
ICE to Acquire MarketAxess in $6B Bond Market Deal
Intercontinental Exchange agreed to buy bond trading platform MarketAxess for $167 per share in cash, sending MKTX shares nearly 30% higher in their biggest single-day gain since 2008.
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Intercontinental Exchange agreed to buy bond trading platform MarketAxess for $167 per share in cash, sending MKTX shares nearly 30% higher in their biggest single-day gain since 2008.

Amazon's record Q2 revenue above $200 billion and a less-hawkish Fed hold push Nasdaq-100 futures 1.2% higher, setting a risk-on tone for Friday's open.

Apple's Q3 2026 revenue of $109.4B topped estimates as iPhone sales surged 22%, but a services miss and weak Q4 guidance sent AAPL shares down 7% pre-market.

Amazon's Q2 net sales crossed $200 billion for the first time as AWS posted its fastest cloud growth in 18 quarters, sending AMZN shares up 7% in after-hours trade.

Ferrari's first luxury EV, the $640,000 Luce, has sold out its entire 2026 production run in under two months, with Chinese buyers driving a backlog that now stretches well into next year.

Amazon's Zoox unit secures a landmark NHTSA exemption to deploy up to 5,000 steering-wheel-free autonomous vehicles commercially, beginning in Las Vegas.

GE HealthCare beat second-quarter profit estimates by nearly 9%, fueled by record orders and robust hospital imaging demand, even as a potential patient care unit divestiture clouds the…

Microsoft's fiscal Q4 beat — $90 billion in revenue, 43% Azure growth — drove S&P 500 futures 0.7% higher at 7:50 a.m. in New York, delivering the strongest Wall Street morning tech read-through…

The Nasdaq Composite posted its biggest single-day gain since June on July 30, 2026, as a record-breaking Microsoft earnings beat and an 8% surge in semiconductor shares reversed the prior…

Robinhood Markets posted a Q2 2026 record of $1.31B in revenue, with EPS of $0.62 beating estimates as transaction revenue climbed 44% year-over-year on surging options and event contracts activity.

Jim Cramer calls Microsoft 365 Copilot's 30-million-seat count the first unambiguous proof that generative AI can convert enterprise hype into recurring revenue.

Microsoft's Q4 FY2026 earnings reveal a landmark accounting shift that trims $15 billion in reported capex by reclassifying data center leases — while actual infrastructure spending accelerates…

Starbucks posted its fourth consecutive quarter of comparable-store sales growth in Q3 FY2026, led by a 4.2% rise in customer transactions — prompting CNBC's Jim Cramer to call it the standout…

Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45 billion AI hedge fund sold its entire public equity portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after 4x-leveraged semiconductor bets collapsed in July's AI market rout.

Starbucks delivered a decisive fiscal third-quarter earnings beat, with adjusted EPS of $0.85 clearing the $0.66 consensus, revenue hitting $8.3 billion, and global comps jumping 7.9%, prompting…

The Bank of England maintained its benchmark rate at 3.75% on July 30, with Governor Andrew Bailey citing softer domestic inflation and rising global uncertainty as grounds for the hold.

U.S. futures turned positive July 30 as softer PCE inflation and Microsoft's earnings beat overshadowed weak GDP, while Treasury yields climbed to multi-decade highs.

Initial weekly unemployment filings came in below the 200,000 consensus forecast as the prior week's 187,000 reading marked the lowest level since September 1969.

The June Personal Consumption Expenditures report met expectations, with headline inflation at 3.7% and core at 3.3%, as a sharp fall in gas station prices provided notable relief to consumers.

The U.S. economy expanded at a 1.5% annualized pace in the second quarter of 2026, falling short of the 2.1% consensus estimate and decelerating from Q1's matching 2.1% rate, as federal spending…

June's inflation data release lands in line with forecasts at 3.7% headline and 3.3% core PCE, as Q2 GDP decelerates to 1.5%, with Apple, Amazon, and Coinbase reporting after the close.

A two-hour overnight fighter jet strike campaign hit 12-plus IRGC sites; Brent crude slipped in early Asian trade despite Iran's vow to punish the aggressor today.

The 30-year Treasury yield surged to a 19-year high of 5.21% on Wednesday, as bond markets delivered a blunt verdict on the Federal Reserve's fifth consecutive rate hold under Chair Kevin Warsh.

Microsoft beat fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 estimates across every major line, with azure cloud revenue growing 43% and an unchanged calendar-2026 capital spending plan sending shares up 8.5% in…

Meta Platforms fell nearly 10% in premarket trading after Q2 2026 earnings missed on EPS, Q3 revenue guidance came in below consensus, and free cash flow collapsed 91% year-on-year.

Microsoft's Q4 FY2026 microsoft earnings overview reveals record $90 billion quarterly revenue, a 43% Azure jump, and 30 million Copilot seats validating the company's AI-first strategy.

Meta Platforms beat Q2 2026 revenue estimates with $60.8 billion in sales but missed earnings-per-share expectations as AI infrastructure spending more than doubled and free cash flow collapsed 91%.

X Corp challenged Australian authorities before a Senate committee in late July 2026, arguing that Canberra's planned expansion of the eSafety Commissioner's enforcement powers failed to give "due…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the FT that blocking Chinese AI models is not an effective strategy and warned of regulatory capture by dominant U.S. frontier labs.

South Korean and Japanese semiconductor shares suffered their worst session in months as a trillion-dollar global chip selloff erased gains built on peak-AI-spend expectations.