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Shares of Alphabet rose Wednesday after a federal judge rejected a Justice Department request that Google sell its online advertising business. Alphabet stock advanced 1% to $338.51 on Wednesday, while the and the both gained 0.5%. Judge Leonie Brinkema on Wednesday dismissed the Trump administration’s move to force Google to sell AdX, the company’s online exchange tool for publishers and advertisers.

Waymo is in the final stages of talks to raise debt for the first time, tapping lenders including Pacific Investment Management Co. for more than $3 billion as it looks to become the leading robotaxi company globally.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Google to retool the system powering its monopoly in digital advertising, sparing the company from a wrenching breakup sought by the U.S. government. The initial two-page decision by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia marks the second time in a year that Google has received a reprieve from a Justice Department proposal to dismantle its internet empire. Meanwhile, what courts have described as the company's anti-competitive practices, have enriched Google's corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., which has a market value of $4.11 trillion.

The US Justice Department expanded its antitrust inquiry of the meatpacking industry by demanding information on surging beef prices from eight major food retailers, including Amazon.com Inc., Costco Wholesale Corp. and Walmart Inc.

Investing.com -- The New York Stock Exchange has used Anthropic PBC's Project Glasswing to identify and address vulnerabilities in its cyber security systems, according to exchange President Lynn Martin.

NVIDIA and Dell are both surging on separate catalysts today, but the chip sector fund is barely moving, and that split reveals something important about where the real AI buildout money is actually flowing.

A federal judge in Virginia declined to order Google to sell AdX, handing the DOJ its second straight loss in efforts to break up the tech giant

The Attorney General of New Jersey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that could determine the fate of sports prediction markets. The Supreme Court accepts a fraction of so-called petitions of certiorari, but the high court could be compelled to weigh in given the growing disputes between states, which regulate gambling, and federal regulators, who oversee the event contracts that drive prediction markets. A Supreme Court case would be closely watched by online betting firms like DraftKings and Flutter whose stocks are up more than 4% today, along with newer prediction-market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket.

Google avoids a forced divestiture of its advertising exchange despite an earlier ruling that it illegally monopolized key ad-tech markets.

(Updates with Google's response to a request for comment in the penultimate paragraph and the Justic

J.M. Smucker stock jumped after an earnings beat and debt reduction to 2.9x leverage, though weak volume trends and an overbought RSI raise questions about the rally's durability.

The chain faces an uphill battle since it can’t compete on price.

The German delivery company said its management and supervisory boards had independently reviewed the U.S. giant’s offer.

Investing.com -- Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR) shares plunged 7% on Wednesday. While the broader market context remains complex, the sharp sell-off appears directly tied to Google’s sudden entry into Palantir’s most lucrative territory: specialized government and defense AI. The decline accelerated shortly after Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence model built explicitly for cybersecurity, vulnerability detection, and automated patching. Cruc

A federal judge rejected the Justice Department's bid to force Google to sell its AdX advertising exchange.

Software's biggest winners are selling off hard today while the broader tech index barely flinches, and the disconnect between those two moves reveals something traders need to understand before Snowflake's report hits after the close.

Koss' fiscal Q4 earnings per share benefit on the back of DTC strength, tariff refunds and a favorable sales mix, while weakness in European markets persists.

Investing.com -- Google announced a pair of upgraded artificial-intelligence models on Wednesday, sharpening its focus on government and enterprise cybersecurity in a bid to insulate its AI revenues from industry-wide price pressures The tech giant released Gemini 3.8 Flash, an upgraded version of its primary workhorse model for coding and multi-step reasoning, alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a specialized variant built specifically for vulnerability detection and automated software patching.

The “Mad Money” host said Nvidia should take a page out of Apple’s playbook.

Find insight on Uber Technologies, Volkswagen, BMW and more in the latest Market Talks covering auto and transport.

By Niket Nishant and Tharuniyaa Lakshmi Sept 2 (Reuters) - The major U.S. stock indexes were set to end a three-day losing streak on Wednesday, as investors cautiously dipped back into equities

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (NYSE:HPE) reports fiscal third-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday, and prediction traders see little suspense over whether it clears Wall Street’s earnings bar. The bigger question may be what CEO Antonio Neri says about HPE’s AI...

MARKETS MAIN Bond-market turmoil and war are top of mind for investors today. Treasury yields reversed earlier gains, after a Fed official suggested that a rate hike isn’t certain this month. U.S. stocks are advancing, led by the Dow industrials.

A US federal judge on Wednesday refused to force Google to sell a division of its digital advertising business, rejecting the government's push to break up part of the company's ad empire.The decision is the second time in recent years that a federal judge has declined to dismantle a piece of Google's business, after a judge last year refused to force the sale of its Chrome browser in a separate monopoly case over online search.

Major sports TV events helped boost overall sports betting as well as the loosening of legal restrictions around wagering in many states.

GitLab shares surged over 20% after Q2 FY2027 revenue rose 21.3% and guidance improved, with analysts raising price targets and institutions accumulating shares amid strong enterprise demand.

FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL) reported third-quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of $33 million, down 29% from $46.7 million in the prior-year period, as fewer module deliveries to South Korea and lower generation output weighed on results. The company also highlighted new data-center-related commercial act

Google won't be forced to spin off its "network" ad business, which sells ads on others publishers' inventory, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

Google won't be forced to spin off its "network" ad business, which sells ads on others publishers' inventory, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

It was nearly 12 months ago that Oracle stock surged a record 36% on AI optimism. The company has had a rough run since then.