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The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how Floor And Decor (NYSE:FND) and the rest of the home furnishing and improvement retail stocks fared in Q3.

Quarterly earnings results are a good time to check in on a company’s progress, especially compared to its peers in the same sector. Today we are looking at Calavo (NASDAQ:CVGW) and the best and worst performers in the perishable food industry.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden's central bank cut its key policy rate to 2.25% from 2.50% as expected on Wednesday to boost sluggish economic growth and said its forecast for interest rates held though it stood ready to act if the outlook for prices and activity changed. The Riksbank has slashed rates over the last year nearly as fast as it hiked them when the global bout of inflation hit after the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. At its meeting in December, the Riksbank had said it expected to cut only once more in this cycle, sometime in the first half of this year, but rate-setters have been concerned about sluggish growth.

Pro-cryptocurrency winds are blowing in the government and could spell big things for Bitcoin and other digital assets.

Japan's Advantest on Wednesday hiked its full year operating profit forecast by 37% due to strong demand for its testing tools for chips used in artificial intelligence tasks. "As of late, we have seen further growth in tester demand for AI related, high performance semiconductors," CEO Douglas Lefever told an earnings briefing. Operating income in the October-December quarter climbed 158% to 69.2 billion yen.

The asset manager is among a number of issuers seeking ETFs for the memecoin.

The “21 Million Plan” comprises the issuance of 21 million shares via moving strike warrants and represents Asia’s largest-ever equity capital raise for Bitcoin with a target of 16.65 billion yen.

Perianne Boring says crypto regulation doesn’t need to wait on Congress, as agencies like the SEC and CFTC already have the power to act.

Customers are duping merchants into issuing refunds even if they receive and keep their products.

After plunging 17% on Monday, Nvidia climbed almost 9% as investors rushed in to buy this historic dip in shares of the top chip maker.