Fears continue to persist about a possible recession this year or in 2027.
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The outlook is concerning, but one potential scenario is disastrous.
Artificial intelligence has no shortage of obstacles. The industry is scrambling to secure enough electricity to power new data centers, enough land to build them, and enough high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to keep next-generation chips fed with data. Yet another constraint is emerging that could prove just as important: moving information between those chips fast enough ... These 7 Stocks Will Solve AI’s Most Important Bottleneck
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading higher as we get ready to start a holiday-shortened trading week, with the Federal 4th of July holiday scheduled for Friday, before we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country on Saturday. Futures are higher after reports that the U.S. and Iran have agreed to halt hostilities, which we ... Here Are Monday’s Best Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Adobe, Applovin, Casey’s General Stores, CrowdStrike, Honeywell Aerospace, Salesforce, Synaptics,
The Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:AVUV) is having the kind of year that small-cap value advocates have been promising since 2021. AVUV is up 23% year to date and 39% over the past 12 months, beating the Russell 2000 by roughly two points and outpacing the passive small-cap value benchmark by a wider ... What AVUV Investors Need to Watch: Rate Cuts and Regional Bank Exposure
The Schwab Fundamental International Large Company Index ETF (NYSEARCA:FNDF) pays a semi-annual distribution sourced from dividends of developed-market companies outside the United States. The question for income-focused holders is whether that stream remains durable as energy, banking, and pharma cash flows shift under tariff pressure and Middle East disruption. FNDF tracks the Russell RAFI Developed ... FNDF Pays Twice Yearly From 800 Global Companies, But Tariffs and Oil Prices Threaten Payou
The Fed's anti-money laundering rules could strengthen Circle's core business.
The new Fed chair's reforms can indirectly impact interest rates.
AGNC Investment's MBS portfolio is rate sensitive.
Warsh laid out his plans for changing certain Fed policies in his first press conference as chairman.
Trump's wish for lower interest rates has effectively vanished, largely due to two of his own decisions.
The new Fed chair is breaking with his predecessors.
The new Fed chief could be a headwind for AGNC and Annaly in the near term, but a positive over the longer term.
The new Fed chair signaled a major policy shift, and not everyone was happy.
The market wasn't happy with the new Fed chair's fighting words.
At 65 with $1.4 million, I want income that does not flinch when the Fed pivots. My sovereign income blueprint targets three companies that own physical networks the economy must pay to use: aerospace and defense, interstate natural gas pipelines, and global infrastructure. Here is whether each dividend is actually safe. The Three-Stock Income Snapshot ... 65 Years Old With $1.4 Million. This Is My Income Blueprint With Uncertain Fed Policies

<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>
From a victor come the spoils.
Inflation is heating up, but investors could be getting some relief.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) both posted blockbuster AI infrastructure quarters, but the market reacted in opposite directions. NVIDIA sells the compute. Micron sells the memory that keeps those GPUs fed. Comparing them now makes sense because each just told investors something different about where AI hardware spending actually lands in 2026. Blackwell Carries ... NVIDIA vs Micron: Which Stock Will The Market Reward

May's Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index — the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge — saw inflation rise 0.4% month-over-month and 4.1% year-over-year Core PCE, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.3% monthly and 3.4% annually, marking the highest level since 2023. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley and Epistrophy Capital Research chief market strategist Cory Johnson to further examine rising price trends.
Inflation is up and shows no signs of stopping.
Banks could be negatively impacted as rates stay high.
A modest projected decline in overall inflation for June doesn't tell the complete story.
Warsh didn't say the president's name in explaining why rates won't be lowered. But he didn't have to.
Would rising rates change the calculus for the big banks?
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