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On Monday, U.S. regulators sued Adobe Inc., saying that the software company and two executives “lied to consumers” by hiding the cancellation fee for a popular subscription plan and making it too hard for customers to cancel their subscriptions. An announcement from the FTC said that the claims were made in a federal court complaint that was sent by the Federal Trade Commission and then filed by the Justice Department. Adobe said Monday in a statement that it would defend itself in court. Adobe ADBE, +0.68% stock prices went down 1.3% at the end of Monday’s regular trading session. The…

Nvidia quickly rose to become one of the biggest companies in the U.S. On Tuesday, the chip maker became the most valuable company in the country. Nvidia shares NVDA, +3.51% rose 3.5% on Tuesday, making the company bigger than Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.45% by market value at the end of the day. Microsoft had a market cap of $3.32 trillion, Nvidia had $3.34 trillion, and Apple Inc.’s AAPL, -1.10% was third with $3.29 trillion. Tuesday was the first time that Nvidia was the biggest during the day, and that trend continued until the end of the day, making Nvidia the…

While U.S. stocks are on what seems like an unstoppable record-setting rally, investor excitement seems to be fading. This could be a quiet week, since Wednesday is a holiday that breaks up the week. On June 19, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq, and the U.S. bond markets will all be closed to honor the end of slavery in the United States. Even though Black communities have celebrated Juneteenth since the 1800s, it wasn’t until 2021 that President Joe Biden made it a federal holiday. Since kids aren’t in school during the summer and investors are taking vacations, the…

Based on how inflation and the U.S. economy are going now, the head of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve said Monday that one drop in interest rates “would be appropriate by year’s end.” In a speech in Philadelphia, Patrick Harker said that the Federal Reserve is still “surrounded by an air soaked with uncertainty” about how inflation will move in the future. The Fed and Wall Street SPX DJIA were shocked when prices went through the roof in the first four months of the year. Prices then started to slow down a bit in May. Harker said that “more data is…

Charles Evans, who used to be president of the Chicago Fed, said on Monday that he thinks the U.S. central bank might lower interest rates in September. Evan Evans told BourseWatch, “I suppose September is possible if the data get better.” Since July of last year, the Fed has kept its key interest rate in the range of 5.25% to 5.5%. Before lowering rates, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told reporters that the Fed is “looking for something that gives us confidence that inflation is moving sustainably down.” Fed officials have been using “a very careful communications strategy,” according to…

The amounts: The Empire State business conditions index, which is a measure of manufacturing activity in the state and is run by the New York Fed, went up 9.6 points in June but stayed in negative territory at a 6 reading, the regional Fed bank said Monday. A poll by the Wall Street Journal found that economists thought the number would only go up by a small amount, to negative 10.5. Any reading below zero means things are getting worse. This is the seventh month in a row that the colon has been small. Important facts: In June, the new…

Nvidia is trying to avoid similar legal claims on a larger scale in the future, two years after agreeing to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission $5.5 million for not giving enough information about its business with the cryptocurrency industry. The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the AI giant’s appeal of a class-action lawsuit that said it lied to investors about how much of its income came from the “notoriously volatile” crypto industry. When it meets again in October 2024–2025, the High Court will decide the case. If Nvidia wins, it might not have to deal with more…

That old Sesame Street song is a lot like the stock market. One of these things is different from the others. Recently, both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite have been setting new records. On Monday, they did it again. However, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has not changed. The Dow hit a high point of over 40,000 and closed above that mark on May 17. But the index of 30 industrials has gone down about 3% since then. So far this month, 17 Dow components have gone down, showing that the drop is broad. So why has the…

The shares of Nvidia Corp. have experienced a remarkable increase of 165% year-to-date. However, according to Susquehanna analyst Chris Rolland, there is still significant potential for further growth. The individual raised his price target for Nvidia’s stock, NVDA, to $160 from $145. The new target suggests a potential increase of 21% from the stock’s closing price on Friday. The basis of his target is a multiple of approximately 51.5 times his projected adjusted earnings per share for the year 2025. “Although this multiple exceeds the group median of approximately 28.5x, we consider it justified due to the company’s strong position…

Some investors are confident that the U.S. stock market will continue to do better than other global benchmarks because the U.S. economy is stronger than the rest of the world’s since the pandemic. However, some economists disagree. They say that the fact that the U.S. stock market is currently dependent on the AI boom is a risk that could cause U.S. stocks to fall back to where they belong in the global market if the AI “bubble” pops. A group of economists led by Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, said in a Monday note that they think…