PLTR, HIMS, VRTX and more

PLTR, HIMS, VRTX and more

Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Palantir — The defense technology stock advanced 4% after second-quarter earnings exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. Palantir said it reported adjusted earnings of 16 cents per share on $1.00 billion in revenue, while analysts polled by LSEG anticipated 14 cents per share and $940 million, respectively. Vertex…

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Bush, Obama and a tearful Bono fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day

Bush, Obama and a tearful Bono fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell on Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Obama called the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID “a colossal mistake.”…

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Singapore’s exports plunge 11.3% in August, much weaker than forecast

Singapore’s exports plunge 11.3% in August, much weaker than forecast

Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports fell 11.3% in August from the same month a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday. Roslan Rahman | Afp | Getty Images Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports fell 11.3% in August from the same month a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday, weaker than analysts’ estimates as exports of both electronics and non-electronics fell. The fall compared with a Reuters poll forecast for an annual rise of 1.0%,…

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Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract ‘extremely salacious’ Epstein comments

Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract ‘extremely salacious’ Epstein comments

WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue if he does not. Trump takes issue with two comments Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, made in an interview this month with British journalist Andrew Callaghan. He alleged that Epstein…

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Trump says he doesn’t know Binance founder CZ after pardoning him

Trump says he doesn’t know Binance founder CZ after pardoning him

Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2022. Benoit Tessier | Reuters President Donald Trump said he knows nothing about Binance founder Changpeng Zhao — or that company’s recent involvement in a cryptocurrency venture linked to…

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