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Nvidia’s stock dropped on Thursday after the company became the world’s second most valuable. Shares closed 1.2% lower at $1,209.98, following a 5.2% increase on Wednesday. This rise pushed Nvidia’s market capitalization to $3.01 trillion, surpassing Apple’s and placing it second only to Microsoft’s $3.15 trillion market cap. Nvidia has achieved several record highs this week, driven by CEO Jensen Huang’s weekend announcement of plans for the Blackwell Ultra chip in 2025 and the Rubin platform in 2026. The company is also set to complete a 10-for-1 stock split on Friday. CFRA analyst Angelo Zino, who has a Buy rating…

The news stories about how much Big Macs cost now are making McDonald’s Corp. very angry, and the fast food giant won’t take it anymore. CEO of McDonald’s USA, Joe Erlinger, wrote a letter to the company’s “fans” in the U.S. to bust some myths, especially those about hyper-inflation. Because his company feeds almost 90% of the people in the U.S. every year, he said he felt obligated to share the “real facts.” “Recently, there have been social media posts and news stories with questionable sources that say McDonald’s has raised prices much more than the rate of inflation.” “This…

Stock futures went down a little on Friday while Wall Street looked over a number of important earnings reports and waited for new U.S. inflation data to come out. On Friday, these stocks were about to move: Dell Technologies reported more money than expected in the first quarter. This was due to strong demand for servers that use AI and improvement in the business selling personal computers. In premarket trading, however, the stock was down 15% after the company talked about new pressures on margins. Yvonne McGill, the company’s chief financial officer, told Barron’s that the company expects some margin…

Is there good news on the way for U.S. inflation? Wall Street is hoping that a key inflation report for April on Friday will show that prices are falling more slowly. This could help stop the recent drop in the stock market. When the April numbers come out on Friday morning, the PCE index is expected to have gone up by 0.3%. Some analysts think the increase will be even smaller, at 0.2%. The Federal Reserve likes the PCE as a price indicator because it gives the most complete picture of inflation. The index went up a lot more than…

It will cost 50% more than expected to extend the 2017 tax law, which was the most important thing that Donald Trump’s administration did. This is because wealthy taxpayers have found loopholes that let them pay much less in taxes. That’s what a report released Thursday by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Budget, which wants to save money, says. It would cost the Treasury Department $4 trillion over 10 years to extend the Trump tax cuts. This is up from $286 billion in 2018, and it continues a trend where the costs of the tax cuts rise every year.…

On Friday, JD Sports shares dropped 7% after the company just barely met the bottom end of its already lower profit guidance for the full year 2024, which was below what analysts had expected. The sportswear store, which opened in 1981 in the Greater Manchester suburb of Bury, saw its pre-tax profits drop by 8% to £912.4 million ($1.16 billion) in the 52 weeks ending in February 2024, even though its sales went up by 2.7% to £10.4 billion. A poll of 10 analysts by FactSet shows that the company had expected to make £10.5 billion in sales and £986…

Futures for stock indexes as of early Friday morning show that the S&P 500 SPX could go down again. The Wall Street barometer has dropped 1.33 percent in the last two days due to a number of disappointing earnings reports from the technology sector. These reports made people less optimistic about the future prospects for software and hardware companies that work with AI. Concerns about rising interest rates on loans have also made people feel bad. The 2-year Treasury yield BX:TMUBMUSD02Y went back above 5% in the middle of the week as investors took in more comments from Federal Reserve…

Despite being found guilty of trying to hide hush-money payments meant to stop rumours of affairs, Donald Trump may not have to worry about anything until after the election in November. A Manhattan jury found the former president, who is again the likely Republican candidate, guilty on Thursday of all 34 counts of falsifying business records for allegedly helping to hide the payments. The maximum sentence for him is four years. Legal experts say that Trump is likely to stay out of jail for the foreseeable future because he has many options for appealing the verdict and delaying the scheduled…

The guilty verdict on Thursday hurt the stock of Donald Trump’s social media company. Trump Media & Technology Corp. DJT, +1.41% runs the former president’s social media company Truth Social. On Thursday, the stock price ended extended trading down 6%, after falling as much as 14% right after Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush-money trial. Since going public in March, when the company merged with Digital World Acquisitions Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, the stock has been on a rough ride. In its first few days as a public company,…

Officials from the Biden administration said Thursday that the IRS’s online tax-filing service will be back for next year’s tax season and will always be available to people who want to do their own taxes for free. This makes the government-run service an even better option than TurboTax and H&R Block. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that the online platform’s pilot run in 2024 went well enough and was well-liked by users that it will be brought back in 2025 and beyond. This year, 12 states tried out a beta version of the free online tax-prep service. Now, all…