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McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) just paid its latest quarterly dividend of $1.86 per share on June 16, extending one of the most reliable income streams in the Dow. Yet the same company sending checks to shareholders is presiding over a franchisee system buckling under inflation, tariff disruption and the weakest consumer sentiment reading in years. Both stories ... Despite Franchisees Struggling, McDonald’s Dividend Keeps Rising

Nasdaq futures recovered from an earlier slide ahead of the June nonfarm payrolls report. Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures were all up 0.2%. Earlier, Nasdaq futures were down 0.5%, while S&P 500 futures were flat.

Investors are now awaiting Deckers Outdoor's fiscal first-quarter earnings, where analysts expect a modest drop in profit.

VeriSign is scheduled to announce its second-quarter results soon, with analysts anticipating a single-digit earnings rise.

Judges at the European Union's top court dismissed an appeal by Google over a landmark, 4.1 billion euro ($4.5 billion) antitrust fine imposed for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. The case has been tangled up in courts since the European Commission announced the fine in 2018. “The appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the judgment of the General Court is dismissed, thereby confirming the penalty imposed for Google Search’s abuse of a dominant position in the context of the Android operating system,” the Luxembourg-based judges wrote in their ruling.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found no crashes tied to the issues and that they posed only a low safety risk and were addressed in software updates.

US equity markets were mostly tracking in the green before the opening bell Thursday as traders awai

D.A. Davidson upgraded Palantir stock to buy from neutral on views that it's a better option for enterprises than OpenAI or Anthropic.

Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading mixed as we get ready to end the holiday-shortened trading week, with the country preparing to celebrate the 250th birthday of our democratic republic. The stock market will be closed on Friday for the federal holiday, kicking off a long weekend to jump-start the holiday fun. All of the ... Here Are Thursday’s Best Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Adobe, Chevron, Dana, Honeywell Aerospace, Mobility Global, Ni Source, Palantir, SpaceX, and More

SpaceX stock has pulled back after its record-setting IPO. Anthropic, meanwhile, is increasingly facing government scrutiny for its ability to prevent its models from being used maliciously. "They're going to be the 300-pound gorillas in the room," Ross Carmel, a partner at capital markets law firm Sichenzia Ross Ference Carmel, told Investor's Business Daily.

Finland's IQM Quantum Computers will start trading on Thursday as more quantum computing stocks go public via SPAC mergers.

This data center cooling name saw 121% profit growth in the first quarter. Its stock is in a cup-with-handle base.

SpaceX wants its satellite network to eventually serve cellphones in dense urban areas, but capacity and infrastructure hurdles remain.

Second-quarter Tesla deliveries should rise vs. Q1 and a year earlier, but will that matter to investors? Tesla stock is near an early buy point.

Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were mixed on Thursday as investors awaited a closely watched U.S. employment report that could help shape expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate policy in the months ahead.

The Vanguard Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VTV) has turned into one of the best large-cap stories of 2026, trading near $218 with a 16% year-to-date gain and a 27% advance over the past year. That run rests on a narrow set of legs: a healthcare snapback led by UnitedHealth, a financial-sector grind led by JPMorgan, and energy ... VTV’s Next 12 Months Hinge on One Fed Inflation Signal: Here’s What to Watch

SpaceX is taking the fast lane to inclusion in the Nasdaq-100, but concerns about what it will do to the index may be overblown.

A fourth straight month of gains above 100,000 would represent a run of job growth not seen since the start of 2024

The Chinese e-commerce company and its U.S.-based payment processor admitted to roughly 80,000 unlawful product sales over nearly a decade

Many of this year’s hottest stocks are the biggest decliners in premarket trading Thursday after sharp drops in the previous session.

Stock futures were lower as tech companies fell across the globe ahead of crucial U.S. jobs data.

SLB N.V. is set to announce its second-quarter earnings soon, and Wall Street expects a double-digit decline in its profits.

September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU26) are down -0.30% this morning, pointing to further losses after semiconductor stocks led Wall Street lower in the previous session.

The slide appears to reflect concerns that tech companies have built more AI computing capacity than they really need, says Mohit Kumar, chief European economist at Jefferies. Those fears were rekindled ...

The past few months have seen frenetic buying and selling by individual stock traders. Leading market maker Citadel Securities says that retail cash equity volumes in May hit a record, doubling in two years. Then that accelerated in June with nine of the 10 busiest days the market maker has ever experienced coming in a month, according to a mid-June report by strategist Scott Rubner.

By Joe Brock MOJAVE DESERT, California, July 2 (Reuters) - Inside a cavernous aircraft hangar in the Mojave Desert, JetZero is building a full-size demonstrator of what could be a 200-plus-seat jet, a

Westinghouse Air Brake is set to announce its second-quarter earnings next month, and Wall Street expects a double-digit rise in its profits.

South Korea’s government on Thursday disputed a U.S. congressional report accusing Seoul of discriminating against Coupang, a U.S.-listed electronic commerce giant that was hit with a record 625 billion won ($403 million) fine in June over a massive data breach affecting millions of South Korean customers.

Electricity demand is now expected to grow significantly faster than global GDP for the next two-and-a-half years, according to Bank of America.

AI earnings could start to fall short of expectations, undermining both equity prices and the capital expenditure boom, economists at Capital Economics said in a research note. The economists think equity prices may have a bit further to rise in the near term but will eventually pull back, with the S&P 500 estimated to fall to 6500 by end-2027. Meanwhile, AI-related revenue will likely be weighed by a decline in prices driven by increased competition and innovation.