05:59 AM EDT, 04/26/2024 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with the stock move in the headline and the first paragraph.) Alphabet (GOOG) shares were up 11.5% in premarket activity Friday after the company reported a surge in earnings and sales in Q1. The owner of the Google ( GOOG ) search engine reported Q1 earnings late Thursday of $1.89 per diluted...

05:57 AM EDT, 04/26/2024 (MT Newswires) -- AZZ (AZZ) said late Thursday it priced a public offering of 4 million shares at $70 apiece, targeting gross proceeds of $280 million. The company said it granted underwriters an option for 30 days to purchase up to an additional 15% of the shares sold in the offering. AZZ is selling all of...

05:51 AM EDT, 04/26/2024 (MT Newswires) -- U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell 3%, or 134 million metric tons, in 2023 with most of the decrease occurring in the electric power sector, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Thursday. Total U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions amounted to 4.81 billion metric tons last year, the lowest level since 2020, the...

LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - U.S. and European politicians have raised alarms that their domestic auto industries could be destroyed by a wave of cheap Chinese electric vehicles. But so far, China's top EV maker, BYD, has dramatically hiked export prices compared to what it charges at home rather than undercut foreign rivals. The goal: to rake in hefty profit...