Stock Movers

Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- McDonald’s (MCD) is earmarking roughly $8.5 billion to help franchisees implement a multiyear plan to serve better food, improve service and make restaurants easier to run.
The company will deploy the money — a mix of capital support and rent relief — through 2036, according to a statement Wednesday before the fast-food chain’s investor day. The funds will be used for modernizing restaurants, adding technology and other improvements, as part of a plan unveiled earlier this year. The chain has about 44,000 franchised locations, roughly 95% of its total.
- IonQ (IONQ) shares gain after the quantum computing company said it developed the tech industry’s first end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder that runs on a single standard off-the-shelf central processing unit (CPU).
- Cracker Barrel (CBRL) climbs after the restaurant chain provided an adjusted Ebitda forecast for fiscal 2027 that beat the average analyst estimate.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- McDonald's (MCD) shares are moving on news the company's earmarking roughly $8.5 billion to help franchisees implement a multiyear plan to serve better food, improve service and make restaurants easier to run.
- Cracker Barrel (CBRL) shares are gaining after the restaurant chain provided an adjusted Ebitda forecast for fiscal 2027 that beat the average analyst estimate.
- KBHomes (KBH) shares are dropping after the homebuilder lowered the upper end of its housing revenue forecast for the full year. The company also cut its housing gross profit margin for 2026.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Diageo continued its management overhaul by naming Joanne Wilson as its new chief financial officer to replace Nik Jhangiani, who was previously in the running to lead the British distiller.
- WSP Global has withdrawn its offer for Arcadis NV, after it was unable to engage with the Dutch engineering firm on terms of a possible transaction.
- Renishaw reported adjusted operating profit for the full year that beat the average analyst estimate.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Alibaba (BABA) shares are falling and is leading weakness across Chinese technology shares listed in Hong Kong, with sentiment hit by report of a government probe into data security of large language model developers DeepSeek and Moonshot and uncertainty ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting.
- IonQ (IONQ) is rising this morning after the quantum computing company said it developed the tech industry’s first end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder that runs on a single standard off-the-shelf central processing unit (CPU).
- Royal Caribbean (RCB) shares are up on news of a partnership between Royal Caribbean Group and Sandals Resorts to accelerate vacation experiences.
- KBHomes (KBH) shares are dropping after the homebuilder lowered the upper end of its housing revenue forecast for the full year. The company also cut its housing gross profit margin for 2026.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- WSP Global Inc. has withdrawn its offer for Arcadis NV, after it was unable to engage with the Dutch engineering firm on terms of a possible transaction.
- Jefferies says third-quarter updates across the auto-parts sector likely to demonstrate further resilience, and sits mainly in line with consensus expectations.
- KWS Saat declines more than 11%, the most since March 2020, as Baader Helvea says today’s results from the seed cultivation company are “weak.”
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