This will be the first time that most major retailers report on consumer behavior since gasoline prices skyrocketed.
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Consumer companies could steal the spotlight as markets look to assess the health of the economy amid renewed inflation fears.

Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), TJX (TJX), Home Depot (HD), and Lowe's (LOW) are all reporting quarterly earnings this week. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma and Robinhood chief investment officer Stephanie Guild outline what investors should expect from earnings and from the future of the K-shaped economy.
Retailers like Walmart and Target are starting to report fiscal first-quarter results, which included two full months of the Iran conflict. In today's Markets A.M. newsletter, I weigh the potential hit from higher gas prices against the boost from higher tax refunds.
Stocks open the day with modest gains as investors look ahead to earnings from Nvidia and Walmart to gauge the health of the AI trade and the economy amid ongoing Middle East tensions. The S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 0.1%, while the Dow was flat. With only a few economic data releases in the week ahead, investors are paying attention to other pieces of news, like signs of progress in the Middle East.
Many retail stocks have tumbled as surging gasoline prices raise consumer fears. But WMT stock is near a buy point.
Walmart Earnings Preview: Wall Street Turns Bullish Ahead of Q1 Report
Investors will get highly anticipated quarterly results from Nvidia (NVDA) on Wednesday in what's expected to be the marquee earnings event of the week.
Investors will get highly anticipated quarterly results from Nvidia (NVDA) on Wednesday in what's expected to be the marquee earnings event of the week.
Investors will get highly anticipated quarterly results from Nvidia (NVDA) on Wednesday in what’s expected to be the marquee earnings event of the week.
Retail earnings to offer glimpse at household spending, NextEra-Dominion tie up would capitalize on AI power boom, the Warsh era begins, and more news to start your day.
May 18 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged lower on Monday as rising Treasury yields and oil prices weighed on equity markets, while investors awaited key earnings from Nvidia and Walmart later
Nvidia, the most valuable public company by market capitalization, will report earnings this week, the last of the Magnificent Seven tech companies to do so. Big retailers including Walmart and Home Depot will also report.
The stock market is near highs but oil prices and yields are headwinds with Trump issuing new Iran threats. Nvidia and Walmart earnings loom.
Markets face a reasonably quiet week, but it will be dominated by Wednesday's Nvidia (NVDA) earnings and Alphabet's two-day developer conference, creating a critical test for AI infrastructure investment sustainability and technology sector leadership.
The chipmaker has touted 'off the charts' demand and its shares have been climbing in recent weeks.
Reg Wydeven is a partner with the Appleton-based law firm of McCarty Law LLP. He writes a weekly column for The Post-Crescent.
Walmart and Amazon are racing to speed up online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too remote or too impoverished to serve profitably. Walmart has a running start in the contest to build a loyal customer base in rural America. Roughly 90% of U.S. residents live within 10 miles of a Walmart store, and 45% of the company’s full-service Supercenters are in places with populations under 20,000, according to a report by investment bank Morgan Stanley.
Walmart helps headline the reporting docket for retail companies next week, who has outperformed many of the Magnificent Seven members in 2026. Can the retail titan's momentum continue?
Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton takes a look at the top stories for investors to watch for the week of May 18, including Nvidia (NVDA) and Walmart (WMT) earnings, Tuesday’s Pending Home Sales report, and the release of the Fed’s April FOMC meeting minutes on Wednesday.
Traders will look backwards—and forwards—at some of the world’s biggest companies. Nvidia, the most valuable public company by market capitalization, will report earnings next week, the last of the Magnificent Seven tech companies to show investors how AI continues to transform their business.
On paper, the U.S. economy might seem strong. There were 115,000 jobs added in April, beating expectations. But much of that growth came from health care and social assistance positions. Economists often view those jobs differently from gains in sectors like manufacturing, retail, and ...
Amazon has spent years training shoppers to expect packages to arrive faster and faster. Now, the retail giant is pushing that promise even further through its ultra-fast delivery service and plans to expand it to even more cities in the near future. The new rollout brings Amazon deeper into a ...
As it gets easier to create artificial-intelligence agents with platforms like Anthropic’s Claude Cowork , some businesses are dealing with ‘AI agent sprawl.’
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Two themes critical to the U.S. stock market -- the artificial intelligence boom and inflation-pressured consumer spending -- will come under the
Walmart (WMT) has asked Flipkart to delay its initial public offering plans to focus on achieving EB