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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…

On Monday, Broadcom Inc.’s stock got a big boost that helped it move even higher up the list of the biggest U.S. companies. The market value of Broadcom AVGO, +5.41% shares rose 5.4% on Monday, making the company worth more than Eli Lilly & Co. LLY, +0.75% for the first time in more than two years, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The chip company moved up to No. 8 on the list of the most valuable U.S. companies. Broadcom’s market value was over $847 billion at the end of the day, while Eli Lilly’s was over $841 billion. Broadcom…

People who own shares in GameStop Corp. asked about the company’s recent $2.14 billion stock sale and the future of the video game store at an annual meeting on Monday that was mostly uneventful and ended in less than 20 minutes. The company repeated what it had already said about its plans to cut costs and its strong balance sheet, but it didn’t say anything new about how it plans to grow in the future. CEO Ryan Cohen said that his goal is to build a “smaller network of stores.” He also said that the company’s strong balance sheet gives…

Rate cuts from the Federal Reserve are being pushed for by investors in the stock market, even though the S&P 500 has been on a record-breaking run even without them. Research from the Wells Fargo Investment Institute says investors should be careful about what they wish for because it has happened in the past. Austin Pickle, an investment strategist analyst at WFII, said in a Monday note that investors want rates to go down because the longer rates stay high, the higher the chance that something will break and bring down the economy or market in a big way. “However,…

PHOENIX — Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Texas, Colorado, and Kansas were hit by extreme heat on Sunday. Bad weather also hit many other parts of the U.S. The Pacific Northwest was unusually cold for the time of year, the northern Rocky Mountains were expected to get snow, and the northern Plains and upper Midwest were expected to get a lot of rain. On Sunday, more than 63 million people, from the Southwest to Denver and up to Chicago, were warned about the heat, according to the National Weather Service. On Saturday, it got as hot as 112 degrees…

JERUSALEM — Israel’s military said on Sunday that it would stop fighting during the day along a route in southern Gaza. This is to make room for more deliveries of humanitarian aid to help the desperate Palestinians who are going through a humanitarian crisis caused by the war, which has been going on for nine months. The international community, including Israel’s biggest ally, the US, wants a full cease-fire in the area. The “tactical pause,” which covers more than seven miles of road in the Rafah area, is not even close to what they want. It might help meet the…