Listed below are 5 essential factors financiers require to grasp to start the buying and selling day:
1. Capitalists await
2. Comcast to separate
Folks go to the High of the Rock monitoring deck behind a Comcast firm emblem design on prime of 30 Rock in Rockefeller Facility seen from the Realm State Construction on Could 8, 2023, in New York Metropolis Metropolis.
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Comcast plans to move forward with the spinoff of its cable network channels, people familiar with the matter told CNBC on Tuesday. The networks that are part of the spinoff include CNBC, MSNBC, E!, Syfy, Golf Channel, USA and Oxygen, a person close to the matter said. The separation is expected to take about a year, and will give the cable networks the optionality to merge with other networks or potentially be sold to private equity, one of the people said. A formal announcement from the company could come as early as Wednesday.
Disclosure: Comcast owns NBCUniversal, the parent company of CNBC.
3. Missed the bullseye
A Target store in Albany, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024.Â
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Target on Wednesday missed Wall Street’s third-quarter earnings expectations and posted only a slight uptick in customer traffic. The retailer cut its full-year guidance to adjusted earnings per share between $8.30 and $8.90, down from the $9 to $9.70 per share that it expected in August. Target missed Wall Street’s earnings per share estimate by 20%, its biggest in two years, and saw its first revenue miss since Aug. 2023.
4. Nuclear tensions soar
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference in Moscow on November 8, 2024.Â
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5. A space spectacle
SpaceXs Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster rocket lift off during a test flight Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, at Starbase in Boca Chica.Â
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â CNBC’s Brian Evans, Lillian Rizzo, Alex Sherman, Melissa Repko, Holly Ellyatt, Michael Sheetz and Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.
