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A major federal child-safety trial is underway.

Retail earnings are set to offer a check of consumer health this week as the second quarter earnings season winds down.

Retail earnings are set to offer a check of consumer health this week as the second quarter earnings season winds down.

The backlash against artificial intelligence and the data centers needed to run it is becoming such a touchy election issue that Wall Street is being forced to factor it into its stock market recommendations.

Wells Fargo Flags Strong AI Demand for CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Before Results

The company says every month of court-ordered delay costs it roughly $7 million a day in ticking fees owed to Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders

Recessions can be scary. But you can actually benefit from them with the proper planning.

STOCKHOLM, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Klarna (KLAR) stock fell 19% before the bell on Tuesday after the the Swedish "buy now, pay later" services ‌provider and online bank, trimmed its full-year GMV ‌to between $149 billion and $151 ​billion, from ​greater than $155 billion seen previously, citing "a more measured view of primarily ​German volumes, ‌our largest market by volume."

President Trump is asking cybersecurity and tech companies to take on a potentially dangerous new role attacking foreign cybercriminals, but the plan offers few incentives to balance the risks. Genetic testing lab Baylor Genetics disclosed a cyber incident where a hacker had access to certain internal systems between June 11 and June 17. An unspecified number of patients had their medical testing and lab results compromised while current and former employees had their Social Security numbers and financial account data exposed, Baylor said.

ShengShu Technology, an artificial intelligence video platform backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is considering a Hong Kong initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.

Appliance maker SharkNinja is building a tool to allow its finance team to monitor profitability in real time, potentially shaving weeks off the cumbersome process of building a forecast. The tool is one of several big bets that SharkNinja is making on AI. For the company’s finance function, building a monthly forecast can take as long as several weeks, according to Chief Financial Officer Adam Quigley.

Find insight on the Agricultural Bank of China, Aegon and more in the latest Market Talks covering financial services.

Xiaomi Corp. posted its third consecutive profit decline, underscoring the heavy toll a persistent global memory shortage has taken on one of the world’s top smartphone makers.

Home Depot (HD) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +4.46% and +1.33%, respectively, for the quarter ended July 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Homeowners took on smaller, DIY projects during the recent quarter despite economic uncertainty, driving Home Depot’s sales higher. Still, steep interest rates and continued inflation continue to keep homeowners from taking out debt to tackle larger, months-long renovations, CFO Richard McPhail said in an interview.

The most widely followed gauge of market fear and uncertainty was rising on Tuesday as investors fretted about a flare-up in oil prices that could drive inflation higher and strengthen the case for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates.

Most investors expect the global economy to experience stagflation, or weak growth combined with high inflation, in the next 12 months, Bank of America's global fund manager survey for August shows. The survey also shows a net 14% of investors expect stronger economic growth over the next 12 months, down from 21% last month.

Houthi militants are ramping up attacks along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, shutting operations at a strategic seaport and pushing closer to the Bab al-Mandeb, a critical shipping chokepoint, The Wall Street Journal’s Jared Malsin and Saleh al-Batati write. The militant group’s recent missile and drone attacks forced the closure of the port of Mokha, a key logistics hub for civilian shipping and for anti-Houthi forces operating along the coast, Yemeni authorities said. Shutting down the port makes it harder for the anti-Houthi forces to resupply and resist Houthi attacks.

President Donald Trump is pressuring longtime American ally South Korea over trade and security by, once again, making public overtures to Kim Jong Un.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is heading to trial in California federal court on Tuesday as a coalition of 29 U. S.

Aug 18 () - Einride AB said on Tuesday it plans to deploy 500 Tesla ‌trucks across its North American operations over ‌the next two years, in what would be the largest ​rollout of heavy-duty electric vehicles to date. The Sweden-based freight technology company said the deployment, beginning in September 2026, would support customers such as Amazon across ‌freight corridors in ⁠California, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois and Georgia, tripling its electric truck fleet.

​📈 Follow our live markets data and coverage. If there’s any business for which changing course really is like turning around a supertanker, it’s Big Oil. At the beginning of this year, the Western world’s five large, integrated energy companies were talking about things like “structural cost efficiencies,” “consistent delivery” and “superior shareholder returns, despite declining oil prices.”

Xiaomi continues to face headwinds, with pricier memory chips pressuring smartphone margins, and reduced subsidies adding to already subdued consumer demand.

Homeowners took on smaller, spring maintenance projects during the recent quarter despite continuing economic uncertainty, driving Home Depot’s sales higher and giving the company confidence to back its full-year outlook.

By Diana Novak Jones Aug 18 (Reuters) - A coalition of states suing Meta Platforms over claims Facebook and Instagram were designed in ways that harmed young users' mental health will begin making its

SpaceX doesn’t waste any time developing rockets, launching satellites, or making big moves to build its AI business. The purchased company is essentially an AI software development tool. A user can tell Cursor to develop, say, a touch screen-based user interface.

China's Xiaomi Corp posted a fall of 42.6% in second-quarter net profit on Tuesday, missing analysts' estimates, as higher costs ‌of memory and other components squeezed margins for the maker of smartphones ‌and electric vehicles. Adjusted net profit of 6.2 billion yuan ($919.50 million)for the period from April to June, fell ​short of an average analyst estimate of 6.6 billion yuan, according to LSEG data. Xiaomi's smartphone revenue fell 7.5% year-on-year to 42.1 billion yuan, while its smartphone gross margin declined ⁠to 8.5% from 11.5% a year earlier, clipped by higher prices for key components.

Etched, founded by Harvard dropouts, has its own in-office data center and has signed quant-trading firm Jane Street as its first customer.

The trajectory of L3Harris’s Christopher Kubasik highlights a familiar pattern: CEOs accused of misconduct often go on to nab top jobs elsewhere.

Young people have the time to maximize perks. American Express and JPMorgan Chase want to lure them to their high-end cards.