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Stock Market Today: Dow Rises Ahead Of Inflation Data; Cisco, AI Name Cerebras Plunge On Earnings (Live Coverage)

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises Thursday ahead of key inflation data. Cisco and AI stock Cerebras plunge on earnings. Continue Reading

Anthropic in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion

Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI for roughly $6 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal has not been finalized and could fall through, Bloomberg said. Decart develops world models alongside software designed to lower AI training expenses by improving how efficiently chips …

JD.com drops as revenue decline overshadows profit beat

XiXinXing/iStock Editorial via Getty Images JD.com (JD [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/JD]) shares fell about 4% in premarket trading on Thursday after the Chinese e-commerce company reported second-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings above analyst expectations, while a decline in sales highlighted pressure on growth amid cautious consumer spending …

Ackman unveils six new investments including Netflix, Visa, Mastercard in biggest portfolio overhaul in years

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Bill Ackman unveiled six new holdings including Netflix, Visa and Mastercard, marking the billionaire investor's biggest portfolio overhaul in years. Ackman said on Thursday he acquired shares ‌starting in the second quarter that will be …

Accelerant, Harmonic surge, Cisco slides premarket on margin outlook

Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures pointed higher on Thursday, as investors digested fresh corporate earnings and deal news while continuing to assess the outlook for inflation and interest rates. By 06:19 ET (10:19 GMT), the Dow futures contract had risen by 112 points, …

BofA lifts server CPU TAM to $210bn+ on the rise of AI agents

Investing.com -- Bank of America raised its forecast for the server CPU market, saying the rise of AI agents is expanding the opportunity for central processing units in data centers. Analyst Vivek Arya lifted the firm's 2030 server CPU total addressable market to more …

Dow Fixture Microsoft Breaks Out Along With These Stocks, But Datadog Triggers Sell Signals

Dow Jones software giant Microsoft, Palantir and Twilio all broke out past new buy points in recent trading sessions. Continue Reading

Billionaire David Tepper Just Revealed His Single Largest Stock Holding. It’s Not NVIDIA

Quick Read Tepper doubled his Amazon (AMZN) stake to ~$900M, making it 15% of his portfolio, buying while Bezos and Jassy both sold shares. Tepper skipped Nvidia (NVDA) and bet on Amazon's Trainium chips instead, which are now at a $20B run rate with …

Oracle and AWS Deepen Strategic Collaboration as Enterprise Adoption of Oracle AI Database@AWS Accelerates

Oracle and AWS expand long-term strategic collaboration agreement to accelerate customer migration, with Oracle AI Database@AWS now available in 22 AWS Regions and offering new expanded capabilities New Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, now generally available, extends Exadata performance and pay-per-use economics …

Walmart To Host Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call August 20, 2026

BENTONVILLE, Ark., August 13, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Walmart Inc. (NASDAQ: WMT) announced it will release its second quarter earnings results at 6 a.m. CDT and hold a live conference call with the investment community at 7 a.m. CDT on Thursday, August 20, 2026. John Furner, president …

Only 12% of family businesses stay in the family by the third generation. A Goldman Sachs chairman says optimism is the reason

Only about 12% of family-owned businesses make it to a third generation still under family control, according to a new Goldman Sachs playbook aimed at the founders and dynasties the bank counts among its most prized clients. It's a statistic Goldman itself put in …

American Express Expands Virtual Card Capabilities to Help Businesses Utilize Fast-Growing Commercial Payment Method

NEW YORK, August 13, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Express today announced new capabilities to help U.S. commercial customers simplify payments and give them more options to efficiently manage spending in their financial software of choice with American Express® Virtual Cards. Virtual cards are a fast-growing commercial …

MeiraGTx Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial and Operational Results

MeiraGTx Received FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for AAV2-hAQP1 and reported positive three-year data from Phase 1 AQUAx clinical trial evaluating AAV2-hAQP1 for the treatment of moderate to severe grade 2/3 radiation-induced xerostomia Completed the acquisition of all interests and rights to botaretigene sparoparvovec (bota-vec) …

Kratos Defense Could Be a Huge Winner in Autonomous Warfare

Kratos Defense (NASDAQ: KTOS) is positioning itself across autonomous aircraft, propulsion, and satellite software as the Pentagon pursues affordable military systems at scale. The opportunity could be enormous, but its future depends on converting proven technology into sustained production and revenue. Stock prices used …

Vantage Data Centers and Nebius Expand UK AI Infrastructure with First Deployment in South Wales AI Growth Zone

Deployment will add high-density NVIDIA-powered AI capacity at Vantage's Newport campus, supporting the UK's ambition to scale domestic AI compute and reinforcing South Wales as a strategic digital infrastructure hub DENVER & LUXEMBOURG, August 13, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of …

What investors need to watch Thursday: PPI, Jobless Claims and Applied Materials earnings

Asking for a Trend Host, Josh Lipton reviews what investors should watch on Thursday, August 13, including results from Applied Materials (AMAT) and key economic data, with July's Producer Price Index and weekly initial jobless claims offering fresh insight into the health of the …

HSBC backs AI financial services software firm Model ML

Model ML has secured funding from HSBC Asset Management through its venture capital vehicle. The new capital is intended to aid the company's growth at a time when enterprise use of AI is moving beyond standalone models towards the broader infrastructure needed to deploy …

Cisco Earnings Beat, But Shares Are Down. Here's Why.

Cisco stock rose amid fiscal Q4 earnings and revenue that topped estimates while the company's fiscal 2027 sales outlook came in above views. Continue Reading

Las acciones de U.S. Bancorp (USB) parecen baratas según su valor razonable, aunque los resultados siguen siendo dispares

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Tapestry, Yeti, Bullish, StubHub, Cerebras & more

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Tapestry — The parent of Kate Spade and Coach dropped 7% on underwhelming results for the fiscal fourth quarter . Tapestry earned $1.32 per share on revenue of $1.88 billion. While earnings were …

Arcos Dorados (ARCO) lifts H1 profit, cuts debt and hikes 2026 dividend

Coherent, Cerebras, Cisco, StubHub, and More Stocks That Explain Today’s Market

Cisco and Coherent both slide despite solid earnings, while StubHub plummets as higher costs offset a World Cup boost. Continue Reading

1 of Wall Street’s Favorite Stocks for Long-Term Investors and 2 Facing Challenges

1 of Wall Street's Favorite Stocks for Long-Term Investors and 2 Facing Challenges Wall Street is overwhelmingly bullish on the stocks in this article, with price targets suggesting significant upside potential. However, it's worth remembering that analysts rarely issue sell ratings, partly because their …

Arcos Dorados Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Total revenues reached $1.3 billion in the second quarter, up 14.3% in US dollars versus the prior year, marking the highest quarterly revenues in the Company's history. Systemwide comparable sales rose 15.3% in the second quarter of 2026, supported by the best guest volume …

You’ve retired — so grow up already and stop buying these 5 things to save yourself thousands of dollars

Photo by YuriArcursPeopleimages / Envato Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. Retirement isn't just about changing how you spend your time. It's also about changing how you spend your money. Many purchases that made …

Minnesota Man Made $68 Million Buying Shares of His Brother’s Company in His Retirement Accounts. He Will Never Pay a Penny of Tax on the Roth Money. The Same Rules Apply to You.

Quick Read Greg Baszucki loaded 2 million pre-IPO RBLX shares into a self-directed Roth IRA, building a $68 million fortune he can withdraw tax-free. Buying dirt-cheap pre-IPO shares inside a Roth is what legally turns a small account into tens of millions, not gaming …

Alibaba (BABA) Stock May Be 37% Undervalued After Qwen Licensing Shift

Get insights on thousands of stocks from the global community of over 7 million individual investors at Simply Wall St. Alibaba Group Holding stock has delivered a 49.2% gain over the past three years, yet valuation checks suggest the market price may still sit …

Stock Markets Beware: AI Funding Plans Have Shades of the Financial Crisis

Cisco benefits from AI demand, Musk is optimistic about Starlink, inflation hasn’t thrown cold water on stock market rally, and more news to start your day. Continue Reading

JPMorgan gets bullish on Salesforce, says concerns are "overblown"

Investing.com -- JPMorgan initiated Salesforce (CRM) at Overweight, saying concerns weighing on the stock are "overblown" and that the shares are pricing in further deceleration rather than progress toward the company's Rule of 50 target. Analyst Samik Chatterjee moved CRM to an Overweight rating …

Lithium Americas GAAP EPS of -$0.02 beats by $0.03

* Lithium Americas (LAC [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/LAC]): Q2 GAAP EPS of -$0.02 beats by $0.03. MORE ON LITHIUM AMERICAS CORP. * Lithium Americas: Construction Progress Does Not Fix The Equity Problem [https://seekingalpha.com/article/4906001-lithium-americas-construction-progress-does-not-fix-the-equity-problem] * Historical earnings data for Lithium Americas Corp. [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/LAC:CA/earnings] * Financial information for Lithium …

How the U.S. Is Trying to Copy China’s Supply Chain Playbook

The chess game between Iran and the U.S. hit another stalemate this week. In today’s issue I’m diving into a different geopolitical game: America’s bid to untangle its critical supply chains from China. The U.S. is taking a cue or two from China’s strategy, …

Micron Stock Falls as It Faces a Fresh Chinese Memory-Chip Threat

Micron stock was slipping on Thursday as the recent rebound in the shares from a multi-week slump seemed to slow. Micron shares were down 0.3% in premarket trading after a near 5% rally on Wednesday. While demand for hardware used in artificial intelligence, such …

Converging Trade in Nansha, Connecting the Globe: The Heart of the GBA Shapes a New Landscape for the Global Cross-Border Trade Ecosystem

GUANGZHOU, China, Aug. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recently, the Global Cross-Border Trade Industrial Cluster Ecosystem Conference, themed "Converging Trade in Nansha, Connecting the Globe," was held at the Guangzhou Nansha International Convention & Exhibition Center. Industry giants including Google, Midea, Guangzhou Port, and …

1 Mid-Cap Stock to Consider Right Now and 2 We Ignore

1 Mid-Cap Stock to Consider Right Now and 2 We Ignore Mid-cap stocks have the best odds of scaling into $100 billion corporations thanks to their tested business models and large addressable markets. But the many opportunities in front of them attract significant competition, …

Nike’s Founder Has Moved $9 Billion to His Heirs and the Gift-Tax Bill Was Roughly $0. The Trust He Used Has a Name and It’s Legal in All 50 States

Quick Read Phil Knight reportedly moved $9 billion in Nike (NKE) shares to his heirs with a gift-tax bill that rounds to zero. GRATs are legal in all 50 states, typically cost between $5,000 and $15,000 to establish, and pass all asset growth above …

Crocs inks AI tech deal

This story was originally published on Retail Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Retail Dive newsletter. Dive Brief: Crocs, Inc. has inked a 10-year strategic partnership with Infosys, the AI-centric business consulting and technology firm, the tech company …