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U. S. financial markets will remain closed on Friday for the Independence Day holiday, but futures pointed to a stronger Wall Street open when trading resumes.

BNP Paribas has been one of the few Wall Street firms that is bearish on EV industry leader Tesla. Late last year, the firm initiated coverage with an underperform rating and a $280 price target. BNPP cited unrealistic goals and a bloated valuation as the reasons for the bearish outlook on the ...

An AI spending blitz is demolishing new Fed chair Kevin Warsh's argument for interest rate cuts with more price increases about to ripple through the economy

Shares of European semiconductor companies were following their Asian peers in green territory, a day after investors shunned stocks linked to artificial intelligence.

Intuitive Surgical is approaching a pivotal earnings update as strong forecasts square off against a stock that has lost its footing.

Global stocks rose and the dollar weakened as a risk-on turn prompted by Thursday’s cool jobs data continued to ripple through markets.

In crypto news today (July 3), Bitcoin has surged back above $60,000, up +2.7% over the past 24 hours as the market continues to show signs of life. Daily liquidations dropped slightly from yesterday, down from $448M to $413M, with shorts still making up the bulk of that figure at ...

By Johann M Cherian July 3 (Reuters) - Europe's benchmark STOXX 600 hovered near a record high on Friday and was set for its biggest weekly gain in over a month, underpinned by gains in cyclical

The 2026 Top 100 Retailers ranking from the National Retail Federation confirms that Walmart and Amazon remain the two leading forces in US retail by sales.

By Aditya Kalra, Arpan Chaturvedi and Munsif Vengattil NEW DELHI, July 3 (Reuters) - The world's biggest internet domain seller, GoDaddy, has warned that India's crackdown on fake websites

The judgment concludes a legal dispute that began after the European Commission fined Google in 2018 for abusing market dominance.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code at work after the tool drew scrutiny for features that can ‌help identify China-linked users, according to a person familiar with the order. The ban is part ‌of a deepening spat between the two companies after Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities — a dispute ​that highlights the frantic race between the U.S. and China to take the lead in artificial intelligence. Claude Code is Anthropic's AI coding assistant for software developers.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked changes to a world-first social media ban for children, saying tech giants would use the delay to destroy incriminating documents that could be used as evidence against them. The government this week introduced to Parliament amendments aimed at increasing powers of the eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s online safety watchdog, to enforce the ban on Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube that has been in place since December. The amendments would have given Inman Grant power to demand documents as well as information from platforms about their efforts to exclude young children.

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Shares rallied in Asia on Friday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average set another record, as some key AI related stocks rose while others extended losses. U.S. futures were moderately higher and oil prices also rose. Samsung Electronics, the country's biggest company and a major maker of computer chips, gained 7%.

Cincinnati Financial will release its second-quarter earnings later this month, and analysts anticipate its EPS to dip by a low double-digit percentage from a year ago.

Central banks are increasingly turning to gold as protection against financial crises, inflation and geopolitical risks, according to a World Gold Council survey highlighted Tuesday by market commentator, The Kobeissi Letter. Crisis Protection Drives Gold Demand According to the survey...

Micron Technology just delivered the best quarter in its history. However, three days later, a federal courtroom in California turned that story upside down. A class-action lawsuit filed on June 25 accuses Micron (MU), Samsung, and SK Hynix of secretly restricting memory chip supply to inflate ...

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Cryptocurrencies gained ground on Thursday while major stock indexes closed at all-time highs, as softer-than-expected jobs data lowered expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike. Cryptocurrency24-Hour Gains +/-Price (Recorded at 10:20 p.m. EDT)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)+2.19%$61,460.31Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) +5.67%$1,708.41XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) +3.23%$1.09Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) +4.20%$81.33Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) +3.17%$0.07466 Crypto Market Rallies Bitcoin briefly broke $62,000 but failed to sustain th

Investors seem to be missing or misunderstanding the key details of Nvidia’s long-term strategy. We can see this in the stock's performance. Nvidia (NVDA) stock is up 5.94% year to date at the time of writing, Thursday morning, July 2. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 9.36% ...

OpenAI is trying to avoid a volatile IPO. It probably won't succeed.

The space company has booked rapid growth under this administration, after the founder spent president’s first term being ‘hated.’

As Alphabet is gearing up to report its fiscal Q2 earnings report soon, analysts predict its EPS to rise by double digits.

An analyst at Mizuho believes Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) has big upside coming. On July 2, senior analyst Dan Dolev raised the stock's price target to $130 from $115 on Thursday while keeping an Outperform rating. The new ratings appear just a day after their live event "Robinhood ...

Chipotle Mexican Grill has seen its share price fall 38.0% over the past year, yet on current checks the stock still does not screen as a clear bargain. The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) intrinsic value estimate points to a premium price tag, while market based multiples look closer to fair. A 38.0% share price decline over the last 12 months puts Chipotle Mexican Grill firmly in the “out of favor” camp. This often prompts investors to reassess whether sentiment has moved further than...

The next major space company might not be building rockets It may not be launching satellites into space, flying tourists to the edge of the atmosphere, or competing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the next big thing in orbit. Instead, it might accomplish something a little less glamorous: helping ...

Despite the rising requests, fund managers returned $5.9 billion in the second quarter, down from the $7.4 billion they agreed to pay out in the prior period, according to data from investment bank Robert A. Stanger. Individual investors have awakened to the fact that they can’t exit from the funds—called business-development companies—as quickly as they entered, prompting more of them to start withdrawing. Fund managers are battening down the hatches for a prolonged period of elevated withdrawals.

(Bloomberg) -- Government attempts to address the global memory chip shortage by influencing prices or production capacity would worsen a historic squeeze on supply driven by the artificial intelligence boom, a semiconductor industry group warned the Trump administration. Most Read from BloombergExxon to Change Name for First Time in Decades After RedomicileGermany Rejects Trump’s Demands for NATO Loyalty to WashingtonMeta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing PowerRussia Indicates U