Amazon, Snap, Pinterest fall premarket; Intel, Exxon rise


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Investing.com — Stocks in focus in premarket trade on Friday, April 28th. Please refresh for updates.

  • Amazon (NASDAQ:) stock fell 3.4% after the tech giant of a slowdown at its crucial cloud-computing division Amazon Web Services – a major driver of the group’s overall profit.

  • Intel (NASDAQ:) stock rose 6.1% after the chipmaker said gross margins will improve in the second half of the year, after the largest quarterly loss in the company’s history.

  • Snap (NYSE:) stock slumped over 18.1% after the company, which owns photo messaging app Snapchat, quarterly revenue expectations as changes to its advertising platform hurt demand for ads.

  • Pinterest (NYSE:) stock fell 13% after the forecast second quarter revenue growth below expectations, hit by a pullback in advertising spending.

  • Exxon Mobil (NYSE:) stock rose 0.8% after the oil giant a record first quarter profit as rising oil and gas output overcame a pullback in energy prices from high levels.

  • Chevron (NYSE:) stock fell 0.3% after the reported strong in the first quarter but its upstream business – responsible for oil and gas production – saw its income slip.

  • Sony (NYSE:) stock fell 3% after the Japanese conglomerate forecast its profit will slip from a record high as weaker financial services sales offset gains from gaming, music, and movies.

  • First Republic Bank (NYSE:) stock rose 4.4% on reports that the U.S. government is coordinating urgent talks to rescue the beleaguered lender.

  • Cloudflare (NYSE:) stock fell 24% after the cloud services provider weaker-than-expected first quarter revenue and issued a downbeat full-year forecast.



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