Snap Inc. (SNAP) shares are surging during Friday's trading session, propelled by first quarter results that surpassed revenue expectations for the company. The social media platform reported a 21% year-over-year increase in revenue for the quarter, fueling the stock's trading activity.
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Palantir, a data analytics software company, continued to gain traction with its artificial-intelligence tools in the quarter ended in March. Palantir shares, which rallied 8.1% in Monday’s regular session, fell more than 15% on Tuesday. Palantir followed up its “bombastic” December quarter with even better results for the March quarter as the data analytics software company continued to gain traction with its artificial-intelligence tools, in particular with U.S. commercial customers.
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UOB announces net profit of $1.49 billion including Citi integration costs, higher q-o-q, lower y-o-y, and 6% above estimates.
The failed cryptocurrency giant says it has billions of dollars more than needed to cover its debts.
Results from Disney took center stage as the media giant posted the first profit for a key part of its streaming business.
Singapore's biggest bank DBS Group said on Wednesday that it has appointed Ping An Technology's chairman and CEO Eugene Huang as its chief information officer (CIO) effective Friday. Huang, who is joining from Ping An Group, has over 36 years of technology and banking experience and will report to DBS Group CEO Piyush Gupta in his new role, DBS said in a statement on Wednesday. "His immediate focus will be to build on the work the bank has done since last year to strengthen our technology resiliency," Gupta said in the statement.
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LONDON (Reuters) -Investors have gone from bracing for a U.S. recession to positioning for the world's biggest economy to keep chugging along. European growth is also better than anticipated a few months ago, a challenge for traders trying to divine how much central bankers will lower interest rates. Many analysts said this would be the year U.S. growth buckled, after the same predictions proved woefully wrong in 2023.
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* South Korean shares jump as much as 2.2% * Taiwan's April CPI due later in the day * Malaysia rate decision due on Thursday (Updates at 0631 GMT) By Ayushman Ojha May 7 (Reuters) - Most Asian stock markets extended gains on Tuesday on the back of renewed bets for U.S. rate cuts after last week's cooler-than-expected jobs data, while the region's currencies were subdued as the dollar ticked higher. Regional markets are still cautious about the future path of U.S. interest rates as they have not seen a strengthening in Asian currencies even with U.S. yields falling, said Lloyd Chan, senior currency analyst at MUFG Bank. Taiwan is scheduled to report its April inflation numbers later on Tuesday.
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