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Disney's parks saw a return to growth after a slump in Q2.

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Disney's revenue rose 7% to $25.2 billion in the third fiscal quarter. An increase in theme park revenue and the huge box office performance of “Toy Story 5” drove the result. Disney shares jumped premarket.

Walt Disney Co. reported a 6% bump in revenue and 21% boost in segment operating income during its fiscal third quarter earnings call on Wednesday.

The most-talked-about stocks in the Reddit subforum Wallstreetbets were mixed hours before Wednesday

BlackRock will execute a 1-for-3 reverse split for its spot Ethereum ETF on October 6, with no change to investor ownership or fund value.

History suggests Robinhood's main growth drivers might not be sustainable.

FEATURE Stock futures were rising on Wednesday, putting both the and the on track to notch record highs. SpaceX slumped 11% in premarket trading after the rockets, telecom, and AI company beat analysts’ second-quarter earnings target but reported higher capital expenditure than Wall Street was expecting.

Kenya's Nairobi Securities Exchange is creating East Africa's first AI stocks-focused exchange-traded fund, which it plans to offer to investors before year-end, its CEO said. The Nairobi market attracts a sizeable ‌proportion of foreign equity investors given its profitable banking sector and telecoms operator Safaricom, but it does not currently ‌offer exposure to AI stocks. "We want essentially to be able to bring a product to our market where the underlying basket is a reflection of companies that ​have a direct exposure to AI," Frank Mwiti told Reuters.

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The new product, Stablecard by Western Union, combines a digital wallet with a USDPT-backed Visa secured credit card.

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The company's 2018 decision to stop reporting unit sales in 2019 means investors aren't seeing the full bullish story. Fortunately, IDC is still keeping score.

McDonald’s appeared to miss the mark on its U.S. value proposition. The fast-food giant’s domestic same-store sales rose just 0.8 percent in Q2, missing internal expectations after a solid start to 2026. Comps were slightly negative in April as McDonald’s lapped its successful Minecraft promotion, and U.S. comps slipped into negative territory again in July. […]

Tesla's wild 2026 swings have been brutal enough for ordinary shareholders, but a $5 billion leveraged fund is engineered to feel every move at twice the intensity, and the math of how it actually works exposes a trap most traders never see coming.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise stock has delivered very strong returns over the past few years, yet the valuation checks now point in different directions, with the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) intrinsic value estimate suggesting the shares trade below fair value while earnings based multiples lean the other way. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has returned 307.1% over the past 5 years, which puts extra focus on whether the current price still offers a margin of safety. Expectations around the...

The latest research on Rightmove centres on a revised price target that has moved from 404 GBp to 429 GBp. Analysts link this change to updated assumptions and a split view on execution and growth, which helps explain why JPMorgan maintains an Underweight rating, while Goldman Sachs initiates at 516 GBp with a Neutral stance. As you read on, you will see how these shifting targets fit into the wider Rightmove story and how to keep track of the evolving narrative. Analyst Price Targets don't...

Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY) has partnered with Atoms to develop vertiport sites in the U.S. for electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, operations. The collaboration targets key markets that are part of the White House backed eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. The agreement focuses on turning selected locations into next generation transportation hubs to support future urban air mobility services. Joby Aviation is working to bring eVTOL air taxi services to market, and this new...

Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) shares dropped 9. 0% in pre-market trading after the social media platform released quarterly results that exceeded expectations but issued forward guidance that failed to meet investors’ hopes.

Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) reported record second quarter results, lifting both third quarter and full year 2026 guidance. The update highlighted strong demand across Connected Frontline and Asset Visibility & Automation, as well as contributions from recent acquisitions. See our latest analysis for Zebra Technologies. The earnings beat and higher guidance have shifted sentiment sharply, with Zebra Technologies’ share price up 61.33% over the past 90 days and a 19.63% total shareholder return...

Citadel’s purchase of the bulk of the stock portfolio of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness helped propel its performance last month. Citadel’s flagship Wellington fund, a more diversified vehicle that includes wagers on and against shares alongside credit, commodity, macro and quant positions, gained about 6% in July, while Citadel’s tactical-trading fund gained about 11%, the person said. Citadel snapped up the AI stocks from Situational on July 30, at a discount of greater than 10%, as the San Francisco-based firm was scrambling to raise cash to meet margin calls following a brutal tech selloff, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

In recent days, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station announced it selected Dell Technologies to design and build IGNITE, a new AI and high‑performance computing platform that will use Dell PowerRack systems with liquid‑cooled PowerEdge servers and AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, deployed at an Equinix data center in Dallas. At the same time, Dell’s role as a core technology partner in large AI infrastructure builds like IGNITE and Volta Infra Holdings’ Nvidia‑backed cloud platform highlights...

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Transport for London granted private-hire vehicle licenses to a number of Wayve’s autonomous vehicles, which will operate with a private-hire driver behind the wheel to take control when necessary.

Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) reported second-quarter revenue of $16.6 billion, up 5% from a year earlier, driven by oncology, animal health and contributions from newer product launches. Revenue increased 4% excluding foreign exchange, according to Chief Financial Officer Caroline Litchfield. T

Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) reported second-quarter 2026 adjusted EBITDA of $8.5 billion and earnings per share of $17.73, as strong refining margins, high utilization and crude sourcing optimization lifted results across its operations. Cash flow from operations, excluding working-capital change

McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) reported second-quarter global comparable sales growth of 1.3% and systemwide sales growth of 4% in constant currency, as positive results across all operating segments were tempered by weaker-than-expected execution in the U.S. business. Adjusted earnings per share were $3.38

When Meta announced a $50 billion data center in a Louisiana parish of 20,000 people, some landowners became overnight millionaires. For retirees living on Social Security and a monthly lease, the same project set off a very different kind of countdown.

U.S. stock markets closed sharply higher on Tuesday buoyed by a gradual decline in crude oil prices.