A chip-stock rebound lost steam Monday as artificial-intelligence anxieties and Mideast tensions weighed on markets. Major U.S. stock indexes edged lower, with the Dow industrials leading losses. The Dow dropped 0.6%, or 307 points, while the S&P 500 fell 0.2%.
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A federal judge imposed a 14-day pause, with an Aug. 3 hearing set to review the merger challenge.
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<body><p>STORY: Citing Alphabet's Google and Elon Musk's Tesla as examples, Brown said that "to justify the high valuations that we see in a lot of those names, we would need to see good earnings growth, not just kind of your run-of-the-mill 10%, but you'd want to see higher earnings growth on top of good margins as well."</p><p>The second-quarter earnings season will pick up the pace this week, with results due from big names like Alphabet, Tesla, and Intel, broadening out the picture they provide of the health of corporate America.</p></body>
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Google reported its Q2 earnings after the bell on Wednesday.
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A federal judge has paused Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery in response to a lawsuit last week from a dozen state attorneys general looking to block the deal on antitrust grounds.