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(Bloomberg) -- Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud has acquired a $129.5 million stake in Lucid Group Inc., a much-needed vote of confidence in the electric vehicle maker weeks after it fended off rumors of an impending bankruptcy.Most Read from BloombergChip Rout Deepens on Circular Funding, China Competition FearsNvidia’s $750 Billion in Deals Reignite Circular AI FearsCitadel Securities Sees Warsh Delivering Surprise Fed HikeASML Slides on Report of China Starting DUV Tool ProductionDeepS
A federal judge blocked Minnesota's prediction market ban, ruling it preempted by federal law, hours after Kalshi lost a separate motion in NY.
he filing came on the same comment deadline as Multicoin Capital and the Hyperliquid Policy Center's framework support letter, which prompted Kyle Samani's public attack on his former firm this week.
Investing.com -- In just over 24 hours, Kevin Warsh’s Fed will announce its interest rate decision. While the consensus is for the Fed to remain on hold, a growing number of market watchers expect a surprise rate hike. Citadel Securities is one of those outliers, with the firm’s head of macro strategy Frank Flight expecting a 25-basis-point hike. Overall, 32% of market participants expect a hike tomorrow. This is down from yesterday, but up sharply from last week.
BlackRock crammed a hedge fund strategy into a single ETF ticker, and billions poured in before anyone could answer the one question that actually matters.
Paramount Skydance had been pushing to close its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by the end of September. It picked the wrong month to be optimistic. A coalition of 12 state attorneys general sued to block the deal on July 13, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order ...
Interest rates have not moved since December's quarter-point cut to a range of +3.50-3.75%.
The man who spent months wielding a chainsaw against federal spending just told The Economist the Treasury should start writing checks to everyone. What happened between DOGE and that Gigafactory interview is a stranger story than the headline suggests.
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Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose, but tech futures dropped as chip stocks Micron and Sandisk dived. Coca-Cola jumped on earnings.
(Bloomberg) -- Visa Inc. is eliminating about 2,600 jobs as Chief Executive Officer Ryan McInerney seeks to make the firm more efficient as it competes in an increasingly tough payments industry.Most Read from BloombergNvidia’s $750 Billion in Deals Reignite Circular AI FearsChip Rout Deepens on Circular Funding, China Competition FearsCitadel Securities Sees Warsh Delivering Surprise Fed HikeDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsS&P 500 Wobbles as AI Angst Offsets Oil Decline:
Investing.com -- Bank of America expects the Federal Reserve to hold interest rates at its July meeting, and warned in a note on Tuesday that a surprise hike would break with decades of precedent.
(Bloomberg) -- One of this year’s hottest themes in the stock market has been the crowds of traders chasing the recipients of all the planned spending on new artificial-intelligence data centers. Most Read from BloombergNvidia’s $750 Billion in Deals Reignite Circular AI FearsChip Rout Deepens on Circular Funding, China Competition FearsCitadel Securities Sees Warsh Delivering Surprise Fed HikeDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsS&P 500 Wobbles as AI Angst Offsets Oil Decline
Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were mixed on Tuesday as renewed concerns over artificial intelligence spending weighed on semiconductor stocks ahead of a pivotal week featuring mega-cap technology earnings and the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision.
Wall Street analysts are busy reshuffling their ratings ahead of the Fed meeting, with surprise double-upgrades, dramatic target cuts, and fresh initiations spanning surgical robots to cybersecurity. Find out which names made the biggest moves today.
US equity futures traded without a clear direction on Tuesday as investors prepared for a pivotal week of corporate earnings, while attention also turned to the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting and ongoing geopolitical developments in the Middle East. By 07:43 GMT, Dow Jones futures were up 41 points, or 0.
According to a report, seats on some of the aircraft maker’s models weren’t correctly installed in their seat tracks, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

<body><p>STORY: :: New York / July 27, 2026</p><p>:: Dietrich Knauth, Legal Reporter</p><p>"After years of litigation, about 70,000 court cases, and three bankruptcies, Johnson& Johnson has agreed to a $5.5 billion talc settlement. Why are they settling now? </p><p>:: Why did J&J settle after more than a decade of talc litigation?</p><p>"So tens of thousands of women have accused Johnson& Johnson of causing their ovarian cancer. They've alleged that talc-based products, including baby powder, have been contaminated with asbestos and caused them to develop cancer after using these products for a long period of time. Johnson& Johnson has denied that, but these cases have continued to go to trial."</p><p>"And after a couple of attempts to settle these cases through bankruptcy courts, Johnson& Johnson has now reached a deal where they think they can end all of these cases for an overall payment that is about $5.5 billion, although that number could rise depending on how many people participate in the settlement."</p><p>"One of the plaintiff's lawyers told me today that he thinks it's closer to $7 billion. That's not something we're going to know for some time."</p><p>:: Could J&J still face new talc lawsuits in the future?</p><p>:: Johnson & Johnson</p><p>"It does not fully close the door on all future talc litigations. Somebody could develop cancer in the future, decide that they want to file a lawsuit against Johnson& Johnson, because they think that company's product caused their cancer. The reason for that is that there's something called a latency period, which is essentially the delay between when you experience the factors that caused your cancer and when that cancer actually shows up."</p><p>"But, you know, this deal basically gets rid of all of the existing cases. That's the idea."</p><p>J&J reached the settlement after a series of wins in court, including victories in individual trials, successful efforts to disqualify plaintiffs' lawyers from the litigation, and court rulings against experts that plaintiffs had used to prove their cases in court. </p><p>J&J won a significant court victory in the long-running legal battle last week, when a federal judge cast doubt on individual plaintiffs' ability to prove that talc specifically caused their ovarian cancer.</p><p>J&J has long denied that its talc products caused cancer, saying that talc was safe and did not contain asbestos. The company stopped selling talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in 2020, switching to a cornstarch product.</p><p>Before the bankruptcy attempts, J&J had a mixed record in talc trials, with a multibillion verdict in favor of 22 women who said baby powder caused their ovarian cancer. The company won some trials outright and had other verdicts reduced on appeal.</p><p>Unlike the proposed bankruptcy settlements, Monday's agreement applies only to existing claims and does not address future lawsuits.</p></body>
Trump stood before autoworkers at a GM proving ground and promised his tariffs had revived American manufacturing, but Michigan employment data from the same period tells a sharply different story about who is actually paying the price.
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(Bloomberg) -- Two years ago, Rahul Patel couldn’t sleep.Most Read from BloombergNvidia’s $750 Billion in Deals Reignite Circular AI FearsDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsS&P 500 Wobbles as AI Angst Offsets Oil Decline: Markets WrapCitadel Securities Sees Warsh Delivering Surprise Fed Rate HikeChip Rout Deepens on Circular Funding, China Competition FearsThe crypto founder who trades his own money spent his nights rotating through internet jokes with billion-dollar market
Retail sentiment remains ‘bearish’ on SPY and deteriorated to ‘extremely bearish’ on QQQ, amid growing anxiety around technology stocks.
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Recent inflation trends have forced the Federal Reserve to pause anticipated rate cuts, making high interest rates and small stocks an important topic for investors again. The common belief is that small stocks underperform when interest rates are high or rising. That view is not baseless, outlines Faris Sleem, editor of The Bowser Report.
SINGAPORE, July 28 (Reuters) - Asian markets fell on Tuesday led by chipmakers on unease about the massive funding demands of the AI boom, while a slide in oil prices did relatively little to lift
The healthcare company said the agreement covers the remaining ovarian talc litigation in federal multidistrict litigation proceedings and related state court cases.

<body><p>STORY: Wall Street ended mixed on Monday, with the Dow gaining half a percent, the S&P 500 virtually flat and the Nasdaq dropping marginally.</p><p>Investors awaited earnings results from Big Tech companies this week, including Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Apple. Of the four, only Apple has seen significant gains this year, with investors concerned about future returns on massive AI spending.</p><p>Skyler Weinand is chief investment officer at Regan Capital.</p><p>"If they don't come out and beat [estimates], they're going to sell off even further. You're going to see some profit taking. You're going to see some hedge funds and retail [investors] potentially pack it in for the rest of the year, sitting up 10 to 15%. I don't blame them. // I don't really see the opportunity for these companies that have run so much over the past 18 to 24 months on that AI build out. I don't see that as a huge buying opportunity. I would rather be looking at some of the companies that have fallen behind a little bit. Auto manufacturers are having their day right now. Defense companies are having their day. Some of these companies that will continue to print earnings regardless of what comes from AI build out."</p><p>The Philadelphia semiconductor index extended its recent selloff, falling more than 2%. It is down 21% from its record high close on June 22 but remains up 63% in 2026.</p><p>Chinese chipmaker CXMT's stellar debut on Monday and a report that the country has started manufacturing homegrown deep ultraviolet chipmaking tools also signaled intensifying competition for the U.S. semiconductor industry.</p><p>Meanwhile, oil prices slid after President Donald Trump said the administration was having "good talks" with Iran, but warned that U.S. strikes would resume if the negotiations failed to deliver.</p><p>Shares of Occidental Petroleum fell more than 4% and Exxon Mobil also closed lower.</p><p>Traders this week will also turn their attention to Tuesday's start of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting, with traders projecting a more than 60% chance that the central bank will leave rates unchanged, according to CME's FedWatch tool.</p></body>
Institutions and investors mostly don't expect any change in interest rates, but that's not really the important thing.