(Updated with futures contracts on indices, price in forecourt)
PARIS, March 7 (Reuters) – Top stocks to watch on Tuesday on Wall Street, where futures on major indices suggest an open up 0.06% for the Dow Jones, 0.13% for the Standard & Poor’s 500 and 0.25% for the Nasdaq:
* META PLATFORMS will cut thousands of jobs this week in a fresh round of layoffs just months after cutting its workforce by more than 11,000 people, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The Facebook owner’s stock was up 1.6% in pre-opening trading.
* GENERAL MOTORS – Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of General Motors, is focusing on cutting spending this year, a senior executive said Monday, as the sector is not growing as quickly as expected.
* RIVIAN will launch a $1.3 billion bond issue, the electric vehicle maker announced on Monday, as weakening demand and soaring costs accentuate cash shortages for companies in the world. sector. In pre-market trading, it lost 6%.
* WEIGHTWATCHERS INTERNATIONAL took 15% in pre-market after the group’s announcement of the acquisition of the subscription telehealth platform Sequence in a transaction valued at 132 million dollars, which will allow it to enter in the prescription obesity drug industry.
* BLACKBERRY fell 2.5% in pre-market after the publication of a forecast of turnover for this year lower than the consensus of Refinitiv.
* PARAMOUNT GLOBAL is exploring the possibility of selling a majority stake in BET Media Group, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. (Laetitia Volga and Claude Chendjou, edited by Blandine Hénault and Kate Entringer)
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