Business headlines from the Apex backend, organized by sectors and major public companies for faster market scanning.
The bank will raise its quarterly common stock dividend to $1.15 per share and reauthorize a multi-year repurchase program of up to $20 billion, measures that may reshape expectations for capital returns and resilience in volatile markets.
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A Yahoo Finance-linked market newsletter discussion framed Comcast Corp. as one of several stocks it says could gain from investor attention around a future SpaceX initial public offering, tying the theme to Starlink internet service demand.
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Wix.com said it is collaborating with Microsoft to connect its Wix Harmony tools with Microsoft 365 Copilot, aiming to let users create and run full-featured Wix websites from within the productivity platform. The move reinforces the company’s pitch that AI can reduce the friction of building and managing web properties, but the partnership’s commercial and product details were not fully spelled out.
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The Nasdaq-listed company said it has added new long-term contracts tied to AI infrastructure demand, shifting its development focus toward large-scale data centers.
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Ondas said it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin to integrate technology from its Sentrycs subsidiary into Sanctum, a counter-unmanned aircraft systems offering aimed at detecting and disrupting drones.
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The agencies said the effort will pair Netflix content and advertising needs with AI to improve how ad creative is produced and tailored, with Omnicom Media positioned as Netflix’s first data collaboration partner for the program.
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The Financial Times, via Yahoo Finance, reports that Alphabet has imposed limits on Meta’s use of Google’s Gemini AI models following a request for more computing capacity than Google could supply. Neither company has publicly detailed the terms of any adjustment.
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FedEx said it has finished separating its FedEx Freight unit into a stand-alone public company, which has started trading and released results for its first quarter as an independent operator.
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A Yahoo Finance roundup of hedge-fund activity places American Electric Power among “best utility stocks” and notes that Morgan Stanley has increased its outlook via an updated price target.
