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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Dollar Tree, iRobot, Bloom Energy and...

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. McGrath RentCorp — Shares jumped nearly 11% after WillScot Mobile Mini, an equipment rental company, said it would buy McGrath RentCorp in a $3.8 billion cash-and-stock transaction. Dollar Tree — Shares of the discount...

Workers are sour on the job market — but it may not be warranted

Maskot | Digitalvision | Getty ImagesWorkers are sour on the job market — but that pessimism may be somewhat misplaced.The Glassdoor Employee Confidence Index in January fell to its lowest level since 2016, when the career site began tracking the metric, it said Monday. The...

Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Whirlpool, F5, Cleveland-Cliffs...

Check out the companies making headlines in after-hour trading. Woodward — Shares jumped 5% after the manufacturer surpassed expectations of analysts polled by FactSet on both lines for the fiscal first quarter. Woodward also raised its guidance for full-year performance,...

Alibaba-backed Xreal, rival to Apple’s Vision Pro, claims it’s now...

Xreal Air 2 in action. Xreal's augmented reality glasses is compatible with gaming consoles and can allow users to play games on a large virtual screenXrealBEIJING — Alibaba-backed augmented reality glasses company Xreal said Monday it received $60 million in new funding, giving...

Chinese stocks are starting to turn around. How to play them

The latest positivity around Chinese markets doesn't yet offer the kind of clarity most international investors are looking for to move beyond selective plays. Chinese stocks ended the week with four straight days of gains — a rare upswing after a dismal start to the year. A...