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as hours on Wednesday, PVH Corp.’s stock dropped as the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger lowered its full-year profit forecast, blaming the effect of tariffs on shipments into the United States. PVH (PVH) is “navigating an increasingly uncertain consumer and macroeconomic backdrop,” according to Chief Executive Stefan Larsson, who also said that “we’re not yet fully able to offset that impact.” The prediction was made after the business’s first-quarter earnings exceeded Wall Street’s projections. The viral marketing campaign for a new underwear line featuring rap superstar Bad Bunny earlier this year was cited by executives as one…

Yesterday, middle- and high-income consumers seeking to cut costs helped Dollar General Corp.’s first-quarter performance. However, the outcomes meant more to UBS analysts. As stated in a research note, “This was one of those prints that shifted the narrative,” according to UBS analyst Michael Lasser. “The conversation went from whether Dollar General can stage a recovery to, is Dollar General underearning its longer-run potential?” The corporation was “only scratching the surface of what it could attain,” he said, after sales and earnings growth and an optimistic but possibly cautious future. Nevertheless, despite reporting gains on Tuesday, Dollar General’s (DG) stock…

Shares of Phunware Inc. fell to their lowest level since January after the mobile-advertising software company announced a large stock-sale program. The at-the-market equity distribution program, where shares are sold at market prices through a broker, aims to raise up to $120 million. This amount is about 161% of Phunware’s current market value of $46 million. Phunware’s stock dropped 9.6% in midday trading, heading for its lowest close since January 12. This was the day before the stock surged 453.5% on January 16, following Donald Trump’s projected win in Iowa’s Republican caucuses. The company emphasized that it was not increasing…

A steadier environment this spring boosted U.S. stocks to new record highs, but Friday’s jobs report is one of three major risks that could disrupt the summer market calm. The S&P 500 index has risen over 10% in 2024, with late May seeing Wall Street’s fear index (VIX) and the bond market’s MOVE gauge both hitting their lowest levels since March 2022, when the Federal Reserve began raising rates. Recent market stability is due to a “convergence” of investor expectations that the Federal Reserve will only cut rates twice this year and manage a soft landing for the U.S. economy,…

On Tuesday, BP shares were hit hard after S&P Global lowered its outlook for the British oil company. The reason given was worries that the company might not be able to pay off its debts with its plans to buy back shares. S&P Global changed its outlook for BP from “positive” to “stable.” The ratings agency said that BP’s current plans to buy back shares make it unlikely that the oil giant will be able to lower its $24 billion debts, which is bad news for CEO Murray Auchincloss, who took over the company this year. BP BP, -4.02% BP,…

On Tuesday, Indian stocks crashed after vote counts showed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party might not get enough votes to win a majority. If that result held, Modi would still be in power, but he would need help from other groups. Following a 3% gain on Monday, the Sensex IN:1 fell 6%, with drops as high as 8%. In early trade before the market opened, the iShares MSCI India ETF INDA went down by 6%. The dollar went up from 83.01 rupees to 83.51 rupees, a rise of 0.56%. Stock exchange data shows that Monday’s gains were…

Early on Tuesday, Nvidia stock was going down. The chip maker lost some of the gains it made when it showed off its next-generation AI hardware, but it is still close to all-time highs. In pre-market trading, Nvidia shares were down 0.4% to $1,145.60. On Monday, the stock ended the day up 4.9%. The 10-for-1 stock split that the company had planned will happen this Friday. Over the weekend, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talked about plans for the Blackwell Ultra chip in 2025 and a next-generation Rubin platform for 2026. On Monday, Nvidia stock closed at a new record high.…

According to Jon Faust, a former top assistant to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, the Israel-Iran confrontation “is a major wild card” for the Fed and could lead to an economic downturn, albeit it is too early to tell how it will end out. “To the extent [the conflict] yields a large rise in oil prices and a further shock to uncertainty, and thereby confidence, is the sort of thing that would tip a slowdown,” Jon Faust, a fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Financial Economics, told MarketWatch. “Recessions typically follow a shock that severely shakes firms and consumers. One…

CEO Jensen Huang said on Sunday that Nvidia Corp. plans to release a new family of AI chips every year. Huang said that Nvidia NVDA, -0.78% plans to release the Blackwell Ultra chip in 2025 and the next-generation Rubin chip platform with new GPUs and a new Arm-based CPU called Vera in 2026. Huang spoke at a keynote address in Taiwan on Sunday before the Computex trade show. An Nvidia blog post says he said, “Our company has a one-year rhythm.” New chips from Nvidia used to come out about every two years. Huang didn’t give many other details, but…

Bond yields on French debt stayed the same on Monday, even though S&P Global Ratings lowered the country’s rating by one notch because it raised its estimate of the country’s budget deficit. Both the 2-year and 10-year French bonds saw their yields go up and down. The 2-year bond’s yield went up to 3.16% from 3.15%, and the 10-year bond’s yield went down to 3.12% from 3.13%. S&P lowered France’s rating from AA to AA- because the country’s December estimate of a 4.9% budget deficit for 2023 was much lower than the 5.5% of GDP that S&P knew it would…