September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU26) are down -0.30% this morning, pointing to further losses after semiconductor stocks led Wall Street lower in the previous session.
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Electricity demand is now expected to grow significantly faster than global GDP for the next two-and-a-half years, according to Bank of America.
If you think falling oil prices mark the end of Trump-driven inflation, you'll be sorely mistaken.
Asian markets mostly fell on Thursday as a heavy sell-off in chip shares spread across the region, while European stocks opened flat and US futures pointed lower ahead of a closely watched American jobs report.View on euronews
Warsh hasn't been Fed chair long, but he's already shaking things up.
Leidos Holdings stock has fallen sharply year to date, yet the company still screens as cheap on several valuation checks, which puts the recent sell off at odds with the current pricing signals. Year to date, Leidos Holdings is down 43.8%, which means the market has rapidly reset expectations after a long period of stronger multi year returns. On the one hand, new federal technology wins and AI focused partnerships can support longer term earnings power, while the health IT contract...
Leidos Holdings (NYSE:LDOS) announced a new partnership with The Modern Data Company focused on federal AI and analytics. The collaboration centers on using Modern Data’s DataOS to connect fragmented government data across systems. The move is part of Leidos’ NorthStar 2030 strategy to expand its digital modernization offerings for federal agencies. Leidos Holdings enters this partnership with The Modern Data Company at a time when the stock is trading around $103.07, with a mixed return...
In late June 2026, Cleveland Research flagged signs of slowing U.S. comparable sales at Walmart and highlighted the retailer’s use of price cuts and tariff refunds to manage inventory, raising questions about near-term sales guidance and operating margins. At the same time, Walmart has been expanding higher-margin and ecosystem-supporting activities, from marketplace growth and nuclear power procurement to advertising and AI shopping tools, creating a more complex balance between short-term...
Millions of Medicare beneficiaries will gain access to obesity drugs for the first time starting Wednesday under CMS’ temporary Bridge program, a federal initiative designed to expand GLP-1 obesity drug coverage for eligible seniors at a $50 monthly copay. The...
CPI FIM has delivered a strong 93.6% return over the past five years, yet the current valuation checks lean cautious, with the stock recently down over shorter time frames and scoring poorly on several metrics. Around 93.6% total return over five years suggests CPI FIM has rewarded patient shareholders, even though the share price has been weak more recently. The long term story for the stock may hinge on whether CPI FIM can keep translating its assets into consistent cash flow. At the same...
Leading cryptocurrencies ticked higher on Wednesday, while stocks retreated, as Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh called inflation “too high.” Cryptocurrency24-Hour Gains +/-Price (Recorded at 9:20 p.m. EDT)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)+2.91%$59,898.38Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) +2.86%$1,609.75XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) +2.12%$1.05Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) +6.46%$71.61Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) +1.75%$0.07221 Crypto Market Lifts Bitcoin broke past $61,000 in the evening, only to get rejected and drop back to $59,000. With tr
U.S. private employers added 98,000 jobs in June, according to ADP, as investors await Thursday’s payrolls report for clues on the labor market and interest rates.
A Supreme Court decision to unwind certain Trump-era tariffs is expected to lead to tariff refunds for affected US companies. Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) is among the firms that may benefit, with potential non operating gains from these refunds in upcoming periods. This tariff-related boost has not been reflected in prior coverage and could influence future reported earnings and investor focus. Wells Fargo enters this new tariff refund backdrop with its stock at $85.94 and a value score of 4...
The packaged goods giant is slashing costs as it battles inflation.
On June 25, 2026, GE Aerospace’s board amended the company’s by-laws to tighten shareholder nomination procedures, clarify proxy card requirements, and set New York and federal courts as exclusive forums for key corporate and securities disputes, while also declaring a US$0.47 per-share dividend payable on July 27, 2026. These governance and capital-return moves arrive as GE Aerospace highlights its GE9X engine and expands partnerships such as its silicon carbide agreement with Wolfspeed,...
Kraft Heinz (KHC) walked away from a planned corporate breakup in February and redirected that energy into a $600 million investment in its own brands. That decision rests on one specific assumption: that the worst of commodity inflation was already behind the company. Data published this week by ...
Ouster's Rev8 digital lidar sensors have achieved Build America, Buy America (BABA) Act compliance. The approval makes Rev8 eligible for U.S. federally funded infrastructure and transportation projects. BABA compliance expands Ouster's potential customer base among government agencies and public operators. Ouster, traded as NasdaqGS:OUST, now has BABA compliant Rev8 lidar sensors that can be used in U.S. federally funded infrastructure builds, including intelligent transportation systems...
The U.S. Treasury has selected two low-cost BlackRock iShares exchange-traded funds as foundational investment options for the upcoming federal "Trump Accounts" initiative to build childhood wealth.
For most of the post-2008 era, Oppenheimer’s Chris Kotowski was the guy telling you to keep buying the big banks. He waved off the 2011 eurozone panic, the 2016 energy blowup, COVID, and the 2022 rate hikes. On June 30, 2026, he flipped. Kotowski cut Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Bank of America, and ... The Analyst Who Loved Bank Stocks for 15 Years Just Flipped. Here’s What He’s Buying Instead

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks finished flat to slightly lower on Wednesday, with the Dow little changed, the S&P 500 down more than two-tenths of a percent and the Nasdaq sliding two-thirds of a percent.</p><p>Speaking at a European Central Bank panel in Portugal, U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said he will stick firmly to the central bank's 2% inflation target and "disappoint" anyone who expects loose monetary policy despite President Donald Trump's call for interest rate cuts.</p><p>But Brad Bernstein, managing director at UBS Private Wealth Management, doesn't think the Fed will hike rates this year either.</p><p>"One of the three reasons we think markets will be higher at the end of the year is because the Fed is not going to raise interest rates this year. // We think more likely they'll resume Fed cuts in the spring of next year. And today, Fed Chair Walsh said in Portugal that he has seen in the last four weeks expectations, inflation expectations continuing to get better because of the drop most likely he - didn't cite this - but most likely because oil has gone from 90 [dollars a barrel] to 70 and now under 70 today."</p><p>Among Wednesday's stock moves, technology shares fell, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down more than 6%.</p><p>One tech outlier was Meta Platforms after Bloomberg News reported that it is building a cloud business to sell excess AI computing capacity.</p><p>Among the day's decliners, shares of Alcoa fell about 9% after Australia's South32 agreed to sell most of its aluminum assets to Alcoa.</p><p>The key monthly U.S. jobs report is due out on Thursday, while the market will be closed Friday ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.</p></body>
US stock futures slipped as investors braced for Thursday's release of the June jobs report.
US stock futures slipped as investors braced for Thursday’s release of the June jobs report.
Sticky inflation just showed up in a place we’d rather not put in a spreadsheet. That inflation setup fits Bank of America’s latest report shared with me, which shows the pressure building in categories couples actually buy into. The note shows consumers are still spending a ton on ...
Patrick Moebel, who spent years running FedEx Logistics and Geodis’s North American business, was named CEO of Ceva Logistics on Wednesday. The post CMA CGM hires FedEx executive Moebel to lead Ceva Logistics appeared first on FreightWaves.
The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE:SCHW) has gained more than 6.23% over the past month, but is trading close to 52-week lows. Wall Street remains bullish and expects more than 30% upside from the current level. The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE:SCHW) also ranks among our Top Large Cap Stocks to Invest In At 52-Week Lows. Recently, […]