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US markets opened cautiously on Monday as investors absorbed the implications of Moody’s stripping the United States of its top-tier triple-A credit rating for the first time in the agency’s history. The downgrade, announced on Friday, lowered the country’s rating by one notch to Aa1, bringing Moody’s into line with S&P Global, which cut its…
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) received a price target increase from RBC Capital, which raised its target from $11 to $13 while maintaining a Sector Perform rating, as the automaker navigates a complex period that combines tariff-driven cost pressures with an active model refresh cycle across its core truck and commercial vehicle lineup. The stock…
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) climbed 4.2% to $502.63 after the company secured a $113.8 million contract from the United States Navy to support the Military Sealift Command’s integrated business systems. The agreement could extend through October 2031 if all available options are exercised, making the total potential value of the relationship substantially higher than the…
Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS) made a spectacular entrance onto the Nasdaq on Thursday, with shares closing up 68% at $311.07 after the AI chipmaker priced its IPO at $185 per share, itself above an already elevated expected range of $150 to $160. The company sold 30 million shares, raising $5.55 billion in the largest initial…
The S&P 500 rose 0.58 percent to a new all-time closing high of 7,444.25 on Wednesday, as the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.2 percent to 26,402.34, both indexes extending their record streaks despite a hotter-than-expected producer price index reading for April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved in the opposite direction, shedding 67.36 points, or 0.14…
US technology and semiconductor stocks suffered a significant reversal on Tuesday after April’s consumer price index came in hotter than expected, confirming that the Iran war’s energy shock is feeding through to broader consumer prices and eliminating what little remained of market expectations for a Federal Reserve rate cut in 2026. The Nasdaq Composite fell…
Florida motorists are paying more at the pump than at any point since July 2022 after a dramatic 40-cent single-week surge pushed the state average to $4.34 per gallon, a price spike directly tied to the ongoing US-Iran conflict and the sustained disruption of the Strait of Hormuz that has sent global oil markets into…
Rackspace Technology surged more than 12% in trading after the cloud computing company announced a memorandum of understanding with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices [NASDAQ: AMD] to co-develop an enterprise AI cloud platform specifically designed for regulated industries and sovereign workloads, a market that has seen growing demand from financial services, government, and healthcare organisations seeking…
Amazon delivered a striking set of first-quarter 2026 results that underscored both the scale of its AI investment and its ability to generate growth across every major business segment simultaneously. Total revenue reached $181.5 billion, up 17% year-over-year and comfortably ahead of the $177.3 billion analyst consensus. Adjusted earnings per share of $2.78 demolished the…
Palantir Technologies reported its strongest quarterly revenue growth since going public in 2020, with first-quarter 2026 revenue rising 85% year-over-year to $1.633 billion, well ahead of the $1.54 billion analyst consensus. Adjusted earnings per share of $0.33 beat the expected $0.28, and net income roughly quadrupled to $871 million, representing a 53% GAAP margin that…