We’ll get earnings from Citizens Financial, Kansas City Southern and J.B. Hunt before the bell on Friday. Sandler O’Neill said it expects Citizens Financial to report earnings per share of 96 cents, in line with consensus estimates. Shares of Citizens Financial have jumped more than 12% in the last three months. Trucking company J.B. Hunt reports quarterly earnings on Friday and is expected to report earnings of $1.50, according to Refinitiv consensus estimates. In the fourth quarter last year,

Check out the companies making headlines after hours on Tuesday:Gap Inc. — Stock of the clothing retailer was up more than 4% in extended trading after the company announced it no longer planned to spin-off Old Navy into a separately traded public company. The company also announced that Neil Fiske, president and CEO of the Gap brand, is departing. CSX — Shares of the transportation company were down more than 3% in extended trading after CSX reported quarterly revenues of $2.89 billion, which m

The partial trade deal signed Wednesday between the U.S. and China is hardly an immediate success, according to trade groups representing many of the nation’s biggest companies. “We’re certainly glad it’s not getting worse,” Stephen Lamar, president of American Apparel & Footwear Association, said Thursday on CNBC’s “The Exchange.” “[It’s] phase one in what has to be a multi-phase deal,” he said on “The Exchange.” “The most important thing is phase one moving to phase two, and in phase two we ca

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEven as regulators bear down on the top technology companies and some lawmakers seek to break them up, Big Tech is bigger than ever. Adding Facebook into that group, the five most valuable U.S. tech companies are now worth a staggering $5.2 trillion, accounting for over 17% of the S&P 500, according to FactSet. That’s up from 11% five years ago, with about two-thirds of the value, or $3.5 trillion, accruing over that stretch. The complaint alleges that

The Tesla logo is seen on the Apple iPhone case in Santa Monica, California. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesElon Musk’s electric automaker Tesla on Wednesday once again reclaimed its title as Wall Street’s most-shorted stock. The iPhone maker had been the most-shorted stock in the U.S. market in terms of total value since it passed Tesla in September. But Tesla’s restored reign as the most-shorted U.S. equity was short lived after Apple reclaimed its place at No. Tesla’s equity sold

Blanchflower, 67, tells CNBC Make It that the findings also extend to his personal life. “There’s a midlife crisis with a low point around age 50, which was my low point of happiness, too,” he says. The transition from being a junior-level employee to taking on more responsibilities can have a negative impact on happiness levels, Tess Brigham, a San Francisco-based therapist, tells CNBC Make It. That can cause anxiety,” she tells CNBC Make It. The larger economic and political climate seems to h

According to a new ranking by The Wall Street Journal released Wednesday, Delta Air Lines was the best major U.S. airline for 2019. American Airlines came in last on the Journal’s overall ranking. American mishandled more than 2,600 bags compared to Delta’s 1,345 last year. United, which ranked next to last overall, had poor rankings in two-hour tarmac delays, mishandled baggage and canceled flights but did better in involuntary bumps. Here are how U.S. airlines stack up in 2019, according to th

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is one of the world’s biggest stars and Hollywood’s highest earner, raking in more than $89 million in 2019, according to Forbes. Over a decades-long career that’s seen him go from college athlete to professional wrestler to a global movie star, Johnson has said his success stems from a work ethic he picked up while training as a kid with his father, himself a former professional wrestler. “He’d say, ‘You didn’t get up early to come here and give half-ass effort. His fa

Apple was the first to hit the market cap milestone in 2018. Google parent-company Alphabet has hit $1 trillion in market capitalization, making it the fourth U.S. company to hit the milestone. Shares of Google’s parent company rose nearly 1% after Bank of America raised its price target on Alphabet’s stock in January, saying it sees a healthy advertising business for Alphabet among other things. The stock dropped 7.5%, shaving more than $67 billion from its market cap. The company’s stock fell

Horizon Zero Dawn, a PlayStation 4 exclusive when it was released in 2017, is coming to Windows PC, according to a Kotaku report. Developer by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Horizon Zero Dawn is a critically acclaimed action role-playing game set in a world with hulking robot creatures. Kotaku reported Horizon Zero Dawn will be released on PC this year, the first time it’s on a platform outside of PlayStation. While Horizon Zero Dawn’s possible release on PC is

That’s called output randomness, and Mark Brown does a wonderful job explaining it, and its sibling input randomness, in this video. Output randomness is best described as having an 87% chance to hit in XCOM and somehow whiffing the shot completely. Furthermore, a bad outcome from output randomness can, in effect, become useful input randomness for the player’s next turn. Input randomness is essentially information before the action: the draw of cards before a turn, or the creation of a procedur

With the bush fires ongoing in Australia, some game companies are putting relief efforts together via purchase of in-game items or games themselves. In a blog post on its website, the studio announced the new “Guardians for Australia” shirt. The shirt features the classic Guardian spaceship flying over some kangaroos on a hot plain — with the Destiny symbol on the corner of the shirt, seen above. Like most Bungie store purchases, the shirt comes with an in-game emblem called Star Bright (seen ab

Following the delay of Cyberpunk 2077 from April into September of this year, developer CD Projekt Red says the game’s multiplayer component likely won’t surface until “after 2021.” “Given the expected release of Cyberpunk 2077 in September, and frankly speaking of the series of events we expect to occur after that date, 2021 appears unlikely as a release date for the Cyberpunk multiplayer,” Nowakowski said. Related Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to SeptemberThe multiplayer component for Cyberpunk 2077

A limited edition Humble Bundle, called the Australia Fire Relief Bundle, was announced on Thursday. The Australia Fire Relief Bundle has a promised value of over $400. That’s the minimum to receive the games, but you’re always welcome to pay more than $25 for the bundle. Humble typically donates 10% of each Humble Bundle purchase to charity, but is sending 100% of the money it makes from the Australia Fire Relief Bundle to the World Wildlife Fund, RSPCA Australia, and Australia’s Wildlife Infor

The GOATS meta — a strategy requiring all tanks and healers — dominated Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch League in 2019. Today, the developer revealed a new skin that’ll be released ahead of the Overwatch League’s Feb. 8 kickoff: GOAT Brigitte. To celebrate the Greatest Of All TimeGOAT Brigitte will be available February 6th to kick-off the start of #OWL2020 pic.twitter.com/C70YYJ41of — Overwatch League (@overwatchleague) January 16, 2020″To celebrate the Greatest Of All Time,” Blizzard tweete

After being ported to virtually every video game platform known to man, the world and lore of Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is now set to arrive inside its own sibling MMO, The Elder Scrolls Online. The team at developer ZeniMax Online Studios unveiled new details about its upcoming season of content, titled The Dark Heart of Skyrim. In the second quarter, ZeniMax says it will release The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor, a new and complete chapter in the ongoing story of the popular MMO.

Apple position on security ‘exactly correct’, says Roger McNameeElevation Partners co-founder Roger McNamee joins “Squawk Alley” to discuss Apple’s decision to push back against a DOJ request to unlock devices for law enforcement.

John FedeleThis year, the IRS will let you slide on a penalty if you didn’t have health insurance in 2019. These states will grant exemptions in a handful of circumstances, including for households whose income falls below the state tax filing threshold. “They want to make sure people have insurance coverage.” It can charge a flat amount $695 per adult or $347.50 for each child who goes without insurance, based on your 2020 income tax return. Vermont: The state requires that all Vermonters have

NRF, the retail industry’s leading trade group, had previously forecast that retail sales excluding automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants during November and December would increase between 3.8% and 4.2%. Data for November was also revised up to show retail sales gaining 0.3%, instead of rising 0.2% as previously reported. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales would gain 0.3% in December. Compared with December 2018, retail sales accelerated 5.8%. A slew of compa

Just a few months after Hastings’ pregnancy announcement, several other high-profile athletes including Olympic runners Alysia Montano and Kara Goucher spoke out about the lack of support they had at Nike . Track-and-field star Natasha Hastings hid her pregnancy for five months before deciding to tell her sponsors. The two-time Olympic gold medalist had spent her whole life training and feared that a pregnancy could derail her career. But this Olympics, Hastings’ third, has new meaning that’s mo