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Americans are buying THC seltzers at Total Wine while Congress debates re-criminalizing them. RYTHM’s blowout quarter shows who’s winning.

Circle Internet Group (NYSE:CRCL) shares rose around 7% in pre-market trading after the stablecoin issuer reported second-quarter results in line with expectations, secured the first federal bank charter granted to a stablecoin company and raised parts of its full-year outlook. The company also announced that BlackRock, Visa and Mastercard will serve as validators for its upcoming blockchain network.

Soft jobs numbers like these used to start the rate-cut conversation, but this Fed is already looking to raise, and soon

8.30am: ADP jobs softens US private-sector hiring slowed to 44,000 jobs in July from 98,000 in June, missing the 65,000 forecast and pointing to cooling labour demand. The softer reading could give the Federal Reserve more scope to cut rates, weighing on Treasury yields and the dollar...

Investing.com -- Shares of Circle Internet Group jumped 7% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the stablecoin issuer reported second-quarter earnings in line with estimates and disclosed it had received the first federal bank charter awarded to a stablecoin company.

The Supreme Court forced Washington to return over a hundred billion dollars in tariff money, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made a bold prediction about where that cash would actually land. Six months later, the numbers are in.

Activewear maker Delta Galil has reported an increase in Q2 profit, lifted by tariff refunds, a portion of which it will invest in its manufacturing and supply chain to drive future growth.

Host Kenny Polcari joins Man Group Chief Market Strategist Kristina Hooper and Legato Financial CIO Ryan Kelly to debate the risks of massive AI CapEx spending and how a hawkish Federal Reserve could impact markets ahead of the midterms.

Tesla and Waymo were just put on notice, with Amazon's Zoox receiving federal approval for its driverless vehicles. It will begin charging for its service soon.

Apple got an estimated $2.2 billion tariff refund last quarter. Amazon got $600 million. Nike got $300 million. But American consumers who paid higher prices as President Donald Trump’s tariffs filtered through the economy are getting almost nothing back.

Sacrificing additional transparency is a dangerous game to play.

Today Federal Reserve speakers: Fed governor Lisa Cook Economic data: the Energy Information Administration’s weekly petroleum status report, U.S. services PMI, global services PMI, ADP employment survey Earnings (a.

A federal judge has set a March 2027 trial date for the antitrust challenges to Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Rockwell Automation Inc (ROK) delivers double-digit sales growth and raises full-year outlook, while navigating persistent inflation and tariff-related headwinds.

Analysts say MDA is poised to be a key beneficiary of Canada’s military and sovereign space capabilities buildout

Paramount Skydance reported mixed second-quarter results on Tuesday, with higher streaming and studio revenue offsetting declines in television, as the company works to close its ‌planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Ellison reiterated that ​he fully expects "the transaction to close."

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Lawsuits challenging Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. ‌Discovery will go to trial in March ‌2027, a federal judge in California ruled on Tuesday.

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its AI-powered agentic shopping tools on ‌Amazon's platform. In a novel legal dispute, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court ‌of Appeals determined that Amazon was unlikely to succeed on its claim that Perplexity's AI agents violated a federal ​computer-hacking law. The ruling is the first by a federal appeals court to address whether AI agents acting on behalf of users can legally access online platforms, a question with broad implications for the fast-growing field of agentic AI tools that can browse, shop and transact across the web.

A California federal judge said Tuesday that the antitrust trial will begin March 2 with an expectation that it will run for 12 court days. The timeline the judge laid out in a written order is much later than the November 2026 start date Paramount had sought. The order will prove costly for Paramount.

The lawsuit alleges Amazon violated federal and state antitrust laws through its Delivery Service Partner program, arguing the company exercises unlawful “monopsony,” or a dominant buyer’s ability to dictate prices and terms-over the small businesses that deliver Amazon packages and the drivers they employ.

According to a Reuters report, Washington is preparing to introduce a minimum import price, along with tariffs on polysilicon and related products.

A single analyst note on one memory chip stock just sent leveraged semiconductor ETFs on a wild ride, but the same funds lost catastrophic ground only weeks earlier when tariffs hit the sector. Three ways to play this rebound carry very different risks.

The state's attorney general filed the federal antitrust lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Amazon of holding down pay for drivers in its Delivery Service Partner program

Bond yields remain elevated as the investors digest the Fed's policy moves.

Aug 4 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon and related products, according to four people familiar with the plan, putting a material

For most of this year, investors have obsessed over one question: when will the Federal Reserve finally begin cutting interest rates? Every inflation report, jobs release, and manufacturing survey has been dissected for clues. That scrutiny has only intensified since Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has made it clear the central bank intends to offer ... This Indicator Hasn’t Been This High in 4 Years. It Means the Fed Could Raise Rates in 2026

SpaceX received about 20% of its 2025 revenue from U.S. federal agencies.

China Renaissance, DZ Bank and Phillip Securities downgraded AAPL stock, citing a combination of rising component costs, supply constraints and uncertainty around the pace of returns from Apple Intelligence.

Ford, BlackRock, and Google just pledged hundreds of millions to pull experienced tradespeople back into the workforce, and a 63-year-old electrician in Ohio is answering that call without realizing the bigger paychecks could trigger two separate federal penalties at once.

The bond market’s summer reset has 10-year note yields trading near the highest levels since early 2025.