Electronic Arts NASDAQ:EA bondholders may have gained a new advantage after Fitch withdrew its investment-grade rating on the notes linked to the company's planned $55 billion all-cash leveraged buyout. The deal, backed by Silver Lake, Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners and Saudi Arabia's Public Inv…
Nvidia NASDAQ:NVDA, Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) and Apple NASDAQ:AAPL are drawing attention after the U.S. Office of Government Ethics released President Donald Trump's 2025 certified financial disclosure report.The filing runs 927 pages and shows Trump held large investments across stocks, ETFs and cry…
SpaceX NASDAQ:SPCX is offering Starlink discounts in Memphis, Tennessee, as the Elon Musk-led company faces growing pressure from community opposition and legal challenges tied to its data center operations in the area and nearby Mississippi.Customers who opt in could receive Starlink service plans…
Oracle (ORCL, Financials) fell for a seventh straight session, closing down 0.82% at $146.55 as selling pressure continued to build around the stock.The decline adds to a difficult stretch for the software and cloud company. Oracle had already lost nearly 15.6% over the previous six sessions, and t…
Oracle NYSE:ORCL was added to William Blair's July Analyst Conviction List, while Meta Platforms NASDAQ:META was removed as part of the firm's latest portfolio refresh.William Blair said Oracle is positioned to benefit from growing artificial intelligence infrastructure spending as hyperscale cloud…
The U.S. Commerce Department lifted export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, less than three weeks after imposing them on June 12 following a report from Amazon NASDAQ:AMZN researchers describing a method to bypass Fable 5's safeguards. Anthropic had suspended both models for all…
Nike (NKE, Financials) gave investors a better-than-expected quarter, but not enough to ease concerns about its recovery.Shares fell more than 3% in premarket trading Wednesday after the company said sales could keep declining through the first half of fiscal 2027. That warning mattered more to the…
Alphabet (GOOGL, Financials) is under renewed regulatory pressure after South Korea's antitrust regulator accused Google of using its dominance in the Android app market to make it harder for rival app stores to compete.The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said its investigation found Google's co…
Anthropic said the US Commerce Department has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, potentially reopening wider access after the startup worked through the Trump administration's safety concerns. The restrictions, first imposed through a private Commerce letter on June 12, had requ…
Gold (GLD) moved back above $4,000 an ounce as investors weighed the Federal Reserve's next policy signals, fresh inflation concerns, and progress in US-Iran talks. Spot gold rose 0.6% to about $4,030 an ounce after briefly falling below $4,000 earlier in the session, its lowest level since Novembe…
Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, has raised $174 million in a US IPO alongside some existing shareholders, pricing its shares at $25 each. That came at the midpoint of the marketed $24-to-$26 range, giving the Uber Technologies Inc. NYSE:UBER-backed scooter and bike rental company a mar…
Tesla (TSLA, Financials) slipped in premarket trading even as June registrations improved in several European markets.The latest regional data showed Tesla registrations more than doubled in France, rising 104.9% from a year earlier. Registrations also increased 56.3% in Sweden and 39% in Denmark…
BYD (BYDDY) rose 1.08% in premarket after the Chinese electric vehicle maker reported a second consecutive month of global sales growth in June, with total sales rising 5.5% year-on-year to 403,472 vehicles. Overseas sales jumped 94.7% from a year earlier to 175,349 vehicles, providing the primary…
Panasonic Holdings (PCRHY) has attracted fresh investor attention as the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom continues to lift demand for the company's electronic components, circuit-board materials, and storage batteries used in AI servers. The stock has more than doubled this year, pushin…
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) has fallen to a fresh 21-month low as investors weigh higher-rate risks, a stronger US dollar, and fresh concerns around Strategy Inc. NASDAQ:MSTR, one of the largest corporate buyers of the token. In Asia trading Wednesday, Bitcoin dropped as much as 1.5% to $57,742, its lowest l…
Paramount Skydance NASDAQ:PSKY has formally offered commitments to the European Union as it looks to secure approval for its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery NASDAQ:WBD. The European Commission disclosed the move in a Wednesday filing but did not provide details of the proposed remed…
ServiceNow (NOW, Financials) rose Wednesday after Guggenheim turned more positive on the stock, saying the recent drop has made the price more appealing.Shares climbed 4.5% in premarket trading after analyst John DiFucci upgraded ServiceNow to Buy from Neutral. He said the company remains profitabl…
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest increased its exposure to artificial intelligence, digital assets and next-generation healthcare during the week of June 22 to 26, while reducing positions in streaming and Chinese technology companies.ARK Invest added to several AI-related holdings, including Cerebras Syst…
Alcoa NYSE:AA has agreed to acquire South32's bauxite, alumina and aluminum assets in a deal valued at up to $5.6 billion, strengthening its position as one of the world's largest integrated aluminum producers. The transaction includes $3.1 billion in cash, about $1 billion in Alcoa shares, and $75…
Toyota Motor Corp. NYSE:TM is expanding its partnership with Joby Aviation NYSE:JOBY through a new joint venture aimed at strengthening manufacturing ties ahead of Toyota's planned additional $250 million investment. The move adds another layer to the relationship between the Japanese automaker and…
