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Investors will assess whether Meta's advertising growth and AI-driven engagement can justify its expanding infrastructure investment.

US benchmark equity indexes fell intraday as traders awaited the Federal Reserve's policy decision a

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The telehealth provider shared patient health information with Snap and Meta, a federal complaint says.

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Federal Trade Commission is suing Hims & Hers ‌alleging the telehealth platform shared users' health ‌data with online advertisers despite promising privacy and engaged in ​deceptive billing and cancellation practices, an FTC spokesperson said. Hims & Hers is one of the largest telehealth players in the market for weight loss drugs.

By Purvi Agarwal, Tharuniyaa Lakshmi and Avinash P July 29 (Reuters) - European shares edged lower on Wednesday, as diverging results from French luxury groups weighed on the broader sector, while

Meta stock was lower Wednesday morning, setting up a 10th straight losing day for the social media giant.

Here is what investors will be looking for when Meta Platforms reports its earnings after markets close today: One big question is whether Meta will increase its capital expenditure estimate for the year, like Alphabet did last week.

Traders are expecting big swings from tech earnings on Wednesday, with options pricing in major after-market risks and short sellers lining up to bet against one of the market’s biggest stocks. Microsoft shares, which have fallen more than 15% from their early June peak and remain nearly 25% lower over the past year, are likely to move more than 6.6% in either direction after tonight’s June-quarter earnings, well ahead of its three-year average of around 4.8%. Short sellers, meanwhile, are crowding into the stock, with bets against the tech and cloud giant representing around 92 million shares, or 1.27% of its outstanding float, according to data from S3 Partners.

The latest oil spike was sending the Dow tumbling, but the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision and a gauntlet of earnings loom. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 700 points, or 1.3%. The S&P 500 was down 0.

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Major U.S. technology companies are borrowing heavily as they ramp up spending on their artificial intelligence buildout, and at steadily higher yields as investors become more selective about absorbing the growing supply. Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Oracle issued about $194 ‌billion of bonds in 2026 through July 7, up 79% from roughly $108 billion in all of 2025, according to a Reuters analysis ‌of LSEG data. Goldman Sachs expects bond issuance by the five hyperscalers, including Microsoft Corp, to reach roughly $250 billion this year and $400 billion in 2027.

Wall Street faces a twin set of risks on Wednesday, tied to Big Tech earnings and a Federal Reserve interest-rate decision, as stocks undergo a rare change of leadership ahead of the summer market doldrums. “The market’s response to both should provide a clearer indication of whether the current rotation continues or begins to develop into broader weakness,” said Zaheer Anwari, co-founder and CEO of the Luxembourg-based Revacy Fund.

Meta shares have fallen for nine straight sessions.

Investing.com -- Direxion on Wednesday launched a new family of exchange-traded funds designed to generate income by writing call options on individual high-volatility stocks, expanding beyond its traditional leveraged and inverse ETF offerings.

Investors are laser focused on capex heading to Meta' earnings report.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Wednesday ahead of the Fed decision and Fed Chair Warsh's comments. SK Hynix sold off.

Wall Street faces a twin set of risks on Wednesday, tied to Big Tech earnings and a Federal Reserve interest-rate decision, as stocks undergo a rare change of leadership ahead of the summer market doldrums. “The market’s response to both should provide a clearer indication of whether the current rotation continues or begins to develop into broader weakness,” said Zaheer Anwari, co-founder and CEO of the Luxembourg-based Revacy Fund.

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The main US stock measures were mostly trending higher in Wednesday's premarket activity as traders

Amazon reported its Q2 earnings after the bell on Thursday.

Seagate’s earnings give rival Western Digital a boost, while SK Hynix’s results drag down rival Micron.

Wall Street futures were mostly higher pre-bell Wednesday as the global tech sector sell-off paused,

📣 “So far, I think that all the work around AI has net created a lot of jobs because there’s all this infrastructure that needs to get created...So that concern hasn’t exactly played out the way that people feared it might.

If stock prices are your go-to economic barometer then you could be forgiven for ignoring the original “China Shock” a quarter-century ago. Manufacturing job losses in machinery, textiles, electronics and furniture slammed parts of the U.S. after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. There’s even a strong case that China’s industrial rise was a major tailwind for stocks overall.

Visa CEO Ryan McInerney says artificial intelligence is helping ‘shape the way work gets done.’ The payments giant reports earnings after the closing bell Tuesday.

U. S. stock futures traded close to unchanged on Wednesday as investors prepared for a pivotal session featuring the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision and quarterly earnings from artificial intelligence leaders Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT).

Meta stock has declined for nine consecutive sessions, falling about 13% cumulatively.

SK Hynix reported a record operating profit of 60.54 trillion won (about $41.66 billion) in the second quarter, up 557% from the a year earlier. Its operating margin was 76%, up from 41% a year earlier. Analyst expectations for operating profit were even higher, and the miss fueled investors' concerns that SK Hynix's rival Samsung is pricing its products more aggressively, Jefferies wrote.