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Samsung Electronics on Tuesday forecast a 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit ‌from a year earlier, its third consecutive quarter of record operating ‌profit, as AI-driven demand continued to boost memory chip prices. The world's largest memory chipmaker estimated ​April-June operating profit at 89.4 trillion won ($58.44 billion), beating an LSEG SmartEstimate of 87.3 trillion won, according to a regulatory filing. It reported a profit of 4.7 trillion won a year earlier.

Rivian, on Monday, announced its intent to sell 75 million shares in a public offering.

Walmart is cutting prices on thousands of items to help customers with affordability after years of inflation. The largest U.S. grocer said Monday it is lowering the price of ground beef by 12%. A 24-pack of Coca-Cola is falling by one-third to $9.97.

(Bloomberg) -- Syntiant Corp., a company making semiconductors and software for artificial intelligence, filed for an initial public offering to tap investors’ enthusiasm for the technology. Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaMicrosoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major OverhaulOil, Gas Tankers Cross Hormuz Via Oman-Side Route After U-TurnsSaudis Slash Main Oil Price to Rare Discount as Market DivesTwo Millennium Trading Po

Semiconductor and AI-linked stocks led the advance, while earnings, Treasury yields, and inflation data will test whether the rally can move beyond a narrow group of technology leaders.

Nvidia (NVDA) investors were more or less expecting another clean step forward in the AI upgrade cycle. Rubin was expected to continue pushing the roadmap ahead, customers would keep chasing capacity, and rivals would remain stuck trying to close an insurmountable lead. That confidence, though, has ...

Dow Jones Futures: AI stocks rallied, with Astera, Bloom Energy and Tesla higher. But SpaceX stock dropped ahead of Nasdaq-100 inclusion.

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK, July 6 (Reuters) - Wall Street advanced on Monday as a rebound in semiconductors put the Nasdaq on top.

Alibaba’s reported ban on Anthropic’s Claude Code looks, on the surface, like an IT decision at a company. It’s probably bigger than that. A Chinese tech giant has warned staff not to use Anthropic’s AI coding helper at work and has directed them toward its own coding platform, Qoder, Reuters ...

The acquisition would add to Vertex’s pipeline and potentially grow its annual revenue by $5 billion with the addition of Crinetics-developed drugs Palsonify and Atumelnant, the company said.

Michael Saylor made another sale. But this time, it was huge. On July 6, Saylor's Bitcoin hoarding giant Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) revealed the sale of about 3,588 BTC for $216 million between June 29 and July 5. The sale proceeds went to fund distributions on its preferred stock STRC and ...

US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, discusses the design and benefits of the Trump Accounts site and app on "Bloomberg The Close."

SK Hynix lowered its target for its huge U.S. share offering. The South Korean chip-maker now plans on raising $28 billion in a U.S. listing in the coming days. That is slightly less than originally sought, due to a recent share-price decline.

Tech stocks led the way higher, with Intel and Micron among the gainers. The advance comes ahead of a series of tests for the AI trade this week.

Investing.com -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated announced Monday it will acquire Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for $85.00 per share in cash, representing a total equity value of approximately $10.0 billion, or approximately $8.8 billion net of estimated cash acquired.

The listing will make it easier to invest in one of the world’s biggest chip companies. The sector helped the Nasdaq composite rise 1.1%.

July 6 (Reuters) - Vertex Pharmaceuticals will buy Crinetics Pharmaceuticals for a total equity value of about $10 billion, the companies said on Monday.

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The setup for iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA:EWZ) in 2026 only looks obvious in hindsight. Brazil’s central bank spent much of last year holding the Selic at 15%, one of the highest real rates in the world, and has now started cutting with a cautious 25-basis-point move. EWZ is up roughly 11% year to date ... EWZ Could Be 2026’s Sleeper Trade, If Brazil’s Rate Cuts Don’t Get Derailed

Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) is the most directly tradeable name tied to Appaloosa’s haul. Bloomberg identified Micron as one of the fund’s biggest winners alongside Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Kioxia Holdings, and Sandisk Corp., all of which Tepper rode through an AI-infrastructure spending boom that has reshaped the memory-chip landscape in 2025 and into 2026.

A retiree who starts with a 10% dividend yield can collect far more income on day one than someone earning 3.5%. Twenty years later, the tables may have turned. One income stream stayed flat while inflation chipped away at its buying power. The other kept growing year after year until it was paying dramatically more. ... Double Your Retirement Income in a Decade. Here’s How.

After its dramatic plunge, silver may be experiencing a huge disconnect between its traded value and its importance as a critical material.

Coca-Cola (KO) just gave its fans something new, but it’s not making it easy to get. The beverage giant just rolled out five new flavors, doubling down on a strategy that looks far from being a typical soda launch and more of a scarcity play. So it’s not looking to flood grocery aisles or ...

On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys at the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Two Prime Founder and CEO Alex Blume to discuss Bitcoin's range-bound price action, Strategy's accelerating Bitcoin sell-off, and why he's skeptical of the stablecoin consortium behind OpenUSD that knocked Circle lower. In a taped interview from the NYSE floor, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo breaks down the company's NYSE debut under the ticker SECZ via a SPAC deal, its more than $400 million raise, and its move to tokenize its own common stock on the Solana and Avalanche blockchains. Plus, Lumida CEO Ram Ahluwalia makes sense of the macro picture — from MicroStrategy's shift from Bitcoin's marginal buyer to marginal seller and the bull case for Hyperliquid, to why he sees non-farm payrolls as "noise" under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. - Learn more at https://www.bullish.com/. - Register now for CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event on September 22, 2026: https://policy-regulation.coindesk.com/. - To get market moving news delivered daily, download CoinDesk’s mobile app: https://linktr.ee/coindeskapp.

Bitcoin-hoarding company Strategy created a bespoke metric called mNAV to track the preimium investors gave the company over the value of its bitcoin holdings. Read more here on the recent problem coming to a head with that metric.

Building a nationwide wireless network takes billions of dollars and years of patient investment. That reality has meant that the U.S. wireless market has been dominated by three players for more than a decade, no matter how many challengers have tried to break in. Dish Network was the latest ...

Elon Musk‘s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. guided 260 Starlink satellites to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere between Dec. 1, 2025, and May 31, 2026, according to a semiannual compliance report filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). SpaceX Retires Satellites...

(Updates gold price in the second paragraph.) Gold rose for a third session early on Monday, clim

The Paramount Skydance deal faces more regulatory attention.