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Sam Walton made one early financial move with his family business that the IRS still allows today, and it quietly kept hundreds of billions of dollars out of reach of federal estate taxes for generations. Most families with appreciating assets never realize the same window is open to them right now.

Gold recent rally is mostly due to five big buyers: four central banks and Tether, a company that deals in cryptocurrency. Tether is buying for the very reasons that central banks are—to diversify its holdings and hedge against inflation and significant dollar weakness, which Tether’s crypto stablecoin USDT is pegged to. In the first half, Tether bought more than 27 metric tons of gold—matching Kazakhstan.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.4% this week after cooling inflation and an unexpected drop i

Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT, XETRA:WMT) is expected to post largely in-line second-quarter results, with investor focus centered on second-half guidance, the treatment of potential tariff refunds, and how much of that money gets reinvested into pricing, according to a note from Jefferies. Analysts...

The Federal Reserve now looks somewhat unlikely to raise interest rates at either of the next two meetings after a weak July retail sales report further assuaged concerns that the economy may be overheating. Last Friday's weak jobs report and the even weaker retail sales report "are bad news for workers and consumers, but potentially good news for the stock market, because it reduces the urgency at the Fed to raise rates to fight too-high inflation," wrote Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Northlight Asset Management.

Eric Criscuolo, Market Strategist at the NYSE, reviews a quiet week on Wall Street marked by tight trading ranges, cooling inflation, and a major new AI financing development. The S&P 500 consolidated near all-time highs before breaking through 7,800 for the first time on Thursday, lifted in part by Nvidia's partnership with major Wall Street firms to launch a $500 billion compute financing platform. In-line CPI and a cooler-than-expected PPI pushed yields lower across the curve, with the long end finally joining the downtrend. Looking ahead, markets will turn their attention to FOMC meeting minutes, August Flash PMIs, and earnings from consumer and housing bellwethers including Walmart, Home Depot, and Deere.

Walmart, Tesla, and more stocks will feel the effects of the capacity constraints, delays, and higher prices reported by shipping giants Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd.

UPS’s next contract with the Teamsters union in two years will determine its own fate in parcel delivery and create monumental change at Amazon, FedEx, the U.S. Postal Service, Walmart and other couriers, according to an industry expert. The post Analyst: UPS-Teamsters 2028 showdown will unleash parcel industry tsunami appeared first on FreightWaves.

Walmart (NasdaqGS:WMT) is taking a higher profile in US economic policy as former CEO Doug McMillon joins a new Federal Reserve task force focused on real time retail data and AI. The Fed group is expected to explore how large scale transaction data from retailers could inform future monetary policy signals and economic monitoring. At the same time, US presidential candidates are increasing public pressure on major retailers, including Walmart, over pricing practices and the perceived impact...

Retailers face a more cautious back-to-school consumer who is getting fatigued by higher prices driven by inflation.

While the rest of the market chased AI headlines and flinched at every tariff rumor, three famously unglamorous stocks kept raising their dividends and quietly compounding wealth. Here is why August may be the right moment to pay attention.

When Mike Allen and I are curious about the " real economy ," we talk to sources at big-box stores for a read on real-time sales trends, or friends at super-regional banks to gauge the mood and money movement.

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Walmart gets $2.4 billion, Apple $2.2 billion. And you? Nothing.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises Friday ahead of a pivotal July jobs report. AI name Cloudflare stock soars on earnings.

Of the $166 billion in tariff refunds available, $71 billion has been claimed by companies, but very little of the refund money has gone directly to consumers.

Activewear maker Delta Galil has reported an increase in Q2 profit, lifted by tariff refunds, a portion of which it will invest in its manufacturing and supply chain to drive future growth.

Retailers could receive an unexpected financial windfall.

The Fed held rates steady, but it might not last for long.

DoorDash for years has rushed online orders from burritos to cold medicine to customers’ homes via bike couriers and drivers. Now the delivery provider is adding a new mode of transport: air. DoorDash on Wednesday said it has secured a key certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to make commercial deliveries using drones.

Nearly a third of Americans say they have shoplifted at some point in their lives, according to a new LendingTree survey — a figure that has climbed as high prices for groceries, housing and insurance continue to strain household budgets. The survey found that 30% of respondents admitted to ...

Walmart, Costco, and Home Depot each sit at a very different point on the risk and reward map right now, and consumer sentiment just printed deep inside recessionary territory. One of these retail giants stands out as the clear winner while two others demand patience.

Inflation may have dropped from its post-pandemic highs — June 2026 saw the largest monthly decline in consumer prices since the early days of Covid, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics — but many Americans still feel its effects every time they shop. That’s especially true during ...

Walmart and Procter & Gamble both navigated the same tariff storm in their latest quarters, but one leaned into aggressive reinvestment while the other quietly played defense with pricing and productivity. Which strategy is actually winning, and what the next six months will reveal, changes the calculus for investors on both sides.

Noted Economist Mohamed El-Erian praised the new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh‘s new appointments, saying they demonstrate a “serious” commitment to reforming and strengthening the central bank. He took to X on Monday and said that the team’s expertise and...

William Blair says Casey’s, Costco, Cava, and other consumer companies are well positioned to weather inflation and uneven consumer spending.

Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh has assembled a high-profile group of AI advocates to help evaluate how artificial intelligence could reshape the U.S. economy and influence future monetary policy. Fed’s New AI Task Force To Assess AI’s Economic Impact The...

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has revealed the leadership of the US central bank's new task forces to review monetary policy and even communication on the Fed's interest rate messaging. Yahoo Finance Senior Fed Reporter Jennifer Schonberger breaks down who the new task force leaders are.

The task forces will study Fed communications, the balance sheet, economic data usage, productivity and jobs, and inflation.

The external advisers will lead five task forces that will re-examine how the central bank operates.