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Investing.com -- Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) reported second-quarter earnings before the open on Friday, topping consensus expectations.

Investing.com -- Westinghouse Electric Company has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock, the nuclear technology and services supplier said Friday.

By Anna Szymanski July 31 (Reuters) - From the Editor Hello Morning Bid readers. Three of this year's biggest market worries were on full display this week.

The company has the ability to fulfill orders as its backlog grows by billions of dollars and stretches into 2027, CEO Dave Regnery said on Trane Technologies’ second-quarter earnings call.

ExxonMobil’s earnings doubled and Chevron posted its highest quarterly earnings on record as energy prices soared during the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Everyone knows that interest rates affect stock prices. The Fed’s decision Wednesday to keep overnight rates unchanged sounds like it would have been clearly bullish, but stocks sold off just after Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference. Also following Warsh’s Q&A, long-term Treasury yields hit a 19-year high.

Analysts at Morningstar said in a recent note that Apple's outlook points to mounting pressure from AI-driven memory inflation, tight chip supply and foreign exchange headwinds.

Same-store sales continue to rise.

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Ahead of its second-quarter earnings report, McDonald's is in a correction, but risk-tolerant dividend investors may want to sink their teeth into the stock.

The supplier to major automakers, including BMW, Volkswagen and Ford slashed its medium-term sales expectations against a darkening backdrop for the industry.

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By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - U.S. employment data and a batch of corporate results this coming week will keep equity investors on edge over the direction of the stock market, which

The project, which is largely tied to the innovative medicine segment, will see the company exit certain facilities and incur costs of up to $750 million.

The platform will continue to run under its existing brand, platform and customer experience, with no immediate changes for users.

SK Hynix shares leaped 30% on Friday, by far their biggest daily rise since the South Korean memory-chip manufacturer and AI darling went public in the 1990s. Not far behind was fellow chip producer Samsung Electronics, which rose 27%. News that hedge fund Situational Awareness has offloaded troubled AI-related investments to Citadel is contributing to Friday's blockbuster gains in tech stocks, hedge-fund managers said.

July 31 (Reuters) - Global equity fund inflows rose to their highest in three weeks during the week to July 29, as investors snapped up technology sector funds during a market downturn, anticipating

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Ford Motor and General Motors are looking beyond cars. In May, Ford’s shares surged as much as 45%, adding nearly $23 billion of market value, in the weeks after it formally announced Ford Energy, a grid-scale battery-storage business that will serve the power needs of artificial-intelligence hyperscalers and utilities. Its shares have since moderated, but are still up more than 20% since the Ford Energy launch.

Amazon shares jumped more than 12% before the bell on Friday after the e-commerce and cloud giant posted its strongest cloud growth in over ‌four years, bolstering investor confidence that its multibillion-dollar AI bets are driving a ‌fresh wave of demand. The rally put Amazon on track to add about $300 billion in market value, as investors looked past ​a 10% increase in planned capital expenditure to $220 billion and instead focused on booming demand at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the profit engine at the center of the company's AI push. The reaction was in sharp contrast to Alphabet's earnings last week, when the Google-parent's shares stumbled after it reported its ‌first negative cash flow, which stemmed ⁠from rising AI-related spending.

SLB’s second quarter results were met with a significant positive market reaction, as the company’s performance exceeded Wall Street’s expectations despite a year-on-year revenue decline. Management credited broad-based international growth and a rebound in North American operations as primary contributors to the quarter. CEO Olivier Le Peuch highlighted “higher offshore activity in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia,” as well as increased demand in U.S. land for production and recovery sol

AI optimism pushed U.S. stock futures higher and drove the volatile Kospi to its biggest daily rise on record in Korea, while Europe’s tech stocks also rallied.

The tech rebound has legs. Stock futures were rising early Friday as the technology sector looked set to end a bad July on a positive note despite disappointing earnings from Apple. S&P 500 futures rose 0.

Positive figures from two key areas could send the stock higher.

Apple shares dropped 7.3% before the bell on Friday as the tech giant warned that supply ‌constraints would hurt growth, prompting investors to look beyond near-term shortages to ‌gauge the hit from an expected iPhone price hike. The decline puts Apple on track to shed ​roughly $361.6 billion in market value, if the losses hold. The company's outlook highlighted a broader industry challenge, with AI-driven demand tightening supplies of advanced chips and memory, driving up costs and prolonging supply-chain bottlenecks across the technology sector.

Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) dissension just reached a new (and dubious) milestone.

Apple shares were falling hard early Friday, puncturing the iPhone maker’s recent strong run. But analysts at Citi think there are still grounds to back the stock. Apple shares were down 7.4% at $308.

<body><p>STORY: :: Archive</p><p>What if your next driverless taxi had no steering wheel? That may soon become a reality.</p><p>Amazon-owned Zoox has won the first U.S. approval for commercial deployment of a robotaxi built without traditional human controls.</p><p>The approval came from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA...</p><p>allowing the company to begin charging for rides in Las Vegas once it completes state requirements.</p><p>Here's NHTSA administrator Jonathan Morrison.</p><p>"Since our standards get into performance requirements for specific aspects such as braking performance, they provided information and we received public comment, and we made that determination that their vehicle as equipped, can meet all of those requirements and in fact, exceed those."</p><p>The vehicle looks very different from a conventional car.</p><p>It's an electric, carriage-style robotaxi with two rows of inward-facing seats and a top speed of 75 miles per hour.</p><p>Federal officials say Zoox can deploy up to 2,500 vehicles in each of the next two years.</p><p>The move comes as companies including Alphabet's Waymo and Elon Musk's Tesla race to expand driverless ride-hailing services across the U.S.</p><p>The green light comes with added oversight.</p><p>U.S. regulators say the firm must report issues including crashes and inappropriate stops.</p><p>Authorities also retain the power to revoke the exemption if major safety concerns emerge.</p></body>

The automaker put a date on autonomy, and its latest results raised guidance again. The stock's price barely acknowledges either.