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Alcoa shares are on track for their worst day since President Trump announced sweeping tariffs in April 2025, trading as much as 12% lower after the Pittsburgh company said it would pay up to $5.6 billion for bauxite, alumina and aluminum assets in South Africa, Australia and Brazil. The BHP spinoff will receive $3.1 billion in cash, newly issued Alcoa stock worth roughly $1 billion that it plans to distribute to shareholders and future payments that could reach $750 million. The deal comes amid a decline in aluminum prices from near record highs reached when fighting in the Persian Gulf blocked the region's aluminum smelters from global markets.

The deal would nearly triple the size of CEVA Logistics' North American contract logistics operations and includes multiyear air and ocean freight agreements

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan says a recession is not coming despite his firm predicting three Federal Reserve rate hikes and inflation through 2028.

FedEx is selling off its supply chain services division to CMA CGM, which will fold the business into its Ceva Logistics subsidiary. The post FedEx sells supply chain unit to CMA CGM for $1.4B appeared first on FreightWaves.

Investing.com - U.S. stock futures pointed lower on Wednesday as investors awaited fresh remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh and monitored uncertain peace talks between the United States and Iran.

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Net income increased by just over four times, or 407%, to $1.06bn in the quarter.

Fed officials now believe higher interest rates will be necessary to curb inflation.

U.S. stock futures were heading for losses to kick off the third quarter of the year. Markets are looking ahead to an appearance by Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh at a central-banking forum. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down 242 points, or 0.5%.

Ford Motor is recalling more than 740,000 vehicles due to a transmission and parking system issue, federal regulators said. The recall covers 741,195 vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said. Dealers will update vehicle software and inspect and replace any damaged transmission components free of charge, the NHTSA said.

Bitcoin was falling, trading below the key $60,000 level, as it struggled to recover from its recent sharp selloff. The market is digesting the prospect of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, lifting the dollar and weighing on bitcoin, said Stephen Coltman at 21Shares in a note. Meanwhile, crypto-hoarding group Strategy said on Monday that it might sell bitcoin to raise up to $1.25 billion in cash to help cover dividend payments on its preferred stock and the interest on outstanding debt, as well as to fund its share-repurchase program and cash reserve.

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The Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:AVUV) is having the kind of year that small-cap value advocates have been promising since 2021. AVUV is up 23% year to date and 39% over the past 12 months, beating the Russell 2000 by roughly two points and outpacing the passive small-cap value benchmark by a wider ... What AVUV Investors Need to Watch: Rate Cuts and Regional Bank Exposure

Grayscale’s latest report argued this cycle's drawdown is unlikely to match the 80% declines of prior bear markets due to stronger institutional demand and a more mature market structure.

After a roller-coaster week in the markets, thanks to flip-flopping sentiment about AI spending, investors will get plenty more action on the calendar as we enter jobs week.

JPMorgan’s Bruce Kasman is putting a tougher Fed risk back in front of investors. In an interview with CNBC, as cited by Seeking Alpha, the bank’s chief global economist said inflation remains stickier than markets currently appreciate, warning that the Federal Reserve might have to raise interest ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said federal law prevents judges from reviewing Medicare’s decision to include certain kidney drugs in the dialysis payment bundle.

Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley has retained its forecast for the Federal Reserve to hold interest rates through year-end, but warned that a drop in unemployment below 4% or persistently elevated inflation could force a rethink in favor of rate hikes.

Operating income fell nearly 67% in the fourth quarter, weighed down by $205 million in spinoff costs, though revenue rose 4.8%

The cryptocurrency market meltdown continued on Thursday as fears of rising inflation and potential rate hikes weighed on investor sentiment Cryptocurrency24-Hour Gains +/-Price (Recorded at 9:35 p.m. EDT)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)-2.45%$59,273.96Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) -3.68%$1,558.39XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) -4.04%$1.02Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) -0.71%$67.16Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) -3.11%$0.07384 Crypto Market Turns Bloody Red Bitcoin’s descent showed no signs of slowing down, as the apex cryptocurrency fell below

Meta has hired the founding team of security startup Virtue AI to protect its upcoming autonomous software agents amid growing federal oversight.

The Federal Reserve's primary inflation gauge, the core PCE price index, showed the 12-month inflation rate hitting its highest level since October 2023, as Wall Street expected. S&P 500 futures are solidly higher early Thursday after a three-session losing streak sparked in part by the prospect for tighter monetary policy under new Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh. Rate-hike expectations have sent the U.S. dollar surging to its highest level in more than a year, even as prospects for rate hikes by other global central banks have faded with tumbling oil prices.

Bond yields dropped and stocks kept rising after the Federal Reserve’s benchmark inflation gauge matched expectations. The core personal expenditures price index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices and is watched closely by the central bank, rose at a 0.

Banks could be negatively impacted as rates stay high.

FedEx's structural improvements and divestitures have it on track to reduce debt and buyback shares, boost shareholder value, and drive its stock price upward.

Inflation is rising — but U.S. consumers seem to be shrugging it off. A key measure of price growth accelerated in May as surging oil prices pushed costs higher

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining just over a third of a percent, while the S&P 500 edged slightly lower and the Nasdaq lost more than four-tenths of a percent.</p><p>Investors were intensely focused on chip maker Micron Technology's results after the closing bell. The stock, which has surged more than 200% this year, climbed in extended trading on Wednesday, after Micron forecast quarterly earnings above Wall Street estimates, signaling that heavy investments in AI-related infrastructure will drive strong demand for its memory chips.</p><p>Michael Landsberg is chief investment officer at Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management.</p><p>"What's happened now is with AI, a lot of these chips are needed to make AI work faster and better. So the demand has really been strong across the entire sector. We think it continues. And that's really, I think, why this rally in that space has got some legs. And we think it could continue for a while."</p><p>Several tech stocks, however, slid during Wednesday's session, including chip designer Cerebras, which tumbled more than 19%. In its first report since going public, Cerebras forecast full-year profit margins would drop below first-quarter figures.&nbsp;</p><p>Concerns around debt-backed AI spending by hyperscalers and mounting fears of a more hawkish Federal Reserve have fueled a market downturn this week that has erased more than $1 trillion in market value from the Nasdaq 100.</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, homebuilders soared after President Donald Trump canceled a planned signing of bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up availability of affordable housing. Shares of Hovnanian Enterprises, PulteGroup and Toll Brothers all ended higher.</p><p>And shares of Hertz tumbled more than 40% after the car-rental firm said it expects second-quarter adjusted core earnings near the lower end of its forecast range and announced a proposed offering of $100 million of common stock.</p></body>

Tesla’s (TSLA) latest federal safety probe isn't a routine crash investigation. It’s a test of one of the greatest assumptions still baked into Tesla’s stock: that the company can turn driver-assistance software into a business considerably more valuable than regular car sales. For years, Tesla has ...