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Coverage of public stock markets, IPOs, earnings reports, market movements, and equity analysis across global exchanges.

• DoorDash agrees to pay $65 a share for Instacart in a $17 billion deal

  The deal is at least 75% cash and values Instacart at about $17 billion. Closing isn't expected until the end of 2027 or the first half of 2028.

  Equities · Oct 30, 2026, 1:10 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Amazon's cloud has its fastest growth in nearly five years, but the company still misses estimates

  AWS grew 39%, but Amazon fell short on earnings and revenue. Sandisk beat and announced an 8-for-1 split, and Starbucks' U.S. comparable sales topped estimates while its revenue missed.

  Equities · Oct 30, 2026, 12:50 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Intel shares tumble after a weak forecast hit by the PC slowdown and an Israel fab blast

  Revenue rose 21% and data center sales jumped 78%, but Intel guided fourth-quarter revenue below estimates and its finance chief said a deadly fab explosion in Israel will cut about $300 million from fourth-quarter revenue.

  Equities · Oct 30, 2026, 12:40 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Joshua Kushner's Thrive Holdings agrees to acquire ADT for $7.6 billion in cash

  ADT holders would get $10.00 a share in cash. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027, and ADT can seek rival offers until Nov. 28.

  Equities · Oct 29, 2026, 11:17 PM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• GE Vernova's orders nearly double as it raises its 2026 outlook

  Orders rose 96% to $29.3 billion and the backlog reached $197 billion as the power-equipment maker beat estimates and lifted its forecasts for the year.

  Equities · Oct 29, 2026, 5:45 PM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Boston Scientific cuts its 2026 outlook and sees Q4 sales falling after its August cyberattack

  The medical device maker lowered its full-year profit and sales forecasts and now expects fourth-quarter revenue to shrink by about 1% to 3%.

  Equities · Oct 28, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• GE Vernova agrees to buy grid equipment maker Trench Group for $9 billion

  GE Vernova is buying the high-voltage grid equipment supplier from Triton Partners, expecting to fund it equally with cash and debt, with closing expected in late 2027.

  Equities · Oct 28, 2026, 11:35 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Nelson Peltz's Trian offers to buy Wendy's for $1.4 billion, the Journal reports

  The report comes after Reuters said in August that Trian, a longtime holder of about 16% of the burger chain, had no plans to bid at the time.

  Equities · Oct 28, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Boeing slides almost 11% on earnings day while SoFi jumps 13%

  Boeing posted a core loss of 34 cents a share, SoFi grew members 35%, Robinhood missed profit estimates and JetBlue's shares jumped. Here's Tuesday's earnings roundup.

  Equities · Oct 27, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Intel says it plans to expand Xeon computing on Oracle's cloud

  Intel announced the planned multiyear collaboration on X, the same day Oracle said it is expanding its Nvidia deal, adding Google and Cerebras offerings and planning to offer Intel-backed SambaNova chips.

  Equities · Oct 27, 2026, 1:55 PM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• AMD will put $1 billion into Meta's stock offering as its Helios racks go into testing at Meta

  AMD says its Helios systems are installed and being tested at Meta ahead of an expected broader rollout, and it will invest $1 billion in Meta's equity offering.

  Equities · Oct 27, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• A $63 billion deal to lease Broadcom chips to Anthropic leans on Broadcom's backing

  Bank of America, Citi, Morgan Stanley and Blackstone will fund a vehicle that buys Broadcom AI chips and leases them to Anthropic. Broadcom backs the senior debt, with peak exposure it puts at $43 billion.

  Equities · Oct 27, 2026, 6:50 AM EDT · Robert Harrison

• Nvidia is putting $3 billion into Meta's stock offering as the two expand their AI partnership

  The chipmaker's investment comes as Meta upsizes its common stock offering to $25 billion and plans to deploy more Nvidia infrastructure for its Muse AI agents.

  Equities · Oct 27, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Jio shares are indicated about 22% above the IPO price in India's gray market

  Unofficial trading points to a possible strong debut for Jio Platforms' $3.1 billion IPO, which drew more than ₹7 lakh crore in bids. The shares list on the BSE and NSE on Wednesday.

  Equities · Oct 27, 2026, 1:55 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Verizon's subscriber adds nearly doubled estimates, but revenue fell short

  Verizon raised its adjusted EPS forecast and signed an AI fiber deal with Amazon Web Services. Revenue missed estimates, and equipment sales fell as it cut device subsidies.

  Equities · Oct 27, 2026, 1:10 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Tesla's supervised FSD is approved in Latvia, the tenth EU country to sign on

  Latvia's road safety agency, CSDD, said it based the decision on the Dutch regulator's documentation and on changes Tesla made, including stronger driver monitoring.

  Equities · Oct 26, 2026, 3:10 PM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• EQT is buying Range Resources in an all-stock deal Reuters values at $12.8 billion

  Range holders get 0.987 EQT shares for each Range share. The "over $50 billion" figure is the combined company's enterprise value, debt included, not the price.

  Equities · Oct 26, 2026, 1:05 PM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Meta launches a $35 billion stock sale to fund AI, with $60 billion more planned for later

  Meta is selling about $22.5 billion of common stock and $12.5 billion of convertible preferred now, and plans a roughly $60 billion Class C share program that has no agreement yet and isn't expected to start before 2027.

  Equities · Oct 26, 2026, 8:55 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Walmart and McDonald's insist AI doesn't decide what you pay

  Walmart's CEO says it won't charge shoppers more based on who they are. McDonald's says franchisees, not AI, set menu prices, while it fights a federal lawsuit over its pricing tool.

  Equities · Oct 26, 2026, 8:15 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Elon Musk says most of the 200-plus neoclouds face 'guppy-level death,' and his SpaceX competes with them

  Musk says debt markets have nearly cut off AI cloud companies that lack other revenue. Nebius points to a new $3.5 billion Citi facility, and Nvidia's CEO says the capital gap will close.

  Equities · Oct 26, 2026, 7:20 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Trusts tied to GoPro's founder lent it $20 million in July. Its sale would repay them and cash out their warrants

  GoPro's merger proxy says the $1.14-a-share deal repays notes held by trusts tied to CEO Nicholas Woodman and cashes out their warrants, estimated at $21.9 million. His votes alone can approve it.

  Equities · Oct 26, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT · Brandon Cole

• Trade Desk repriced employee and executive stock options to $12.26 over outside investors' opposition, the WSJ reports

  Green holds 50.2% of the voting power. His shares were about 98% of the yes votes, and about 95% of other holders' votes were no, per VerityData figures reported by the WSJ.

  Equities · Oct 25, 2026, 7:10 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Tech steadied after Thursday's AI rout, but the Nasdaq still closed lower

  A midday tech bounce faded by the close as investors kept weighing the cost of AI spending, while a Bloomberg report on SpaceX's wireless plans hit telecom stocks.

  Equities · Oct 25, 2026, 6:40 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Governments urged websites to go dark over two critical PHP flaws, and security firms saw no successful attacks by Thursday evening

  Wiz says frontier AI helped turn longstanding PHP bugs into an exploit. Nine security firms told NBC News they had seen no successful attacks as of Thursday evening.

  Equities · Oct 25, 2026, 6:30 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Two-thirds of the S&P 500's profit growth is coming from just 10 companies, the WSJ reports

  Nvidia and Micron account for 34% of expected third-quarter growth, per Dow Jones Market Data. FactSet says the index's growth rate drops to 20.0% from 29.0% without them.

  Equities · Oct 25, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• JetBlue's senior creditors are working with a restructuring adviser, the WSJ reports

  The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg say lenders have lined up advisers ahead of JetBlue's third-quarter results. JetBlue says it remains confident in its JetForward plan.

  Equities · Oct 24, 2026, 6:35 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• GM just had its worst week in nearly three years, by Bloomberg's count, and the analysts it tracks still aren't saying sell

  GM's stock slid amid concerns about a narrower 2026 outlook and rising commodity costs, despite a quarterly beat and a new $20 billion buyback authorization.

  Equities · Oct 24, 2026, 6:20 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Apple briefly passed Nvidia as the world's most valuable publicly traded company on iPhone Duo launch day

  It's the fifth time Apple has retaken the top spot, by Yahoo Finance's count. Nvidia moved back ahead later in the day.

  Equities · Oct 24, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• Western Digital and Bloom Energy beat estimates, Deckers cut its sales outlook, and all four stocks fell

  All four reported after Thursday's close. Deckers raised its EPS outlook while cutting its sales forecast, and Newmont's sales rose even as it sold less gold.

  Equities · Oct 23, 2026, 11:55 PM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez

• American Express is cutting 5% of its workforce, and its CFO says AI is part of the reason

  The card company took a $336 million restructuring charge in a quarter that beat adjusted profit estimates and lifted its full-year outlook.

  Equities · Oct 23, 2026, 11:45 PM EDT · Marcus Rodriguez