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Three cryptocurrency investors filed a federal lawsuit against Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) on July 24. They allege they lost a combined $1.8 million in Bitcoin through a fake wallet app listed on the App Store. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. It ...

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Chirayu Rana accused former colleague Lorna Hajdini of violating his civil rights and named three other leveraged-finance bankers.

Dow futures climbed more than 500 points Monday as Brent crude slid toward $85 a barrel ahead of a Fed rate decision Wednesday

Wall Street stocks are predicted to open sharply higher on Monday as a pause in US and Iranian attacks sent oil prices tumbling ahead of a massive week for markets, including a Federal Reserve meeting and earnings from several tech megacaps. Dow Jones futures were up 568 points, or 1.1%,...

SpaceX stock rose a little in early trading after the company completed a successful Starship test flight on Friday evening. Starship is SpaceX’s huge, fully reusable launch system designed to dramatically lower costs to reach space. SpaceX wants to build a constellation of AI computing satellites beginning in 2028.

Investors were feeling a bit calmer on Monday after a lull in fighting in the Middle East over the weekend sparked a drop in oil prices, easing worries about higher inflation. The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, slid by 1 point to 17.

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On July 24, 2026, crude oil retreated slightly, easing inflation concerns, though tech selloffs kept the broader market volatile.

Investing.com -- Paramount said Friday it agreed to halt its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery until June 1, 2027, or until a federal judge rules on a lawsuit filed by state attorneys general seeking to block the deal.

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Stocks looked set to struggle for direction on Friday as a drop in oil prices eased fears about higher inflation, even as artificial-intelligence jitters lingered. Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.1%. The Dow was on track to outperform the other two major indexes because it tends to be more reactive to oil prices, which were retreating having spiked above $100 a barrel the previous session.

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<body><p>STORY: Wall Street stocks plummeted on Thursday, with the Dow dropping about 1%, the S&P 500 shedding 1.2% and the Nasdaq tumbling more than 2%.</p><p>The latest earnings results from large tech companies such as Alphabet and Tesla revived concerns about heavy AI spending, says Keith Buchanan, senior portfolio manager for Globalt Investments.</p><p>"We're at a point now where the hype has to kind of meet some level of realistic expectation, quantifiable expectation. And the markets are starting to digest just what this means to cash flow in some of the largest companies in the world going forward. And a lot of spending is eating into cash flow in a way that's making investors lose a bit of comfort and question a lot of valuations that have grown over the past couple of years. And that's what's really at the root of what's really hampering some of the market returns today and giving back some of the gains that we've gotten for the market over the past couple of weeks."</p><p>Shares of Alphabet sank 7% after the tech giant reported higher spending plans while it also burned cash.</p><p>And shares of Tesla tumbled 14.5% after Elon Musk's EV maker reported negative free cash flow in the second quarter for the first time in more than two years.</p><p>But shares of Intel rose 10% in extended trading after the company forecast quarterly profit and revenue above Wall Street estimates as an AI data center buildout increases demand for its central processing units, or CPUs.</p><p>Meanwhile, Brent crude oil futures settled above $100 a barrel for the first time since May, and U.S. oil futures settled above $92.</p><p>The surge in oil prices prompted worries about inflation ahead of next week's Federal Reserve policy meeting.</p></body>

On July 23, 2026, massive capital expenditure plans triggered a broad retreat across technology stocks, as soaring crude oil added to inflation fears.

Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures pointed lower on Thursday as investors digested another round of technology earnings and monitored escalating tensions in the Middle East that pushed oil prices back above $98 a barrel, renewing concerns over inflation and global growth.

Stock futures were falling ahead of the open Thursday as investors assessed rising inflationary risks from the conflict with Iran, and a flurry of earnings reports. S&P 500 futures lost 0.5% with contracts tracking the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 0.6%. Inflation is on focus again amid renewed U.S. strikes against Iran and diminishing signs of progress in peace talks.

JPMorgan Chase just had the most profitable quarter in its history. Second-quarter net income came in at $21.2 billion, powered by a surge in trading revenue and a gain on its Visa stake. The S&P 500 is up close to 10% this year. Consumers are still spending. Inflation has moderated. By most ...

Stocks were on track to open lower on Wednesday after a jump in oil prices revived fears that a flare-up in inflation could drag down the market. Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.8%. Stocks looked set to give up some of those gains on Wednesday amid a rally in oil prices, after the U.S. launching strikes against Iran for an 11th straight night.

A federal judge just froze David Ellison's dream of owning Hollywood's biggest studio, and the financial guarantee holding the deal together belongs to his father, whose personal fortune has been in freefall for months.

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Apple's federal lawsuit against OpenAI looks like a trade secret dispute on the surface, but one analyst thinks it signals Apple spotted something alarming in OpenAI's hardware roadmap and moved to get ahead of it.

On July 20, 2026, a California federal judge halted the $110 billion acquisition for at least 14 days, extending legal uncertainty around the merger.

By Blake Brittain July 20 (Reuters) - A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit

US equity indexes fell this week as semiconductors headed toward a bear market and Iran's retaliatio