Stock futures are slipping, pointing to another day of losses as investors prepare for a meeting of Federal Reserve policy makers and earnings from big technology companies.
- Cryptocurrencies were broadly lower, with bitcoin down 8.7% from its Friday 5 p.m. ET level, and crypto stocks were dropping along with them. Crypto exchange
fell 9.8% premarket. Bitcoin miners were especially hard hit, with
down 11% and
down 12%.
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slipped 1% premarket. An activist investor wants the stationary-bike maker to fire its chief executive and explore a sale after its stock plummeted more than 80% from its high, as growth slowed.
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added 0.7%. The oil-field-services company swung to a profit in the fourth quarter as revenue grew in North America and internationally.
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soared 26% premarket. In a letter, Engine Capital urged Kohl’s to run a sale process following Starboard Value’s bid, as activists remain unsatisfied with the pace of the department-store chain’s turnaround.
A Kohl’s Corp. department store in Lexington, Ky., Aug. 11, 2021.
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shares were shaking off the day’s gloom, rising 2.3% premarket. RBC Capital lifted its rating on the stock to “outperform” and gave it a price target of $60 per share. It closed on Friday at $49.73.
- U.S.-traded shares of
jumped 6.7% after reports that activist hedge fund Trian Fund Management had bought a stake in the packaged-food and consumer-goods company in the wake of its failed bid for part of GlaxoSmithKline.
- The U.K.’s
rose 6.6% after Reuters reported that the telecom is in talks with Iliad to combine their units in Italy.
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IBM,
and
are among the companies reporting earnings after Monday’s close.
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- The financial industry has spotted an opportunity to make money by helping people feel good about themselves. But these investments don’t do much to make the world a better place, writes James Mackintosh in the first in a series of Streetwise columns about funds guided by environmental, social and governance principles, known as ESG.
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