Disney (DIS) shares inch higher on Thursday, following Trian Fund Management's nomination of CEO Nelson Peltz to Disney's board. General Motors (GM) stock rises amid a spending pullback on driverless cars and the automaker's autonomous vehicle business Cruise Charles Schwab (SCHW) reports an increase in core net new assets in the month of November. Yahoo Finance’s Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton break down the stock gains seen across all three companies and their own individual challenges. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live.
Disney (DIS) shares inch higher on Thursday, following Trian Fund Management's nomination of CEO Nelson Peltz to Disney's board.
General Motors (GM) stock rises amid a spending pullback on driverless cars and the automaker's autonomous vehicle business Cruise
Charles Schwab (SCHW) reports an increase in core net new assets in the month of November.
Yahoo Finance’s Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton break down the stock gains seen across all three companies and their own individual challenges.
For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live.
Barrons.com
Electric vehicles still get investors excited. General Motors on Thursday announced a new electric Cadillac, the VISTIQ sport-utility vehicle. The SUV’s size sits between the LYRIQ and the electric Escalade IQ.
Associated Press Finance
Three major retailers — Amazon, Target and Walmart — say they're suspending sales of water-bead products marketed to young children due to growing safety concerns. Water beads are small, colorful balls made of superabsorbent polymers. “When (water beads) absorb water, they can swell to many times their size,” said Dr. Joshua King, medical director of the Maryland Poison Center.
Reuters
(Reuters) -General Motors' self-driving vehicle business Cruise will slash 24% of its workforce as it works to restructure operations following an accident that forced it to halt U.S. testing, the company said on Thursday. GM's money-losing robotaxi unit has been in turmoil for weeks. Cruise pulled all its U.S. vehicles from self-driving testing after California suspended its driverless testing permit following an October accident.
Yahoo Finance
New nuclear technology could provide much of the clean energy we need to hit aggressive decarbonization targets. As usual, there are barriers.
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