Business & Finance

Blue-chip stocks swing with meme coin volatility, Grant Thornton acquires CBIZ in landmark $5B deal, Procore buys DroneDeploy for $845M to power construction AI

June PCE inflation undershoots forecasts boosting risk assets, Amazon and Apple report Q2 earnings after the bell, Zoox wins first-ever NHTSA commercial robotaxi exemption

Fed holds rates with hawkish tilt expected at 2 PM ET, South Korea restricts leveraged ETFs amid volatility, Trump Iran comments send oil up 6-7% and futures lower

PayPal beats Q2 estimates and raises guidance amid $53B Stripe takeover offer, Coca-Cola posts strong quarter with World Cup and Zero Sugar tailwinds, Corning surges on AI optical demand but stock drops on soft Q3 guidance

Nvidia and SK Group announce $500B-plus AI infrastructure partnership, Martin Marietta acquires Lhoist North America for $13.5 billion, Moody's upgrades Argentina to B3 completing rare three-agency alignment

Tesla Q2 record revenue but 39% EPS miss and negative free cash flow, Alphabet raises capex guidance to $205B as Google Cloud surges 82%, Brookfield acquires Aypa Power in landmark $7B battery storage deal

Alphabet Q2 earnings beat but free cash flow turns negative on record $205B capex guidance, Paramount-Warner Bros. merger frozen by U.S. judge despite EU approval, Nikkei investigation reveals $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI obligations across five Big Tech companies

Semiconductors drive record 48% of S&P 500 earnings growth, Paramount-Warner Bros. merger paused by federal judge, Bank of Japan signals faster rate hikes as yen hits 40-year low

Semiconductor selloff as AI ROI scrutiny grows, federal judge blocks Paramount-Warner Bros. merger on antitrust grounds, Tempus AI acquires Personalis for $1.5B in precision oncology deal

AMC Entertainment posts best quarter in 106-year history with record revenue and EBITDA, Indian private banks HDFC and Axis sell off sharply despite profit growth as net interest margins hit cycle lows, U.S. June CPI falls 0.4% to cool annual inflation to 3.5% but Fed holds fire ahead of July meeting

Netflix Q2 revenue miss sends shares down 8-11%, semiconductor sell-off deepens with 1.2 million Korean margin calls triggered, CLARITY Act crypto bill faces August recess deadline

June retail sales rise 0.2% matching forecasts with mixed underlying trends, Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index surges to 41.4 far above expectations, initial jobless claims fall to 208K reinforcing labor market strength and complicating Fed rate-cut outlook

UnitedHealth Q2 EPS crushes estimates at $6.38 vs $4.85 expected, June CPI cools to 3.5% sparking tech rally, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs post record profits with Dimon sounding a cautionary note

JPMorgan Chase posts record $21.2B quarterly profit on trading surge, Goldman Sachs reports best quarter in 157-year history with SpaceX IPO boost, BofA and Citi and Wells Fargo confirm Wall Street boom with across-the-board earnings beats

June CPI miss drops Fed rate-hike odds to 8%, Goldman Sachs posts massive Q2 earnings beat as bank sector shows mixed reaction, IBM issues shocking revenue warning and faces worst single-day stock drop since 1961

SK Hynix record IPO triggers Seoul circuit breaker and global chip selloff, twelve state AGs sue to block $111B Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, big bank earnings season kicks off

US futures fall as Strait of Hormuz crisis escalates ahead of CPI and bank earnings week, Global M&A reaches all-time record of $2.8 trillion in H1 2026 driven by mega-deals, South Korean humanoid robotics startup raises record $103M Series A

Financial stocks outperform tech amid rate pressure, AI chipmakers hit $430B free cash flow, major bank earnings kick off Q2 season

Apollo's £5.7B bid leapfrogs Castlelake for EasyJet in surprise move, EU releases €10B in recovery funds for Hungary, Nike shares slide as tariff windfall masks weak demand and bleak guidance

Delta Air Lines tops Q2 estimates and reinstates full-year guidance, Circle wins final OCC approval for a national trust bank charter, oil markets close a volatile week amid US-Iran tensions and Strait of Hormuz shipping disruptions

US jobless claims fall to 215K signaling labor market resilience, SK Hynix prices landmark $28B Nasdaq ADR listing 7x oversubscribed, Meta plans to double AI compute capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027 with Iris chip entering production in September

Micron commits $3B now and $250B through 2035 for US chip manufacturing, pours first concrete at New York megafab, Micron stock jumps 6% on the news, Meta plans September production of its Iris AI chip co-designed with Broadcom and built by TSMC

Trump declares Iran ceasefire over at NATO summit, oil surges 6% on Hormuz risk, Samsung posts 19-fold profit jump but stock falls 10%, South Korea's KOSPI enters bear market with circuit breaker triggered

Nvidia shares fall below 20x forward earnings amid $1T market cap decline, Blue Origin raises $10B in first-ever outside funding round at $130B valuation, Apple commits $30B to Broadcom for U.S.-manufactured chips through 2031

Dow Jones closes above 53,000 for first time in history, S&P 500 and Nasdaq surge on AI chip rebound, SpaceX enters Nasdaq-100 in record fast index inclusion

Samsung posts record Q2 profit but loses $100 billion in market value on a revenue miss, memory chip stocks tumble on AI capex abundance fears, SK Hynix prepares for landmark $28 billion Nasdaq ADR debut

Global M&A hits record $2.8 trillion in H1 2026 driven by AI megadeals, Michael Burry warns of unsustainable rally, SK Hynix targets Nasdaq listing at up to $29 billion

KOSPI drops 9-14% as leveraged ETF exposure amplifies chip selloff, India's RBI opens M&A lending to banks squeezing private credit funds, Tesla Germany Q2 sales surge 420% year-over-year

June jobs report adds just 57k vs 110k+ expected, BLS revises April-May payrolls down by 74k, gold and silver rally on Fed rate-cut bets

June jobs report misses badly at 57,000, prior months revised down 74,000, Gold jumps 1.7% and silver rises 3% on rate-cut bets, Crypto market cap reclaims 2.2 trillion dollars, Broad rally signals markets pricing in Fed easing