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Aug 20 (Reuters) - The main U.S. indexes opened lower on Thursday as a rebound in government bond yields hurt sentiment, while retail bellwether Walmart's rare sales miss disappointed investors.
Revenue hit $83.8M with 85% organic growth; backlog expanded to $757M.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei could receive super-voting shares ahead of the AI company’s potential IPO, giving him and other co-founders greater control even as their ownership stakes remain relatively small. Anthropic Reportedly Eyes Super-Voting Shares Ahead of IPO Anthropic is...
Just how encouraged are Target executives about the state of their turnaround project? Target executives said “encouraged” or “encouraging” 20 times on their analyst call Wednesday to discuss second-quarter results—nearly matching 21 such occasions in Q1 and pacing far ahead of the nine times executives used those words on the calls for the first half of last year. Chief Merchandising Officer Cara Sylvester cited progress with the center-store grocery overhaul, including more fresh produce, new focal points for seasonal offerings and added space for growth categories like functional coffee: “The response has been really encouraging.”
CEO Flatt discusses $210B deployable capital and AI infrastructure expansion.
Investing.com -- In a note to clients on Thursday, Citi analysts said the U.S.-Iran conflict and disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz have driven global observed inventory draws of roughly 3 million barrels per day, or 519 million barrels, between February and August 2026.
Walmart stock (WMT) is dropping in Thursday's pre-market trading after releasing second quarter earnings results, outlining slowing sales growth despite the chain topping estimates and raising its full-year guidance. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian and POLITICO senior reporter Sam Sutton to talk about Walmart's outlook and its plans to use its tariff refunds to lower prices.
Sysco on Thursday said it has appointed two new directors with artificial intelligence and industry expertise, while also strengthening board oversight, as the food distributor pushes ahead with its AI-driven transformation. The move comes as food and restaurant companies increasingly adopt AI tools to improve demand forecasting, inventory management, supply-chain planning and customer service. Here are the details: • Jason Murray, CEO of logistics technology firm Shipium and a former Amazon executive, and Tom Ondrof, former CFO of food service company Aramark, will join the board on September 1, increasing its size to 13 directors.
Barclays models $18.5 billion of annual revenue and $6.15 of incremental EPS
Investing.com -- Etsy was upgraded to Buy from Neutral by BofA Securities on Thursday, with the brokerage saying the online marketplace’s recent growth appears increasingly structural and that its estimates remain conservative.
Futu (NASDAQ:FUTU) reported higher second-quarter revenue and profit as trading activity, client assets and funded accounts increased, supported by strong U.S. equity interest, Hong Kong IPO activity and growth across overseas markets. Total revenue for the second quarter rose 36% year over year to
The latest hint of how Democrats might scrutinize President Trump’s business empire should they regain control of Congress in November: another bill targeting Trump Media’s sale of faster access to his Truth Social posts. Lawmakers led by Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., today introduced a bill that would ban social-media firms from selling prioritized access to government officials’ accounts, as well as trading based on material information they post. Trump Media recently said at least 10 firms signed up for Truth API for as much as $100,000 a month, describing the product as a “fractionally faster” feed for clients such as trading firms.
The Hyperliquid token jumped 26% after Trump said regulators were working to bring the decentralized exchange to the U.S.
Stock futures saw a big drop ahead of Thursday's opening bell after Walmart released disappointing results. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slid 407 points, or 0.8%. S&P 500 futures fell 0.5%. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.
A late-night tariff pause between the U.S. and Canada left nothing signed and everything at stake, but three stocks are already pricing in a deal that could still fall apart before the ink dries.
David Ford, who chairs the investing committee for the University of Connecticut’s endowment, has what he calls a “good dilemma.”
Moby summary of Wolfspeed, Inc.'s Q4 2026 earnings call
Moby summary of Nordson Corporation's Q3 2026 earnings call
Walmart CFO John David Rainey said the timing of Flipkart’s Big Billion Days sale will shift between the third and fourth quarters, creating a headwind of more than 100 basis points to third-quarter sales growth.
Walmart Inc. (NASDAQ:WMT) shares fell around 6% in premarket trading on Thursday after the retail giant reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter earnings and revenue, but disappointed investors with weaker comparable sales growth at its U.
Deere shares are up about 3% in premarket trading after the machinery maker's quarterly profit topped expectations despite continued weakness in its large farm equipment business. The company got back $110 million in tariff refunds during the quarter that ended Aug.
E-commerce, membership and advertising are driving the retailer’s growth. Walmart’s stock fell over 6% in premarket trading.
Billionaire shale pioneer Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources Inc. signed agreements to buy half of an Argentinian shale oil firm owned by Mercuria Energy Group, with the firms promising more than $4 billion of investment to expand production.
The equipment maker raised its full-year net income forecast to $4.75 billion–$5 billion after its construction and forestry segment posted an 84% jump in operating profit
SK Hynix followed the same post-IPO crash pattern as SpaceX and Cerebras, but what happened to its fundamentals during that stumble sets it apart from every other stock in the trillion-dollar club.
Investing.com -- Bernstein upgraded Analog Devices to Outperform from Market Perform and lifted its price target to $465 from $430, citing improving risk-reward following a strong fiscal third-quarter report and outlook.
After skyrocketing 1,027% off a low, Relay Therapeutics taps AI and machine learning to fuel more gains.
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