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Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were little changed on Thursday, as a rally in government bonds lost momentum and investors assessed a fresh batch of corporate earnings and analyst actions.
Airbnb shares are rocking. Here's why.

Deere (DE) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +6.47% and +1.77%, respectively, for the quarter ended July 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

U.S. stocks linked to cryptocurrencies extended Wednesday’s rally premarket as investors jumped on President Trump’s reaffirmed support for crypto-friendly legislation.

Deere & Co. (NYSE:DE) shares gained more than 3% in premarket trading on Thursday after the agricultural equipment manufacturer delivered fiscal third-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street expectations on both revenue and earnings.

Webull Corp (NASDAQ:BULL) shares jumped 13. 8% in premarket trading on Thursday after the digital brokerage delivered its strongest quarterly performance since becoming a public company, beating Wall Street forecasts on both revenue and adjusted earnings.
Investors will watch margins, rising HBM costs, China sales and the Rubin Ultra product roadmap.
Investing.com -- Bank of America upgraded Moderna to Neutral with a $170 price objective, following a sharp rally in the stock after positive data on its personalized cancer vaccine, intismeran, in adjuvant melanoma.

European stock indexes were mixed, with gains in autos and semiconductors unable to lift the lift the Europe-wide Stoxx 600 index.

U.S. futures edged higher after the U.S. Treasury Department said it would at least double the size of planned purchases of longer-term government debt. Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 1.3% to 66,178.26, reversing declines earlier in the week. Japan reported it logged a trade deficit for a third straight month in July, as both imports and exports hit record highs.
Webull Corp (BULL) posts record Q2 results with 51% revenue growth, driven by PDT rule changes and AI adoption.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is reclaiming its place as one of investors’ favorite Chinese technology stocks, on bets it can beat rivals in the combative artificial intelligence market.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategists warned that markets may view the US Treasury’s surprise effort to curb long-term borrowing costs as lacking credibility, potentially pushing up term premium and yields over time.

CHICAGO, Aug 19 () - Merck and Moderna's success with a personalized cancer vaccine designed to keep melanoma at bay opens a new avenue of treatment that doctors hope will work against many types of tumors. Unlike chemotherapy, which kills both healthy and cancerous cells, or immunotherapy, which revs up the immune system, personalized cancer vaccines train the immune system to specifically target mutations found only on a person's tumor.

The White House meeting put crypto regulation, prediction markets and Hyperliquid’s U.S. future in the spotlight.
Elimination of the Pattern Day Trader Rule aided trading volumes.

1. Moderna shares more than doubled after it reported successful results in an experimental mRNA-based cancer vaccine. The company and its partner Merck reported this morning that the vaccine succeeded in preventing cancer from coming back or spreading in a study of high-risk melanoma patients. The positive results sent Moderna’s share price soaring and rippled through drug industry stocks as investors saw the potential for more future blockbusters.

Nordson (NDSN) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +5.18% and +4.96%, respectively, for the quarter ended July 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
AI cloud gross billings jump 82% to RMB1.33 billion, propelling total revenue to a record RMB3.07 billion and pushing adjusted operating margin to a historic 4.0%.
Despite Q2 revenue of just $6.7 million, Datavault AI Inc (DVLT) signs massive tokenization deals and expects significant Q4 revenue boost as exchanges go live.
Target Corp (TGT) delivers strong Q2 results with traffic up 3.6%, digital sales climbing 8.7%, and EPS more than doubling to $4.11, prompting an upward revision of its full-year outlook.

Walmart earnings are due early Thursday after a summer promotional pricing blitz to lure inflation-weary consumers. On Wednesday, WMT stock edged higher, near a key level. The big Dow Jones stock is the nation's and world's largest retailer by 2025 sales, according to the National Retail Federation.

The US Treasury Department’s decision to boost buybacks of long-dated bonds is complicating the outlook for issuance of short-term securities, including Treasury bills, which are expected to be used to finance the plan.
Falling yields revived speculative growth--but Tesla's operating margin remains the harder problem.
Investors are rewarding resilient smaller-project demand despite a frozen housing market.
Investors rotated toward profitable drugmakers while personalized cancer-vaccine results energized biotechnology stocks.