Earnings

Consumer

Consumer Goods Giants Slim Down to Spur Growth

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Scale for scale’s sake appears to have become passé, with conglomerates jockeying for market share with a more focused brand identity.

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Economics

Waiting Game: Why Fed Isn’t Ready to Cut Rates (Yet)

The Fed was already walking a tightrope over a bottomless pit of stagflation before waves of tariffs came to rattle the line.

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Giants Deliver AI-Powered Earnings Growth

Quarterly earnings at tech giants Meta and Microsoft surged, indicating that multi-billion dollar AI investments are starting to pay off.

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Consumer

Levi Strauss is Stitching Together Success Amid the Trade War

It seems quality never goes out of style for Levi Strauss, even amid a a tariff-induced global financial meltdown.

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Consumer

Guidance Overshadows Growth as Walmart Shares Go Tumbling

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Walmart said Thursday that it made a record $681 billion in sales, and yet its shares had their worst day in three years, tumbling 6.5%.

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Media & Entertainment

Comcast Might Spin Off Its Cable Business

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Comcast’s president floated the idea that the telecom giant and NBCUniversal parent company might spin off its portfolio of cable channels.

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Technology

Nvidia Beats Revenue and Profit Expectations, But Was It Enough?

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Yesterday was Nvidia Day: The AI giant handily beat revenue and profit forecasts, and issued third-quarter guidance that beat expectations.

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