Commercial office space start-up WeWork announced it has $4.4 billion from SoftBank and its related Softbank Vision Fund, which includes other investors. The deal includes $1.4 billion earmarked to help WeWork expand throughout China, Japan and Southeast Asia, as well as $3 billion in growth funding into WeWork's parent company. CNBC had previously reported that...
AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) _ Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $182.5 million. On a per-share basis, the Austin, Minnesota-based company said it had profit of 34 cents. The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 37 cents...
There’s probably not a lot of people cheering the fact Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd. is Australia’s best-performing equity today. Getting burnt by the travel retailer is almost a rite of passage for long-short funds Down Under. The market’s most-shorted stock, Flight Centre has a habit of burning bears, with an improved profit outlook in July and this week’s...
The dollar edged higher against the yen on Thursday, paring some of the losses it suffered after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested a shutdown of the government was possible and threatened to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump warned late on Tuesday he might end the NAFTA trade treaty with Mexico and Canada after three-way talks failed to...
Blue Apron has been a public company for less than two months. Already its stock price has been cut nearly in half, and it faces a slew of shareholder lawsuits and the departure of several executives. The confluence of these events and the magnitude of their occurrence at Blue Apron is rare. Many of them could have been avoided if shares of the meal delivery...