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Verizon Communications gained a net 184,000 postpaid phone connections in the second quarter, beating Wall Street’s expectations on a metric that gauges new lucrative customers.

Dell Technologies is set to report Q2 earnings, with analysts expecting triple-digit year-over-year EPS growth.

Oilfield services provider SLB (NYSE:SLB) reported Q2 CY2026 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, but sales fell by 4.5% year on year to $8.97 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.55 per share was 6.1% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

The deal calls for the automakers to build two new Ford multi-energy vehicles and two new Geely electric SUVs at the Valencia plant.

CrowdStrike’s is set to report Q2 earnings, and analysts are expecting EPS growth and continued long-term earnings expansion.

The credit-card company posted higher sales and profit in the second quarter, thanks to higher spending among its credit card members.

Verizon raised its annual forecast for adjusted profit and free cash flow, as the network provider's latest unlimited 5G ‌plans and rewards programs helped it add more wireless subscribers ‌than expected in the June quarter. The company is in the midst of a strategic transition under new CEO Dan Schulman, rolling out simplified mobile plans, a new loyalty program and bundled wireless-broadband offerings to improve customer additions after trailing rivals in subscriber growth. Verizon gained ‌184,000 monthly-bill paying wireless ⁠subscribers in the second quarter, surpassing estimates of 103,900 additions by analysts polled by FactSet.

Ahead of its third-quarter earnings release, analysts forecast Nordson's bottom line to grow by double digits from the year-ago quarter.

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News Corporation is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter earnings next month, and analysts are expecting a double-digit decline in EPS.

Friday’s preliminary injunction request escalates legal proceedings initiated earlier this week.

Estée Lauder is set to release its fourth-quarter results next month, and analysts expect its earnings per share to surge by triple digits from a year ago.

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According to TheFly, HSBC analysts initiated their coverage of SpaceX with a ‘Hold’ rating and a price target of $115.

Deckers Brands (NYSE:DECK) shares slipped 3. 5% in premarket trading on Friday despite the footwear company reporting record first-quarter revenue, beating earnings expectations and raising its full-year profit outlook.

Target will release its fiscal second-quarter earnings shortly, with consensus estimates calling for a single-digit year-over-year increase in earnings per share.

Intel's shares rose 6% in premarket trading on Friday after bullish forecasts signaled the AI boom was propelling ‌the chipmaker's long-awaited turnaround. The company forecast third-quarter revenue above Wall ‌Street expectations and raised this year's capital expenditure estimate to $20 billion from $18 billion. Intel's improving outlook ​reflects growing adoption of its data center central processing units (CPUs) by customers building infrastructure for artificial intelligence, as CEO Lip-Bu Tan works to position the company as a broader beneficiary of AI-driven semiconductor demand despite Nvidia's lead ‌in accelerator chips.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) shares climbed more than 4% in premarket trading on Friday after the semiconductor company posted its fastest quarterly revenue growth in over 15 years and issued stronger guidance for the current quarter, highlighting continued momentum from artificial intelligence investment. The latest results exceeded Wall Street forecasts and reinforced investor confidence that Intel’s turnaround strategy is gaining traction under Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan.

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July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Friday after a tech-led selloff in the previous session, as investors weighed fresh earnings, escalating Middle East tensions and a new

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By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - A wobbly U.S. stock market will take its cues in the coming week from a Federal Reserve meeting set to shed light on the path for interest rates, and

A wobbly U.S. stock market will take its cues in the coming week from a Federal Reserve meeting set to shed light on the path for interest rates, and from a packed slate of corporate earnings led by technology companies and heavyweights in artificial intelligence. Major equity ‌indexes were on track for weekly declines, dragged down on Thursday by steep slides in Alphabet and Tesla following their quarterly reports. The fallout for Google parent Alphabet, ‌sparked in part by an increase in its already massive AI spending plans, set a negative tone ahead of results next week from other AI "hyperscalers": Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms.

NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - Defense tech firm Anduril is in discussions with investors for a new funding round that could see ‌it valued at roughly $100 billion, rivaling companies such as Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, ‌two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The funding round and the valuations, reported here for the first time, ​are still fluid, the sources said.

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U. S. stock futures edged higher on Friday as investors balanced escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East against encouraging corporate earnings from the technology sector.