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Kroger Co (KR) agreed on Wednesday, July 1, to acquire Giant Eagle, the family-owned grocery and pharmacy chain based in Pittsburgh, according to Kroger investor relations. The price tag is $1.65 billion, a fraction of the $24.6 billion merger Kroger tried to complete with Albertsons before courts ...

U.S. President Donald Trump directly addressed internal friction at the central bank and laid out his administration's latest stances on technology and corporate policy in an exclusive interview with CNBC.

The overall revisions trend heading into the start of the Q2 cycle remains positive, with expectations steadily increasing over recent months. JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo will help start the June-quarter reporting cycle for the Finance sector on July 14th.

The overall revisions trend heading into the start of the Q2 cycle remains positive, with expectations steadily increasing over recent months. JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo will help start the June-quarter reporting cycle for the Finance sector on July 14th.

By Karen Roman CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA) said it completed the acquisition of Naveris, which includes its leading product, NavDx, a blood-based test for viral-mediated cancer detection including human papillomavirus, and associated head and neck and anal cancers. NavDx is the first and only Medicare-covered test for HPV-driven head and neck and anal cancer molecular […] The post CareDx Acquires Naveris, Extends Leadership into High-Growth Specialty Oncology appeared first on ExecEdge.

“American workers are not getting a raise,” says J.P. Morgan Asset Management strategist.

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed mixed on Thursday, with the Dow adding more than 1.1% and posting a record closing high, the S&P 500 ending flat and the tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbling eight-tenths of a percent.</p><p>The Labor Department's nonfarm payrolls report showed the economy added 57,000 jobs in June, far below economists' estimates.</p><p>That lowered investors' expectations for a rate hike from the Federal Reserve in September to just over 50%, according to CME FedWatch.&nbsp;</p><p>But Anna Rathbun, founder and CEO of Grenadilla Advisory, said she believes a rate increase may still be on the way due to persistent inflation.</p><p>"I think the Fed interest rate expectations, to expect a hike sometime down the line, I think is a safer bet than expecting a cut." // "I mean, if the Fed is really sticking to that 2% target, we're not going to see that, in my opinion, anytime soon. And that is partly because even if oil prices go down, and it has, and that will be reflected definitely in the headline inflation number. The core inflation [number] - minus fuel, minus food - has consistently been above 2%. So that means, this is my opinion, I think that the equilibrium inflation is probably settling above the Fed's target. That means higher for longer."</p><p>Among Thursday's stock moves, technology was among the biggest sector decliners in the S&P 500.</p><p>Chip stocks were especially hard hit, with the Philadelphia semiconductor index down sharply for a second day, shedding about five and a half percent.&nbsp;</p><p>Shares of Tesla dropped seven and a half percent, even though the electric carmaker posted second-quarter deliveries above estimates. Tesla shares had risen sharply this week ahead of the report.</p><p>Among other decliners, shares of Bending Spoons tumbled more than 11% a day after the Vimeo owner gained 40% in its Nasdaq debut.</p><p>Markets will be closed Friday ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.</p></body>

AI data center startup Crusoe is in talks to raise about $3 ‌billion in a funding round that ‌may triple its valuation, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, ​citing people familiar with the situation. The startup has contracts to supply AI computing power for the likes of Meta and Oracle, the report ‌said, as technology ⁠giants spend billions of dollars on data centers to meet the massive ⁠computing requirements for GenAI. The startup, which builds ‌and operates the type of large data centers that power AI systems, is still in active talks on the round, and a final valuation has not been set, according to ‌the Bloomberg report.

UiPath’s agentic automation push is raising the stakes for its next report, where investors will look for proof that new workflow tools are lifting ARR, retention, and margins.

Plus, an Olympian is charged with damaging the D.C. reflecting pool, and celebs use special-ops tactics to keep their weddings private.

President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs in April 2025 pushed financial markets into a tailspin, sending Wall Street and everyday investors scrambling to shield themselves from the fallout. In a series of trades on April 3 and April 4—the days after Trump announced global tariffs in the Rose Garden—his investment accounts bought and sold hundreds of individual stocks, according to financial disclosures released this week. Trump posted on social media the next morning that it was “a great time to buy” and paused much of his tariff regimen that afternoon.

The entrepreneur, convicted of defrauding the bank, and her lawyers have racked up millions of dollars in bills, with receipts including gummy bears and cellulite butter.

SpaceX stock’s stratospheric potential could reach the harder limits of reality after spending significant time as a private company.

Could this be the secret to Pfizer's rebound strategy?

Nike has spent the past year and a half trying to convince Wall Street that its turnaround is real. For a while, the story was working. Then, it reported fiscal Q4 results (ended in May). Now one of the banks that has stuck with Nike (NKE) the longest is recalibrating just how much patience that ...

Find insight on Palantir, Anthropic, Meta Platforms and more in the latest Market Talks covering technology, media and telecom.

U.S. stocks ended mixed after June hiring data came in well below expectations and prompted investors to dial back bets on a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase this month.

Franklin Covey's latest quarterly results and forward guidance disappointed investors.

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Beth Hammack said Tuesday that surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure could add to inflationary pressures and may force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates again if price growth remains elevated. Speaking to CNBC from...

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo joins Yahoo Finance to discuss the company's planned IPO via SPAC, why financial markets need a tokenization platform, and how investors could benefit.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.1% to another record, while the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.8% after erasing an early gain. The Nasdaq composite fell 207.36 points, or 0.8%, to 25,832.67. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 16.48 points, or 0.5%, to 2,996.11.

Investing.com -- An executive at Invesco Advisers Inc. criticized the performance of SpaceX's first bond sale on Thursday, calling the secondary market activity "very sloppy."

Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an internal town hall on Thursday that AI agent ‌development over the last four months had not "accelerated in the way we expected," ‌according to a recording heard by Reuters. Zuckerberg added that a company reorganization that included major job cuts was ​not as "clean" as it could have been and that executives had miscalculated on the timing of the changes. Conversations he was having "with our top people" when they started planning the restructuring in January and February "were that they were worried that we weren't going to move fast enough ‌to adapt," Zuckerberg said.

Wall Street does not punish companies for spending money. It punishes them for spending money without a story. Give investors a believable path from this year's bills to next year's profits and they will forgive almost any number on the capital expenditure line. Take that story away, and every ...

Jersey Mike's Subs, the sandwich chain backed by Blackstone, has filed for an initial public offering, seeking to capitalize on a rebound in the United States IPO market. The company plans to list its Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ‘JMKE.’ The...

By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - Donald Trump Jr. helped take an online retailer known as the “Amazon of guns” public last year.

The private-equity firms aim to gain from the multi-industry conglomerate’s recent pivot to focus on its energy businesses, analysts say

July 2 (Reuters) - Tesla on Thursday launched a six-seater long wheelbase version of its best-selling Model Y SUV in the U.S., aiming to boost sales of its electric vehicles after the removal of a key

Amazon expects to roll out initial internet service with its Leo broadband satellite network later this year after the company's latest launch put the orbiting constellation's satellite count over 390, ‌a company executive said on Thursday. Amazon's latest batch of 29 satellites lifted off from Florida early on Thursday ‌aboard an Atlas V rocket from United Launch Alliance, marking the company's 14th launch of dozens more planned to deploy more than 3,200 satellites that will ​provide global internet coverage from space. "Still lots of work ahead – including raising all these new satellites to their assigned altitude," Amazon's Leo chief Chris Weber said in a post on X. "But we’ve completed enough launches for initial service this yr, and future missions just add coverage and capacity."

Kevin Warsh went to Sintra and said what bond traders have been waiting to hear all summer. Inflation looks like it has peaked. Oil is cooperating. The tail risk of a July or August rate shock, the one quietly haunting every duration-heavy portfolio in America, just got a lot less scary. That was the read ... Fed Chair Warsh Just Said the One Thing About Inflation Every Investor Wanted to Hear