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Record net revenues of $21.3 billion drove a 62% earnings-per-share surge.

AI demand drives 30% capacity expansion plans for advanced lithography tools.

While we are still in the opening stages of the Q2 reporting cycle, the early results strongly reinforce the robust corporate earnings trend we've been seeing, with the big banks starting off the Q2 earnings season with remarkable momentum.

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Nvidia’s (NVDA) first H200 shipments to China are unlikely to change its quarterly results. The reported volume is just too low. But it matters to U.S. investors, since Nvidia’s current guidance assumes data-center compute revenue from China will be zero. For the first quarter of fiscal 2027, ...

Data center provider Csquare priced its initial public offering at $21 per ‌share, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, ‌citing sources. Brookfield the Dallas-based company's backer, is considering buying a ​portion of the offering, the report added. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

American Airlines’ board of directors has elected former FedEx and Atlas Air executive as its newest member. The post Former FedEx CFO John Dietrich joins American Airlines board appeared first on FreightWaves.

Dominion Energy announced Wednesday afternoon that it had filed paperwork with the State Corporation Commission to begin its proposed merger with Florida-based NextEra. If the Virginia SCC and other equivalent regulatory bodies in North Carolina, South Carolina and at the federal level approve the $67 billion deal, the merger would create the world’s largest regulated electric utility. The SCC ...

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<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining more than a quarter of a percent, the S&P 500 adding over a third of a percent and the Nasdaq climbing more than six-tenths of a percent.</p><p>A second day of solid bank earnings added momentum to an auspicious beginning to second-quarter reporting season.</p><p>BlackRock and Morgan Stanley both beat quarterly profit expectations, with shares of BlackRock advancing over 6.5% and Morgan Stanley also ending higher.</p><p>Strong earnings combined with more cooler-than-expected inflation data, in the form of June wholesale prices, helped lift stocks, says Melissa Brown, managing director of investment decision research at SimCorp.</p><p>"We saw some good earnings from the financial companies. And, you know, on top of that, there's just still the same buzz around the AI trade, around what's happening with semiconductors. And there's, we haven't really seen a lot of bad news. The inflation news has been better than expected, although I would argue still not good. So inflation is still higher than the Fed's target, even though it has come in a little bit lower than expected. But I think, you know, kind of all those things are conspiring to make it a good but not blowout day today."</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, PayPal surged more than 17% after sources told Reuters that Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered to acquire it.</p><p>And shares of United Airlines dipped in extended trading despite the carrier saying it expected full-year profit at the high end of its prior forecast, as the company's third-quarter outlook was short of Wall Street expectations.</p></body>

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UnitedHealth Group’s stock fell hard in 2025. When the healthcare insurer reports second-quarter results Thursday, the company’s 2026 bounceback has investors eager for confirmation that medical spending trends are in hand. UnitedHealth has notched a series of wins heading into earnings season.

Cooler-than-expected producer prices contributed to hopes for easing inflation on Wednesday.

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On July 15, 2026, airlines are in focus as results will show the impacts of high fuel prices.

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Wholesale inflation data cooled while major earnings season kicked off positively, lifting stocks across the board, today, July 15, 2026.

Dell, Sandisk and Micron led an AI sell-off, masked by megacaps such as Apple. SpaceX undercut its IPO price. Taiwan Semi, GE Aerospace earnings are due.

Apple shares rose 4% to $327.50, a new all-time closing high. The Cyberspace Administration of China on Wednesday included Apple’s generative artificial intelligence on a list of newly approved providers. Evercore ISI analyst Amit Daryanani wrote that the update clears the biggest regulatory hurdle for Apple Intelligence—the company’s AI software—in the world’s largest smartphone market.

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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reports robust sales growth and raises full-year guidance, despite facing headwinds from STELARA and challenges in the MedTech segment.

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Morgan Stanley (MS) reports a robust second quarter with record revenues of $21.3 billion, a 15% dividend increase, and significant growth in Wealth and Investment Management.

ASML Holding NV (ASML) reports robust Q2 results, exceeding sales and margin expectations, while addressing challenges in pricing and capacity planning.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted impressive Q2 2026 results, but the stock dipped after raising its full-year expense outlook to $107.5 billion.

Investing.com -- United Airlines reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter results on Wednesday and raised its full-year adjusted earnings outlook, as robust demand for premium travel and international routes helped offset higher fuel costs.

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