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Walmart is putting its massive tariff refund toward price investments.
Investing.com -- New 50% U.S. tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian goods took effect Saturday after last-minute trade negotiations collapsed, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to pledge matching retaliation, Bloomberg reported.
Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve’s stock valuation model may be regaining relevance now that Treasury yields are no longer being suppressed by quantitative easing, Yardeni Research said in a note.

TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children's privacy laws. The DOJ said Friday that TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and another $100 million after an order vacates an earlier consent decree against its predecessor company, Musical.ly. “This settlement is a major victory for American children and parents,” said U.S. Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. in a statement.

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stock indexes closed higher Friday with the Dow gaining about 1 percent and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq rising about four-tenths of one percent each.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>All three fell for the week as investors were rattled by fluctuating government bond yields and a lack of clarity on progress in the Middle East.</p><p>Friday’s economic data eased concerns, as the U.S. services sector posted its strongest growth in nearly two years powering a sharp acceleration in overall business activity in August. </p><p>This offset a slowing of growth in a manufacturing sector that is being restrained by reduced stock building and supply disruptions from the Iran war.</p><p>Earlier, UBS Global Wealth Management raised its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 8,100, citing a stronger earnings outlook and robust corporate profit growth.</p><p>Kevin Mahn, president and chief investment officer with Hennion & Walsh Asset Management says he expects a bumpy road for stocks in the near term but believes they will finish 2026 on solid footing.</p><p>"So I believe that the market is likely headed for more short-term bouts of volatility up to and through these midterm elections." //</p><p>"But I also believe that once we have some clarity after the midterm elections, in all likelihood, some type of lasting deal between the US and Iran, moderating inflation, and also continued strong earnings, not just from technology companies, but all S&P 500 companies will have a very strong close to the year. "</p><p>Stocks on the move included Ross Stores which added 4 percent after the value retailer raised its annual profit forecasts and reported better-than-expected quarterly results.</p><p>And retail investor platform Robinhood surged nearly 14% as bitcoin touched its highest levels since mid-May.</p></body>

The market rally suffered damage last week, though bitcoin and gold shined. Nvidia and CrowdStrike earnings are critical while Fed's Warsh will make a big speech.
US equity indexes rose markedly on Friday, even as bond yields continued to rise after Canada's trad
Federal backing lowers the cost of a major steel upgrade

It’s late August, but the coming week will be a big one for markets. Headline events include Nvidia earnings after the bell Wednesday and Kevin Warsh’s first major policy speech as Federal Reserve chairman on Friday.

Vestmo, a quantitative research firm we track at the Barron’s Investor Circle, sent an update on its market barometer on Friday. The barometer takes into account seven different factors, including things such as earnings variability and price momentum. Vestmo noted higher rates, rising oil prices, and a “less supportive” Federal Reserve that is more likely to hike interest rates than cut them are among the drivers of the more risk-off stance.

"Content posted by friends has become a small fraction of the content that users see on Facebook and Instagram -- less than 15% of posts in Facebook's news feed and 5% on Instagram's feed," Meta tells a federal appellate court.

The Fed has held rates steady, but inflation keeps threatening to push them higher again, and not every income investment handles that scenario the same way. Two BDCs with floating-rate portfolios are quietly positioned to turn a potential hike into a dividend windfall.

Trump's 90-day beef tariff pause promises relief at the grocery store, but the cattle biology and market forces quietly working against it could make the cure worse than the disease.

Federal auto-safety regulators are opening an investigation into nearly one million General Motors pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles after receiving hundreds of reports of engine failures. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it was launching the probe into vehicles equipped with a particular GM V-8 engine that had already been the subject of an earlier recall. The regulator has received nearly 500 complaints alleging engine failure in vehicles that had already been serviced under recall, including nearly two dozen that required complete engine replacements.

Most retirees holding the biggest municipal bond ETF assume they are getting the best deal on tax-free income, but a rival fund with the same federal exemption is quietly paying at a rate that makes MUB look like it has one hand tied behind its back.

Getting your share may depend on how you paid and whether you still have the right information.

Newmont Corporation (NYSE:NEM) stock traded higher Friday as strong gold prices and a board appointment supported sentiment around the gold miner. Nasdaq futures rose 0.76%, while S&P 500 futures gained 0.46%.Record Gold Prices Support NewmontSpot gold traded above $4,500 an ounce Friday and headed for a third consecutive weekly gain, according to Trading Economics.Investors turned to safe-haven assets amid volatility in currency and bond markets. Higher oil prices also fueled inflation concerns

Ross Stores spiked 8% after delivering a quintessential beat-and-raise quarter, as it blew past Wall Street's expectations. Earnings got a boost from tariff refunds.

Rising Treasury yields and inflation fears drove a broad selloff, leaving the S&P 500 down nearly 2% for the week

The president's repeated calls for lower interest rates are falling on deaf ears amid elevated inflation that's primarily been driven by his policies.

Walmart’s finance chief had a message Thursday for analysts pressing the company on its decision to cut prices: Give it time. Walmart said it rolled back prices on more than 11,000 items, including ground beef, citing the ongoing strain on consumers of inflation and high gas prices. The move comes after the company received tariff refunds worth about $2.9 billion, which it’s using to fund the price cuts.
Orders for bulldozers, excavators and other earth-moving equipment are largely full for the rest of the year. The company also recognized $110 million in tariff refunds during the third quarter.

On Thursday, former Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google software engineer Linwei Ding received a major legal reprieve after a federal judge overturned his economic espionage convictions. Judge Rejects Economic Espionage Convictions U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco...

By Laura Matthews NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Nvidia's earnings report and the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole symposium will test the assumptions behind this year's stock market rally, offering clues

Spending on K-12 and back-to-college combined is expected to hit a record of nearly $147 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. “Customers are responding to just absolutely fantastic investments in price,” Walmart’s U.S. CEO David Guggina said yesterday during the company’s earnings call that highlighted the cost pressures facing consumers. “We have a list of 14 key items that are priced less than what we saw in 2019,” he also said of the store’s school supplies, citing examples from the store’s Pen+Gear brand, which has crayons for 25 cents and No. 2 pencils for 92 cents.

Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST) shares rallied in pre-market trading after the off-price retailer delivered stronger-than-expected second-quarter sales and earnings and raised its full-year profit outlook, supported by higher customer traffic and a tariff refund. Sales for the quarter increased 13% year on year to $6.

Walmart posted a strong Q2 earnings beat and raised its outlook, but slowing U.S. sales, weaker transactions, and temporary tariff benefits pressured shares and divided investors.

For all the US Treasury’s efforts to stem rising borrowing costs, cooling inflation remains the most compelling way to lower bond yields, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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