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News of the day for June 29, 2026

Investing.com - U.S. stock futures rose on Monday as investors assessed reports that Washington and Tehran had agreed to halt recent hostilities around the Strait of Hormuz and resume diplomatic talks, easing fears of broader disruptions in the Middle East.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Monday on U.S.-Iran news. SpaceX stock rallied on its addition to the Nasdaq-100 index.

Current shareholders would receive shares in both companies under the planned split, Comcast said Monday.

Comcast’s media businesses, including NBC, Peacock and Universal, are moving one step closer to a sale.

Comcast announced plans to separate into two companies through a tax-free spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky. Comcast stock soared on the news.

NBCUniversal will include the group’s large theme parks operation and its Sky business in Europe.

The split will create two independent companies — one focused on broadband and wireless, the other on media and entertainment

The benchmark US stock measures were tracking in the green before the opening bell Monday as the US

Shares in the conglomerate soared about 20% premarket after it said it plans to separate into two companies through a tax-free spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky. If Comcast holds through those gains through today's session, it would notch its largest one-day percentage increase since 2008.

Sky, the owner of Sky News, is to become part of NBCUniversal under a spin-off plan revealed by parent firm Comcast. The US group said it was to create a Comcast focused on its business services, wireless and broadband operation. The media and theme park empires would be hived off to form the separately-listed NBCUniversal.

Wall Street futures pointed moderately higher pre-bell Monday as last week's tech rout receded and t

The spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky will separate the company’s connectivity business from its film, theme park and streaming operations.

Comcast stated in its announcement that it intends to split into two independent publicly traded companies.

Comcast is planning to split itself into two separate publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky. The planned move comes after Comcast announced in November 2024 that it was spinning off cable networks such as USA, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel, as well as CNBC and MSNBC into a new company. Like other cable companies, Comcast in recent years has shifted its business emphasis away from traditional cable toward streaming and other sources of revenue, such as its movie studio, theme parks and home wireless and internet services.

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Technology stocks were trading higher in premarket trading Monday as the looked set to finally snap its five-day losing streak. Semiconductor companies, other artificial-intelligence stocks, and the Magnificent Seven were among those rebounding to start the week. Microsoft jumped 2% ahead of the open, while Amazon Alphabet Nvidia Meta and Tesla were all up around 1%.

Comcast will split into two publicly traded companies through a spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky, separating its ‌cash-generating broadband arm from a media and entertainment business ‌under pressure from streaming rivals and industry consolidation. The latest U.S. media industry shake-up follows years of cord-cutting as legacy players chase scale to better compete with Netflix while Paramount Skydance's $110 billion deal for Warner Bros Discovery is ‌set to boost competition. Comcast, ⁠which leans on cable for much of its cash flow, is also losing broadband customers to fixed wireless ⁠offerings from T-Mobile and Verizon and to fiber rivals building out networks.

↘️British American Tobacco (UK: BATS): The tobacco giant and maker of Dunhill cigarettes saw its London-listed shares drop more than 1% after it announced plans to cut 5,500 jobs and outsource a further 3,500 roles.

June 29 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Monday, led by strong gains in the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100, as easing tensions in the Middle East lifted sentiment following days of hostilities

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