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Joby Aviation is buying defense contractor Resonant Sciences in a $500 million deal.

Argus Research upgrades Sandisk stock to Buy. Here’s why analyst Jim Kelleher sees significant further upside in SNDK shares.
Gold, space, defense and silver-mining ETFs soared last week as weak jobs data eased Fed rate-hike fears and boosted risk appetite.

Laffer Tengler Investments CEO and CIO Nancy Tengler shares her thoughts on Palantir (PLTR) stock and why it's a buy.
The GPU giant's stock price has soared since its last split.

Scott Melker explains how Mastercard (MA) is boosting stablecoin infrastructure. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto. Make sure to also check out Yahoo Finance's new crypto hub to find the latest crypto-related news.
Ahead of the bell The Nasdaq is expected to lead a tentative recovery on Wall Street when trading gets underway, with investors on edge ahead of the release of July CPI data tomorrow. Nasdaq futures point to a 0.3% gain, S&P 500 futures are up 0.2%, and Dow futures are 0.1% higher. The...

Despite its recent weakness, McDonald’s still has some support on Wall Street, with analysts maintaining a generally positive view of the stock’s longer-term prospects.
Users in the UK will be able to trade more than 50 cryptocurrencies on the platform.
Investing.com -- Barclays shook up its ratings across several U.S. apparel retailers on Monday, downgrading Under Armour and Gap while upgrading Abercrombie & Fitch, as the bank recalibrated its views on brand momentum, promotional activity and tariff exposure heading into the back half of the year.
The Economics of Scale Starting at the end of July 2026, Cisco is deploying personalized AI agents to its entire 90,000-person workforce. This is not a pilot program; it is a standardized infrastructure shift intended to change how the company produces work. To manage the massive volume of requests from 90,000 users, Chief Product Officer […]
Larry Fink, the man who helped turn the home mortgage into a global financial product, has a new obsession. He recently compared the latest Nvidia-led consortium to the birth of mortgage-backed securities in the 1970s. It is a comparison that should make any investor sit up straight, not because it promises a golden age of […]
Some names to play for 'chipflation'.
Apple just posted its strongest June quarter ever, yet the stock sits 7% lower and traders put even odds on it closing August above $310. Here is why that tension could matter more than the headline numbers.
For the first time since Ronald Reagan was in his first term, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has collapsed below a threshold that one analyst says renders it effectively gone, and the infrastructure meant to refill it may be too broken to matter.
Insider reduced equity holdings by 25% through indirect trust structure under pre-established Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted five months prior.
NuScale is still too speculative for me.
The chipmaker priced 210 million shares at $95 each, up from a $15 billion offering announced the day before

Despite trailing the broader market over the past year, News Corp continues to command strong Wall Street conviction, with analysts largely bullish on the stock’s growth prospects.
Investing.com -- Goldman Sachs said the surge in artificial intelligence spending may be crowding out other business activity, though it found only limited evidence of that effect so far.
Venture Global (VG) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +4.08% and +1.65%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
The chipmaker signed MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to treat AI compute as a financeable asset class
Micron stock has stuttered in recent weeks but Mizuho's Vijay Rakesh is confident it will only be a blip.
Cardinal Health reports mixed quarterly performance across its business segments as earnings get a lift from one-time tariff refunds.
The 20-year lease covers 191 megawatts of computing capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas, campus and runs through June 2048
ABB has announced a strategic partnership and minority investment in LevelTen Energy, the largest clean energy marketplace worldwide. This partnership aims to enhance ABB's ability to support industrial and commercial customers in securing long-term, affordable clean energy, which is crucial to advancing the energy transition amid a complex grid environment. By integrating LevelTen's market-leading transaction platform with ABB’s expertise in electrification and energy management, the...
Plug Power is moving in the right direction, but profitability could still be challenging.
Jensen Huang just recruited six of the most powerful names in finance to solve the one problem threatening to put a ceiling on AI growth, and Nvidia is not spending a single dollar of its own money to do it.