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FedEx is IBD Stock Of The Day after streamlining its parcel delivery and logistics businesses. Intraday, FDX stock eased near a buy point. In 2026, the Memphis-based company has shifted away from consumer parcel delivery to target higher-margin, business-to-business segments.

The AI boom is quietly sending a surge of inflation through every corner of the tech industry, and Nvidia's latest move suggests the pressure is only getting started.

Companies are using tariff refunds to lower prices, cushion their margins, and, to a very small extent, return the money straight to the customer.

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A one-off tariff refund is expected to be consumed by cost inflation the company had not planned for, which is why a quarter that beat on earnings left the full-year outlook untouched.

Walmart earnings are due early Thursday after a summer promotional pricing blitz to lure inflation-weary consumers. On Wednesday, WMT stock edged higher, near a key level. The big Dow Jones stock is the nation's and world's largest retailer by 2025 sales, according to the National Retail Federation.

Amazon is expanding Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns as the retailer battles Walmart and FedEx over ever-faster shipping.

Uncertainty over the Middle East, inflation and the Fed has sent bond yields soaring — and created a big headache for tech stocks.

Sonos expects Q4 revenue growth to stay intact, but a $35 million memory-cost hit could sharply pressure gross profit and adjusted EBITDA.

Fear of a Fed move to tighten monetary policy has receded, but market-based interest rates are still trending higher.

Corning's CEO went on national television and told investors that tariffs are essentially a non-issue for the company, citing two specific figures about its U.S. manufacturing footprint. The explanation traces back to a philosophy Corning adopted long before trade wars became a boardroom concern.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.1% and the actively trad

"The bottom line is that the US economy continues to be supported by a growing set of tailwinds."

Tracey Ryniec and John Blank debate the slowing job market while AI spending is also booming.

The Federal Reserve now looks somewhat unlikely to raise interest rates at either of the next two meetings after a weak July retail sales report further assuaged concerns that the economy may be overheating. Last Friday's weak jobs report and the even weaker retail sales report "are bad news for workers and consumers, but potentially good news for the stock market, because it reduces the urgency at the Fed to raise rates to fight too-high inflation," wrote Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Northlight Asset Management.

Zoox CEO Aicha Evans backed stronger federal oversight of autonomous vehicles as the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary began charging passengers for driverless rides in Las Vegas, weeks after a smoke-related safety incident forced a fleetwide software recall. Zoox Backs Regulation as...

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.

UPS’s next contract with the Teamsters union in two years will determine its own fate in parcel delivery and create monumental change at Amazon, FedEx, the U.S. Postal Service, Walmart and other couriers, according to an industry expert. The post Analyst: UPS-Teamsters 2028 showdown will unleash parcel industry tsunami appeared first on FreightWaves.

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.

Retailers face a more cautious back-to-school consumer who is getting fatigued by higher prices driven by inflation.

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Amazon.com Inc.‘s Amazon Pharmacy will offer eligible Medicare beneficiaries weight-loss drugs for $50 per month through a new federal program aimed at expanding access. The company announced on Thursday that the service would automate eligibility checks, prior authorizations, and billing,...

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Walmart gets $2.4 billion, Apple $2.2 billion. And you? Nothing.

All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Friday after the Bureau of Labor St

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises Friday ahead of a pivotal July jobs report. AI name Cloudflare stock soars on earnings.

Aug 7 (Reuters) - U.S. equity funds recorded outflows in the week to August 5 as some investors cashed in gains after a record-setting market rally and awaited Friday's July jobs report, a key input

Cloud companies’ capex would run at roughly 3% of the U.S. GDP every year from 2027 to 2029, up from 0.3% of GDP in 2019 and 1.4% in 2025, according to a top economist.

The move is expected to benefit Corning's joint venture with Japan's Shin-Etsu Handotai.

The central bank has let the bond market do its heavy lifting when it comes to rates. But a cut is on the horizon if a weak jobs and inflation stir up Wall Street.