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Rising sales of drugs for cancer and heart disease helped offset steep declines for Pfizer’s Covid-19 products.

Caterpillar bulldozed Q2 earnings forecasts as the heavy equipment giant reported a $72 billion backlog, up 92% from a year ago. Long a global economic bellwether, Caterpillar has become a bellwether for the AI infrastructure boom amid soaring demand for its gas turbines to power data centers. The construction segment was Caterpillar's biggest growth driver in Q2, but growth was strong across the board.

US equity futures were higher pre-bell Tuesday as technology-related stocks were on the upswing, hig

Investing.com -- Wayfair shares slipped about 3% in premarket trading Tuesday despite the online furniture retailer posting second-quarter results ahead of expectations on both revenue and earnings.

Merck (MRK) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +50.00% and +1.69%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

The drugmaker posted adjusted earnings of 77 cents per share and now expects full-year revenue of $60.5 billion to $62.5 billion

U.S. optical component stocks surged following a Reuters report that the Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new Chinese data center hardware. Applied Optoelectronics jumped 16%, Coherent gained 13%, Lumentum rose 11%, and Corning climbed 8%. According to four sources familiar with the matter, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is preparing restrictions against new Chinese optical transceivers—the critical hardware that routes data over fiber-optic cables inside AI

Investing.com -- Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) reported second-quarter results before the open on Tuesday, exceeding analyst expectations and sending its stock higher in premarket trading.

Investing.com -- Merck reported significantly better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter, while narrowing and raising its full-year revenue outlook.

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Aug 4 () - Pfizer on Tuesday slightly raised the lower end of ‌its full-year revenue forecast after ‌beating Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit, driven ​by strong demand for blood thinner Eliquis. Pfizer is banking on newer medicines to offset ‌fading COVID revenue ⁠and reduce reliance on aging blockbuster drugs, while investors look ⁠for signs that its $10 billion purchase of Metsera can help establish a meaningful ​presence in ​the fast-growing ​obesity market.

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September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU26) are up +0.67% this morning, signaling further gains for tech stocks as blockbuster earnings from Palantir Technologies boosted sentiment.

ON Semiconductor (NASDAQ:ON) shares climbed 7. 6% in pre-market trading after the chipmaker reported second-quarter 2026 results that exceeded Wall Street forecasts and issued a stronger-than-expected outlook for the current quarter.

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) shares surged 16. 1% in pre-market trading after the artificial intelligence and data analytics company reported record second-quarter 2026 results that comfortably surpassed Wall Street expectations.

Wix. com (NASDAQ:WIX) shares climbed 3.

The Swedish audio streamer reported a 14% quarterly revenue increase from a year earlier.

Spotify Technology reached a milestone of 300 million premium subscribers in the second quarter while growing revenue by 14% in the period compared with a year earlier. Spotify added seven million premium subscribers in the second quarter, bringing its total to 300 million and beating the company’s prior guidance by one million. The Swedish audio streamer’s monthly active users grew by 12% year-over-year to 777 million, falling short of the company’s prior guidance by one million.

South Korean retail shareholder platform ACT said on Tuesday it had launched a campaign to call an extraordinary ‌shareholders' meeting at Samsung Electronics, urging the chipmaker to buy back about $32 ‌billion worth of shares and set limits on performance bonuses. ACT said it would begin collecting electronic ​signatures from shareholders at 5 p.m. local time and seek support from the National Pension Service and domestic and overseas asset managers to meet the 3% ownership threshold required to call the meeting. The move comes after Samsung shares lost over ‌one third of their value ⁠since hitting record-highs in June, despite the artificial intelligence boom.

Retail traders remain wary. Sentiment on Stocktwits shows they remain ‘bearish’ on SPY and QQQ.

British energy giant BP said Tuesday that its net profit more than doubled in the second quarter as the Middle East war roiled oil and gas markets.Energy majors around the globe are enjoying soaring profits from their trades as oil and gas futures swing between big gains and losses on the latest headlines linked to the Mideast war. 

Toyota will launch a ¥1tn ($6.3bn) share buyback as the world’s biggest carmaker raised its annual outlook on the back of the weak yen and strong...

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Vertex raises full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $13.1-$13.2 billion as CASGEVY and JOURNAVX show strong sequential growth, while advancing a robust pipeline and strategic Crinetics acquisition.

Ichor Holdings Ltd (ICHR) reports strong Q2 2026 results with record demand visibility, guiding to 12% sequential revenue growth in Q3 and a clear path to 20% gross margins.

Shares recently jumped 22% after Saudi Prince Alwaleed disclosed a 5% stake; the PIF remains Lucid’s largest shareholder with a 45% position.

Snap Inc (SNAP) delivers strong Q2 with record free cash flow, but faces a Q3 slowdown as World Cup tailwinds fade and infrastructure costs rise.

Circle Internet Group Inc. (NYSE:CRCL) will report earnings for the second quarter before the opening bell on Wednesday. Here is a pre-earnings look at the stablecoin issuer and its stock. Will Circle Beat Earnings Again? Analysts estimate Circle to report earnings per share of $0.19, compared to a loss of $0.43 in the same quarter last year. The issuer of the world’s second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization, USDC (CRYPTO: USDC), is also expected to report revenue of $734.70 million, u

Alex Karp accused AI firms of hoarding customer data to “addict” clients to their models while touting Palantir’s software layer.

On Monday, Palantir Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) shares surged nearly 15% in after-hours trading as Wall Street commentators praised the AI software company’s blowout second-quarter results and raised outlook. Jim Cramer, Analysts React to Palantir’s Blowout Quarter CNBC’s Jim Cramer took to X and reacted to Palantir’s post-earnings rally on X, saying buyers were "walking up Palantir like the old days," before asking, "But are the old days still viable?" After market buyers walking up Palant