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Furniture retailers have spent years waiting for the housing market to revive demand for sofas, beds, and other big-ticket home purchases. That rebound remains elusive, but some of the industry's biggest players are finding growth anyway. Wayfair reported second-quarter net revenue of $3.5 billion, ...

Bob Ross, perhaps America’s most prolific artist, created more than 30,000 portraits over his long career in television through simple techniques, a narrow array of colors, and a gentle mannerism. A similar approach to financial markets this summer, however, would be terribly difficult to replicate. Stocks are flying off the shelves, bonds are warning of massive economic and inflation risks while simultaneously discounting Federal Reserve rate hikes, and volatility readings are at the lowest levels of the year despite myriad geopolitical risks.

Picture three students turning in exams on the same day, covering the same material. Two walk away with high marks. The third has been raising his grades all semester, yet still gets flagged for summer school. That is roughly the dynamic inside the BofA research note on biotech I received on the ...

Solana is about to get significantly faster. A major upgrade expected to land in September will cut transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds, a reduction of nearly 99% that developers say will make the network feel almost instantaneous for end users. The ...

Moby summary of CSP Inc.'s Q3 2026 earnings call

CEO Ron Vachris’ comments came as Costco fights a class-action lawsuit seeking to force it to pass along any government reimbursement.

Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital held Amazon shares worth about $215 million as of ‌the end of June, a regulatory filing showed ‌on Friday, adding to the venture capital firm's list of ​tech and AI investments. Known for its early investments in companies that have gone on to dominate their sectors, including OpenAI, SpaceX and Stripe, the venture capital firm has ‌been looking for ⁠opportunities in large technology companies to expand its public-market holdings. • Thrive held 904,038 Amazon ⁠shares valued at $215.5 million as of June 30, the filing showed.

Moby summary of Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s Q2 2026 earnings call

Softbank Group Corp. unveiled a new ‌stake in Capital One and disclosed ‌that it sold 71.5% of its stake in Taiwan ​Semiconductor Holdings during the second quarter in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Institutional investors, including wealth management entities, endowments, ‌pension funds, ⁠hedge funds and others, are required to file a list of ⁠their holdings as of the end of each calendar quarter with the Wall Street ​regulator. In the ​most recent quarter, ​ended June 30, ‌Softbank disclosed it had acquired 276,811 shares of Capital One, valued at $55.5 million, as of the end of the period.

JPMorgan Chase ended its banking relationship with prediction market Polymarket last October over regulatory concerns, according to people familiar with the matter. The move adds fuel to fights in Washington over debanking and growing nationwide scrutiny of prediction markets’ business practices, though the bank still maintains some ties to Polymarket and other prediction-market companies. A Polymarket spokesman said the company maintains “a close, active relationship with JPMorgan across multiple entities.”

The 28-year-old admitted in court to killing UnitedHealthcare leader Brian Thompson, but a state murder trial still looms.

Two senior OpenAI executives announced their departures in the same week that the company reported staggering revenue growth, and the timing points to forces most headlines are missing entirely.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has limited what he says to public audiences.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Blackstone Inc. and Apollo Global Management Inc. had been working tirelessly for months to draw up debt deals that would help developers of artificial intelligence systems pay for chips from Nvidia Corp.

The hosts of the Acquired podcast found that ESPN was the perfect multidecade funding source for acquisitions and theme parks

Microsoft stock spent most of 2026 in the penalty box. The AI spending looked too heavy. The returns were not yet visible. Then the company reported fourth-quarter results on July 29, and the stock jumped more than 27%. Azure crossed $100 billion. Copilot showed real adoption numbers. The narrative ...

Tracey Ryniec and John Blank debate the slowing job market while AI spending is also booming.

Silver Lake's potential Workday buyout could bolster battered software valuations by showing that private equity remains confident in ‌the industry's prospects despite fears of AI disruption, analysts and investors ‌said on Friday. Shares of the human-resources and financial management software company soared nearly 18% on Thursday ​after Reuters exclusively reported about its acquisition talks with Silver Lake, which pushed its market value to more than $51 billion. The enthusiasm provided some relief to a sector hammered this year by fears that AI tools capable of generating computer code and ‌creating applications could erode ⁠the need for software services, which have long been one of Silicon Valley's most reliable cash generators.

The founder of Baron Capital told investors that SpaceX (SPCX) could be worth $40 trillion in the next 10 to 15 years. For context, that number is close to the value of every public company in the United States combined today. Baron is not a stranger to calls like this. He made a similar bet ...

He admitted in court to killing UnitedHealthcare leader Brian Thompson, but a state murder trial still looms.

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges related to the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. This happened in New York federal court Friday morning. Mangione also faces charges in New York state court. June Grasso of Bloomberg Law is following the breaking news on Bloomberg Radio and has more.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing to ease a rule that restricts investment advisers from working for public pension funds if they’ve made political donations to state and local elected officials.

The billionaire is part of a consortium buying a minority stake in the storied Premier League soccer team.

Fenway Sports Group sold a minority stake in Liverpool FC, with Amazon.com Inc. co-founder Jeff Bezos joining the ownership of one of the world’s most famous sports teams.

SK Hynix is the IBD Stock Of The Day as the South Korean memory-chip maker continues to benefit from high demand from AI data centers.

Reddit will join the S&P 500 next week, giving the wide-ranging online forum a boost in prestige and investments. Joining the S&P 500 is considered an achievement for a company because the index is a widely followed measure of the broader U.S. stock market’s health. Reddit's stock surged nearly 14% around midday Friday.

GLNG's second-quarter 2026 earnings and revenues improve year over year.

Tesla is working on a prototype for a flying version of its long-awaited new Roadster built using special SpaceX-designed thrusters.

American drone companies got a sudden lift in the stock market Friday after President Trump announced plans to impose tariffs on imported drones.

Yahoo Finance Market and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferre join the Executive Editor Brian Sozzi on the Opening Bid panel to preview Nvidia's (NVDA) upcoming earnings and assess what could be next for stock in the weeks ahead.