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<body><p>STORY: Stocks started the week on a down note, with the Dow falling about six tenths of one percent, while the S&P 500 dropped two tenths and the Nasdaq ended basically flat.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Investors looked for moves toward de-escalation in the Middle East while they waited for earnings reports due from major technology companies later in the week.</p><p>Melissa Brown, managing director of investment decision research at SimCorp, says the technology firms will have to post significant earnings growth to maintain their lofty trading levels. </p><p>“Every company, whether it's Google or Tesla, obviously they have very different business models and different drivers of their business. But overall, I think to justify the high valuations that we see in a lot of those names, we would need to see good earnings growth, not just kind of your run-of-the-mill 10%, but you'd want to see higher earnings growth on top of good margins as well. So, we want the businesses to be profitable and growing.”</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Meanwhile, Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday that they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, opening a new front in the U.S.-Iran war and widening the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf. </p><p>But a senior Iranian official told Reuters that mediators have passed Iran a proposal to de-escalate the war with the U.S. that would offer a 10-day ceasefire to find ways to revive an interim deal reached last month.</p><p>Stocks on the move included Paramount Skydance which lost two percent and Warner Brothers Discovery which slipped almost four percent after a judge halted their $110 billion merger temporarily as a coalition of states argued it would irreparably harm competition.</p><p>And shares of Domino’s Pizza gained two percent after the chain’s quarterly revenue edged past Wall Street estimates.</p></body>
Pan American Silver (PAAS) closed the most recent trading day at $42.19, moving +1.01% from the previous trading session.
Itron (ITRI) reached $84.37 at the closing of the latest trading day, reflecting a -1.88% change compared to its last close.
Garmin (GRMN) closed the most recent trading day at $244.79, moving 1.91% from the previous trading session.
Rithm (RITM) closed the most recent trading day at $9.2, moving 1.29% from the previous trading session.
Valero Energy (VLO) reached $313.31 at the closing of the latest trading day, reflecting a +1.18% change compared to its last close.
Vital Farms (VITL) reached $13.76 at the closing of the latest trading day, reflecting a +1.55% change compared to its last close.
In the closing of the recent trading day, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) stood at $480.5, denoting a -1.06% move from the preceding trading day.
Williams-Sonoma (WSM) closed the most recent trading day at $223.34, moving 2.22% from the previous trading session.
United Parcel Service (UPS) closed the most recent trading day at $113.15, moving 3.88% from the previous trading session.
The theater operator posted a surprise profit with $1.6 billion in revenue, signaling box-office recovery momentum, today, July 20, 2026.
A chip-stock rebound lost steam Monday as artificial-intelligence anxieties and Mideast tensions weighed on markets. Major U.S. stock indexes edged lower, with the Dow industrials leading losses. The Dow dropped 0.6%, or 307 points, while the S&P 500 fell 0.2%.
General Motors reports second-quarter earnings on Tuesday morning, with investors seemingly confused about what to do with the stock. Coming into Tuesday trading, GM shares were down about 7% year to date, despite rising earnings estimates and a solid first-quarter earnings report. On Tuesday, Wall Street is looking for a quarterly adjusted operating profit of $3.7 billion from sales of $47 billion.
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Buying recent winners, particularly chip stocks, has been a working investment strategy until lately. That could turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the S&P 500.
Stocks were mixed ahead of Monday's closing bell after all three major indexes opened the session in the green. The Dow was down 0.6% or 300 points and the S&P 500 wavered at the flatline. Both indexes erased gains from the morning.
The billionaire investor believes the appetite for gambling, rather than investing, is high right now.
Lumentum Holdings was among the hottest names in the artificial-intelligence trade at the start of the year. After a couple rocky months, it is time to buy, according to Barclays. The firm upgraded Lumentum shares to Overweight from Equal Weight and reiterated a price target of $1,000 in a research note Monday.
Some retirees are quietly bypassing Treasury yields and money market accounts by targeting a forgotten corner of the dividend world where payout streaks stretch back more than half a century, but the safety story on a few of these picks is far more complicated than the headline yields suggest.
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EVI faces near-term challenges from project delays and macro pressures, but its strong backlog, recurring service revenue and operational improvements support its long-term growth outlook.
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