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A tame July CPI report lowered odds that the Fed will hike rates in September, while strong AI earnings boosted the broad market.

A wave of tech earnings reports helped lift the S&P 500 back near its highest levels on record on Wednesday. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.5%. Hot artificial intelligence stocks like Super Micro Computer and Lumentum helped power the Nasdaq higher after earnings.

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Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) fell Wednesday even as a benign July inflation report lifted the broader tech market and sent the odds of a September Federal Reserve rate hike to 33%. Headline CPI rose 0.1% in...

Nate Gatten’s appointment comes as Apple navigates tariffs, White House relations and a broader shake-up across its senior leadership ranks.

A Washington tax proposal targeting inflation adjustments on capital gains could reshape what Elon Musk eventually owes on his massive Tesla stake, but the math reveals a far messier picture than the headlines suggest.

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July inflation came in exactly as expected, and stocks rallied for about half an hour. Here's what actually moved the market after that.

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Stocks Rise After July CPI Report. Why the AI Trade Is Back in Focus

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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up +0.25%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.07%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.85%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.38%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26...

A Washington proposal to strip inflation out of capital gains calculations has investors asking a simple question: after 60 years of buy-and-hold investing, could Warren Buffett's tax bill all but disappear? The real answer is more surprising than either side of the debate admits.

One inflation print could decide whether the rally continues

Yahoo Finance Breaking News Reporter Jake Conley and Tech Editor Dan Howley join Julie Hyman on Morning Brief to discuss the state of consumer prices on the heels of the Consumer Price Index print released today. Prices rose 0.1% month over month and 3.4% year over year in July, and Core CPI — which excludes food and energy costs — rose 0.2% monthly and 2.5% yearly. All numbers matched economists' estimates.

CoreWeave and Super Micro Computer earnings lifted AI-linked stocks, while cooling inflation reduced pressure on the Fed to raise rates

Stocks traded higher on Wednesday after the Consumer Price Index report showed inflation moderated in July amid volatile oil price moves during the month.

Aug 12 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened higher on Wednesday as investors assessed largely in-line inflation data, while upbeat earnings from some AI infrastructure companies provided

Stocks were rallying out of the gate on Wednesday after Wall Street shrugged off the latest inflation report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 101 points, or 0.2%. The S&P 500 was up 0.5%. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.

US inflation eased for a second month in July, with consumer prices rising 3.4% from a year earlier, down from 3.5% in June, exactly as economists had forecast, a reading that hands neither side of a divided Federal Reserve fresh ammunition before next month's rate decision.View on euronews

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.2%, and the actively tra

Stock futures edged higher in premarket trading, with futures tied to the Nasdaq up almost 1%. “It’s a step in the right direction,” said Mona Mahajan, head of investment strategy at Edward Jones. There’s “no re-acceleration in inflation, which is what we’d want to see.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises on a key CPI inflation report. Nvidia partner CoreWeave soars on earnings.

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The main US equity benchmarks were trending higher in Wednesday's premarket activity as traders awai

With CPI dropping at 8:30 AM and the Strait of Hormuz near shutdown, Wall Street faces a pivotal morning that could swing stocks sharply in either direction, and analysts at Deutsche Bank, Oppenheimer, Berenberg, and others are already repositioning ahead of the numbers.