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Institutional cryptocurrency trading platform LMAX Group is considering going public.

(Bloomberg) -- The selloff in SpaceX shares has driven the stock near a level that would imply investors are assigning no value to its artificial intelligence business, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley. Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump Rebuilds Tariffs With New Levies on 60 EconomiesSpaceX Turns Away Falcon C

(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc. began marketing $12.3 billion of high-grade bonds to fund a Meta Platforms Inc. data center project, testing investor appetite amid growing concerns about excessive AI infrastructure spending. Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump Rebuilds Tariffs With New Levies on 60 EconomiesAlphabet Fall

Memory stocks were the hottest trade of 2026 until they weren't. In the span of a few weeks, one of the market's best-performing sectors flipped into a bear market. Micron (MU), Samsung, and SK Hynix (SKHY) all fell more than 20% from their late-June highs, and the Roundhill Memory ETF went ...

Charles Schwab just delivered one of its strongest quarters on record, and the stock still dropped. That disconnect caught Morgan Stanley's attention, prompting the firm to double down on its bullish stance. Schwab reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.62 per share on record revenue of ...

(Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds’ most popular trade in the US bond market is showing signs of maxing out.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump’s 100% Generic Drug Duty Threatens US Low-Cost SupplyAlphabet’s $205 Billion Spending Target Fuels AI Cost FearsKnown as the basis trade, the strategy involves wagering on the small pr

Wall Street banks are having their best run in over a decade, while Blackstone Inc. (NYSE:BX), heading into its second-quarter earnings today, has missed nearly all of it. Banks Pull Ahead of Private Capital Shares of the largest U.S. private capital groups have slumped more than 15% this year and over 20% in the past […]

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan turned heads during a NewsNation debate, warning that sticky inflation may leave the Federal Reserve with no choice but to raise interest rates again later this year. Moynihan argued that pipeline costs, energy pressures, and persistent household expenses ...

(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street banks have started buying and selling an initial piece of a $35 billion financing package for Broadcom Inc. and Anthropic PBC’s AI infrastructure expansion, with the biggest private credit deal ever now being offered to a wider pool of investors.Most Read from BloombergTrump’s 100% Generic Drug Duty Threatens US Low-Cost SupplyApple to Launch ‘Upgrade’ Device Leasing Program With Klarna to Spur SalesApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandHegset

(Bloomberg) -- Galaxy Digital Inc. is planning to raise about $3.5 billion from a debut junk-bond sale to fund a data center tied to CoreWeave Inc., extending AI financing’s push into the riskier corners of the US credit market.Most Read from BloombergTrump’s 100% Generic Drug Duty Threatens US Low-Cost SupplyApple to Launch ‘Upgrade’ Device Leasing Program With Klarna to Spur SalesTrump Extends Pardons to Companies, Echoing a 17th Century KingSpaceX Set to Unlock $116 Billion in Shares After IP

BlackRock is leading a debt sale targeting at least $12 billion for its massive new El Paso data-center project backed by Meta Platforms people familiar with the matter said. The world’s largest investment firm, along with its infrastructure and private-credit arms, owns an 80% stake in the Texas data-center project, while Meta Platforms, which will use the data centers, owns the other 20%. BlackRock has been plowing tens of billions of dollars into data-center investments over the past year, including a $40 billion deal to buy Aligned Data Centers.

Morgan Stanley upgraded Global Payments to ‘Overweight,’ saying the competitive positioning for its products would support a durable mid-single-digit growth for the company.

Morgan Stanley has emerged as Wall Street’s chief architect of the financing structures underpinning the AI boom, devising new debt and equity...

(Bloomberg) -- As worries build around the artificial intelligence trade, investors are starting to seek shelter in a more pedestrian corner of the stock market: companies with sturdy finances.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsGoogle Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal GoalsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthNasdaq Futures Tumble 1.5% as Chip Rout Deepens: Markets WrapUS Cyclospora Outbreak Tied to

(Bloomberg) -- Michael Burry, the investor made famous in The Big Short, recommends bargain hunting in Hong Kong’s stock market after it lagged peers during the global AI rally this year. Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsGoogle Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal GoalsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthCIA Says AI Drones Give Russian Troops Only 30 Minutes to LiveUS Cyclospora Outbreak Tied to Taco

(Bloomberg) -- SpaceX’s fall from its post-listing peak to below its IPO price in just a month poured cold water on the market for newly public companies, dragging a key gauge of this year’s debuts down with it.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsBeckham’s IM8 Gets $1 Billion From General Catalyst for GrowthCIA Says AI Drones Give Russian Troops Only 30 Minutes to LiveOpenAI’s First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companio

The banking giant just showed off its profit engine, but now it has to prove this new power is permanent.

Amazon.com (AMZN)-backed Anthropic is in talks with banks to expand its credit facilities by billion

More than half of second-quarter net new assets came from IPO-related wealth-management inflows.

JPMorgan, Goldman and other big banks are raking in trading revenue this year as “the market is clearly extremely risk-on.”

Record net revenues of $21.3 billion drove a 62% earnings-per-share surge.

(Bloomberg) -- Global investors largely shut out of China’s biggest IPO in nearly four years are looking at creative proxy trades as a way to profit from the country’s fast-rising memory-chip leader. Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsOpenAI’s First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI CompanionTrump Drops 20% Fee for Hormuz Cargo After Gulf PressureUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeA Cocaine Bust

(Bloomberg) -- Csquare Inc. priced its initial public offering at $21 per share, according to people familiar with the matter, below a marketed range.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsOpenAI’s First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI CompanionTrump Drops 20% Fee for Hormuz Cargo After Gulf PressureUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeA Cocaine Bust in Spain Leads All the Way to Wall StreetBrookfie

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining more than a quarter of a percent, the S&P 500 adding over a third of a percent and the Nasdaq climbing more than six-tenths of a percent.</p><p>A second day of solid bank earnings added momentum to an auspicious beginning to second-quarter reporting season.</p><p>BlackRock and Morgan Stanley both beat quarterly profit expectations, with shares of BlackRock advancing over 6.5% and Morgan Stanley also ending higher.</p><p>Strong earnings combined with more cooler-than-expected inflation data, in the form of June wholesale prices, helped lift stocks, says Melissa Brown, managing director of investment decision research at SimCorp.</p><p>"We saw some good earnings from the financial companies. And, you know, on top of that, there's just still the same buzz around the AI trade, around what's happening with semiconductors. And there's, we haven't really seen a lot of bad news. The inflation news has been better than expected, although I would argue still not good. So inflation is still higher than the Fed's target, even though it has come in a little bit lower than expected. But I think, you know, kind of all those things are conspiring to make it a good but not blowout day today."</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, PayPal surged more than 17% after sources told Reuters that Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered to acquire it.</p><p>And shares of United Airlines dipped in extended trading despite the carrier saying it expected full-year profit at the high end of its prior forecast, as the company's third-quarter outlook was short of Wall Street expectations.</p></body>

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Morgan Stanley (MS) reports a robust second quarter with record revenues of $21.3 billion, a 15% dividend increase, and significant growth in Wealth and Investment Management.

Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley maintained a constructive outlook on the aerospace and defense sector ahead of second-quarter earnings, citing resilient commercial aerospace demand, improving aircraft production, and favorable long-term defense spending trends, while becoming more selective after recent stock volatility and valuation shifts.

Wall Street cleared this earnings season’s first major hurdle with room to spare, as the nation’s biggest banks pummeled profit forecasts. “Bank earnings are often described as a scoreboard for the financial sector,” said Ruben Dalfovo, investment strategist at Saxo Bank. “They are more useful as an economic medical examination, and the early numbers suggest the patient remains active, and dealmaking appears healthier.”

Broadcom shares climbed Tuesday, July 14, 2026, after Morgan Stanley published one of its most forceful defenses yet of the company’s position in artificial intelligence chips. The relief looks fragile. The stock is still down sharply from the record high it set barely six weeks earlier, and this ...

(Bloomberg) -- Anthropic PBC is seeking to meet with investors ahead of its potential mega-IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, as the company prepares to join the rush of artificial intelligence-driven stock market debuts.Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsOpenAI’s First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI CompanionTrump Drops 20% Fee for Hormuz Cargo After Gulf PressureUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Tr