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Kraft Heinz (KHC) walked away from a planned corporate breakup in February and redirected that energy into a $600 million investment in its own brands. That decision rests on one specific assumption: that the worst of commodity inflation was already behind the company. Data published this week by ...
Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) says it has landed a new Guinness World Record. On July 1, the company posted on X that it set the record for the most items purchased by an artificial intelligence agent in three minutes. The announcement was made amid their ongoing "Robinhood Presents: The ...
The U.S. Treasury has selected two low-cost BlackRock iShares exchange-traded funds as foundational investment options for the upcoming federal "Trump Accounts" initiative to build childhood wealth.
The SpaceX founder and CEO won't be selling his shares any time soon.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks finished flat to slightly lower on Wednesday, with the Dow little changed, the S&P 500 down more than two-tenths of a percent and the Nasdaq sliding two-thirds of a percent.</p><p>Speaking at a European Central Bank panel in Portugal, U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said he will stick firmly to the central bank's 2% inflation target and "disappoint" anyone who expects loose monetary policy despite President Donald Trump's call for interest rate cuts.</p><p>But Brad Bernstein, managing director at UBS Private Wealth Management, doesn't think the Fed will hike rates this year either.</p><p>"One of the three reasons we think markets will be higher at the end of the year is because the Fed is not going to raise interest rates this year. // We think more likely they'll resume Fed cuts in the spring of next year. And today, Fed Chair Walsh said in Portugal that he has seen in the last four weeks expectations, inflation expectations continuing to get better because of the drop most likely he - didn't cite this - but most likely because oil has gone from 90 [dollars a barrel] to 70 and now under 70 today."</p><p>Among Wednesday's stock moves, technology shares fell, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down more than 6%.</p><p>One tech outlier was Meta Platforms after Bloomberg News reported that it is building a cloud business to sell excess AI computing capacity.</p><p>Among the day's decliners, shares of Alcoa fell about 9% after Australia's South32 agreed to sell most of its aluminum assets to Alcoa.</p><p>The key monthly U.S. jobs report is due out on Thursday, while the market will be closed Friday ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.</p></body>
US stock futures slipped as investors braced for Thursday's release of the June jobs report.
US stock futures slipped as investors braced for Thursday’s release of the June jobs report.
The stock market just wrapped up one of its strongest first halves in years. In the first six months of 2026, the Dow was up 8.9%, marking its best first half since 2021. The S&P 500 gained 9.6%, and the Nasdaq added 12.8%, while the Russell 2000 soared nearly 22% for its best first-half ...
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(Bloomberg) -- Cboe Global Markets Inc. is seeking US regulatory approval to list all-or-nothing options tied to corporate earnings results, allowing traders to wager on figures ranging from SpaceX revenue and Nvidia data-center sales to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s credit-loss provisions.Most Read from BloombergMeta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing PowerKrafton Agrees to Pay ‘Subnautica 2’ Bonuses as Developer’s CEO ResignsUS Decides Against Renewing USMCA, Shifting to Rolling TalksS
Alcoa has been reluctant to expand aluminum smelting in the U.S., despite recent sky-high prices for the metal. But the Pittsburgh-based company is taking a big swing at making more aluminum overseas by acquiring one of the world’s largest smelters in South Africa.
By Anirban Sen NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuters) - Bridgewater Associates' flagship Pure Alpha macro fund posted a gain of 8.1% after braving a volatile market backdrop during the first half of the year,
Sticky inflation just showed up in a place we’d rather not put in a spreadsheet. That inflation setup fits Bank of America’s latest report shared with me, which shows the pressure building in categories couples actually buy into. The note shows consumers are still spending a ton on ...
SpaceX’s stock slide may be a reason why the ChatGPT and Claude owners should go public before the IPO window shuts.
Patrick Moebel, who spent years running FedEx Logistics and Geodis’s North American business, was named CEO of Ceva Logistics on Wednesday. The post CMA CGM hires FedEx executive Moebel to lead Ceva Logistics appeared first on FreightWaves.
Stocks fell as Meta buzz hit SpaceX, Micron and many AI stocks. Tesla is near a buy point with deliveries due. The June jobs report also is on tap.
July 1 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Colorado from capping the price of Amgen's blockbuster arthritis drug Enbrel, a first-of-its-kind move by a U. In granting a preliminary injunction, Chief Judge Daniel Domenico of the Denver federal court said Amgen would likely face significant and irreparable harm from charging lower prices, adding that it could affect the drugmaker's negotiations for future contracts with wholesalers and distributors.
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U.S. stocks ended modestly lower after investors parsed comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh for clues about the path of interest rates.
US equity indexes fell Wednesday as the technology sector paced declines and traders assessed Federa
Michael Burry, famous for his prescient bets against the housing bubble, unveiled bearish positions on Tesla Caterpillar semiconductor manufacturer Applied Materials and an ETF tracking chip makers. Burry said that plans by two of South Korea’s largest tech companies to build a chip hub set off fresh alarm bells about whether the massive sums of money being poured into AI can ever pay off. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, which is tracked by the ETF that Burry is betting against, fell 6.3%.
The Chinese tech giant Alibaba will pay $600 million to resolve a dispute with the U.S. government over allegations that the Hangzhou-based firm sold and imported illegal pharmaceuticals, controlled substances, regulated chemicals, and pill-making equipment into the U.S. Alibaba operates some of the world's largest e-commerce platforms, including Alibaba.com and AliExpress.com. The U.S. alleges that Alibaba’s U.S.-based payment processor, AUS Merchant Services, violated federal law by failing to prevent merchants from selling and importing illegal products into the U.S. through Alibaba.com and AliExpress.com.
Investing.com - Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) shares are trading up 3.8% at $74.14 on Wednesday, rebounding from near their 52-week low after The Wall Street Journal walked back speculation that the streaming giant was lining up a bid for NBCUniversal following Comcast Corp's (NASDAQ:CMCSA) announced spinoff.
The concerns for Wells Fargo starts with its failure to reach elite returns on equity—analysts see 15.3% this year versus a range of 17% to over 22% for Morgan Stanley JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Wells has seen falling net interest margins (the percent of the interest it earned on longer-term assets after subtracting the cost of interest-bearing accounts). Given that net interest margins are expected to drop 24 basis points year over year, net interest income growth would result from higher volumes.
Kroger said it would acquire privately held Giant Eagle for $1.65 billion. Kroger’s potential merger with Albertsons was blocked by a federal judge halted the deal in late 2024.
The payment resolves allegations that Alibaba Group and AUS Merchant Services allowed merchants to sell and import illegal pharmaceuticals and other restricted items into the U.S.
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