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The stock market has largely viewed new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh as hawkish during his first few months on the job.

Retailers could receive an unexpected financial windfall.

In their wake, the bank’s wealth management unit suffered an exodus of financial advisors. Wedding-related spending has increased 8.5% year over year so far in 2026, according to Bank of America payments data. Inflation is playing a role, but so is social media: A majority of respondents to a BofA survey said the era of digital connections and scrolling has introduced additional expenses, such as hiring content creators to capture and share the special day.

Building a portfolio meant to outlast market cycles, recessions, and your own impulses requires making very deliberate choices about which exposures belong together and why each one earns its slot over 30 years.

Retail earnings season kicks off Aug. 19 with investors expected to focus less on tariff-driven margin gains and more on whether companies such as Walmart, Target, Dollar General, and Five Below can sustain sales growth.

The e-commerce giant, which saw shipping costs escalate at the highest rate in more than three years, did not specify the amount it could reimburse.

CAT heads into Q2 earnings with expectations for double-digit revenue and profit growth, but will tariffs and its premium valuation shape investors' next move?

Federal court clears Reddit to advance anti-circumvention claims against Perplexity AI and SerpApi, even as the platform navigates Google search traffic fluctuations following robust Q2 2026 earnings.

In Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, the narrator compares the childhood experience of discovering that his father was “not only deluded and ignorant, but incompetent in every way” to “walking into the cockpit of an airplane and finding the pilot and co-pilot passed out drunk in their seats.” Investors got a taste of that horror on Wednesday, when Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh explained his decision to keep rates steady with a series of contradictory, confounding, and supremely confident answers to reporters’ questions. Warsh kicked things off by saying, “For some households, businesses, and market professionals, five years of high inflation have left a mistaken impression…that the Fed’s implicit inflation target was somehow above 2%,” but in fact, “there’s only a target, and it’s 2%.”

Free cash flow is now expected to be between $1.75 billion and $1.85 billion, up from $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion

The U.S. president has imposed new tariffs based on claims about forced labor in other countries. Is a trade war brewing?

MAS' Q2 earnings and margins surge on pricing, cost savings and tariff refunds, but lower sales and weak demand clouded the gains.

AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) reported higher second-quarter earnings, cash flow and free cash flow as stronger gold prices more than offset inflation, fuel costs, currency effects and a temporary operational suspension at its Obuasi mine. Chief Executive Officer Alberto Calderon said the company gen

(Bloomberg) -- Bond traders are paying the highest premiums since March to protect against a further climb in longer-dated yields, as the fallout from this week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting continues to ripple through the rates market. Most Read from BloombergSingapore's Gated Island for the Rich Is Marred by Decayed HomesAnthropic AI Models Hacked Three Organizations During TestsMicrosoft’s $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest in Stock Market HistoryChip Stocks Post Biggest Advance Since April 2025

Uber heads into Q2 earnings with strong bookings growth and robotaxi expansion, but tariffs, fuel costs and competition cloud the near-term outlook.

The Fed held rates steady but a September hike is gaining traction as inflation risks persist. Here are the ETFs that could benefit.

On CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol, Renato Mariotti is joined by guest host Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, for a conversation on the politics of the CLARITY Act, the state-vs-federal fight over prediction markets, and Wisconsin's invocation of an 1849 law that could bar prediction-market users from voting. And, they sit down with Rachel Anderica, Head of Global Operations at Anchorage Digital, who walks through Anchorage's agentic banking build inside its OCC trust and a "cashless reserves" model in partnership with JPMorgan. Plus, the hosts name the TradFi endorsers of CLARITY — BlackRock, Fidelity, and Goldman Sachs — as the Person of the Week.

Does JPM's rising 2026 NII outlook, diversified revenues and solid capital base make it well suited for the Fed's higher-for-longer rate stance? Let's find out.

The company said refunds were limited because it stockpiled inventory ahead of tariffs and is not the importer of record for most goods in its store

The Federal Reserve held rates steady Wednesday, but the bond market pushed borrowing costs sharply higher, sending the 30-year Treasury yield to its highest level since 2007. Peter Schiff says the selloff exposed the gap between Kevin Warsh’s words and...

Shares of Coinbase Global slipped 5.6% in premarket trading on Friday after a third straight quarterly loss, though analysts ‌expect strong fundamentals and business diversity to cushion it from a crypto ‌cycle downturn. The cryptocurrency market lost significant value in recent sessions, with bitcoin falling, as expectations that the ​U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates faded and investors pulled money from spot exchange-traded funds. Shares of Coinbase, often tied to the crypto cycle, have matched that ‌with a nearly 28% decline.

In crypto news today (July 30), Bitcoin climbed -0.5% overnight, dropping below $64,000 following yesterday’s FOMC meeting, in which a rate hike wasn’t announced but SEC Chair Paul Atkins hinted at hikes to come, causing a slight sell-off across crypto. However, crypto held up well in comparison to the US ...

Everyone knows that interest rates affect stock prices. The Fed’s decision Wednesday to keep overnight rates unchanged sounds like it would have been clearly bullish, but stocks sold off just after Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference. Also following Warsh’s Q&A, long-term Treasury yields hit a 19-year high.

Analysts at Morningstar said in a recent note that Apple's outlook points to mounting pressure from AI-driven memory inflation, tight chip supply and foreign exchange headwinds.

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - U.S. employment data and a batch of corporate results this coming week will keep equity investors on edge over the direction of the stock market, which

Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) dissension just reached a new (and dubious) milestone.

<body><p>STORY: :: Archive</p><p>What if your next driverless taxi had no steering wheel? That may soon become a reality.</p><p>Amazon-owned Zoox has won the first U.S. approval for commercial deployment of a robotaxi built without traditional human controls.</p><p>The approval came from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA...</p><p>allowing the company to begin charging for rides in Las Vegas once it completes state requirements.</p><p>Here's NHTSA administrator Jonathan Morrison.</p><p>"Since our standards get into performance requirements for specific aspects such as braking performance, they provided information and we received public comment, and we made that determination that their vehicle as equipped, can meet all of those requirements and in fact, exceed those."</p><p>The vehicle looks very different from a conventional car.</p><p>It's an electric, carriage-style robotaxi with two rows of inward-facing seats and a top speed of 75 miles per hour.</p><p>Federal officials say Zoox can deploy up to 2,500 vehicles in each of the next two years.</p><p>The move comes as companies including Alphabet's Waymo and Elon Musk's Tesla race to expand driverless ride-hailing services across the U.S.</p><p>The green light comes with added oversight.</p><p>U.S. regulators say the firm must report issues including crashes and inappropriate stops.</p><p>Authorities also retain the power to revoke the exemption if major safety concerns emerge.</p></body>

The Morning Bull - US Market Morning Update Friday, Jul, 31 2026 US stock futures are pointing higher this morning, with E-mini S&P 500 contracts up about 0.3% and Nasdaq-100 futures ahead roughly 0.5%. The focus is on the June US PCE price index, which is expected to dip 0.1% month on month, while the core reading is seen up 0.2%. That combination suggests the cost of living may be easing slowly but still sits above the Federal Reserve's 2% goal. At the same time, second quarter US GDP is...

First Solar Inc (FSLR) reports strong Q2 2026 results with gross margin expansion to 57%, while navigating Section 232 tariff uncertainties and rising input costs.

Apple Inc (AAPL) posts a record June quarter with $109.4 billion in revenue, but faces supply constraints and memory cost inflation that pressure September guidance.