Barclays has increased its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 7,800 from 7,650 and introduced a 2027 target of 8,800, reflecting a more optimistic earnings outlook even as investors face a more challenging market environment in the months ahead. The bank said the outlook for equities remains mixed, with several competing forces influencing sentiment.
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The new Fed chair signaled a major policy shift, and not everyone was happy.

Oil prices are tumbling now that the Strait of Hormuz is open, potentially averting a continued rise that could have led to broader, more persistent inflation. But as energy prices plunge, the Federal Reserve may have a new inflation hurdle: artificial intelligence.
This year's IPOs are bringing big AI energy. Here's what to watch next in the market for new listings.
The market wasn't happy with the new Fed chair's fighting words.
Some Amazon customers eligible for money from a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission have just a little longer to submit a claim.
Dividend investors love clean numbers. A $1 million portfolio yielding 5% generates $50,000 a year, and it is tempting to treat that figure as spendable income. In reality, federal taxes, state taxes, Medicare premiums, and inflation all take their share before those dollars reach your checking account. Consider three retirees. Retiree A owns a $750,000 ... How Much Of Your Dividend Income Do You Actually Get To Keep?
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son, after all, isn’t exactly a shrinking violet when it comes to wild ideas. Rather, what was on display this past week was the difference in tactics for achieving what are really similar visions for the sci-fi future.
(Bloomberg) -- The Mansion House dinner each summer is normally a chance for the City of London to hear what’s on the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s mind. Except this year, nobody’s sure who the chancellor will be. Most Read from BloombergLutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll RevenueIndonesia Opens Door to Dirty Money to Fund Prabowo’s PlansOman Tells Allies Ships Going Through Hormuz May Have to PayApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsUS Strikes Iran in
Investing.com -- Bernstein said Google Cloud has emerged as the leading AI cloud platform after a strong first quarter, with accelerating cloud growth and rising profitability helping it pull ahead of rivals in incremental cloud revenue despite continued heavy spending on AI infrastructure.
Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities has a specific name for what is happening to tech stocks right now. In a note published June 26, he called it a "Twilight Zone market," Seeking Alpha reported, and the phrase is more specific than it sounds. Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), and ...
Investing.com -- S&P Global Ratings affirmed the U.S.’s long-term sovereign credit rating at AA+ with a stable outlook, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing the country’s resilient economy and expectations that fiscal deficits will remain elevated but stable.
Amazon’s Prime Day is off to a solid start, but the main news may not be how much shoppers are shelling out. It may be what they’re buying. U.S. online spending on the first day of Amazon’s four-day Prime Day event jumped 5.3% to $8.3 billion across merchants from a year ago, Adobe Analytics said. ...
Every boom eventually forces the same question, and it is rarely the one investors ask first. Not who is growing fastest, or who has the biggest name, but who actually keeps the money. For three years, the answer in artificial intelligence (AI) has been obvious. Nvidia (NVDA) designed the chips, ...
Bankers Investment Trust PLC (LSE:BNKR) outperforms the FTSE World Index with a 6.5% share price total return, despite market challenges and leadership transition.
The midsize EV pairs next-generation engineering with the shape and capability the sport utility category has long promised
Every industry runs on a comfortable order, right up until someone from outside decides the rules do not apply to them. In US wireless, that order has held for a long time. Three companies, Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T) and T-Mobile (TMUS), control almost every phone in your pocket. They build the ...
Tech stocks had another subpar day, as worries about AI spending—and its inflationary impact on consumers—mount.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday contrasted President Donald Trump‘s growing personal fortune with the financial strain facing American workers, saying his net worth rose by $1.4 billion over the past year even as inflation continued to outpace wage growth....
Founded in 2013, Robinhood Markets (Nasdaq: HOOD) is a Menlo Park, California-based e-trading exchange that is best-known for its stock, cryptocurrency, and tokenized stock offerings. The brokerage platform has become very popular among retail traders due to its commission-free offerings ...
An annual report finds donations to nonprofits rose by 3% in inflation-adjusted dollars to $617.2 billion in 2025
Business development company (BDC) portfolios have likely taken a hit this year, with sector pressures showing few signs of easing. High-profile collapses, including Wheel Pros' bankruptcy and the unwinding of United Site Services, have exposed embedded losses across the private credit ...
GameStop pledged on Friday to pursue its proposed takeover of eBay, even after the e-commerce firm rejected an unsolicited cash-and-stock offer of about $56 billion from the videogame retailer. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen had surprised Wall Street with the offer to buy eBay in May to turn it into a bigger competitor to Amazon. GameStop also expects to generate adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of more than $600 million in fiscal 2026, compared with $345.4 million reported in fiscal 2025, it said in a regulatory filing.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has urged his lieutenants to explore partnerships with the popular prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi as his company builds a similar app, the New York Times said on Friday, citing three employees with knowledge of the matter. Meta and Kalshi did not immediately respond to requests for comment, while Polymarket declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. The social media company's executives have said Arena, Meta's new prediction market app under development, will differ from Polymarket and Kalshi, which accept real-money wagers, because it will instead rely on video-game-like "points", the report said.
The revisions trend for full-year 2026 is even more positive than for Q2, with estimates for 11 of the 16 Zacks sectors going up since the start of March.
The revisions trend for full-year 2026 is even more positive than for Q2, with estimates for 11 of the 16 Zacks sectors going up since the start of March.
SpaceX has plenty of fans ready to fund its dreams.