Investing.com - U.S. stock futures edged broadly higher on Friday, following a rally in stocks in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike on Wednesday.
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Gordon Brothers Inc. — which operates Christmas Central, Christmas.com and more — filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection just ahead of peak season.

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Meritage Hospitality Group, which operates 314 Wendy’s units, has closed at least 60 units and opted out or altered the breakfast daypart to improve store-level EBITDA.

Amid a period of heightened interest-rate uncertainty, the central bank just offered investors a promising silver lining.

The upgraded forecast rests on a foundation narrower than the target suggests.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI labs like Anthropic are pushing nationalization to dodge liability, not for safety.

The major franchisee operates over 350 fast-food burger restaurants and six brunch cafes.

The State Department notified Congress that it plans to sell Saudi Arabia up to 48 F-35 warplanes in a first-time sale that could be worth as much as $24.3 billion. The sale of the Lockheed Martin Corp. fighter jet to Saudi Arabia has been in the works for a number of years. President Donald Trump signaled in November the US would sell F-35s to the Kingdom, offering Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a prize he's long cherished, ahead of a visit to the White House that month. Meantime, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Corp. are moving to speed up the production of a new classified air-to-air missile for US Air Force and Navy jets that's seen as vital to deterring China. For more, we speak with Wayne Sanders, Senior Defense Research Analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.

Fluence Energy stock sinks as management lowers full-year guidance. BNP Paribas cuts its price target on FLNC shares to just $5.
Goldman now expects another 25-basis-point Fed increase in October after rates rose to 3.75%--4%.

President Donald Trump‘s approval on inflation has fallen to 19%, a new low in the latest Marquette Law School poll. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten called the resulting minus-61 net rating the worst presidential inflation reading on record. “This...

The Federal Reserve’s long-awaited rate hikes are unlikely to rescue the beaten-down Treasury market. Long-dated U.S. government bonds, as measured by the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond exchange-traded fund, have generated 4.4% in losses this year on a total-return basis. Consider this: The 10-year breakeven rate, which measures future inflation expectations, has only risen 0.09 percentage points this year through Wednesday, even as the 10-year Treasury yield has risen nearly a full percentage point to 5.02%, a 19-year high.
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📣 “You can’t have a revolution where I become 50 times wealthier and everyone else becomes 10% wealthier. It’s going to drive political insanity.” —Palantir CEO Alex Karp, sharing his belief with CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” that the advent of artificial intelligence could lift most people economically and still ultimately create economic inequality.

Lockheed Martin’s CEO said the weapons maker was running ahead of schedule on its plan to more than triple production of sorely needed Patriot missiles. The massive orders will change the share of revenue that the company generates from missile sales, Taiclet said Thursday.

Scott Melker sits down with Coinbase (COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong to discuss the future of bitcoin (BTC-USD), why it could hit $400,000 by 2030, and Armstrong's memory of sending one bitcoin to users as an incentive to use the platform. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto.

Nike's (NKE) fiscal first-quarter earnings could miss Wall Street's projections amid deteriorating g
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Wealthy Italians have long been drawn to Costa Smeralda, but local real-estate pros say they’ve seen an uptick in interest from U.S. buyers

Fluence Energy cut its fiscal-year revenue forecast as production delays and logistical problems disrupt its new Houston manufacturing facility.

The Detroit automaker’s partnership with Lockheed Martin is a potential lift to America’s munitions supplies depleted by the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.

A letter from a Republican and a Democrat asks the agency to determine whether the retail giants properly moderate country-of-origin claims.
Adjusted EBITDA guidance moves to a $200 million loss from a $10 million loss

