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By Joanna Plucinska and Tim Hepher LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) - Airbus on Wednesday revised down its 20-year industry-wide forecast for passenger aircraft demand by 1% after the Iran war and trade

U.S. futures and European equities extended losses in late morning European trading, as market fear further conflict in the Middle East.

Apple is ramping up its investment in U.S.-made chips, with plans to spend more than $30 billion with Broadcom in the next five years. The investment is the largest Apple has specified as part of its pledge to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over four years, a pledge that helped the company secure an exemption from proposed Trump administration tariffs. Apple said the investment will enable Broadcom to expand a manufacturing facility in Fort Collins, Colo.

Insurers want to do the same next year. “It is a stunning jump” when you add both years together, said Cynthia Cox, senior vice president at KFF, a health-research nonprofit. At the request of The Wall Street Journal, KFF analyzed the rate requests for the largest ACA plans by enrollment in 15 states where insurers’ 2027 filings have already become public, as well as the District of Columbia.

Analysts expect tariff refunds and lower fuel costs to offset the discounts, leaving Walmart's profit guidance intact.

The inflation devil is in the details.

Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting will be released today. Investors will also be watching on Friday for the expected start of trading for SK Hynix’s U.S.-listed shares. The South Korean chip maker is the latest global company to surpass $1 trillion in market value.

U.S. forces carried out a "series of powerful strikes" against Iran late Tuesday after the Middle Eastern country struck three commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

FedEx is guiding for a major profit acceleration, but on its latest earnings call, analysts pressed hard on whether the growth is real or just a story of well-timed costs.

Tariffs pressured food costs, but pricing and labor efficiencies drove margin expansion.

The major gauges wavered after strikes in Iran resumed to end a brief period of stability.

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Investors expected a much simpler economy by now. Inflation was expected to keep easing, consumers were expected to bend under higher prices, and the next big Fed debate was supposed to be about when rate cuts could begin. However, Bank of America isn’t telling that story. The bank sees an economy ...

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Spain's GDP outperform the Eurozone's in the first quarter, and the economy will probably beat the eurozone for the full year.

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Warsh is early in his tenure as the new chair of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, but investors are awaiting big changes.

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The Costco $1.50 hot dog is a cultural phenomenon, and thankfully one of the things Americans can rely on in the era of higher post-Covid inflation. Midera makes grinders, mixers, blenders, ovens, and automation products for the food industry, including equipment to make Costco hot dogs. Middleby typically trades hundreds of thousands of shares a day.

Gold fell as investors weighed Fed rate signals and fresh shipping attacks around the Strait of Hormuz.

The stock market has broadened in a way many investors have been waiting years to see. While artificial intelligence has helped create more than a dozen trillion-dollar companies and kept mega-cap technology stocks in the spotlight, smaller companies have quietly staged an even stronger comeback. Over the past 12 months, the Russell 2000 has gained ... Will the Federal Reserve Crush the Small-Cap Stock Revival?

US stock index futures traded cautiously on Tuesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a record high in the previous session, while investors weighed another strong earnings update from Samsung Electronics (USOTC:SSNHZ) alongside fresh comments from Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller. Futures pause after Wall Street recordsBy 03:02 ET (07:02 GMT), futures linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were little changed.

Maryland state agencies asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to end an extra 0.5% return the transmission owners earn for being PJM Interconnection members.

Enhancements to the carrier’s sales workforce and tech are positioning the business for revenue growth in H2.

The president's latest comments on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) threaten to undermine policymakers' credibility.

Investors are looking ahead to Wednesday—when minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting will be released. They’ll also be watching for today's inclusion of SpaceX in the Nasdaq-100 index and Friday, when SK Hynix’s U.

U.S. chip design giant Synopsys plans to stop offering a suite of manufacturing process control software used by global semiconductor makers, six sources briefed on the matter said, as it seeks to ‌divert resources to higher-margin offerings such as AI design. Synopsys in April and May informed more than 10 chipmakers including Samsung Electronics, ‌SK Hynix, Kioxia Holdings Corp and Qorvo Inc about the "end of life" move that means Synopsys will not provide future new versions and will only carry out maintenance obligations, two of ​the sources said.

AI-driven momentum is keeping bulls in high spirits after the Dow’s record close, though investors are a bit cautious ahead of the Fed minutes and fresh corporate catalysts.

If you own J.P. Morgan Chase stock, the last two weeks delivered everything a shareholder could want. JPMorgan cleared the Federal Reserve's stress test, unveiled a record $50 billion buyback, and lifted its dividend 10%, The Motley Fool reported. None of that changes a stubborn arithmetic ...