Business headlines from the Apex backend, organized by sectors and major public companies for faster market scanning.
Home Depot (HD) ended the latest trading day at $341.44, up 1.1% from the prior session, according to a market recap.
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Apple (AAPL) rose sharply in afternoon trading after a report said regulators cleared the company to launch its “Apple Intelligence” features in China, tying the rollout to Alibaba’s Qwen artificial intelligence model.
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NVIDIA said Japanese enterprises, startups and research institutions are using its Nemotron open models to develop more specialized applications, highlighting a growing push toward domain-specific AI systems.
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The stock rose about 4% to $327.50 on July 15, after a report said Apple’s generative artificial intelligence was added to a new slate of approved providers in China.
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After a steep 2025 drop, UnitedHealth’s shares have rebounded. Investors are now looking to the company’s next earnings report for signs that medical spending pressures tied to Medicare Advantage are easing.
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Stocks in software and cloud-connected businesses rose in the afternoon session after a Producer Price Index reading came in soft, easing worries that corporate buyers would tighten spending. Investors also appeared to look past a fresh round of concerns sparked by IBM earlier.
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A group led by JPMorgan Chase is said to be preparing a financing package of up to $3 billion tied to Warburg’s Pantherx transaction, according to market chatter.
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Warren Buffett said Alphabet, whose shares trade as GOOGL, can outperform most Wall Street stock picks over the next year, a comment that coincided with a sharp jump in the stock as Berkshire’s stake was described as topping $31 billion.
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Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway’s longtime chief, is redirecting a substantial stream of Berkshire stock away from the Gates Foundation, according to a report that says he has excluded the charity from his yearly giving and rerouted nearly $6 billion worth of shares to his children’s foundations.
