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Dominion Energy announced Wednesday afternoon that it had filed paperwork with the State Corporation Commission to begin its proposed merger with Florida-based NextEra. If the Virginia SCC and other equivalent regulatory bodies in North Carolina, South Carolina and at the federal level approve the $67 billion deal, the merger would create the world’s largest regulated electric utility. The SCC ...
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining more than a quarter of a percent, the S&P 500 adding over a third of a percent and the Nasdaq climbing more than six-tenths of a percent.</p><p>A second day of solid bank earnings added momentum to an auspicious beginning to second-quarter reporting season.</p><p>BlackRock and Morgan Stanley both beat quarterly profit expectations, with shares of BlackRock advancing over 6.5% and Morgan Stanley also ending higher.</p><p>Strong earnings combined with more cooler-than-expected inflation data, in the form of June wholesale prices, helped lift stocks, says Melissa Brown, managing director of investment decision research at SimCorp.</p><p>"We saw some good earnings from the financial companies. And, you know, on top of that, there's just still the same buzz around the AI trade, around what's happening with semiconductors. And there's, we haven't really seen a lot of bad news. The inflation news has been better than expected, although I would argue still not good. So inflation is still higher than the Fed's target, even though it has come in a little bit lower than expected. But I think, you know, kind of all those things are conspiring to make it a good but not blowout day today."</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, PayPal surged more than 17% after sources told Reuters that Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered to acquire it.</p><p>And shares of United Airlines dipped in extended trading despite the carrier saying it expected full-year profit at the high end of its prior forecast, as the company's third-quarter outlook was short of Wall Street expectations.</p></body>
Cooler-than-expected producer prices contributed to hopes for easing inflation on Wednesday.
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Consumer spending on travel, entertainment and gas remained resilient despite inflation and tighter monetary policy risks.
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Heartland Advisors, an investment management company, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter for the “Heartland Value Plus Fund”. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Small-cap stocks rose in the second quarter, with the Russell 2000® Index increasing 21.49%, outpacing the 15.20% gain for the S&P 500 Index. The artificial intelligence trade continues […]
Fresh signs of cooling U.S. inflation revive demand for Treasuries, pushing yields down. June producer price index falls 0.3%. Ex-food and energy, PPI rises 0.2%. Both measures come below WSJ consensus forecast.
U.S. stocks caught a break this week—and found a window in which to exploit it over the next two weeks—as inflation data suggest a taming of Federal Reserve rate-hike bets and the outlook from a key player in the market for artificial intelligence outpaced Wall Street’s forecasts. Tuesday’s inflation data got the ball rolling, with the softest monthly print since the Covid-19 pandemic and annual gains that fell shy of Wall Street estimates cratering bets on a July Fed rate hike.
A cooler-than-expected PPI print helped solidify stock futures' climb into the green. Nasdaq futures led, up 0.6%. S&P 500 futures and Dow futures both rose 0.2%. June's producer price index came in at 5.
The main US stock measures were trending higher in Wednesday's premarket activity as traders await t
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading higher after a nice bounce-back day for Wall Street, as a tepid June consumer price index report, combined with the President dropping the big Strait of Hormuz tolls, brought buyers back to the table. When the final bell rang, all of the major indices finished the day higher. The ... Here Are Wednesday’s Top Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Allstate, AMC Entertainment, Boeing, CAVA Group, Check Point Software, Digital Realty Trust, FedEx, IBM, UPS
U. S. stock futures traded modestly higher on Wednesday after inflation data came in below expectations, easing concerns that the Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates in the near term.
July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher as investors braced for a fresh wave of corporate earnings as well as producer inflation data due later Wednesday, while PayPal shares surged
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