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In this article LOW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Lowe’s logo is displayed on the front of the store near Bloomsburg. Paul Weaver | Lightrocket | Getty Images Lowe’s reported mixed fiscal second-quarter results on Tuesday, as consumers’ interest in tackling springtime projects helped offset weakening home improvement demand. The home improvement retailer

Ryan Ratliff (C), Real Estate Sales Associate with Re/Max Advance Realty, shows Ryan Paredes (L) and Ariadna Paredes a home for sale on April 20, 2023 in Cutler Bay, Florida.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images Mortgage rates jumped Monday, following a rise in bond yields driven by investors’ concerns that high interest rates and inflation

In this article WBD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Xolo Mariduena stars ase Jaime Reyes in Warner Bros.’ “Blue Beetle.” Warner Bros. Discovery It’s pink vs. blue at the box office this weekend. As “Barbie” continues a historic run in theaters, a little-known superhero called “Blue Beetle” is looking to take the top spot

In this article NVAX MRNA PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pharmacist prepares to administer Covid-19 vaccine booster shots during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center in Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 9, 2022. Scott Olson | Getty Images New Covid vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and

In this article OUST LAZR INVZ OUST LAZR INVZ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A lidar sensor from Hesai company on top of a vehicle in Shenzhen, China on Jul. 10 2022. Jade Gao | AFP | Getty Images For investors in lidar startups, this has been a long time coming. After years of

Getty Images No-frills discounter Aldi is the latest grocer to shake up the industry with big moves. The German retailer announced this week that it plans to acquire about 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket locations across the Southern U.S. As part of the deal, it would take over operations of the stores, which are in

In this article GM F STLAM-IT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Detroit, Sept. 25, 2019. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – The Oracle of Omaha is cutting exposure to the U.S. automotive industry amid union negotiations — potentially for good

In this article CMG MCD WEN PZZA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A McDonald’s restaurant near Times Square, NYC on July 29th, 2023.  Adam Jeffery | CNBC Restaurant companies navigating some of the same challenges in the second quarter fell into two categories: winners and losers. Some chains said their higher menu prices alienated

In this article WBD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Timothee Chalamet stars in Warner Bros.’ “Dune.” Warner Bros. LOS ANGELES – Warner Bros. has a sandworm-sized dilemma on its hands: Keep the fall release date for its highly anticipated “Dune: Part Two” and risk not having its star-studded cast promote it – or bump

In this article WMT TGT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT (L) A customer pushes a shopping cart full of groceries outside a Wal-Mart n Rogers, Arkansas, and (R) A pedestrian passes a Target store in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, DC. Getty Images Target and Walmart are both catering to thriftier shoppers, but the

In this article WMT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Atchison, Kansas. Walmart store logo with gardening products for sale. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Ucg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Walmart will report fiscal second-quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, as the discounter tries to capitalize on

In this article TGT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Signage for Target Corp.’s “#TakePride” initiative sits above products displayed for sale at a company store in Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Target CEO Brian Cornell said “negative reaction” to the retailer’s Pride merchandise hurt sales and contributed to the disappointing

In this article TGT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Target department store on May 17, 2023 in North Miami Beach, Florida.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images Target will report fiscal second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, as consumers send mixed messages about their willingness to spend. The discounter, which saw enormous sales gains during the

Avatar: The Way of Water Courtesy: Disney Co. Hollywood financer TSG Entertainment is suing Disney for breach of contract. The suit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that Disney and its studio 20th Century Fox committed a number of transgressions, including withholding profits and cutting deals to boost its streaming platforms and stock price. This

In this article JPM BAC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A sign for the financial agency Fitch Ratings on a building at the Canary Wharf business and shopping district in London, U.K., on Thursday, March 1, 2012. Matt Lloyd | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Fitch Ratings analyst warned that the U.S. banking industry

Compilation of Target, Walmart, Lowe’s and Home Depot stores. Reuters High food prices. Low unemployment. And eye-popping spending on concert tickets and European trips. Retailers are chasing shoppers as they navigate contradictory dynamics like cooling inflation, rising interest rates and pandemic-induced jolts to the way people live, work and shop. That has made it tricky

People walk on the campus of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on June 29, 2023 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Eros Hoagland | Getty Images Over the past few years, Alicia Browne has noticed a change in what college students haul out of cars on move-in days at the University of Alabama. Along

In this article TSAT-CA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A rendering of Telesat’s low earth orbit broadband constellation Telesat Shares of Canadian telecommunications satellite operator Telesat surged on Friday after the company announced it would swap suppliers for its planned Lightspeed global internet network. Canadian space company MDA will now build the Lightspeed satellites,

In this article ILMN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A building on the campus at the world headquarters of Illumina is shown in San Diego, California, September 1, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Illumina over its controversial $7.1 billion acquisition of cancer test developer Grail, the DNA