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Paramount Earnings: Top-Line Growth and DTC Profits Dampened by Muted Streaming Subscriber Trend
Paramount Global PARA reported encouraging second-quarter results amid the continual disintegration of linear television.
A Troubled High-Speed Rail Project Creates Problems for Some National Muni Funds
High-speed passenger rail system Brightline’s mid-July decision to defer interest payments on a portion of its debt sent a ...
Colgate Plans More Price Increases to Offset Slower Sales, Higher Costs — Update
Shares--which initially edged higher in premarket trading after Colgate beat Wall Street's second-quarter profit and sales projections--ebbed 0.8% to $83.22 in midday trading. The stock has lost ...
Dow Jones Top Markets Headlines at 1 PM ET: Cooling Job Market Opens Door to September Cut Despite Inflation Jitters | U.S.
Dow Jones Top Markets Headlines at 1 PM ET: Cooling Job Market Opens Door to September Cut Despite Inflation Jitters | U.S. ... Cooling Job Market Opens Door to September Cut Despite Inflation Jitters ...
Dow Jones Top Company Headlines at 1 PM ET: Exxon Sees M&A Possibilities As Oil Giants Post Lower Profits | Perella ...
Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods said the oil giant is looking for acquisition opportunities in the oil-and-gas space after losing its challenge to Chevron's $53 billion deal to buy Hess. Perella Weinberg ...
STOXX Europe 600 Index Ends the Week 2.57% Lower at 535.79 — Data Talk
The STOXX Europe 600 Index is down 14.16 points or 2.57% this week to 535.79 --Largest one week point and percentage decline since the week ending April 4, 2025 --Today it is down 10.32 points or 1.89 ...
Trump and the dollar are doing something we saw just before the October 1987 stock market crash
But there is a non-statistical basis for concern: an ominous parallel with the financial environment that prevailed in the weeks leading up to the October 1987 stock-market crash. On that day - Black ...
Week Ahead for FX, Bonds: U.S. ISM Services Data in Focus; BOE Expected to Cut Rates
Headline inflation likely stayed unchanged from June, rising 2.2% on year, according to the median forecast of 11 economists polled by The Wall Street Journal. On a monthly basis, CPI is expected to ...
Illinois Tool Works Raises Quarterly Dividend by 7.3%, to $1.61
Illinois Tool Works board has raised the diversified manufacturing company's quarterly dividend by 7.3%, to $1.61, from $1.50. The new payout, equal to $6.44 a year, represents an annual yield of ...
Where is Trump's tariff money going? Here's what he's said and how much has come in.
Trump isn't wrong at all. The most recently available data from the Treasury Department shows more than $150 billion in customs duties have been collected for the fiscal year to date.
Why few companies still offer unlimited vacation time - and what perks are replacing it
There has been a notable decline in U.S. employment listings on the job-search platform Indeed that feature unlimited paid time off. Just 2.9% of listings as of June 2025 included unlimited PTO as a ...
Opinion
Don't say you want to 'privatize' Social Security. Say you want to break it up.
Cue the inevitable cleanup. Both Bessent and White House press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt quickly said that these accounts would be a "supplement" to Social Security, not a replacement for it.