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Investing.com42d agobearish
Morgan Stanley flags Fed hike risk if unemployment drops below 4%

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.

The Week in Numbers: Micron climbs high, Apple raises prices
Reuters Videos42d agobullishVIDEO
The Week in Numbers: Micron climbs high, Apple raises prices

<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%&nbsp;</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>

US equity funds record weekly outflows as tech weakness weighs
Reuters42d agoneutral
US equity funds record weekly outflows as tech weakness weighs

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.

Morgan Stanley and Stifel Raise Confidence in Philip Morris (PM) Ahead of ZYN Ultra Launch and IQOS Expansion
Insider Monkey42d agoneutral
Morgan Stanley and Stifel Raise Confidence in Philip Morris (PM) Ahead of ZYN Ultra Launch and IQOS Expansion

Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM) ranks among the best sin stocks to buy for recession protection. Morgan Stanley boosted Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM)’s price objective to $200 from $190 on June 3, retaining an Overweight rating on the stock. The firm referenced the company’s planned launch of Zyn Ultra and an IQOS Japan revamp […]

Is Coinbase Cooked? Single Invalid Block Froze Base for Two Hours
99bitcoins42d agoneutral
Is Coinbase Cooked? Single Invalid Block Froze Base for Two Hours

Steak and Shake is saving roughly 50% on payment processing fees by accepting Bitcoin, and projecting $6 million in annual savings if its full credit-card customer base made the switch. That number, confirmed again in a June 2026 company statement, makes the 90-year-old burger chain one of the most concrete ...

The Portfolio That Buys You A New Car Every Three Years
24/7 Wall St.42d agobullish
The Portfolio That Buys You A New Car Every Three Years

Most drivers replace their vehicles the same way: make payments for a few years, trade the car in, then start the cycle over again. A portfolio can break that cycle by generating enough income to fund future replacements. With the average new vehicle now costing roughly $48,000 to $49,000 and inflation continuing to push prices ... The Portfolio That Buys You A New Car Every Three Years

PNC Financial (PNC) Leans on Dividend Hike and Stress-Test Strength: Capital Confidence or Caution?
Simply Wall St.42d agoneutral
PNC Financial (PNC) Leans on Dividend Hike and Stress-Test Strength: Capital Confidence or Caution?

PNC Financial Services Group has recently proposed an 18% increase in its quarterly common stock dividend to US$2.00 per share for the third quarter of 2026, following Federal Reserve and company-run stress test results that kept its stress capital buffer at the regulatory minimum of 2.5%. This combination of a higher prospective dividend and confirmation of capital resilience highlights how PNC is using regulatory clarity to underpin shareholder returns and capital deployment...

US Stock Market Today: S&P 500 Futures Rise As Tech Leads Inflation Watch
Simply Wall St.42d agoneutral
US Stock Market Today: S&P 500 Futures Rise As Tech Leads Inflation Watch

The Morning Bull - US Market Morning Update Friday, Jun, 26 2026 US stock futures are pointing higher this morning, with E-mini S&P 500 contracts up about 0.7% and Nasdaq-100 futures ahead more than 2%, as investors focus on three big signals. First, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, PCE for May, is expected to run hotter, which simply means the cost of living may not be easing as quickly as households would like and could keep interest rates higher for longer. Second, US oil inventories...

D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) Is Down 11.3% After U.S. Quantum Orders And Dual-Platform Roadmap Shift
Simply Wall St.42d agoneutral
D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) Is Down 11.3% After U.S. Quantum Orders And Dual-Platform Roadmap Shift

In June 2026, President Trump signed executive orders and committed multi-billion-dollar federal funding to accelerate U.S. quantum computing development and adoption of quantum-resistant encryption, creating new opportunities for providers like D-Wave Quantum through future government contracts and standards-setting. Ahead of its planned gate-model systems, D-Wave Quantum has unveiled an error-aware gate-model simulator and outlined a roadmap targeting up to 100 logical qubits by 2032,...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Slump As Fed's Favourite Inflation Barometer Hits 3-Year High: Analyst Weighs If July Will Bring Relief To BTC Investors
Benzinga42d agobearish
Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Slump As Fed's Favourite Inflation Barometer Hits 3-Year High: Analyst Weighs If July Will Bring Relief To BTC Investors

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

The Bull Case For Wells Fargo (WFC) Could Change Following Fed Stress Test And Dividend Hike Plan
Simply Wall St.43d agoneutral
The Bull Case For Wells Fargo (WFC) Could Change Following Fed Stress Test And Dividend Hike Plan

Earlier this week, Wells Fargo & Company cleared the Federal Reserve’s 2026 stress test with its stress capital buffer unchanged at 2.5% and stated it expects to lift its third-quarter 2026 common dividend by 11% to US$0.50 per share, pending board approval in July. This combination of a clean bill of health from regulators and a planned cash return increase underscores Wells Fargo’s current capital strength and confidence in its balance sheet resilience. We’ll now examine how Wells Fargo’s...

Apple (AAPL) Stock Trades Down, Here Is Why
StockStory43d agoneutral
Apple (AAPL) Stock Trades Down, Here Is Why

Shares of iPhone and iPad maker Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) fell 5.2% in the afternoon session after it officially raised prices across Macs, iPads, home devices and the Vision Pro, a rare mid-cycle hike that the market read as confirmation that memory-cost inflation is squeezing its margins.

Wall St ends mixed as tech megacap losses outweigh upbeat chip outlook
Reuters Videos43d agobullishVIDEO
Wall St ends mixed as tech megacap losses outweigh upbeat chip outlook

<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.&nbsp;</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 forecasts growth as standalone company
FreightWaves43d agoneutral
FedEx Freight forecasts growth as standalone company

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’s First Earnings Report Beats Estimates. The Stock Doesn’t Move.
Barrons.com43d agobullish
FedEx Freight’s First Earnings Report Beats Estimates. The Stock Doesn’t Move.

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.