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WW, formerly Weight Watchers International Inc. , and Blue Apron Holdings Inc. announced a partnership on Thursday that will offer a list of rotating recipes delivered to the homes of WW members. The meals will be available to order on Blue Apron's digital platform starting Dec. 26. The six meals, which includes crispy baked chicken with kale, potatoes and caper mayo, and garlic shrimp and Spanish-style potatoes with peppers and onions, will come in two-serving recipes. The recipes are based on the WW Freestyle program. Читать дальше...

Apple’s stock chart flashed its first “death cross” in three years on Thursday, and history suggests investors should heed the warning of the bearish technical event.

Conagra Brands Inc. shares slumped 17% in Thursday afternoon trading after the food company announced fiscal second-quarter earnings that suggest the Pinnacle Foods acquisition will be a drag on earnings. The second quarter included 31 days of Pinnacle results, the company said. In the eight weeks since the deal closed, Chief Executive Sean Connolly said the company has assessed the source of Pinnacle's weaknesses. "Birds Eye, Duncan Hines, and Wish-Bone have all suffered sales and distribution losses this past year... Читать дальше...

It’s not just the Fed that is shrinking stock valuations.

Oil futures dropped Thursday, with U.S. prices under $46 a barrel and settling at their lowest in 17 months. Expectations for a slowdown in energy demand and a glut in global crude supplies continued to weigh on prices. February West Texas Intermediate oil lost $2.29, or 4.8%, to settle at $45.88 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That was the lowest finish for a front-month contract since July 21, 2017, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

Sweden’s Riksbank raises interest rates for the first time in 7 years on Thursday, stoking a rally in the Swedish krona. But it isn’t just good news for the Scandinavian nation, as market participants believe the hike could be a precursor to further European monetary tightening.

European stocks tumbled Thursday, carving out a fresh 52-week low, one day after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for a fourth time this year, exacerbating a risk-off downturn.

Even the act of touching money can have a powerful effect on kids’ behavior, research shows.

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The Omega Advisors founder explained in an interview on CNBC how he plans to navigate a market where he says he’s sill finding “tremendous value” despite widespread fears of a prolonged slump.

With less than a week until Christmas, even Amazon Prime is risky.

Equifax auditor EY’s CertifyPoint unit missed the system vulnerability that gave hackers access to 48 Equifax servers containing personal information of 143 million consumers in 2017.

A tax bill from Rep. Kevin Brady would cost $99 billion over the next decade, according to a new estimate from the Joint Committee on Taxation, a nonpartisan congressional panel. Brady, the Texas Republican who is heading the House Ways and Means Committee until early January, has backed a bill that would tie up loose ends in tax policy, but the measure has struggled to gain traction in both chambers of Congress.

BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield upgraded Snap Inc. shares to neutral from sell on Thursday, writing that he still has some concerns about the company but that he no longer sees "a compelling risk/reward to shorting the stock at current levels." Greenfield remains worried about a preference among Snap's user base for messaging friends via the platform, rather than consuming content. "To meaningfully grow revenues Snapchat needs content consumption within Discover to become far more meaningful than it is today," he wrote. Читать дальше...

Rosenblatt analyst Jun Zhang wrote Thursday that he thinks Apple "may cut another 4 million iPhones" from its production plans for the March quarter. He said this would "likely" include 2.5 million iPhone XR units, 1 million iPhone XS units, and 500,000 iPhone XS Max devices. "Our iPhone estimates have been lowered to 39 mln units for the March quarter, and we believe iPhone shipments will be down 10% y/y in C2018, as we already expect Apple might continue cutting their production for the March quarter," he wrote. Читать дальше...

With Dow down nearly 600 points, Mnuchin says stocks' reaction to Fed overblown

Old Navy said Thursday that it has partnered with ride-hailing app Lyft to offer free rides on Dec. 22, otherwise known as Super Saturday, the last Saturday before Christmas. According to the National Retail Federation, 134 million consumers will be shopping that day. The free round-trip ride will get shoppers who are using the buy-online-pickup-in-store service from their house to the Old Navy location and back. This Saturday and Sunday, guests who use the buy-online-pickup-in-store service will also get a free gift-wrapping set... Читать дальше...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday the market's negative reaction to the Fed's interest-rate hike was "completely overblown." In an interview on Fox Business Network, Mnuchin noted the central bank lowered the high-end of its projected path of rate hikes. "The Fed has said they're close to done. They said they are data dependent. So I think the market has overreacted and U.S. equities are [a] tremendous value," he said. Stocks have fallen to a 14-month low after the rate decision. Читать дальше...

Many U.S. lawmakers were focusing Thursday on a temporary measure to fund the federal government. But a few of them were holding a hearing aimed at highlighting the dangers of increased spending.

Gold futures climbed on Thursday, getting a lift from weakness in the dollar and losses in the stock market. "If the U.S. dollar index has topped, as many influential Wall Street voices think it has, gold could make a straight line to $1,360 before it meets resistance," said Michael Armbruster, managing partner at Altavest. "It's quite possible we could get there by the end of January," he said. "Gold can move quickly in a short period of time when sentiment changes." February gold rose $11.50... Читать дальше...

Trump won't sign Senate bill to keep government open, Speaker Ryan says

President Donald Trump won't sign a Senate-passed bill to keep the government open past Friday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said. Trump wants money for his proposed border wall in a so-called continuing resolution, and House Republicans said they'll work on such a measure after meeting with Trump.

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A German court Thursday found Apple Inc. infringed on a Qualcomm Inc. patent and must stop selling some older iPhones, the second time in weeks a court has ruled against the iPhone maker in the long-running dispute over smartphone technology.