Business headlines from the Apex backend, organized by sectors and major public companies for faster market scanning.
Second-quarter deliveries beat Wall Street estimates, yet concerns about pricing, promotions and upcoming profitability results pushed shares lower, according to market coverage and analyst commentary.
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Markets showed a split mood ahead of the holiday weekend, as weakness in several AI-linked stocks weighed on the Nasdaq, while U.S. index futures turned modestly positive. Apple and Robinhood were highlighted by a market commentary outlet as fresh buy candidates.
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Analyst Gil Luria upgraded Palantir Technologies to Buy and raised his price target to $175, arguing Palantir’s Foundry and Gotham platforms help enterprises deploy and adapt large language model systems with less operational disruption.
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In the wake of Amazon’s Prime Day shopping event, Bank of America indicated it is not backing away from its Amazon stock view, even as investors looked for signs of weakening demand.
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A new market explainer from TheStreet examines Alphabet’s dividend record and yield, framing them against the company’s earnings strength and the tradeoffs investors face as Alphabet pursues growth initiatives.
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Raytheon, RTX’s defense unit, won a $1.1 billion U.S. Navy contract, helping lift the stock in afternoon trading.
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A recent market commentary argues that investors are not fully grasping how Nvidia thinks about its long-term strategy, even as the stock remains on a strong run.
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A new report says Meta Platforms is exploring a cloud business aimed at selling AI compute. Amazon, via AWS, is already the dominant provider of cloud infrastructure, and investors closely watch any sign of credible competition.
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Kyndryl says it is expanding its Sovereignty Solutioning by bundling advisory, engineering and operations work with Microsoft’s Sovereign Cloud capabilities, aiming at governments and regulated industries that need clearer rules for where data is stored and how systems are run.
