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Michigan's final September consumer sentiment index held at 47.8 Friday, the weakest since May's record trough, as a Federal Reserve rate hike and crude oil above $100 per barrel compound pressure…
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Michigan's final September consumer sentiment index held at 47.8 Friday, the weakest since May's record trough, as a Federal Reserve rate hike and crude oil above $100 per barrel compound pressure…

Bitcoin holds near $60,000 at its highest since January, with BTC dominance at 59.1% and total market cap near $1.88T as Fundstrat calls winter's end.

Hot PMI data and hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Warsh drove October rate hike odds to 70%, sending the 10-year Treasury yield to its highest level since July 2007.

A Trump-brokered Arctic security and military-expansion deal at the UN General Assembly sent Greenland-linked mining stocks surging, with GRML up 245%, GLND up 150%, and CRML up 34%.

IonQ climbed 12% after the first real-time quantum error correction decoder ran on a standard CPU, as a Nvidia quantum research center deal lifted the entire sector.

Costco Wholesale (COST) posted Q4 FY2026 EPS of $0.75 against the $0.52 consensus, with $5.72 billion in revenue and 9.4% comparable-sales growth signaling that bulk-discount shoppers are…

Okta stock rose nearly 5% after Needham raised its price target to $230, citing early AI Agent Identity traction at Oktane 2026, where Anthropic, AWS, and Dell joined as launch partners.

The 30-year Treasury yield surged to 5.43%, a 22-year high, as oil at $103 per barrel stoked fresh inflation fears in a synchronized global bond selloff.

Expedia fell 7.7% and Airbnb dropped 7.5% on September 23 after a wrongful-death suit over a fatal Dominican Republic fire reignited platform-liability risk across the short-term rental sector.

Paychex beat Q1 FY2027 estimates with revenue up 6% and EPS up 10%, but PAYX shares tumble 9% on Q2 guidance of ~4% revenue growth and margin compression to ~40%.

Brent crude surged past $105 a barrel after a senior Iranian military official threatened to expand the conflict to the Indian Ocean, crushing near-term hopes for a Strait of Hormuz deal and…

Oracle Corp. triggered a force majeure clause on Project Jupiter, its 2.45-gigawatt Stargate AI data center in New Mexico, after a six-month regulatory delay on an Energy Transfer natural gas…

Wedbush initiates AeroVironment and Kratos Defense at Outperform, naming both long-term winners as drone warfare and NATO spending drive a structural shift to autonomous defense systems.

Stitch Fix fell 18% after hours as FY27 guidance implied potential revenue decline, overwhelming a Q4 EPS beat and six consecutive quarters of revenue growth.

Lennar's Q3 EPS miss and 9.2% new-order decline prompt a FY26 delivery cut to 80,000-81,000 homes, confirming 7% mortgage rates have strangled housing demand.

TD SYNNEX reports fiscal Q3 results before the bell September 24, with consensus at $4.70 EPS and $18.91B revenue — the sharpest real-world test of whether enterprise AI hardware is shipping at scale.

Jabil Inc. reports Q4 FY2026 before the open Wednesday as Wall Street focuses on $3.6B in quarterly AI revenue, a third hyperscaler ramp, and raised FY27 guidance.

The Washington summit produced a tariff pause through January 10 and a structured AI dialogue framework, sending semiconductor and China ADR stocks to their highest levels in months.

Existing home sales fell 2% in August to a 3.98 million annualized rate as surging interest rates pushed 30-year mortgage costs back toward 7%, swelling supply to a multi-year high while freezing…

Costco reports fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 results after Wednesday's close, with Wall Street watching $6.55 EPS and $94.85B revenue as the clearest read on middle-income consumer durability in a…

Darden Restaurants opens the earnings session with Q1 FY2027 results; Street eyes $2.06 EPS and $3.21B revenue as higher rates test casual-dining traffic.

Boeing shares advanced Wednesday as a new tentative machinists' contract and a $3.4 billion foreign-military-sales expansion simultaneously reduced two of the jet maker's most pressing near-term…

Alphabet dropped 3.8% on September 23 as institutional investors rotated into Meta Platforms, widening a 30-day gap in which META gained 37% against GOOG's near-flat showing ahead of…

MCD fell 4% at its 2026 Investor Day after pledging $8.5 billion in franchisee support through 2036 and pushing its 50,000-restaurant global target back a full year to 2028.

Ken Langone told CNBC that Eli Lilly (LLY) could reach $2,000 in three to four years, citing a $17-18B annual R&D budget and pipeline depth well beyond GLP-1s.

BlackBerry's fiscal Q2 2027 earnings topped estimates before Thursday's open, with the QNX automotive OS unit - deployed in 275 million vehicles - sustaining the investment thesis that has more…

California AG Rob Bonta's settlement removes the last regulatory barrier to Paramount's $10B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, closing by early October 2026.

Microsoft is slashing Microsoft 365 Copilot enterprise pricing by up to 50% for large accounts and consolidating its AI tools into a single super app ahead of October renewals.

New Apple CEO John Ternus faces bipartisan Senate demands to drop CXMT Chinese DRAM, as memory costs drove over 100% of AAPL's gross margin compression.

Toms Capital, now a top-five Devon Energy shareholder, sent an activist letter urging DVN's board to explore a full sale, citing post-Coterra multi-basin complexity and a one-EV/EBITDA-multiple…