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Major U.S. banks increased shareholder returns after the Federal Reserve’s stress test showed the sector remains strongly capitalized and resilient under severe economic conditions.
Nasdaq jumps amid revived confidence in the AI trade, as Fed-favored inflation print keeps rate hikes in play.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining just over a third of a percent, while the S&P 500 edged slightly lower and the Nasdaq lost more than four-tenths of a percent.</p><p>Investors were intensely focused on chip maker Micron Technology's results after the closing bell. The stock, which has surged more than 200% this year, climbed in extended trading on Wednesday, after Micron forecast quarterly earnings above Wall Street estimates, signaling that heavy investments in AI-related infrastructure will drive strong demand for its memory chips.</p><p>Michael Landsberg is chief investment officer at Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management.</p><p>"What's happened now is with AI, a lot of these chips are needed to make AI work faster and better. So the demand has really been strong across the entire sector. We think it continues. And that's really, I think, why this rally in that space has got some legs. And we think it could continue for a while."</p><p>Several tech stocks, however, slid during Wednesday's session, including chip designer Cerebras, which tumbled more than 19%. In its first report since going public, Cerebras forecast full-year profit margins would drop below first-quarter figures. </p><p>Concerns around debt-backed AI spending by hyperscalers and mounting fears of a more hawkish Federal Reserve have fueled a market downturn this week that has erased more than $1 trillion in market value from the Nasdaq 100.</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, homebuilders soared after President Donald Trump canceled a planned signing of bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up availability of affordable housing. Shares of Hovnanian Enterprises, PulteGroup and Toll Brothers all ended higher.</p><p>And shares of Hertz tumbled more than 40% after the car-rental firm said it expects second-quarter adjusted core earnings near the lower end of its forecast range and announced a proposed offering of $100 million of common stock.</p></body>
Tesla’s (TSLA) latest federal safety probe isn't a routine crash investigation. It’s a test of one of the greatest assumptions still baked into Tesla’s stock: that the company can turn driver-assistance software into a business considerably more valuable than regular car sales. For years, Tesla has ...
The Federal Reserve said the nation’s largest banks could absorb $708 billion in losses and keep lending, though this year’s stress-test results won’t affect capital requirements.
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida, June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. bond yields tumbled on Wednesday as oil's slide to a four-month low eased inflation fears, although the relief wasn't felt as much in
Micron surged overnight on strong earnings and guidance, lifting other memory and chip plays. The Fed's favorite inflation gauge is on tap.
Investing.com -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) said its board plans to increase the quarterly common stock dividend to $1.65 per share from $1.50 per share, starting in the third quarter of 2026. The increase is pending board approval at the time of declaration.
Incoming Nike CFO David Denton seen as a stage in its turnaround progress, while earnings call Tuesday could see interest on one-time tariff refund.
The stock market is hitting record highs amid an oil shock, rising inflation, and tanking consumer sentiment. But everyone, even billionaires, is going all-in on AI.
(Bloomberg) -- All of the biggest US banks cleared the Federal Reserve’s annual stress test, setting the stage for lenders to boost buybacks and dividends. Most Read from BloombergInvestor Who Scored 900% Win in 2008 Crisis Has New Big Short BetStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some RolesChipmakers Fall Anew in Run-Up to Micron’s Results: Markets WrapThe Debasement Trade Is Unraveling and Kevin Warsh Is One Big Rea
Would rising rates change the calculus for the big banks?
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<body><p>STORY: Shares of FedEx fell Wednesday morning after the company posted lower margins in its core delivery segment.</p><p>That raised investor doubts about its future following the spinoff of its highly profitable trucking unit.</p><p>In a bid to focus on its delivery business, FedEx spun off its trucking unit, FedEx Freight, earlier this month. </p><p>The slimmed-down company is under investor scrutiny to bolster profits and reduce costs, which have climbed for employee salaries and benefits as well as for outsourced transportation and fuel.</p><p>U.S. logistics firms including UPS and FedEx have been battling volume decline due to changing U.S. trade policies, while the Iran war has pushed fuel prices higher.</p><p>Also weighing on volumes is the loss of duty-free "de minimis" treatment for low-value e-commerce shipments tied to China-linked discount sellers, such as Shein and Temu.</p></body>
FedEx is slowly redeploying its fleet of MD-11 aircraft that were grounded for seven months following the fiery crash of a UPS freighter, but has also decided to retire 10 aging aircraft. The post More FedEx MD-11 cargo jets return to service, others are retired appeared first on FreightWaves.
(Updates prices in the second and final paragraphs.) Gold traded at a seven-month low midafternoo
FedEx Corp (NYSE:FDX, XETRA:FDX) shares fell on Wednesday following its latest earnings report, even as Bank of America said the company continues to show strong underlying earnings momentum, with the post-earnings decline driven more by reporting-transition complexity than by operational...
Reimbursements will begin in August, says the logistics giant, whose Q4 revenue benefited substantially from Iran war-driven fuel surcharges.
Worries about inflation and Fed rate hikes are hurting gold. It’s no longer a haven. There could be more downside ahead.
The day after FedEx (NYSE:FDX) reported, the stock is down again, and an analyst on CNBC’s Closing Bell Overtime spent his segment trying to convince viewers that the people selling are reading the wrong line of the income statement. The shares finished the prior session lower and slid another 1.83% in Wednesday’s session to $311.43, ... An Analyst Says the FedEx Selloff Is a ‘Misinterpretation’ and the Revenue Beat Is Getting Buried
FedEx (FDX) may face near-term pressure from the recent spin-off of its freight business and a trans
Scott Wren, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, went on CNBC this morning with a message for retail investors. The Federal Reserve has flipped from an easing bias to a tightening bias, and Wren wants investors to treat the resulting wobble as an invitation rather than a warning shot. “You don’t want ... Wells Fargo’s Scott Wren to Retail Investors: Don’t Chase the Rally, Be Ready to Pounce on Dips
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal derivatives regulator, filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Kentucky on June 23, 2026, making it the ninth state the agency has sued in an accelerating battle over who gets to regulate prediction markets in the United States. Kentucky had moved the ...
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, June 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar rose for a third straight day on Wednesday to hit a 13-month high as markets brace for anticipated rate hikes from the Federal
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