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Investing.com -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) shares are trading higher premarket on Friday after the company reported its latest quarterly earnings, topping consensus expectations.
South Korean memory-chip maker SK Hynix is poised to make its U.S. trading debut on Friday. The company will trade through American depositary receipts under the Nasdaq ticker SKHY. Late Thursday, SK Hynix sold 177.
Investing.com -- Netflix is exploring live TV channels and streaming bundles as internal discussions about declining subscriber engagement have become a recurring focus for senior management, according to the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
LONDON, July 10 () - Britain has designated cloud service providers Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as critical third-party suppliers to its financial sector, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight. The move is aimed at strengthening the resilience of financial firms by reducing the risk of widespread disruption from cyber attacks or technology outages.
When South Korean billionaire Chey Tae-won attends a bell-ringing ceremony on Friday for SK Hynix's $26.5 billion Nasdaq listing, it will mark the ultimate payoff of a bet many once considered risky: buying a loss-making chipmaker that has since become an AI powerhouse. SK Group's 2012 acquisition of Hynix was viewed as problematic even within the business conglomerate: Memory chips are cyclical and capital-intensive, and the company was losing money while trailing Samsung Electronics in market share and technology. But under Chey, seeking an edge over Samsung, SK Hynix has spent more than a decade betting on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, at the time a niche technology.
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Circle said on Friday it has received a final regulatory approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank, sending the stablecoin giant's shares surging 10% in premarket trading. • The charter allows Circle to act as custodian for its own reserves and hold crypto assets on behalf of institutional clients. • "OCC approval to establish Circle National Trust marks a defining step in bringing blockchain technology and digital assets into the core of the U.S. financial system," Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said in a statement.
Investing.com -- The European Union issued preliminary findings on Friday accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of using addictive design features and disregarding risks to children on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.
It appears that the president did very well in his trades.
Circle Internet Group received approval from the U.S. government to establish a national trust bank, a regulatory milestone that sets up the launch of a cryptocurrency-focused bank.

<body><p>STORY: From a massive SK Hynix IPO to Samsung's giant profits...</p><p>This is the week in numbers.</p><p>:: $26.5 billion</p><p>$26.5 billion is how much chipmaker SK Hynix raised in a Wall Street listing on Thursday.</p><p>That was according to a U.S. regulatory filing.</p><p>A source said demand for the U.S. shares sale was more than seven times oversubscribed.</p><p>The South Korean firm is the world's leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips - critical features in advanced processors powering AI systems.</p><p>George Godber is a UK Fund Manager with Polar Capital: </p><p>"The chip plays have been the absolute epicenter of the AI capex spend. There's a lot of attention there. There's an awful lot of demand. There's a lot of retail interest. But it is volatile." </p><p>:: $7.7 billion</p><p>$7.7 billion is how much Apollo Global Management bid for easyJet.</p><p>The U.S. investment firm outbid a rival offer from Castlelake for the British budget airline.</p><p>EasyJet said it would support Apollo's proposal and withdrew support for Castlelake just days after agreeing in principle to a deal.</p><p>The updates sent the carrier's shares soaring during the week.</p><p>:: 46%</p><p>Close to 46% is how much Fast Retailing's profit rose during the previous quarter.</p><p>The Japanese owner of clothing brand Uniqlo said operating profit hit $1.32 billion in the three months through May.</p><p>It managed this while dealing with the Iran war's impact on supply chains and logistics.</p><p>It also put the firm on its way to an expected fifth straight year of record earnings.</p><p>:: 12</p><p>Up to 12 is how many submarines Canada could want Germany's TKMS to build for them.</p><p>TKMS beat out a competing offer from South Korea's Hanwha Ocean.</p><p>Canadian prime minister Mark Carney said Ottawa will now enter talks with the German company.</p><p>"TKMS is the best choice for Canadian workers. It will directly create and sustain an ecosystem of well over 100,000 well-paying jobs across Canada."</p><p>:: $58 billion</p><p>And $58 billion is how much operating profit Samsung flagged for the second quarter. </p><p>The South Korean tech giant expects a 19-fold leap in profits over the quarter from a year earlier, with revenue expected to soar 129%.</p><p>It comes as the global AI boom drives soaring demand for chips, sending prices for silicon sky-high.</p><p>That’s a boost for Samsung, which is the world’s largest maker of memory chips.</p></body>
Aptiv is expected to announce its second-quarter earnings in August, and Wall Street forecasts a double-digit decline in its profits.
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By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - An eventful coming week of economic data, corporate earnings reports and Middle East developments will test a resilient U.S. stock market that has
SK Hynix is bringing its ADR to the U.S. market with a reputation as the more explosive memory chip play, but whether its debut pricing leaves any room for gains is the question every investor needs to answer before the opening bell rings.
(Bloomberg) -- Currency traders are starting to buy protection against bigger exchange-rate swings after months of calm, as banks warn that shifting Federal Reserve expectations and elevated geopolitical tensions could be about to jolt markets.Most Read from BloombergMicrosoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video GameNvidia’s $1 Trillion Slide Sends Valuation to Pre-AI Boom LevelsZuckerberg Pledges ‘Aggressive’ Pricing With Meta’s First Pay-to-Use AITrump Vents Anger With Iran
The bloc’s regulator said the tech giant may be in breach of its digital rules, opening the door to heavy fines.
Three days after announcing the gaming industry's biggest layoff of 2026, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma accepted a new role shaping how the Federal Reserve thinks about AI and jobs for the next decade.
(Updates with the stock move and analyst comments in the last four paragraphs.) PepsiCo (PEP) rep
The M&S storefront on Amazon.nl will stock over 1,000 items across women's, men's and children's clothing.
Airlines and the hyperscalers have one thing in common: They are desperate for turbines to power their jets and data centers. At the heart of this surging demand are a few companies that manufacture the highly specialized parts. Western production of these turbine blades and vanes is concentrated in four companies, according to a report from SemiAnalysis.
Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya Technology said on Friday it plans capital spending of more than T$200 billion ($6.2 billion) next year, roughly four times this year's figure, amid soaring demand for memory chips as it rides an AI boom. President Pei-Ing Lee told an online press briefing that the preliminary expenditure plan aims to help ramp up spending on a new plant, although the budget has yet to receive board approval. Lee was speaking after Nanya reported unaudited second-quarter revenue of T$82.55 billion, up 684% from a year earlier.
PEP's international growth contrasts with a North America reset as affordability, marketing and tariff refunds shape its 2026 outlook.
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Nasdaq futures were lower and European technology stocks slipped in early trade, as investors looked cautiously ahead of SK Hynix’s New York listing later Friday.
The settlement could be the end of a long legal saga for Omnicare, which filed for bankruptcy last year after a judge ordered the company to pay nearly $950 million for fraudulently billing government health programs.