Another Record Earnings Reporting Season

Chocolate and chips were on today's stock market menu. Hershey's stock price soared on a report of another Mondelez takeover attempt. However, the market was weighed down by Nvidia shares, which fell after China opened an investigation over possible violation of antimonopoly law. There was some profit-taking in Tesla during the day following the huge run-up since Election Day. But the stock closed slightly higher.

Meanwhile, our colleague Joe Abbott reports that Q3's revenues per share and earnings per share rose to new record highs, while the profit margin edged up to 12.6% (chart).