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Jones Soda Co (JSDA) achieves profitability and expands market presence despite challenges in the competitive soda industry.

Overbought warnings come ahead of a massive tech and retail earnings lineup.

BranchOut Food (NASDAQ:BOF) executives said the company is focused on increasing factory utilization, diversifying its customer base and building inventory to support what management expects to be a record second quarter. During the company’s first-quarter 2026 earnings call, CFO John Dalfonsi said

Major retailers across the U.S. are accelerating investments in store remodels and expansion as competition intensifies between physical retail and rapidly growing e-commerce channels. U.S. online retail spending reached $1.34 trillion in 2024 and is projected to surpass $2.5 trillion by 2030, ...

Grocery prices jumped 0.5% in April and restaurant menu prices climbed 0.7%, the biggest monthly moves in either category since late 2025. Before that, you would have to go back to 2022 to find a hotter print. The April CPI report, released Tuesday by the BLS, showed headline inflation running at 3.8% year over year, ... Grocery and Restaurant Prices Post Biggest Jump Since 2022

The President wants rate cuts. His pick is set to take the chair at the Federal Reserve. Futures markets have spent weeks pricing in easing. Then the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April Consumer Price Index report, and the door slammed shut. Headline CPI rose 3.8% year-over-year in April, up from 3.3% in March, ... Trump Wants Rate Cuts. The Data Just Made That Nearly Impossible.

The April inflation report landed with a number the Federal Reserve hoped it would never have to explain again. Consumer prices rose 3.8% year over year, the highest reading since 2023 and a sharp jump from March’s 3.3%. Energy did most of the damage: gasoline ripped 21% in March, the biggest monthly increase in data ... The Fed’s Worst-Case Scenario Is Quietly Unfolding

Walmart is repurposing former pharmacies, a thrift store and other small spaces in local communities as last-mile stockrooms for speedier delivery...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down, while the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 Index were up

Buda Juice (AMEX:BUDA) held its first-quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday. Below is the complete transcript from the call. This transcript is brought to you by Benzinga APIs. For real-time access to our entire catalog, please visit https://www.benzinga.com/apis/ for a consultation. The full earnings call is available at https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/605302226 Summary Buda Juice reported a 17.7% year-over-year revenue growth for the first quarter of 2026, driven entirely by its exis

Walmart's stock price continues to rock.

Walmart said Tuesday it would cut or relocate about 1,000 corporate workers as it looks to combine more of its global-technology and product teams, according to people familiar with the situation. This past summer Walmart hired Daniel Danker, who was an Instacart executive, to fill a new role as head of global AI acceleration. Since then Danker and Walmart’s head of global technology, Suresh Kumar, have reviewed their internal structures and decided to streamline some teams to operate more efficiently, the leaders said in a memo sent to staff Tuesday and viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Voice and agentic AI specialist SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) just delivered its sixth straight earnings beat, and our model has digested the results. Here is where the 24/7 Wall St. price target lands. Our price target for SoundHound is $17.91, implying 85.98% upside from the current $9.63 share price. Our recommendation is buy with a moderate ... We’re Bullish on SoundHound With Six Straight Earnings Beats

There's a version of Walmart most people still picture. Fluorescent lights, crowded aisles, maybe a cart with a wobbly wheel. That version still exists. But the company Wall Street is paying 43 times forward earnings for? That's a different beast entirely.As of 2026, Walmart is a 63-year-old ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.2%, while the S&P 500 also inched 0.2% higher and the Nasdaq Composite edged up 0.1%. Investor attention is focused squarely on events later in the week, including inflation data and a meeting between the U.S. and China. Sure, there’s still a war going on, and the impasse in the Gulf shows no signs of ending as the U.S. and Iran fail to reach a peace agreement.

The major indexes rose slightly Monday as AI and chips shrugged off higher oil prices as Trump said Iran ceasefire "on life support."

Stock Market Today: Futures were down while oil prices rose on Iran tensions. Intel, Lumentum, Moderna, Circle Internet are winners..

This retailer is well positioned to survive higher gas prices.

Funko (NASDAQ:FNKO) executives said the company delivered a “really strong” first quarter as momentum from late 2025 carried into the new year, pointing to higher sales, record gross margin and improved point-of-sale trends. The company hosted its first-quarter financial results discussion from Fun

Moby summary of Lifetime Brands, Inc.'s Q1 2026 earnings call

Upcoming results from Walmart, Target and other retailers could offer fresh insight into how consumers are handling high gas prices and a tougher economic backdrop.

Checking out from a grocery store used to be a relatively simple thing. You waited in line, then a person scanned your items, you paid — maybe even by writing a check — and then went on your way. Some stores had 10-items-or-less lines, and the closest thing to a checkout controversy would be when ...

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While overall layoffs dropped in the first four months of 2026, AI helped drive more than 85,000 job cuts at technology companies.