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U.S. online gambling operator BetMGM on Tuesday downgraded its ‌annual outlook for the second time ‌this year and pushed back its target of reaching $500 ​million in profit, as competition from prediction market platforms mounts intensifies. Licensed sportsbook operators in the U.S. are facing growing pressure from ‌prediction market ⁠platforms such as Kalshi, while FanDuel, DraftKings and Fanatics have launched ⁠similar products, raising customer acquisition costs and threatening sports betting market share.

The beverage company now expects comparable earnings per share to grow 9% to 10% in 2026, up from its prior range of 8% to 9%

Stock futures slipped as a slump in chip stocks broadened.

Centene (CNC) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +182.02% and +12.73%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Core Scientific ‌signed ‌a deal with ​AMD, under which the chip ‌firm ⁠will secure up ⁠to 2.5 ​gigawatts ​of data ​center ‌capacity to support customer deployments of its ‌AI ​systems, ​the ​companies ‌said on Tuesday. (Reporting ​by ​Harshita Mary Varghese ​in ‌Bengaluru; Editing ​by Leroy ​Leo)

Investing.com -- Just one of five mega cap technology companies that reported earnings this quarter managed to outperform the S&P 500 the following day, which warns that the pattern is likely to persist as AI capital expenditure anxiety continues to overshadow otherwise solid results.

PayPal doubled down on its turnaround plan on Tuesday, raising its 2026 profit forecast and outlining cost-saving steps, as it looks to convince investors that it is worth more than the $53 billion takeover offer ‌that analysts described as "low-ball". The payments company, once the crown jewel of American financial technology, received a $60.50-per-share bid from Stripe ‌and private equity firm Advent International, Reuters reported earlier this month, citing sources. The offer is a fraction of the roughly $360 billion valuation PayPal commanded as a pandemic-era ​darling in 2021.

PayPal stock cratered earlier this year. Now, the fintech seeks to prove that its ‘strategic reorganization’ is yielding results.

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) shares rose early Tuesday after the computational software company lif

United Parcel Service raised its full-year outlook after revenue climbed in the second quarter, as the company said its years-long restructuring efforts are bearing fruit.

United Parcel Service raised its full-year outlook after revenue climbed in the second quarter, as the company said its years-long restructuring efforts are bearing fruit.

July 28 (Reuters) - Futures tracking Canada's blue-chip stocks were muted on Tuesday, as investors assessed corporate earnings and monitored developments in the Middle East conflict.

China's CXMT just pulled off the biggest semiconductor IPO in mainland history, and Micron shareholders felt the tremors almost immediately. Whether that reaction is panic or opportunity depends on one critical gap between the two chipmakers.

US equity futures traded without a clear direction on Tuesday as investors prepared for a pivotal week of corporate earnings, while attention also turned to the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting and ongoing geopolitical developments in the Middle East. By 07:43 GMT, Dow Jones futures were up 41 points, or 0.

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Centene lifted its guidance for the year after revenue and profit growth in the second quarter were driven by strength in its core government-sponsored and individual healthcare lines.

Investing.com -- United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) reported its second-quarter earnings before the open on Tuesday, sending its shares around 1.8% higher premarket.

The venture will fund the construction and operation of the campus, which Meta says will provide the compute capacity needed to train and deploy next-generation AI models.

According to a report, seats on some of the aircraft maker’s models weren’t correctly installed in their seat tracks, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Amazon.com is revamping its AI strategy, winding down many of its in-house AI models and sharpening focus on ‌a new frontier-model effort, Business Insider reported on Tuesday citing people ‌familiar with the matter. The company has begun deprecating most of its flagship Nova AI models, ​including the high-end Premier and Omni models, Reel video-generation model, and Canvas image-generation model, the report said. Instead, Amazon is increasingly moving resources toward a frontier-model development, led by researcher Pieter Abbeel, with frontier research becoming a top priority this ‌year at the company, ⁠the report added.

The hotel company posted a second-quarter profit of $482 million, or $2.10 a share, compared with $440 million, or $1.84 a share, a year earlier.

Asian chip stocks sold off today, pushing South Korea’s Kospi index 10% lower and Japan’s Nikkei 4% in the red. That followed a tough session for U.S. chipmakers that looks set to extend to today, with Intel, Micron and others sliding premarket.

Tech shares are in for a rough day, with Nasdaq futures down nearly 0.8%. Behind some of the bearish outlook: fears that the West could lose its stranglehold on a crucial component of the chip supply chain. Chip stocks sank yesterday after a report in the Information said an unnamed Chinese-state backed company had begun making deep ultraviolet lithography machines, which use UV light to print microscopic patterns on the silicon wafers that go into chips.

Circle acquired IBM's blockchain patent portfolio, comprising more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents worldwide. The acquisition makes Circle the largest blockchain ...

Meta Platforms (META) and BlackRock (BLK) have agreed to form a strategic venture to develop and own

<body><p>STORY: :: New York / July 27, 2026</p><p>:: Dietrich Knauth, Legal Reporter</p><p>"After years of litigation, about 70,000 court cases, and three bankruptcies, Johnson& Johnson has agreed to a $5.5 billion talc settlement. Why are they settling now?&nbsp;</p><p>:: Why did J&J settle after more than a decade of talc litigation?</p><p>"So tens of thousands of women have accused Johnson& Johnson of causing their ovarian cancer. They've alleged that talc-based products, including baby powder, have been contaminated with asbestos and caused them to develop cancer after using these products for a long period of time. Johnson& Johnson has denied that, but these cases have continued to go to trial."</p><p>"And after a couple of attempts to settle these cases through bankruptcy courts, Johnson& Johnson has now reached a deal where they think they can end all of these cases for an overall payment that is about $5.5 billion, although that number could rise depending on how many people participate in the settlement."</p><p>"One of the plaintiff's lawyers told me today that he thinks it's closer to $7 billion. That's not something we're going to know for some time."</p><p>:: Could J&J still face new talc lawsuits in the future?</p><p>:: Johnson & Johnson</p><p>"It does not fully close the door on all future talc litigations. Somebody could develop cancer in the future, decide that they want to file a lawsuit against Johnson& Johnson, because they think that company's product caused their cancer. The reason for that is that there's something called a latency period, which is essentially the delay between when you experience the factors that caused your cancer and when that cancer actually shows up."</p><p>"But, you know, this deal basically gets rid of all of the existing cases. That's the idea."</p><p>J&J reached the settlement after a series of wins in court, including victories in individual trials, successful efforts to disqualify plaintiffs' lawyers from the litigation, and court rulings against experts that plaintiffs had used to prove their cases in court.&nbsp;</p><p>J&J won a significant court victory in the long-running legal battle last week, when a federal judge cast doubt on individual plaintiffs' ability to prove that talc specifically caused their ovarian cancer.</p><p>J&J has long denied that its talc products caused cancer, saying that talc was safe and did not contain asbestos. The company stopped selling talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in 2020, switching to a cornstarch product.</p><p>Before the bankruptcy attempts, J&J had a mixed record in talc trials, with a multibillion verdict in favor of 22 women who said baby powder caused their ovarian cancer. The company won some trials outright and had other verdicts reduced on appeal.</p><p>Unlike the proposed bankruptcy settlements, Monday's agreement applies only to existing claims and does not address future lawsuits.</p></body>

Digital medical services platform Teladoc Health (NYSE:TDOC) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.

By Dawn Kopecki NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuters) - DraftKings, FanDuel and other online sports betting companies have ramped up election spending on the U.S. midterms to at least $72 million so far, the

Trump stood before autoworkers at a GM proving ground and promised his tariffs had revived American manufacturing, but Michigan employment data from the same period tells a sharply different story about who is actually paying the price.