStrategy, Alibaba, Alex Harring, Samantha Subin, Lisa Kailai Han, Pia Singh, Michelle Fox Organizations: Tech, Federal, Nvidia, Therapeutics, Intel, Bank of, Darden, DoorDash, NextEra Energy Partners, JPMorgan Locations: Mobileye, Olive

7:03 a.m.: Bernstein cuts price target on Nike amid innovation critiques Bernstein sees slightly less room for Nike to rebound. — Alex Harring 6:25 a.m.: Jefferies recommends buying NextEra Energy Partners despite buyout concern Jefferies came out of the gates optimistic on NextEra Energy Partners . Analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith initiated coverage of the Florida-based renewable energy stock at a buy rating. — Alex Harring 5:54 a.m.: AI helps HubSpot compete, BofA says Bank of America is keeping an eye of HubSpot's artificial intelligence work. — Alex Harring 5:46 a.m.: JPMorgan says to sell Five Below JPMorgan turned bearish on Five Below , citing challenges that are hard to surmount for the value-focused retailer during a tough year.

Persons: Piper Sandler, Bernstein, Aneesha Sherman, Sherman, Alex Harring, BTIG, it's, Jake Fuller, Fuller, DoorDash, — Alex Harring, Jefferies, Julien Dumoulin, Smith, Hertz, Dan Levy, Levy, Avis, HubSpot, BofA, BofA's Brad Sills, Sills, monetization, Matthew Boss, Boss, Abbott, Adam Maeder, necrotizing, ABT, Maeder, Fred Imbert Organizations: CNBC, Laboratories, JPMorgan, Nike, Dow Jones, Jefferies, NextEra Energy Partners, Barclays, Hertz, Bank of America, LSEG, Abbott Laboratories Locations: Wednesday's, Florida, Thursday's premarket

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