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Lululemon Drops to Eight-Year Low, Adobe Falls, FICO Plunges

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- Lululemon (LULU) lowered its full-year outlook for a second straight quarter, with sales now projected to be in a range of $10.35 billion to $10.5 billion. Incoming CEO Heidi O’Neill to face challenges including winning back market share, rebounding from product mishaps, and rebuilding the executive team after a series of recent departures.

- Adobe (ADBE) continues to fall after it named Anil Chakravarthy, the leader of its marketing and analytics software business, as its next chief executive officer.

- Shares of Fair Isaac Corp (FICO) are under heavy pressure after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte renewed his long-standing criticism of the costs of consumer credit scores. “Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have been overcharging Americans for far too long,” Pulte said in a post on X on Thursday, adding that “this will end soon.”The post sent Fair Isaac, the analytics company behind so-called FICO scores, tumbling as much as 21%, the biggest drop since March 2020, to the lowest since late April. Equifax and TransUnion both fell as much as 11%.

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Lululemon Drops to Eight-Year Low, Adobe Falls, FICO Plunges

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The Stock Movers Report, the company cut its full year outlook for a second straight quarter, and reported its first quarterly decline in comparable sales since the pandemic. Analysts called it a triple whammy. U.S. revenue down, a women's business with leggings down, and China also an important segment is also lower. And the fear here is that this is not the end of it, that basically more reductions are coming. Down the line, particularly as the new CEO takes the rain and perhaps will adopt a shrink to grow strategy, and that is what's hitting the stock right now. And really, if you look at the year today, performance down to 50%, the new CEO certainly has a lot of work to do. She sure does. We were just talking about that. Another stock heading lower is Adobe. They're changing leadership too. It's picking up CEO's and all that. Exactly. Speaking of leadership transition plans, Adobe is down a 6% after revealing its new transition plans for the CEO. A Neil Koch-rovarti, I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly. The leader of its marketing and analytics business will take the post from December 1st.

He's been with the company since 2020, so somewhat of a veteran. Right now, set the replace the currency, no Ryan, who's been leading the company for quite some time. Well, the twist here is that David Wadwani, who run the Adobe's creative business, hit it that picked. And the market is kind of asking why not? Because he's leading the much bigger division, which is the creative division. An analyst thought he would be better placed for this position. Well, on his part, he said he will live the company for another opportunity. So he's out. And now the market basically is just trying to figure out what the new transition will mean for the company. Obviously, this stock has been struggling for some time with AI disruption fears, down 60% since the pandemic. So again, big shoes to fill there. Oh, and that's ticker A, D, B, E, Adobe. Okay, fair eyes, a corp. You have them coming in. They're also lower this morning. Yeah, there's a... You don't have much good news for us, do you?

No, I picked all the down moves. I'm sorry. It's the market is seeing a little bit of pressure. That stock under heavy pressure particularly hit among the credit bureau space. That's after US Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulti issued renewed criticism of these bureaus for overcharging Americans. And that's his been a big theme for him for quite some time. He's talking about the monopoly of the FICO score, which he's trying to dismantle to lower this cost. And fair Isaac is the creator of this score and the other bureau agencies. They license it. So they also benefit from this score. Well, Mr. Pulti is now saying that the government is considering some changes, like perhaps that you only need one credit agency and not three of them to give you this score. So I hope your credit score is good because the changes are coming in that space. Fingers crossed. This stock movers report from Bloomberg Radio.

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