
IBM Stock Slips 4.6% After Hours Despite Q3 Earnings Beat
IBM beat Wall Street on both profit and revenue while software accelerated, yet the shares gave back the gain after hours. Here is what the market priced in.
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IBM beat Wall Street on both profit and revenue while software accelerated, yet the shares gave back the gain after hours. Here is what the market priced in.

IFM Investors agreed to buy a 63.9% stake in Associated British Ports, the UK's biggest port operator, in a deal valuing the company near $13.4 billion.

Walmart is betting a two-for-one membership price of $120 a year, about $100 less than the memberships cost separately, will pull holiday shoppers into its stores and pressure Amazon's $139 Prime.

The oil major sits within a dollar of its 52-week high as Brent trades at $110.85, and Goldman just raised its price target to $241 ahead of Q3 earnings on October 30.

The streaming giant beat profit estimates but trimmed its advertising and full-year revenue forecasts, and the market answered the revision by sending the shares to their lowest level since August 2024.

Before Meta reports Q3 results, a spending guide nearly twice last year's capex puts advertising cash generation at the center of the sector story.

Meta, Tesla, IBM, Lam Research and Texas Instruments report after hours Wednesday as investors rotate away from megacap tech. Read our AI-trade test preview.

Investors searching the stock ahead of the company's second post-IPO earnings report get a sign of what Wall Street expects: revenue near 12.7 billion dollars for the quarter due after Tuesday's close.

A proxy filing that prices Musk's 2025 award near 158 billion dollars and Wall Street chatter of a SpaceX deal gave Tesla stock fresh fuel two days before it reports earnings.

Utilities fell 2% and real estate 1.2% as long yields crept higher Monday, while consumer discretionary led on Amazon. The rotation hinges on rates.

The Dutch chip equipment maker turned a feared AI spending pullback into a bumper quarter, and it says customers are already asking for 2029 and 2030 capacity.

People are searching Kroger layoffs because the announced scale is big: 3,000 corporate roles, 37 percent of the office staff, phased over three years. The market reads it as a bet on AI and price.