01:30 PM EST, 01/21/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Consumer stocks were rising Tuesday afternoon, with the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLP) increasing 0.2% and the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLY) adding 0.5%. In corporate news, Ford's (F) BlueCruise driver assistance system is now under an engineering analysis by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to further investigate...

01:27 PM EST, 01/21/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with the stock price movement in the headline and the first paragraph.) New Oriental Education & Technology Group ( EDU ) shares fell nearly 23% in recent Tuesday trading after the company's fiscal Q2 profit failed to meet expectations and the education firm set its fiscal Q3 revenue guidance below estimates. The...

01:37 PM EST, 01/21/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with American Honda's response in the fifth paragraph.) Honda Motor's ( HMC ) American Honda unit is facing an expanded investigation into an estimated 295,125 vehicles related to alleged inadvertent automatic emergency braking, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The regulator described the problem as an inadvertent activation that increases...

01:26 PM EST, 01/21/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Golar LNG (GLNG) said Tuesday its floating liquified natural gas vessel Gimi has received feed gas from the BP (BP)-operated floating production storage and offloading project located offshore Mauritania and Senegal. Golar said Gimi's full commissioning has now begun, with the first LNG export cargo now expected within Q1. Expected within Q2 is...