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Some contract announcements move stocks. And then there are the ones that reframe an entire investment thesis. We saw the latter on a Monday, July 20. IREN Limited (IREN) was trading up more than 21% to $40.57 as of July 20 midday, according to Yahoo Finance. That’s after the Australia-based ...

Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton tees up what investors should be on the lookout for on Tuesday, July 21, including earnings from General Motors Co. (GM), Northrop Grumman Co. (NOC), and D.R. Horton Inc (DHI).
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The quarter itself was solid. So why does the stock keep falling?
As a longtime Amazon Prime member, I've come to expect my orders to arrive fairly quickly. Sometimes, though, Amazon exceeds my expectations. Not long ago, I placed an order for some first-aid supplies, expecting them to show up the next day. Roughly two hours later, my dogs started barking ...
QSR Magazine reported that Wingstop opened more restaurants than any U.S. chain in 2025, topping Chipotle, Dunkin' and others.
ServiceNow (NOW) shares slipped about 0.7% to $102.50 in midday trading July 20 after CLSA began covering the enterprise-software company with an Underperform rating and a $72 price target, implying about 30% downside from the stock’s midday price. CLSA analyst Bhavtosh Vajpayee said ServiceNow’s ...
Oracle could face more than $7bn in collateral requirements for a massive data centre in Wisconsin, after the state's power regulator tightened...
Oracle could face more than $7bn in collateral requirements for a massive data centre in Wisconsin, after the state’s power regulator tightened...
Cipher Digital climbed by 16.97 percent on Monday to end at $20.54 apiece, as investors resorted to bargain-hunting after five days of declines, while starting to position portfolios ahead of its earnings release. The rally followed Friday’s fall to a three-month low of $16.13—a level it last touched in April this year, and which investors […]
Costco shoppers are increasingly paying twice as much for membership, and the warehouse giant says it's because the extra perks now offer enough value to justify the higher price. The warehouse club's members are driven by value and data shows that the chain delivers, according to a study ...
Zions Bancorporation, N.A. (NASDAQ:ZION) reported sharply higher second-quarter 2026 earnings, helped by one-time gains, while management pointed to steady net interest margin, modest loan growth, stronger fee income and solid credit quality. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Harris Simmons said
Domino's Pizza Inc (DPZ) sees robust order growth and global expansion, despite facing competitive pressures and economic headwinds.

<body><p>STORY: Stocks started the week on a down note, with the Dow falling about six tenths of one percent, while the S&P 500 dropped two tenths and the Nasdaq ended basically flat.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Investors looked for moves toward de-escalation in the Middle East while they waited for earnings reports due from major technology companies later in the week.</p><p>Melissa Brown, managing director of investment decision research at SimCorp, says the technology firms will have to post significant earnings growth to maintain their lofty trading levels. </p><p>“Every company, whether it's Google or Tesla, obviously they have very different business models and different drivers of their business. But overall, I think to justify the high valuations that we see in a lot of those names, we would need to see good earnings growth, not just kind of your run-of-the-mill 10%, but you'd want to see higher earnings growth on top of good margins as well. So, we want the businesses to be profitable and growing.”</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Meanwhile, Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday that they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, opening a new front in the U.S.-Iran war and widening the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf. </p><p>But a senior Iranian official told Reuters that mediators have passed Iran a proposal to de-escalate the war with the U.S. that would offer a 10-day ceasefire to find ways to revive an interim deal reached last month.</p><p>Stocks on the move included Paramount Skydance which lost two percent and Warner Brothers Discovery which slipped almost four percent after a judge halted their $110 billion merger temporarily as a coalition of states argued it would irreparably harm competition.</p><p>And shares of Domino’s Pizza gained two percent after the chain’s quarterly revenue edged past Wall Street estimates.</p></body>
Bernstein has raised its price target on Robinhood Markets (Nasdaq: HOOD) to $160 from $130, keeping its Outperform rating, betting the brokerage is positioned to benefit from a broader shift in how retail investors trade. The new target rests on a thesis that broker-dealers, exchanges, prediction ...
The company beat on revenue but fell short on earnings.
Intel heads into its second quarter earnings report on July 23 carrying an unusual problem. Wedbush Securities expects the numbers to look strong. The firm is far less certain that strong will be enough to move the stock. In a note to clients, Wedbush analyst Matt Bryson said revenue and margins ...
A federal judge ordered a temporary halt to a major Hollywood merger.
MEXICO CITY, July 20 (Reuters) - Mexican restaurant and cafe chain operator Alsea cut its 2026 earnings growth forecast on Monday, citing weak consumer spending and currency headwinds, as the Mexican
Microsoft has been one of the worst large-cap tech stocks of 2026. While Nvidia kept climbing and the broader market recovered from its early-year lows, Microsoft went the other direction. The stock has shed roughly a fifth of its value this year, even as Azure kept growing and the AI business kept ...
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Apple's federal lawsuit against OpenAI looks like a trade secret dispute on the surface, but one analyst thinks it signals Apple spotted something alarming in OpenAI's hardware roadmap and moved to get ahead of it.
Brian Armstrong, the co-founder and CEO of the Coinbase Global (Nasdaq: COIN) cryptocurrency trading exchange, has been among the most aggressive industry figures to get the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passed in the U.S. Congress. But the legislation, which seeks to ...