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2 days ago

Applied Materials Q3 Beat Takes a Back Seat to a Much Stronger Q4 Outlook

Applied Materials reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $9.12 billion, above the $9.02 billion consensus estimate. Adjusted earnings reached $3.50 per share, compared with $3.42 expected.

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5 days ago

SHEIN’s IPO Problem Is Bigger Than a $30 Billion Valuation

SHEIN’s advisers are pitching its Hong Kong IPO to investors at a valuation below $30 billion, according to the Financial Times. Interest has emerged in the mid-to-high $20 billion range — far below the $98.2 billion valuation SHEIN reached in 2022.

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5 days ago

Apple Shares Fall 2.5% After Jefferies Turns Bearish on the iPhone Economics

Apple shares fell 2.5% after Jefferies downgraded the stock to Underperform from Hold and cut its price target to $263.66 from $285.56.

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1 week ago

Apollo Is Paying an 81% Premium for easyJet. Here's What It May Really Be Buying

Apollo Global Management has agreed on the key financial terms of a takeover of easyJet, offering £7.15 in cash per share.

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1 week ago

Why Alphabet Is Borrowing Another $25 Billion

Google doesn't need the cash. It needs the flexibility to keep building AI infrastructure faster than everyone else.

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1 week ago

Phillips 66 Turns Strong Refining Economics Into a Major Earnings Beat

Phillips 66 delivered one of the strongest refining quarters of the earnings season, comfortably exceeding Wall Street expectations as high refinery utilization and robust fuel margins translated into significantly higher profits.

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1 week ago

McDonald’s Beat Profit Expectations as U.S. Sales Growth Slowed

McDonald’s reported adjusted earnings of $3.38 per share for the second quarter of 2026, above the Wall Street estimate of $3.32. Revenue reached $7.10 billion, slightly below the expected $7.12 billion.

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1 week ago

Big Tech Now Controls Nearly 40% of the S&P 500

The second-quarter reporting season has been one of the strongest in years.

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1 week ago

Visa Pays $2.4 Billion for Behavioral Biometrics

Visa has agreed to acquire Israeli fraud detection company BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, adding one of banking's largest behavioral intelligence platforms to its portfolio.

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1 week ago

Why Deutsche Bank Is Raising Its S&P 500 Earnings Forecasts

Deutsche Bank has become one of the latest major banks to turn more optimistic on U.S. corporate earnings after a second-quarter reporting season that has consistently exceeded expectations.

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2 weeks ago

Amazon's Biggest Rally Since 2012 Wasn't About Earnings — It Was About AI Finally Paying Off

A 15.2% jump in a single session is rare for a company worth more than $2 trillion. The move became Amazon's strongest one-day gain since 2012, adding roughly $350–400 billion in market value.

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2 weeks ago

Why Apple Beat Expectations — and Why Investors Sold the Stock Anyway

Apple reported another quarter of record-scale revenue, beating Wall Street on the metrics that typically move the stock: iPhone sales, Mac revenue, earnings, and gross margin. But none of that prevented the shares from falling about 4% in extended trading.

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2 weeks ago

Meta’s $700 Billion AI Bet Has Already Been Signed

Buried inside Meta’s latest quarterly filing is a number that dwarfs every AI spending forecast investors have debated over the past year. It isn’t this year’s capital expenditure. It isn’t next year’s guidance. It’s nearly $700 billion in future contractual commitments and long-term leases — agreements that have already been signed.

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2 weeks ago

Why ASML Became the World's Most Important Company That Almost Nobody Knows

Behind every advanced AI chip lies a company few consumers recognize. Discover how ASML became the indispensable bottleneck of the global semiconductor industry, why no competitor has matched its technology, and how its €350 million machines power the world's most advanced processors.

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3 weeks ago

Airbus’ €13 Billion EBIT Target Depends on More Than Higher Deliveries

Airbus is targeting €12–13 billion in adjusted EBIT by 2029, up from €7.1 billion in 2025. The target implies that operating profit must rise much faster than aircraft deliveries.

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3 weeks ago

Cracker Barrel’s Maple Street Exit Triggers a Sharp Market Repricing

Cracker Barrel is closing the remaining 16 Maple Street Biscuit Company locations, ending its attempt to build a second restaurant platform outside the core brand.

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4 weeks ago

TSMC Commits Another $100 Billion to the U.S. as AI Demand Reshapes Its Expansion Plan

TSMC will invest another $100 billion in U.S. manufacturing, raising its total planned investment in the country to $265 billion. The expansion comes alongside a sharp increase in the company’s 2026 capital spending plan and a stronger revenue forecast, tying the Arizona buildout directly to demand for AI computing.

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4 weeks ago

State Street’s Q2 Beat Extends a Rally That Was Already Underway

State Street entered its second-quarter earnings release with little room for disappointment. The stock had already climbed from roughly $143 in April to $186.59 by July 15, a gain of about 30% in three months. The report cleared that higher bar: earnings, revenue, interest income, margin and assets under management all came in above consensus.

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1 month ago

Warren Buffett Calls Alphabet One of Berkshire's Biggest Investing Mistakes

Warren Buffett rarely describes past investment decisions as mistakes. This time, he did.

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1 month ago

Citi's Apple Upgrade Shifts the Focus From AI Hype to Financial Strength

Citigroup raised its price target on Apple Inc. to $365 from $315, signaling that the firm's investment case is becoming increasingly tied to Apple's financial performance rather than expectations surrounding artificial intelligence alone.

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