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Steel Dynamics expects stronger third-quarter steel profitability, driven by record shipments and wider metal margins, while metals recycling earnings are projected to decline sequentially.

Wells Fargo’s new target flows straight through to SPY and VOO, the funds millions of investors already own.

Investors and banking industry executives have privately speculated the bank could be poised to acquire a smaller lender.

It's all systems go for the American consumer, say bank executives, including strong spending on travel and entertainment. "There is still quite strong spending across the board, and it has just not been changing really at all," said Wells Fargo CFO Mike Santomassimo at an investor conference.

Investing.com -- Wells Fargo CFO Mike Santomassimo said Tuesday that the bank’s loan growth will likely surpass its full-year 2026 guidance. He made the remarks while speaking at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference.

One enormous credit line could reshape the AI IPO race

U.S. added 162,000 jobs in August, while wage growth continued to lag inflation

Scott Bessent made a bold move on the bond market this month. Goldman Sachs just said it probably won’t be enough.

Banks large and small have started to warm up to the idea of their own stablecoins, despite early doubts from some executives that there will be much demand for them. Instead, banks banded together to launch a tokenized deposit system as an answer to the rapid changes in the world of payments. Stablecoins are digital tokens pegged to the U.S. dollar or other currencies, while tokenized deposits are just traditional money represented as digital tokens.

Marvell’s huge rally has not scared Wells Fargo away

Since February 2026, Wells Fargo has been in a holding pattern, posting a small loss of 1.5% while floating around $83.87. The stock also fell short of the S&P 500’s 12.7% gain during that period.

A key measure of US housing affordability worsened for the first time in almost three years, as higher borrowing costs soaked up a bigger chunk of earnings for new homebuyers.

The Wall Street analyst thinks JPMorgan is days away from a milestone no bank has ever reached.

Earlier this year, one of Wall Street's most closely watched research arms made a bold commodity price call, the boldest any large institution had made in years. The forecast turned heads. It implied the kind of return that usually only shows up in speculative assets. And for a few months, the ...

Wall Street has spent this year waiting for prices to calm down. The thinking was simple. The war with Iran pushed oil up in February; the shock would wear off, and the Fed would go back to cutting rates. One of the banks that sold that idea has changed its mind. Wells Fargo is not a gloomy voice ...

Homebuilder sentiment in the US barely improved this month as elevated construction and borrowing costs continued to restrain the housing market.

Oklahoma residents fear toxic emissions, threatening an effort to restore US industrial might.

Microsoft spent most of this year being punished for spending too much. The stock fell more than 20%. Analysts cut targets. The narrative shifted from AI winner to AI victim. Wells Fargo was part of that story. In mid-July, it trimmed its own target to $625 from $650, nervous about how much capital ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is planning to raise as much $5 billion in what could be the chipmaker’s biggest-ever investment-grade bond sale, adding to a wave of debt tied to the artificial intelligence boom.

The recent weakness in artificial intelligence high-flyers has investors rotating into the less glamorous corner of the market: financial stocks.

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The bank is the latest to embrace blockchain to make payments and transfers faster and more efficient.

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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.

There is a pattern that keeps repeating in this AI earnings cycle. A company spends heavily on infrastructure. Analysts get nervous about whether the spending will ever pay off. Targets get trimmed. Then the results come in and the conversation shifts. July 29 was Microsoft's turn to go through ...