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A US federal judge on Wednesday refused to force Google to sell a division of its digital advertising business, rejecting the government's push to break up part of the company's ad empire.The decision is the second time in recent years that a federal judge has declined to dismantle a piece of Google's business, after a judge last year refused to force the sale of its Chrome browser in a separate monopoly case over online search.

Google won't be forced to spin off its "network" ad business, which sells ads on others publishers' inventory, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

A federal judge ordered an end to practices that depress ad rates for web publishers, but declined to order a divestiture of Google’s ad exchange and other technology.

The ballooning federal debt, massive AI borrowing by Big Tech, and inflation are the reasons that economists and financial experts point to.

The ballooning federal debt, massive AI borrowing by Big Tech, and inflation are the reasons that economists and financial experts point to.

Big Tech has quietly spent a sum that rivals the GDP of a mid-sized country building AI infrastructure, but the real financial reckoning has not yet arrived on any income statement. One accounting schedule will determine whether these bets pay off or crush margins for years.

Global bond markets are selling off heading into September, with yields in Japan hitting their highest level since 1996

Investing.com -- Amazon.com Inc shares fell 2.8% on Monday following a report by the Wall Street Journal that the Federal Trade Commission will file a lawsuit against the company over allegations related to its advertising pricing practices.

The new month, historically the worst for the stock market, hasn’t quite started yet but it’s already looking like being fraught with risk. The market is getting more confident that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates on Sept. 16, even if Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh didn’t quite say as much in his Jackson Hole speech Friday. Oil prices aren’t helping, rising above $90 a barrel after the U.S. attacked Iran over the weekend.

The stock market's sluggish summer heads into September focused on the Fed's mid-month rate policy meeting.

Futures wavered while Treasury yields rose before Fed chief Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech. Marvell, Affirm, PayPal are big movers.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly investigating Alphabet Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube for a potential violation of consumer protection laws after it suspended users’ accounts. What the FTC Is Investigating The antitrust regulator has been probing YouTube since last year and is in the final stages of preparing a potential lawsuit, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the probe. The investigation is looking into whether YouTube may have misled use

The U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly in the final stages of a probe into whether YouTube’s content policies misled users and violated consumer protection laws.

Alphabet (GOOGL) YouTube is under final-stage investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission over

The AI spending boom is outrunning Wall Street estimates, Trump considers changing capital-gains taxes, China’s property crisis isn’t over, and more news to start your day.

On Thursday, former Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google software engineer Linwei Ding received a major legal reprieve after a federal judge overturned his economic espionage convictions. Judge Rejects Economic Espionage Convictions U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco...

On Thursday, former Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google software engineer Linwei Ding received a major legal reprieve after a federal judge overturned his economic espionage convictions. Judge Rejects Economic Espionage Convictions U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled that prosecutors failed to provide sufficient evidence that Ding knew or intended his actions would benefit the Chinese government, a requirement for economic espionage charges, Reuters re

Many Fed officials favor raising rates to combat inflation, bond prices surge, Trump meets crypto execs, and more news to start your day.

The deal, which covers about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, still requires a federal judge's approval

Longer-maturity bonds are at the epicenter of investor angst about everything from inflation to the debt-laden artificial-intelligence boom — and governments are paying the price.

A Maryland state tax court has struck down the state’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising and ordered state officials to repay the tax money already collected from big tech firms. The Maryland Tax Court said the tax violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act as well as the First Amendment and the commerce and due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Maryland estimated the tax, approved in 2021, could raise about $250 million a year to help pay for a sweeping K-12 education measure.

Applied Materials forecast fails to dazzle, White House to crack down on tariff evasion, the shipping world is in chaos, and more news to start your day.

Apple just posted its strongest June quarter ever, yet the stock sits 6% below its 52-week high while a supply-chain dispute and fading tariff tailwinds threaten to complicate the bullish case that Wall St. keeps building.

Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, advanced 0.2% last month, with the overall annual inflation rate landing at 3.4%.

Alphabet (NasdaqGS:GOOGL) faces more than 3,000 youth addiction lawsuits in US federal court after a key ruling denied dismissal efforts by major social media companies. The court decision leaves Google and peers exposed to potential legal findings on platform design and user harm, with possible knock-on effects for future regulation. FactSet data shows Alphabet has had an outsized impact on S&P 500 earnings growth this quarter, highlighting its weight in overall index performance. The...

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Why are the indexes red when the typical stock is green? Alphabet and Amazon account for nearly the whole decline, and Wednesday's inflation report is the week's real event.

There’s an elegant simplicity to one of the central tenets in gauging the health of the stock market and the companies that comprise its benchmark indexes: figuring out what’s in the till at the end of the day. Profit remains the most important measure of stock market health—and Corporate America is raking it in. “The greatest force behind stock markets right now is earnings, which is helping to overshadow concerns about Iran, inflation and AI [capital expenditure] spending viability,” said Dennis Follmer, chief investment officer, at Montis Financial in Waltham, Mass., to Barron’s. “Earnings have been an absolute freight train driving this market higher.”

Polymarket now prices real odds of a September rate hike, and that puts millions of investors holding the most popular dividend ETF in a position their fund was never designed to handle. Fidelity quietly built something for exactly this moment.

Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the other major stock indexes traded higher Tuesday, after it was reported the U.S. and Iran had reached "some sort of an arrangement" for a peace deal.