01:31 PM EDT, 11/01/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Consumer stocks were rising Friday afternoon, with the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLP) up 0.2% and the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLY) climbing 1.9%. In corporate news, Charter Communications' ( CHTR ) Q3 results increased year over year and topped market estimates, buoyed by double-digit revenue gains in residential...

01:58 PM EDT, 11/01/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Honda Motor ( HMC ) and Asahi Kasei said Friday they signed a shareholders' agreement to convert an Asahi Kasei unit in Canada into a joint venture company for the production of lithium-ion battery separators. Asahi Kasei's E-Materials Canada unit will be converted into a joint venture to be tentatively called Asahi Kasei...

01:49 PM EDT, 11/01/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Interactive Brokers Group ( IBKR ) said Friday its daily average revenue trades in October rose 46% year over year to about 2.82 million. Ending client equity of $540.0 billion was 47% higher from previous year, while client accounts grew 28% to 3.2 million, the company said. The average commission per cleared commissionable...

(Reuters) -Walt Disney ( DIS ) is forming a new unit to coordinate the company's use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality, as the media giant explores applications across its film, television and theme park divisions. The newly formed Office of Technology Enablement will be led by Jamie Voris, who spearheaded development of Disney's ( DIS...