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Investing.com -- Apple's decision to raise Mac, iPad and accessories prices by 15% to 25% represents an unprecedented effort to defend gross margins amid record memory cost inflation, Morgan Stanley told investors in a note on Friday, adding that demand resilience and ecosystem lock-in could still drive revenue and earnings upside.
Investors will turn to Thursday’s employment data as they try to anticipate the Federal Reserve’s path for interest rates. The year started with expectations that the new Trump-appointed Fed chairman would lower rates.
Treasury yields and the dollar ease as oil prices fall 3% and markets recalibrate the outlook for U.S. interest rates. Odds of one rate increase this year remain high, priced at 42% on CME's FedWatch tool, while odds of a second hike decline to 28% from 34% a week ago, as inflation forecasts cool down.
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Gold hovers near $4,000 as softer US inflation offsets dollar strength and Fed tightening concerns.
Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley has retained its forecast for the Federal Reserve to hold interest rates through year-end, but warned that a drop in unemployment below 4% or persistently elevated inflation could force a rethink in favor of rate hikes.

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<body><p>STORY: From Micron's mega market cap to Apple's price hikes...</p><p>...this is the Week in Numbers.</p><p>:: The Week in Numbers</p><p>:: $1.4 trillion.</p><p>About $1.4 trillion was Micron's market cap after it briefly blew past the value of Meta and Tesla for the first time.</p><p>It came after the firm forecast quarterly profit and revenue well above expectations.</p><p>Micron is a major memory-chip maker and a key supplier to AI titan Nvidia.</p><p>The company's shares have more than tripled in value so far this year, and soared close to a fifth following its results.</p><p>:: 5%</p><p>Almost 5% is how far Apple shares fell after it announced price hikes.</p><p>The tech giant said its cheapest laptop will jump from $599 to $699, with iPad prices also rising - although the iPhone won't jump for now.</p><p>Apple says it can no longer avoid passing on rising costs to consumers.</p><p>The price of memory chips jumped by around 98% in the first quarter, and has kept soaring due to the AI boom.</p><p>:: 42% </p><p>42% was how much shares of Wendy's soared as retail traders bought up the beaten-down stock in the latest meme-like rally.</p><p>Trading on the heavily shorted stock was paused multiple times due to volatility..</p><p>Shares briefly hit a more than seven-month high.</p><p>The fast food chain is battling weak sales and pressure from an activist investor, with its stock down more than 78% from record highs five years ago.</p><p>:: $648 billion</p><p>Almost $648 billion is how much Samsung plans to invest in South Korea over 10 years.</p><p>That's according to the Maeil Business Newspaper, which said the firm will announce its intentions on Monday.</p><p>The investment includes a potential $194 billion to build chip factories in the country's southwest, as well as plans for AI data centers, batteries and displays.</p><p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Samsung.</p><p>:: $606.5 million</p><p>And $606.5 million was H&M's operating profit during its fiscal second quarter.</p><p>That was smaller than expected for the Swedish fashion retailer.</p><p>H&M blamed weaker consumer demand and inflation made worse by the Iran war.</p><p>CEO Daniel Erver said Europe, particularly the western part of it, had gone through a difficult quarter.</p></body>
equity funds came under selling pressure in the week to June 24, as concerns over debt-funded spending in the technology sector and expectations of a hawkish Federal Reserve policy stance sparked risk aversion. equity funds during the week, partly reversing net purchases of $37.
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Shipping companies are at the forefront of efforts to both seek payback from the government for tariffs illegally collected under the International Emergency Powers Act and pass on the money to customers.
The LTL carrier has its sights set on gaining market share in the healthcare, grocery and technology markets as an independent company.
EU member states have agreed to continue holding off retaliatory tariffs against the US related to t
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The cryptocurrency market meltdown continued on Thursday as fears of rising inflation and potential rate hikes weighed on investor sentiment Cryptocurrency24-Hour Gains +/-Price (Recorded at 9:35 p.m. EDT)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)-2.45%$59,273.96Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) -3.68%$1,558.39XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) -4.04%$1.02Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) -0.71%$67.16Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) -3.11%$0.07384 Crypto Market Turns Bloody Red Bitcoin’s descent showed no signs of slowing down, as the apex cryptocurrency fell below
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<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Thursday, with the Dow ticking up more than a tenth of a percent, while the S&P 500 closed flat and the Nasdaq dropped nearly half a percent.</p><p>Technology shares reversed early gains to move lower, as investors worried about hyperscaler spending on AI and who foots the bill.</p><p>:: Micron</p><p>Those fears outweighed upbeat signals on AI demand from Micron, which gained nearly 16%, while shares of Sandisk soared 22%.</p><p>Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, notes that it's memory chip makers that are now leading the charge. </p><p>"What's different about Micron, SanDisk, Western Digital, those types of names that are doing so well is that they're memory chips. And you have to have memory, specifically DRAM or H-band memory, if you're going to have enough computing power to do all the computations. That is nothing if you don't have memory to transfer it from one place to another. So one of the reasons that these stocks have done so well and the growth at Micron is so solid is because a recent redesign in the server technology means we go from eight memory chips per server to 96. That's 12 times growth in demand for this one simple component."</p><p>The surging prices of memory and storage chips prompted Apple on Thursday to hike prices for its iPads and MacBooks. That weighed on the stock, sending it down more than 6%. Shares of Nvidia, Microsoft and Alphabet also dropped.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Among other movers, shares of Bio-Techne jumped after Merck agreed to acquire the biotech firm for $73 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of about $11.3 billion.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Meanwhile, U.S. Department of Commerce data on Thursday showed the annual inflation rate through May rose above 4% for the first time in three years, but oil prices this week fell to below pre-war levels.</p></body>
FedEx Freight expects profit margin to grow by more than 9% in the back half of the year, up more than a point from last year’s growth. The post FedEx Freight forecasts growth as standalone company appeared first on FreightWaves.
FedEx Freight which spun off from FedEx on June 1, beat analyst expectations for revenue in its first earnings report as a standalone company. Its fourth-quarter revenue came in at $2.4 billion, ahead of analyst estimates just shy of $2.3 billion. FedEx Freight focuses on less-than-truckload (LTL) deliveries to industrial customers that don’t need a full truck to send items short distances.
Investing.com -- FedEx Freight on Thursday outlined a stronger earnings outlook for the remainder of 2026 as it begins operating as an independent publicly traded company, despite reporting sharply lower quarterly profit due to separation-related costs, weaker shipment volumes and higher labor expenses.