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Stock market investors await Nvidia earnings and the Google I/O Conference, as well as a key conference from the Atlanta Federal Reserve.

Walmart and Amazon are racing to speed up online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too remote or too impoverished to serve profitably. Walmart has a running start in the contest to build a loyal customer base in rural America. Roughly 90% of U.S. residents live within 10 miles of a Walmart store, and 45% of the company’s full-service Supercenters are in places with populations under 20,000, according to a report by investment bank Morgan Stanley.

All three major indexes stumbled on Friday as inflation worries and geopolitical concerns dampened market optimism.

Walmart helps headline the reporting docket for retail companies next week, who has outperformed many of the Magnificent Seven members in 2026. Can the retail titan's momentum continue?

Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton takes a look at the top stories for investors to watch for the week of May 18, including Nvidia (NVDA) and Walmart (WMT) earnings, Tuesday’s Pending Home Sales report, and the release of the Fed’s April FOMC meeting minutes on Wednesday.

Traders will look backwards—and forwards—at some of the world’s biggest companies. Nvidia, the most valuable public company by market capitalization, will report earnings next week, the last of the Magnificent Seven tech companies to show investors how AI continues to transform their business.

The indexes were little changed for the week after Friday's slide on surging yields. Small caps sold off. Nvidia and Walmart earnings loom.

As it gets easier to create artificial-intelligence agents with platforms like Anthropic’s Claude Cowork , some businesses are dealing with ‘AI agent sprawl.’

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Two themes critical to the U.S. stock market -- the artificial intelligence boom and inflation-pressured consumer spending -- will come under the

Walmart (WMT) has asked Flipkart to delay its initial public offering plans to focus on achieving EB

It's time to add exposure to businesses that consumers depend on regardless of the economic backdrop.

BranchOut Food (NASDAQ:BOF) executives said the company is focused on increasing factory utilization, diversifying its customer base and building inventory to support what management expects to be a record second quarter. During the company’s first-quarter 2026 earnings call, CFO John Dalfonsi said

Major retailers across the U.S. are accelerating investments in store remodels and expansion as competition intensifies between physical retail and rapidly growing e-commerce channels. U.S. online retail spending reached $1.34 trillion in 2024 and is projected to surpass $2.5 trillion by 2030, ...

The April inflation report landed with a number the Federal Reserve hoped it would never have to explain again. Consumer prices rose 3.8% year over year, the highest reading since 2023 and a sharp jump from March’s 3.3%. Energy did most of the damage: gasoline ripped 21% in March, the biggest monthly increase in data ... The Fed’s Worst-Case Scenario Is Quietly Unfolding

Walmart is repurposing former pharmacies, a thrift store and other small spaces in local communities as last-mile stockrooms for speedier delivery...

Buda Juice (AMEX:BUDA) held its first-quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday. Below is the complete transcript from the call. This transcript is brought to you by Benzinga APIs. For real-time access to our entire catalog, please visit https://www.benzinga.com/apis/ for a consultation. The full earnings call is available at https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/605302226 Summary Buda Juice reported a 17.7% year-over-year revenue growth for the first quarter of 2026, driven entirely by its exis

Walmart said Tuesday it would cut or relocate about 1,000 corporate workers as it looks to combine more of its global-technology and product teams, according to people familiar with the situation. This past summer Walmart hired Daniel Danker, who was an Instacart executive, to fill a new role as head of global AI acceleration. Since then Danker and Walmart’s head of global technology, Suresh Kumar, have reviewed their internal structures and decided to streamline some teams to operate more efficiently, the leaders said in a memo sent to staff Tuesday and viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

There's a version of Walmart most people still picture. Fluorescent lights, crowded aisles, maybe a cart with a wobbly wheel. That version still exists. But the company Wall Street is paying 43 times forward earnings for? That's a different beast entirely.As of 2026, Walmart is a 63-year-old ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.2%, while the S&P 500 also inched 0.2% higher and the Nasdaq Composite edged up 0.1%. Investor attention is focused squarely on events later in the week, including inflation data and a meeting between the U.S. and China. Sure, there’s still a war going on, and the impasse in the Gulf shows no signs of ending as the U.S. and Iran fail to reach a peace agreement.

This retailer is well positioned to survive higher gas prices.

Funko (NASDAQ:FNKO) executives said the company delivered a “really strong” first quarter as momentum from late 2025 carried into the new year, pointing to higher sales, record gross margin and improved point-of-sale trends. The company hosted its first-quarter financial results discussion from Fun

Moby summary of Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s Q1 2026 earnings call

Upcoming results from Walmart, Target and other retailers could offer fresh insight into how consumers are handling high gas prices and a tougher economic backdrop.

Checking out from a grocery store used to be a relatively simple thing. You waited in line, then a person scanned your items, you paid — maybe even by writing a check — and then went on your way. Some stores had 10-items-or-less lines, and the closest thing to a checkout controversy would be when ...

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