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Salesforce (CRM) rarely draws a downgrade from two research firms at once. This week it did. On Thursday, July 9, KeyBanc Capital Markets and Bernstein downgraded Salesforce to a Hold. The stock fell roughly 3% to 4% at its low before steadying the next day. However, what matters beyond the price ...

SpaceX went public in June in what was the largest IPO of all time. Famed British investor Jeremy Grantham sees massive AI opportunities for the company and an IPO that everyone will still be talking about 50 years from now....

Investors are still waiting for the Paramount (PSKY)–Warner Bros. (WBD) merger to finalize. Morgan Stanley head of media & entertainment and cable & telecom equity research, Sean Diffley, chats with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi about AI's impact on the creative process, his outlook for streaming, and more.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) bulls were expecting Wall Street to continue rewarding the stock following a momentous run spearheaded by AI demand, data-center expansion, and renewed confidence in the chipmaker's roadmap. For perspective, according to Seeking Alpha, AMD has dramatically outperformed ...

The artificial intelligence trade is not falling apart. Demand is growing. After a spectacular first-half advance in chip and memory stocks, investors are starting to distinguish companies that gain from AI investing from those that can develop without bearing the brunt of the spending. That's why ...

Qualcomm’s push into artificial intelligence data centers has convinced Goldman Sachs to raise its price target by nearly a quarter. The bank kept its rating at Neutral anyway, a sign that even a bullish estimate revision isn’t the same as a buy call. Shares have already sailed past Goldman’s new ...

Robinhood Markets and a pair of resurgent AI infrastructure plays, Dell Technologies and Cisco Systems, lead this weekend's watchlist of five stocks near buy points. Joining HOOD and AI stocks DELL and CSCO are two IRL (in real life) stocks. Outfront Media, a real estate investment trust, focuses on billboard and transit advertising, while Match Group operates Tinder and other dating sites.

Levi Strauss has spent more than 150 years convincing consumers that jeans belong in almost every wardrobe. Now, its next growth challenge is getting those shoppers to buy much more than denim bottoms. The company is expanding into shirts, sweaters, dresses, shorts, and other lifestyle products ...

For decades, China has primarily been relied upon by global automakers as a manufacturing base and thriving sales market. Now, that relationship is changing rapidly, as some of the world’s largest automakers shift vehicle research and development to the East Asian nation. Volkswagen (VLKAF), Audi, ...

About 8,750 Microsoft employees recently had roughly 30 days to decide whether their savings could support walking away from their careers for good. The company's first-ever Voluntary Retirement Program offered eligible workers cash severance, years of healthcare coverage, and continued stock ...

T-Mobile is restricting access to two wireless promotions following several recent changes affecting customer savings. Last week, T-Mobile warned customers that it is retiring multiple older phone plans, including Magenta, Simple Choice, and ONE, over the next few weeks. The change will move ...

Robinhood Markets (Nasdaq: HOOD) is a brokerage platform whose commission-free offering of equities, cryptocurrencies, and tokenized stocks has made it extremely popular among young retail traders. On July 1, Robinhood launched its blockchain, Robinhood Chain, to offer real-world assets ...

If you've ever shopped at Dollar Tree before, you know that it can sometimes be a frustrating experience. It's sort of similar to Costco. You walk in expecting your favorite stuff to be sitting there on the shelf, only to realize it's been replaced with different products. But whereas ...

Few examples better capture the resurgence of big banks than Jamie Dimon's special retention award, which has climbed in value from roughly $53 million five years ago to $280 million today.

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Wells Fargo & Company will release earnings for its second quarter before the opening bell on Tuesday, July 14. Analysts expect the bank to report quarterly earnings of $1.71 per share. That’s up from $1.60 per share in the year-ago...

Costco (NASDAQ:COST)’s food court hot dog and soda combo has been $1.50 for decades. Company management has again recently emphasized that price is not going anywhere. It has become a cultural touchstone: the one number that inflation cannot seem to touch. There is another frozen number from roughly the same era that most retirees have ... Costco Has Held Its Hot Dog at $1.50 for Decades. Social Security Tax Thresholds Frozen Since 1984 Haven’t Been So Kind to Retirees.

(Bloomberg) -- The aviation industry has seen plenty of deals activity in recent years, but the battle between two US funds for EasyJet Plc stands out because the volatile, low-margin airlines business rarely draws financial suitors.Most Read from BloombergGates Heir’s Shopping App Claimed Sales It Didn’t DriveApple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft in Pivotal CasePrabowo’s Clampdown on Indonesian Tycoons Fuels Capital FlightRyanair Passenger Partly Sucked From Jet After Window BreaksMicrosoft’

Payrolls badly missed the 115,000 economists expected, and the unemployment rate's dip to 4.2% masked a shrinking labor force. Now it's Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's problem.

From defending Rivian to explaining why Detroit is no longer the center of the car universe, Dan Neil responds to his readers’ feedback

Alex Karp —describing himself as a “madman”—has brought the simmering tension between fast-rising AI giants and established tech players to a boil. In both nuanced and dramatic fashion, the Palantir Technologies chief executive is drawing attention to concerns over the power and insight AI labs derive from their business customers’ data and decision-making—the magic sauce behind what makes a company successful. This past week, Palantir released a dense white paper—entitled: “Institutional Sovereignty in the Age of AI”—that laid out 15 steps companies and governments could take to protect themselves from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.

SpaceX insiders have not yet begun to sell -- but they're going to soon, and repeatedly.

After SpaceX’s record IPO, investors are starting to eye new sectors.

Chinese regulators have summoned JD.com over alleged false advertising during the recent 618 shopping festival. The scrutiny centers on how promotional offers and discounts were presented during one of China's key mid year sales events. Law firm Pomerantz LLP has launched a securities fraud investigation linked to this regulatory action on behalf of JD.com investors. JD.com, listed on the NasdaqGS under the ticker NasdaqGS:JD, now sits in the spotlight as regulators and investors assess the...

Here's what a record-breaking share sale says about demand for the chips powering AI.

In a classic “Friday news dump,” Apple filed a federal lawsuit in California against OpenAI, accusing its once-partner of stealing some of its trade secrets. Specifically, it’s alleging that two of its former employees brought proprietary and confidential information about its hardware to OpenAI when they joined. The lawsuit calls to mind Waymo’s trade secret theft lawsuit against Uber, filed in 2017. Similarly, a well-established tech giant publicly accused a fast-ascending private company, loc

Costco is different from other retailers in that it doesn't just rely on markups to generate revenue. Costco's membership fees are a goldmine. During Costco's third-quarter 2026 earnings call, the company reported $1.37 billion in membership fee income, up 10.7% year over year. The company ...

The chip maker’s business is improving, with government twisting the arms of potential customers and partners including Apple and Nvidia

Investing.com -- Investors are reassessing artificial intelligence investments as surging infrastructure spending could weigh on earnings growth and valuation multiples, even as demand for AI services remains robust, according to ING.

The lawsuit alleges that two former Apple employees now working at OpenAI stole confidential data including information about unreleased hardware products and technical specifications.