Consumer

Finance

Equifax Fires Back at FICO in Credit Score Wars

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VantageScore 4.0 credit scores will be available for $4.95 per report, with no added fees, through 2027, Equifax announced on Tuesday.

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Inflation & Prices

Bummed Consumers Predict Shrinking Labor Market, Spiking Inflation

Whatever they say, consumers’ actual spending has remained rock solid, even if sentiment is yet to return to prepandemic levels.

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Big Tech

Amazon Still Wants an Alexa in Every Home. Hence, Her M-AI-keover

With new leadership, the company is looking to revive its entire hardware line — and dig itself out of a giant money hole

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Personal Finance

Amex Puts a Platinum Price Tag on Signature Luxury Card

American Express justifies the hike with more than $3,500 in benefits, including credits that go towards dining, flights, and entertainment.

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Consumer

Drop the Ship-pers: FedEx, UPS Downgraded as US Policy Bites Into Import Revenue

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According to US Customs, untaxed “de minimis” shipments accounted for 92% of all cargo entering the US, or 4 million packages a day.

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Big Tech

New iPhone Air Is Ready for its Flex, but Apple Stock’s Already Swole

iPhone sales surged to $44.5 billion in the quarter ending in June, besting analysts’ $40 billion expectations and rising 14% year-over-year.

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Technology

Pubmatic Seeks Payback For Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly

Pubmatic’s lawsuit comes after a US Judge ruled in April that Google was maintaining an illegal monopoly in the ad tech industry.

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Consumer

Macy’s Makeover Smoothes Out Earnings-Related Worry Lines for Investors

The department store also seems cautiously optimistic for the holidays, raising its profit forecast for the year.

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Economics

US Economy Is Growing More Quickly than Washington Realized

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Two key forces were to thank: consumers, who spent more than original estimates, and businesses, which did the same.

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Consumer

Target Struggles as Wary Shoppers Prioritize Cost-Cutting

Wednesday’s earnings call also brought news that longtime target chief executive officer Brian Cornell is leaving his post.

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Consumer

Home Depot Predicts Pent-Up Home Improvement Demand

CFO Richard McPhail said that do-it-yourself customers have been pushing forward with smaller home improvement projects.

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CIO Upside

Walmart Patent Signals AI Transformation for Bricks-and-Mortar Retail

The company has spent the past few years bolstering its tech portfolio.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can OpenAI Recover From Botched GPT-5 Rollout?

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Where recent iterations of ChatGPT allowed users to tinker with various settings, GPT-5 attempted to do the tinkering for the user.

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