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After the market closes on Tuesday, GameStop releases its second-quarter earnings. With the original meme stock shifting further away from its conventional brick-and-mortar videogame industry into areas like bitcoin, GameStop Corp. is scheduled to release second-quarter earnings following market close on Tuesday. Despite revenue that fell short of Wall Street’s estimates, GameStop (GME) recorded a fourth consecutive quarterly profit last quarter. At the same time, the company’s cash and marketable securities hoard increased from $1 billion at the end of the previous quarter to $6.4 billion. The focus is still squarely on this money, and more especially, how GameStop CEO…

Following a wave of acquisitions at comparable price points, Novartis announced on Tuesday that it was purchasing a U.S. firm developing a cardiovascular medication. The New York firm was valued at $1.4 billion when Novartis announced that it was buying Tourmaline Bio for $48 a share, which had ended Monday at $30.18. Shares of Tourmaline (TRML) surged 56% to $47.10. Novartis refers to the treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, which Tourmaline has a medication in Phase 2 development for, as a “critical unmet need.” Shares of Novartis (CH:NOVN) (NVS) fell during trading in Zurich. Regulus Therapeutics, Anthos Therapeutics, Kate Therapeutics,…

Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve. Interest rate reductions are known to boost the stock market. Or perhaps not. The pioneer of contrarian analysis, Humphrey Neill, popularly remarked, “When everyone thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong.” An excellent illustration is the response of the stock market to rate reductions by the Federal Reserve. Think of every time the Fed has lowered the target federal-funds rate since 1980. The stock market was lower one month later in 40% of those situations, three months later in 37% of cases, and twelve months later in 27% of cases. It…

Concerns over tariffs are causing investors to monitor consumer spending. According to the Wells Fargo Investment Institute, consumer sectors of the U.S. stock market are still “unfavorable” due to persistent worries about how tariffs would alter consumer purchasing habits. In a report released Monday, Douglas Beath, global investment strategist at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute, said recent second-quarter earnings from consumer businesses in the S&P 500 SPX “showed mixed results that suggested tariff uncertainties were affecting shoppers.” As the second quarter draws to a close, Beath noted that consumer discretionary and consumer staples underperformed the S&P 500’s year-over-year earnings growth…

The Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies, also referred to as Obamacare, are set to expire at the conclusion of this year. Later this month, in a fight to shut down the government, they might be renewed. Thanks to the most recent government shutdown struggle, millions of Americans who depend on Affordable Care Act subsidies may soon know if those benefits are ending or being extended. It is anticipated that the expanded breaks for coverage under what is often referred to as Obamacare would terminate at the end of the year. In the meantime, if a deal to continue funding the…

Palantir has done a great job developing AI solutions for both commercial and government customers. The stock of Palantir Technologies Inc. has risen an astounding 110% so far this year. Artificial intelligence products that successfully add value for clients are the straightforward yet challenging to duplicate cause of that success. “Many enterprises still struggle to realize a meaningful value-add from the AI revolution, nearly three years after the breakthrough of LLMs” (large language models). Mariana Perez Mora, an analyst at Bank of America, wrote in a letter on Monday that Palantir customers are still an exception. There isn’t much solid…

Following the announcement of a $17 billion agreement to sell spectrum licenses to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, EchoStar’s stock shot up Monday. After EchoStar Corp. secured a $17 billion deal to sell spectrum licenses to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is seeking to expand wireless coverage, the company’s stock shot up Monday. Additionally, the two businesses are signing a long-term commercial deal that will allow SpaceX’s Starlink direct-to-cell service to be made available to EchoStar’s (SATS) Boost Mobile customers. According to a note from Citi analyst Michael Rollins, Starlink will use the spectrum to have its own “standalone spectrum position” for a…

On September 8, 2025, French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou arrived at the National Assembly in Paris to provide his general policy declaration during the parliamentary extraordinary session before a vote of confidence over the government’s austerity budget. Despite Tuesday’s lackluster actions, France now has the second-highest bond yields in the eurozone following the fall of the administration led by Francois Bayrou. Italy’s 10-year yield, BX:TMBMKIT-10Y, is 3.51%, which is slightly higher than France’s BX:TMBMKFR-10Y, which is 3.49%, according to Refinitiv data. (France was actually higher on Bloomberg, but that was because the benchmark bond used in the calculations changed.) With…

According to some analysts, Apple may introduce a foldable phone as early as 2026, while the company is said to be introducing a new iPhone Air next week. Analysts are waiting to see if Tuesday’s announcement of Apple Inc.’s upcoming phone and product lineup will serve as a much-needed boost to the company’s stock price. These iPhone-related incidents haven’t done much to boost Apple stock (AAPL) in recent years. As expectations are generally built into the stock prior to the release, such announcements have frequently been “sell-the-news” occurrences, according to a recent analysis by a BofA analyst. According to Dow…

The 10-year Treasury yield was falling near 4% due to a number of factors, including dwindling forecasts for U.S. economic growth, potential interest rate reduction by the Federal Reserve, and doubts about the central bank’s long-term independence. Expectations of slower economic growth, which contrast with the robust growth trajectory that traders and investors had expected in January, have caused the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield to drop significantly from its starting point at the start of the year. Concerns that the U.S. economy is not quite as strong as first believed have caused the yield to drop to about 4.05% as…