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GE Aerospace has shifted its public narrative away from supply chain shortages, even as those constraints continue to weigh on its ability to serve customers. Just two years ago, management was openly candid about production struggles, with the CEO acknowledging on an earnings call that “our new engine output was disappointing, down 20% sequentially.” The…
The Protect College Sports Act is heading toward a full Senate vote, potentially arriving as soon as this week amid growing pressure to act before the summer recess. The bill was co-authored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), drawing bipartisan support for a sweeping overhaul of college athletics governance. The Senate…
Alphabet (GOOGL) shares fell to a session low, dropping 5.4%, after reports emerged of a sweeping executive shakeup and a string of high-profile talent departures. Jeff Dean, one of Google’s earliest employees and a chief architect of its artificial intelligence strategy for 15 years, is leaving to launch an AI startup focused on scientific discovery….
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk built an early empire on the back of semaglutide, the active ingredient powering both its blockbuster Ozempic and Wegovy treatments. Ozempic was originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes before patients and physicians discovered its dramatic weight-loss effects, setting off a global pharmaceutical gold rush. Novo rebranded semaglutide as Wegovy specifically…
SpaceX is making waves across multiple sectors as the company moves to extend its dominance in space into the AI and communications industries. The company’s aggressive expansion plans sent its own stock down roughly 12%, with shares trading at $110 during Wednesday’s session. The SPCX ETF, which tracks the space industry, fell 7.59% as investors…
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (Nasdaq: QBTS) has announced a major research breakthrough that advances the development of practical, fault-tolerant gate-model quantum computing. The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, demonstrate a fast, high-fidelity, two-qubit entangling gate that preserves the error-correction advantages of D-Wave’s superconducting dual-rail qubit architecture. The paper, titled “An entangling gate for dual-rail…
AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) is drawing renewed retail investor attention ahead of its next BlueBird satellite launch scheduled for Wednesday at Cape Canaveral. Short interest in the stock has dropped to approximately 19.9% of the public float, falling below the 20% threshold for the first time since June. According to Koyfin data, more than 59.3 million…
Eli Lilly and Co. (LLY) shares climbed in premarket trading after the pharmaceutical giant reported a stunning 48% jump in second-quarter revenue, driven by surging demand for its blockbuster weight-loss and diabetes treatments. The company posted adjusted earnings of $8.38 per share, up from $6.31 a share in the same period a year earlier, handily…
Private companies added only 44,000 jobs in July, falling well short of market expectations and marking a sharp slowdown from the prior month. The figure came in below the Dow Jones consensus forecast of 75,000 and represented a significant drop from the downwardly revised 95,000 jobs added in June. Payrolls processing firm ADP released the…
Europe’s crippling summer drought has grown severe enough to threaten economic growth across the continent, pushing governments into extraordinary and unprecedented measures. Romania recently shut down its sole working nuclear reactor cooled by the Danube River for the first time, a dramatic step that underscores the scale of the crisis. Bucharest even deployed naval forces…