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Vacation rental site Airbnb beat second-quarter earnings expectations and again raised its full-year outlook, crediting an accelerated pace of bookings and continued strong travel demand despite higher costs. Airbnb shares were up more than 11% in after hours trading, after closing down 0.6% at $151.64 in regular trading. Airbnb said it delivered some of the strongest results in years during the first half of 2026, and that it exceeded its outlook across every key metric for the second quarter.

WPP PLC (WPP) reports sequential improvement in Q2, strong new business wins, and strategic investments in AI and high-growth areas despite ongoing client losses and margin pressures.

Airbnb Inc. (NASDAQ:ABNB) reports second-quarter earnings after the bell today, with the call at 5 p.m. ET. Polymarket gives the company a 41% chance of reporting GAAP earnings above $1.25 per share. Airbnb has topped consensus estimates only once in...

Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton previews several of the biggest stories to come Thursday, August 6, including earnings out from ConocoPhillips (COP), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), and Airbnb (ABNB), as well as key labor data in the form of initial jobless claims.

US equity markets were mostly pointing higher before the opening bell Thursday as investors assess p

Today Economic data: Weekly jobless claims, preliminary productivity and costs report for the second quarter, EIA weekly natural gas storage report, Challenger job-cuts report Earnings (a.m.): ConocoPhillips, Warner Bros Discovery, Kenvue, Fox Corp, Hertz, Keurig Dr Pepper, Datadog, Ralph Lauren Earnings (p.

Expedia Group (NASDAQ:EXPE) reported second-quarter results above the high end of its outlook, citing healthy consumer travel demand, continued momentum in its business-to-business segment and improved marketing efficiency. The company also raised its full-year guidance for gross bookings, revenue a

Today Federal Reserve speakers: Fed governor Lisa Cook Economic data: the Energy Information Administration’s weekly petroleum status report, U.S. services PMI, global services PMI, ADP employment survey Earnings (a.

Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) reported second-quarter results that exceeded its expectations, led by travel performance, hospitality payment processing and stronger-than-anticipated contributions from healthcare and B2B payment-processing ramps. The company also raised its full-year revenue and adjusted EBI

Booking Holdings stock jumped late Tuesday. The online travel agency reported second-quarter results that beat expectations despite grappling with the global impact of the Iran war. Booking Holdings is the parent company of Booking.com, Priceline, Kayak and OpenTable, among other brands.

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Earnings continue to be the market's engine, and a series of results this week from Palantir, SpaceX, and AMD are set to rev up stocks again.

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Investors will be closely watching Airbnb's upcoming fiscal second-quarter results, where analysts expect the company to deliver double-digit earnings growth.

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US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, discusses the design and benefits of the Trump Accounts site and app on "Bloomberg The Close."

June 30 () - Airbnb must ‌face a ‌lawsuit by the ​city of Los Angeles, which accused ‌the ⁠home rental company of ⁠allowing price gouging ​affecting ​more ​than 2,600 ‌properties during the January 2025 wildfires in southern ‌California, ​City ​Attorney ​Hydee Feldstein ‌Soto said on ​Tuesday. (Reporting ​by Jonathan Stempel ​in ‌New York; Editing ​by Chris ​Reese).

Airbnb stock climbed back above a flat-base entry on Monday, as travel stocks got a boost from renewed U.S. and Iran peace talks. Meanwhile, analysts with Baird upped their price target for Airbnb while reiterating an outperform, or buy, rating.

Wall Street stocks are expected to make a steadier start on Wednesday after a sharp technology-led sell-off in the previous two sessions, with investors now focused on Micron's earnings for clues about the health of the artificial intelligence boom. Nasdaq and S&P 500 futures were...

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SpaceX's market debut turned into a record retail buying event.

After a strong start, questions remain on how the company will reach profitability.

Nuvei will buy cross-border payments firm Payoneer for about $2.75 billion in cash, the companies said on Monday, ‌as the Canadian fintech aims to expand globally. Nuvei will buy ‌all shares of Payoneer for $7.40 apiece, a premium of about 44% to their last ​close on June 8. Payoneer has a market capitalization of about $2.26 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.

The hotly anticipated IPO is set to be the largest in stock market history, and is more than 7.5 times Alibaba's IPO, in second place.

Reid Hoffman, billionaire co-founder of networking website LinkedIn, has ‌decided not to stand for re-election ‌to Microsoft's board of directors at its 2026 ​annual shareholder meeting, the software giant said in a filing on Friday. Hoffman, who has served on the board since 2017, ‌will stay on ⁠till the meeting. In 2016, ​he sold LinkedIn ​to Microsoft for $26.2 ‌billion in what was at the time the tech giant's largest-ever deal.

Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading mixed on Friday as we prepare to close out one of the craziest weeks on Wall Street this year. On a day when we saw yet another all-time high, investors rotated out of chip stocks and into healthcare and industrials after Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) posted disappointing results. When the ... Here Are Friday’s Top Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Airbnb, Broadcom, Chipotle Mexican Grill, CrowdStrike, Fiserv, Lululemon Athletica, NVIDIA, Tesla, Walmart,

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