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On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Yum! Brands (YUM) agreed to sell its struggling Pizza Hut chain for $2.7 billion to a private equity firm and its China business. LongRange Capital will acquire Pizza Hut ex-China for $1.5 billion, Yum said in a statement Tuesday. Yum China Holdings Inc. will buy the rest of the business for $1.2 billion. The transactions are expected to close in the third quarter. - Dave & Buster's (PLAY) shares tumble after the operator of restaurant and entertainment facilities reported comparable sales for the first quarter that missed the average analyst estimate. Research firm Benchmark downgraded the stock, citing a lack of confidence that same-store sales will stabilize/eventually turn positive this year. - Robinhood Markets (HOOD) shares are up after it said it is reducing its full-time employee workforce by 10%, and also closing a small number of open roles.

Stocks were mixed at the open on Tuesday as Wall Street looked through lower oil prices and toward the start of the Federal Open Market Committee's June meeting. The Dow rose 315 points, or 0.6%. Any close higher would be a fresh record close for the Dow.

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SpaceX shares are surging 14% in early trading, putting Elon Musk's rocket company on track for a third-straight day of gains. On an intraday basis, SpaceX has already crossed that threshold. Its stock move gives the rocket company a market cap of about $2.937 trillion, versus $2.654 trillion for Amazon.

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The S&P 500 index gained about 0.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.3%.

Career antitrust lawyers were leaning toward recommending a lawsuit when senior DOJ officials closed the investigation and cleared the $110 billion deal

Oil prices dropped below $80 a barrel Tuesday on optimism over the promised reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, easing inflation pressures on global economies even though traders are eyeing the risk of Iranian "service fees" on ships transiting the strait.Oil hit a three-month low as Brent North Sea crude, the international benchmark, dropped 4.0 percent to $79.87 a barrel, dipping below $80 for the first time since early March, before edging back up to $80.52.

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Prior to the start of the Iran War, President Donald Trump had been feuding with Jerome Powell about cutting interest rates. Despite tremendous capital inflows from tariffs, record-low inflation, and a revived business climate due to cutting bureaucratic Biden-era restrictions, Powell stubbornly refused to cut rates. Kevin Warsh took the Fed chair oath on ... Long Bonds Just Lost Money for a Sixth Straight Year, And One Quiet ETF Is Engineered for the Reversal

Gold rose for a third session early Tuesday as inflation fears ebbed while oil prices eased after th

The company's valuation prices in lofty growth expectations.

June 16 (Reuters) - The blue-chip Dow touched a fresh record high on Tuesday as oil prices slid further on optimism around a U.S.-Iran peace deal, while SpaceX surpassed Amazon's market value to

Options on SpaceX started trading at a brisk pace on ‌Tuesday, offering investors another avenue to ‌bet on the future of the newly listed ​shares of Elon Musk's rocket company. Options allow investors to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price within a set ‌time period, and ⁠are used to hedge against risk or to speculate on price ⁠movements. Some 115,000 options contracts changed hands in the first 10 minutes of trading, with ​calls leading ​puts 1.7-to-1, according ​to Trade Alert ‌data.

FuelCell Energy’s earnings miss sent shares tumbling, but a Street-high $30 price target suggests one analyst sees a massive AI-powered upside ahead.

Western Digital stock jumped again on Tuesday as the AI memory and storage trade reignited.

Monday's sales follow a major liquidation last week that was used to fund purchases of SpaceX stock.

At some point, the speculation behind SpaceX's record-breaking IPO will run out of steam.

Jensen Huang’s company Nvidia makes the computer chips that unleashed a revolution in artificial intelligence. Now he's wagering that an AI buildout can revive U.S. manufacturing, pushing past limits facing science and society. Nvidia is formally unveiling on Tuesday plans for a major upgrade to its AI infrastructure as part of its $2 billion partnership with the factory’s owner, Coherent.

Genesis AI, the French robotics startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, unveiled ‌its first general-purpose robot on Tuesday, as AI capabilities expand beyond chatbots and ‌into physical machines. The robot, named Eno, breaks from the humanoid design usually favoured by leading manufacturers, featuring ​a wheeled base rather than legs, a foldable tower and hands that the company says match the form of a human hand. Founded in early 2025, Genesis AI has raised $105 million (€90.6 million), one of France's largest and matching the record seed round of Mistral AI - Europe's leading AI company.

BANGALORE, June 16 - Indian online grocery retailer Bigbasket on Tuesday appointed Amit Nanda as its CEO, replacing co-founder Hari Menon, who will continue to serve on the board.

SpaceX confirmed on Tuesday that it will acquire Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion. 

SpaceX (SPCX) confirmed on Tuesday that it will acquire Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion. 

Federal unit secures renewal tied to Microsoft 365 services.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.04%, and the actively tr

<body><p>STORY: From a record-breaking IPO to a far-reaching online ban, this is Tech Weekly.&nbsp;</p><p>:: Tech Weekly</p><p>SpaceX on Thursday priced the biggest-ever U.S. initial public offering, raising a record $75 billion.&nbsp;</p><p>It’s made Elon Musk’s rocket and spacecraft manufacturer one of the world’s most valuable companies.</p><p>Selling 555.56 million shares at $135 apiece, the company was valued at $1.77 trillion.&nbsp;</p><p>Thursday’s pricing supports Musk's most ambitious project yet - even as some analysts question whether its lofty valuation is justified.</p><p>The company said Monday its underwriters had exercised the so-called "greenshoe" option to purchase additional shares.</p><p>Microsoft has been sued by shareholders who say they've been defrauded.&nbsp;</p><p>They’ve said the tech giant inflated its stock price by failing to disclose slowing growth in its Azure cloud business.</p><p>And failing to disclose the need to spend billions of dollars on AI infrastructure.&nbsp;</p><p>The proposed class action, filed Friday, was prompted by Microsoft shares falling 10% on January 29 after an earnings report.</p><p>About $357 billion of market value was erased, and Microsoft's stock suffered its biggest one-day decline in nearly six years.</p><p>Microsoft said on Monday it believes the claims are "without merit”.&nbsp;</p><p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would ban social media sites for under-16s..</p><p>And impose restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms for the age group.&nbsp;</p><p>This amounts to some of the world's most far-reaching online restrictions, with the ban coming into place by next spring.</p><p>He said this would help protect children online while pushing back against the power of big technology companies.</p><p>"At the moment, strangers can contact any child unchecked. Just think about that. Is there a situation in the offline world where you would just let your child pair up with a stranger, an adult that you don't know anything about?”</p><p>Ford and other automakers are scrambling to obtain U.S. government authorization to continue selling certain models - despite being on the market for years.&nbsp;</p><p>It’s due to a U.S. ban on Chinese-developed and -maintained software in connected vehicles.&nbsp;</p><p>Ford told Reuters it’s asked the U.S. Commerce Department for authorization to continue importing its China-built Lincoln Nautilus SUV.</p><p>And said despite its tech being built in the U.S., its installation in China now requires government approval.&nbsp;</p><p>Lawmakers have ​proposed making the rules even tougher.</p></body>

Shareholders allege the company failed to disclose cloud growth and AI spending pressures.

Regulator reviews Apple's compliance with EU digital market rules.

The struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion by parent company Yum Brands. Yum Brands said in February that it was considering selling Pizza Hut and the chain looked to close 250 U.S. restaurants. Pizza Hut was founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Tuesday ahead of the Fed's two-day policy meeting. SpaceX stock surged in premarket trading.