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<body><p>STORY: Walmart said Monday it would cut prices on many summer barbecue favorites, including meat, chips and soda.</p><p>The move comes after U.S. President Donald Trump said the retailer was acting at his administration's request.</p><p>In a Truth Social post, he said Walmart would be lowering prices significantly, "to celebrate our great Country's 250th birthday."</p><p>Trump said the firm would, “be dropping the price for a pound of ground beef by almost 15%.”</p><p>Walmart said in a statement that the price of one pound of 73% ground beef roll would drop to $5.94 from $6.74 in its stores, a decline of about 12%.</p><p>The retailer also said it lowered prices on items including Coca-Cola and PepsiCo sodas and chips.</p><p>Prices for steaks and hamburger meat soared after a persistent drought burned pasture lands and hiked costs of cattle feed, forcing U.S. ranchers to slash their herds.</p><p>Now the price cuts mark a notable shift from last year, when Walmart warned that tariffs would push some prices higher, a move Trump had rebuked.</p><p>The president had previously encouraged low-tariff imports of Argentine beef to cool U.S. prices, which angered American ranchers.</p><p>He had also directed the Department of Justice to investigate whether U.S. meatpackers were colluding to raise prices.</p><p>Walmart is widely viewed by economists and investors as a gauge of U.S. consumer health because of its size and broad customer base.</p></body>
Investors are looking ahead to Wednesday—when minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting will be released. They’ll also be watching for today's inclusion of SpaceX in the Nasdaq-100 index and Friday, when SK Hynix’s U.
U.S. chip design giant Synopsys plans to stop offering a suite of manufacturing process control software used by global semiconductor makers, six sources briefed on the matter said, as it seeks to divert resources to higher-margin offerings such as AI design. Synopsys in April and May informed more than 10 chipmakers including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Kioxia Holdings Corp and Qorvo Inc about the "end of life" move that means Synopsys will not provide future new versions and will only carry out maintenance obligations, two of the sources said.
AI-driven momentum is keeping bulls in high spirits after the Dow’s record close, though investors are a bit cautious ahead of the Fed minutes and fresh corporate catalysts.
If you own J.P. Morgan Chase stock, the last two weeks delivered everything a shareholder could want. JPMorgan cleared the Federal Reserve's stress test, unveiled a record $50 billion buyback, and lifted its dividend 10%, The Motley Fool reported. None of that changes a stubborn arithmetic ...
Bitcoin rebounds near $64,000 after Strategy's BTC selloff as options and ETF flows turn bullish ahead of Fed minutes.

Yahoo Finance's Brooke DiPalma and Josh Lipton discuss 7-Eleven's federal trademark infringement lawsuit against Nike, which aims to block the unapproved release of an upcoming Air Max 95 sneaker featuring the convenience store's signature tri-color palette on July 11.
Wall Street's biggest banks reportedly held preliminary talks to acquire a Fiserv network that could help them bypass federal debit-card fee caps.
Walmart is cutting prices on thousands of items to help customers with affordability after years of inflation. The largest U.S. grocer said Monday it is lowering the price of ground beef by 12%. A 24-pack of Coca-Cola is falling by one-third to $9.97.
Semiconductor and AI-linked stocks led the advance, while earnings, Treasury yields, and inflation data will test whether the rally can move beyond a narrow group of technology leaders.
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The setup for iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA:EWZ) in 2026 only looks obvious in hindsight. Brazil’s central bank spent much of last year holding the Selic at 15%, one of the highest real rates in the world, and has now started cutting with a cautious 25-basis-point move. EWZ is up roughly 11% year to date ... EWZ Could Be 2026’s Sleeper Trade, If Brazil’s Rate Cuts Don’t Get Derailed
A retiree who starts with a 10% dividend yield can collect far more income on day one than someone earning 3.5%. Twenty years later, the tables may have turned. One income stream stayed flat while inflation chipped away at its buying power. The other kept growing year after year until it was paying dramatically more. ... Double Your Retirement Income in a Decade. Here’s How.
On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys at the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Two Prime Founder and CEO Alex Blume to discuss Bitcoin's range-bound price action, Strategy's accelerating Bitcoin sell-off, and why he's skeptical of the stablecoin consortium behind OpenUSD that knocked Circle lower. In a taped interview from the NYSE floor, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo breaks down the company's NYSE debut under the ticker SECZ via a SPAC deal, its more than $400 million raise, and its move to tokenize its own common stock on the Solana and Avalanche blockchains. Plus, Lumida CEO Ram Ahluwalia makes sense of the macro picture — from MicroStrategy's shift from Bitcoin's marginal buyer to marginal seller and the bull case for Hyperliquid, to why he sees non-farm payrolls as "noise" under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. - Learn more at https://www.bullish.com/. - Register now for CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event on September 22, 2026: https://policy-regulation.coindesk.com/. - To get market moving news delivered daily, download CoinDesk’s mobile app: https://linktr.ee/coindeskapp.
Elon Musk‘s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. guided 260 Starlink satellites to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere between Dec. 1, 2025, and May 31, 2026, according to a semiannual compliance report filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). SpaceX Retires Satellites...
(Updates gold price in the second paragraph.) Gold rose for a third session early on Monday, clim
The buy now/pay later provider and aspiring neobank submitted applications to the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to establish Klarna Bank.
Wells Fargo raised its price target on the stock to $320 from $255 and maintained an ‘Overweight’ rating, according to The Fly.
With the Federal Reserve’s benchmark funds rate parked at 3.75% since Dec. 11, 2025, and the 10-year Treasury offering just 4.38%, income investors entering July are still hunting for yield well above the risk-free rate. Business development companies remain one of the cleanest ways to get it. BDCs are required to distribute at least 90% ... 3 Reliable Income Generators to Buy in July
Wall Street enters the week with investors focused on the start of the second quarter earnings season, the Federal Reserve's latest meeting minutes and a handful of economic releases that could offer fresh insight into the outlook for interest rates, economic growth and the artificial...
Gold rose for a third session early on Monday, climbing to a two-week high as Treasury yields retrea
Crude oil has fallen back into the $60-$70 range, inflation fears are fading, and traders are pricing in a less restrictive Fed. Could Treasury yields be the next market to catch up? We break down the fundamentals, seasonals, and technicals, pointing toward lower yields into early September.
Slower comparable sales and tariff concerns remain key risks.
"Warsh explicitly avoided policy guidance in the statement and press conference, so it seems unlikely that he would permit such guidance via the minutes," writes Englander, head of G-10 foreign-exchange research at the bank. Englander's prediction chimes with the way that Warsh, who spent more than a decade arguing that the Fed should say less, has approached his new post so far.
US equity investors will focus this week on the Federal Reserve's latest meeting minutes, while keep
The future looks a lot different after Warsh made his policy goals clear for the Federal Reserve.
U.S. stock futures looked set to open in the green early Monday, with the technology sector driving the gains. Corporate news is set to dominate the headlines in a light week for economic data, with the exception of Wednesday’s release of the Federal Reserve's minutes from its June monetary-policy meeting. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 45 points, or 0.1%.