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Nvidia posted $96.2 billion in revenue for its fiscal second quarter of 2027 — a 106% jump from the $46.7 billion it reported a year earlier — well above Wall
Meta has agreed to settle a multistate lawsuit over Facebook and Instagram. The states accused the company of designing the apps to be addictive to children
Walmart began accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at a first wave of Walmart and Sam’s Club stores — a reversal that ends more
Bloom Energy has been a highly volatile stock in the 2026 AI power-demand story, and even after a rough August, shares in the fuel-cell maker remain up more than
Breeze Airways is temporarily pulling back on five routes starting in early September 2026, with four of them scheduled to return by the start of October
Protesters dressed as Gandalf the Grey — grey robes, pointed hats, white beards — gathered outside Peter Thiel’s mansion in the Palermo Chico neighborhood of Buenos
UnitedHealth Group shares reached a 52-week high in the trading session after its strong second-quarter earnings report, then eased back.
Tesla stock was trending higher into Monday, August 24, with market coverage putting shares up roughly 5% intraday, after a multi-day rally tied mainly to Nevada
XRP spent the past week swinging from a rally tied to a White House meeting on crypto regulation to a sudden crash that wiped out roughly $500 million in leveraged
Boeing’s largest white-collar union voted to reject the company’s contract offer and authorize a strike, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees
Bitcoin pushed past $75,000 on Friday, August 21, its highest level in several months, capping what Bloomberg described as its biggest single-week gain in roughly
Costco stock is trending amid several recent developments, but no single confirmed catalyst has been identified for the August 20-21, 2026 trend window.
Walmart’s stock fell hard on August 20, 2026, after the retailer’s fiscal second-quarter earnings report showed U.S. sales growth slowing to its slowest pace
Krispy Kreme’s Pokémon Doughnut Collection went on sale Tuesday, August 18, 2026, at participating shops across the United States and Canada, in the Krispy Kreme
State Farm began sending its record $5 billion policyholder dividend to auto insurance customers by July 31, 2026, and the payments are still arriving in waves
A Reddit user going by GRINZ_DOCTOR says a Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop he bought through Best Buy’s website came back from a warranty repair with one of its two
A single ticket bought at a gas station in Quincy, Illinois matched all six numbers in the August 12, 2026 Powerball drawing, winning a jackpot advertised at $1.040
The Social Security Administration announced on Aug. 11, 2026 that it added 14 conditions to its Compassionate Allowances list, bringing the program’s total to 314
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that consumer prices rose 3.4 percent over the 12 months ending in July 2026, down from 3.5 percent in June.
SNDK, the Nasdaq ticker for Sandisk Corporation, was trading lower Thursday, August 6, after the company reported a sharp jump in quarterly revenue and profit.