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The Morning Bull - US Market Morning Update Thursday, Jul, 16 2026 US stock futures are pointing higher this morning, with S&P 500 contracts up around 0.2% as investors digest a rare drop in the official US inflation report. Consumer prices fell 0.4% in June and the yearly rate eased to 3.5%, while core inflation, which strips out food and energy, held at 2.6%. That softer reading helped pull the 10 year US government bond yield toward 4.57%, which can ease pressure on borrowing costs for...

Today Earnings (a.m): UnitedHealth, GE Aerospace, U.S. Bancorp, Citizens Financial, Abbott Laboratories, State Street, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Earnings (p.m.): Netflix, Intuitive Surgical Economic data: Weekly jobless claims, Philadelphia Fed business-outlook survey, retail sales, pending home sales index, business inventories Fed speakers: Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson is expected to speak, as is Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan.

Oscar Health and other multiline insurers may benefit from diversification, digitalization and M&A trends despite pricing pressure and inflation.

Lululemon athletica (LULU) has opened a 1 million square foot distribution center in Brampton, Ontario, aiming to support North American e commerce growth while grappling with higher cross border costs tied to tariffs and changes in US policy. See our latest analysis for lululemon athletica. Lululemon athletica’s share price has fallen 44.3% year to date and its 1 year total shareholder return is down 48.07%. The 7 day share price return of 3.34% hints that selling pressure may be easing...

FTSE 100 down 35 points to 10,481 UK GDP three-month growth at 0.8% Rotork, Gooch & Housego, and Ramsden's agree to takeovers Experian and Ocado fall after updates 9.50am: City focused on Burnham and his potential Chancellor Market commentators are focused on UK politics...

Despite rising debt levels, Oracle’s large backlog, lower valuation compared to peers, and a sector-wide increase amid lower inflation have boosted investor sentiment.

Multiple securities class action lawsuits have been filed against First Solar (NasdaqGS:FSLR). The suits allege materially misleading statements about U.S. tariff policy and production utilization. Plaintiffs claim the company understated the impact of production relocation and facility underutilization on its outlook. First Solar is a major U.S. solar module producer, and the new wave of litigation puts its disclosures around tariff exposure and manufacturing utilization under closer...

A near-14% annual yield with monthly payouts sounds like a retirement dream, but the hidden cost of owning QQQI could leave long-term holders waiting decades just to break even after the next major crash.

First Solar’s fair value estimate in the latest model sits at US$251.90, up from US$243.59. Published analyst price targets across the market range from about US$217 on the cautious side to roughly US$330 at the high end. That spread reflects different views on how much weight to give tax incentives, tariff decisions, and power demand trends when assessing First Solar’s potential. Read on to see what is driving these assumptions and how you can keep track of the evolving narrative around the...

First Solar stock has delivered a strong 162.7% return over the past 5 years, yet current valuation checks and an intrinsic value estimate based on a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) approach still point to the shares trading at a discount to what the business may be worth. Over 5 years, First Solar has gained 162.7%, which puts recent volatility and short term pullbacks into the context of a longer term uptrend. Expectations that U.S. trade policy could continue to support domestic solar...

South Korea's central bank hikes rates to 2.75% to fight 3.2% inflation, pressuring the won, stocks, and crypto.

Leading cryptocurrencies traded sideways on Wednesday, while stocks rallied as investors digested softer inflation data amid heightened tensions with Iran Cryptocurrency24-Hour Gains +/-Price (Recorded at 9:30 p.m. EDT)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)-0.34%$64,540.27Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) -1.87%$1,914.24XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) +0.16%$1.10Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) -0.97%$76.76Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) -0.34%$0.07379 Bitcoin Steadies, Ethereum Gains Bitcoin climbed to an intraday high of $65,507, only to encounter strong

June’s Producer Price Index (PPI) declined 0.3% from the previous month, marking its steepest drop in more than a year.

Inflation may not be rising as quickly as it was a few years ago, but shoppers are still feeling the pain every time they head to the checkout. That's made value-focused retailers such as Dollar General increasingly important for families looking to stretch every dollar, especially as we gear up ...

American Airlines’ board of directors has elected former FedEx and Atlas Air executive as its newest member. The post Former FedEx CFO John Dietrich joins American Airlines board appeared first on FreightWaves.

Dominion Energy announced Wednesday afternoon that it had filed paperwork with the State Corporation Commission to begin its proposed merger with Florida-based NextEra. If the Virginia SCC and other equivalent regulatory bodies in North Carolina, South Carolina and at the federal level approve the $67 billion deal, the merger would create the world’s largest regulated electric utility. The SCC ...

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining more than a quarter of a percent, the S&P 500 adding over a third of a percent and the Nasdaq climbing more than six-tenths of a percent.</p><p>A second day of solid bank earnings added momentum to an auspicious beginning to second-quarter reporting season.</p><p>BlackRock and Morgan Stanley both beat quarterly profit expectations, with shares of BlackRock advancing over 6.5% and Morgan Stanley also ending higher.</p><p>Strong earnings combined with more cooler-than-expected inflation data, in the form of June wholesale prices, helped lift stocks, says Melissa Brown, managing director of investment decision research at SimCorp.</p><p>"We saw some good earnings from the financial companies. And, you know, on top of that, there's just still the same buzz around the AI trade, around what's happening with semiconductors. And there's, we haven't really seen a lot of bad news. The inflation news has been better than expected, although I would argue still not good. So inflation is still higher than the Fed's target, even though it has come in a little bit lower than expected. But I think, you know, kind of all those things are conspiring to make it a good but not blowout day today."</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, PayPal surged more than 17% after sources told Reuters that Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered to acquire it.</p><p>And shares of United Airlines dipped in extended trading despite the carrier saying it expected full-year profit at the high end of its prior forecast, as the company's third-quarter outlook was short of Wall Street expectations.</p></body>

Cooler-than-expected producer prices contributed to hopes for easing inflation on Wednesday.

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Wholesale inflation data cooled while major earnings season kicked off positively, lifting stocks across the board, today, July 15, 2026.

With Hormuz closed and rate hikes back in play, five oil and gas stocks built to ride the crude surge without leaning on cheap debt.

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BNP sees conservative guidance and improving federal demand

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Noted Economist Mohamed El-Erian praised the new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh‘s new appointments, saying they demonstrate a “serious” commitment to reforming and strengthening the central bank. He took to X on Monday and said that the team’s expertise and...

June's cooler-than-expected CPI report eased rate-hike odds, benefiting rate-sensitive stocks. See why D.R. Horton, Realty Income, and Sofi Technologies could gain from the shift.

Better pricing, product redesigns and technological advancements are expected to aid Zacks Multiline Insurance industry players like OSCR, RDN, CNO, PLGO and HMN.

Interest rate increases could be coming. Here's what that means for the market.

Inflation data gave investors hope on Wednesday morning. Semiconductor stocks took it away by lunchtime.