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The Iran War Is Creating Winners and Losers: Lockheed Martin (LMT) vs. American Airlines (AAL) Fatima Gulzar Sun, July 26, 2026 at 2:50 AM PDT 7 min read AAL LMT American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL ) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT ) Corporation (NYSE:LMT) both reported earnings the same day this week. Both companies are being shaped by the same event, the ongoing war involving Iran. Nonetheless, one firm is getting hurt by it, and the other is getting a big boost, and their stock moves on the same day show just how differently one conflict can hit two different industries. American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL ): Fuel Costs Are Winning American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ:AAL) cut how much money it expects to make this year. It now says it could earn as much as 65 cents a share or lose as much as 65 cents a share for all of 2026, with breakeven right in the middle. That's worse than its last guess in April, which ranged from a loss of 40 cents to a profit of ...

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: ASML, SKHY, SAP, FBRX, BF.B Skip Navigation Markets Business Investing Tech Politics Video Watchlist Investing Club PRO Livestream Menu Check out some of the companies making the biggest moves midday: ASML The maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment slid 8%. China began mass production of domestically made deep ultraviolet chipmaking tools, The Information reported. Memory chip stocks Shares rose broadly after chipmaker CXMT debuted as a public stock in Shanghai , soaring more than 466%. SK Hynix dropped more than 8%, SanDisk slid 11% and Micron Technology lost 5%. SAP The German software company whose ADRs trade on the New York Stock Exchange jumped more than 7% after it said it would start the second part of a 10 billion-euro stock buyback announced in January, the FactSet StreetAccount service said. Energy stocks The group followed oil prices lower, after the U.S. and Iran agreed to pause attacks against each other , for now. Chevron a...

Politicians and world leaders including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are gathering in Washington to meet with President Donald Trump while in town to honor the late Sen. Lindsey Graham at his funeral service Tuesday. At Trump 's invitation, Netanyahu flew to Washington on Monday for the service, his office announced. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also plans to attend the Washington funeral, MS NOW reported, citing a White House official. Both leaders are planning to meet with Trump during their respective visits. These meetings could give Netanyahu and Zelenskyy a chance to push their agendas on Trump amid global conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine. Each man has had previous successes securing Trump's buy in for their positions in previous direct conversations. For Zelenskyy, the visit comes as U.S. and Ukrainian officials have been discussing new peace proposals to end the war in Ukraine, which began with Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion . F...

Eisman has doubts about AI. 'Big Short' investor just sold key tech stock Skip Navigation Markets Business Investing Tech Politics Video Watchlist Investing Club PRO Livestream Menu Steve Eisman, the investor made famous by "The Big Short," said he has reduced his exposure to artificial intelligence after selling his longtime stake in Alphabet , warning that investors may be underestimating the risks if the AI boom fails to deliver on lofty expectations. "I've lightened up. I sold my Google a couple of months ago. I've owned Google. I can't even tell you how long I've owned Google," Eisman said Monday on CNBC's " Squawk Box ." "I wanted to reduce my exposure to AI." His comments came after the relentless rally in technology stocks took a breather. The S & P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite just suffered back-to-back weekly losses, falling 0.6% and 2.1%, respectively. Last week, Alphabet, the owner of Google and YouTub...

Semiconductor stock charts just formed this bearish shape that signals more potential losses Brian Sozzi Executive Editor Mon, July 27, 2026 at 7:54 AM PDT 2 min read SMH NVDA TSM AVGO The bears may not be going anywhere on semiconductor stocks. Quick insight: The VanEck Semiconductor ETF ( SMH ) which counts Nvidia ( NVDA ), Taiwan Semiconductor ( TSM ), and Broadcom ( AVGO ) as its top three holdings has begun to form a head-and-shoulders stock pattern, according to Yahoo Finance AlphaSpace chart analysis (below). The left shoulder took shape starting in mid-May, with the head forming in late June, and now the right shoulder has emerged. The pattern will be official if the ETF falls below the May 19 closing low of $543. The head-and-shoulders pattern is widely considered bearish, as it suggests that buyers are gradually losing control of the market for a particular stock or ETF. During the formation of the left shoulder and head, buyers can still push prices to new highs. But the in...

Wildfires are ravaging southern France and spreading into Spain, forcing more than 300,000 people to flee ahead of further expected heatwaves during the week. French President Emmanuel Macron is set to hold a crisis cabinet meeting on Monday, while Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit areas hit by fires in Valencia, in the East of Spain. The fire, which began in the Southwest of France in Gironde on Wednesday, has burned 42,000 hectares (nearly 104,000 acres) and has forced one of the largest evacuations in France's history, according to French broadcaster France 24 and local news outlets . The wildfires have also affected 77,000 hectares (around 190,000 acres) of the Avila and Toledo areas in Western Madrid. "The situation remains highly unfavorable," France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on X on Saturday, according to a Google translation. "At the start of the night, in Gironde, the fire became extremely virulent and unpredictable again,...

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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: MU, FBRX, XOM, BKR Skip Navigation Markets Business Investing Tech Politics Video Watchlist Investing Club PRO Livestream Menu Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Memory stocks Shares rose broadly after chipmaker CXMT made its public market debut in Shanghai , with its stock skyrocketing more than 466%. The momentum carried over into U.S.-listed memory names. SK Hynix climbed 4.7%, while SanDisk advanced 3.6%. Micron Technology advanced 2.5%. Energy stocks The group followed oil prices lower, after the U.S. and Iran agreed to pause attacks against each other , for now. Chevron and ExxonMobil were down 2.7% and 3.2%, respectively. APA , Devon Energy and Diamondback Energy all fell around 4%. Forte Biosciences The biotech stock rallied more than 39% on news it will be acquired by Netherlands-headquartered Argenx for $2.2 billion in cash, or $77 per share. The deal, expected to close in the third quarter, represents a pre...

Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new AI safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyber attack committed by a rogue OpenAI model continues. Last week, it emerged that the target of the attack, startup Hugging Face, was unable to use leading U.S. frontier models to defend itself, with guardrails not distinguishing between aggressor and defender. Instead, it turned to a self-hosted, open weight Chinese model, which was not bound by those same restrictions. In the wake of U.S. lawmakers increasingly weighing how to curb growing adoption of Chinese AI models, the most advanced of which are open weight, tech giants have launched an initiative aimed at building and sharing open AI tools. Open models can be downloaded, modified and self-hosted, in contrast to closed models including frontier systems built by Anthropic and OpenAI which can only be accessed through specific infrastructure. "The Open Secure AI Alliance will work to remediate and d...

Some offers on this page are from advertisers who pay us, which may affect which products we write about, but not our recommendations. See our Advertiser Disclosure . HELOC and home equity loan rates today, Monday, July 27, 2026: How to choose when rates are nearly identical Tim Manni Mon, July 27, 2026 at 3:00 AM PDT 4 min read The difference between the current home equity loan (HEL) rate and the average HELOC rate is 13 basis points, according to Curinos, a real estate data analytics company. Especially when rates are this close, choosing the right option doesn't come down to just rates. It's how you plan to use your funds that will dictate the loan product that is best for you. HELOC and home equity loan rates: Monday, July 27, 2026 The average HELOC adjustable rate is 7.23%, according to real estate data analytics company Curinos. The 2026 HELOC low was 7.19%, last observed in mid-May. The national average rate on a fixed-rate home equity loan is 7.36% , up from its 2026 ...

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Survived One AI Scare in February. This One Might Be Different. Fatima Gulzar Sun, July 26, 2026 at 1:46 AM PDT 5 min read IBM NVDA International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM )'s stock dropped 25% on July 14. That's the worst single day for the stock since records began in 1968, even worse than its previous record drop on October 19, 1987. By the end of the week, IBM's total value was just under $200 billion. The drop happened because IBM warned that its second-quarter results would come in weak. The firm said it earned $2.93 per share on $17.2 billion in revenue. Wall Street had expected $3.01 per share and $17.86 billion in revenue, according to FactSet. CEO Arvind Krishna explained why in a letter to investors. In late June, he said companies started spending their money on servers, storage, and memory chips instead of IBM's usual products. They wanted to buy AI hardware before prices went up. He said IBM...

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Hello, this is Leonie Kidd coming to you from London. There are two major stories this morning. For markets, efforts by the U.S. and Iran to explore a more diplomatic solution to their tensions is driving oil prices sharply lower and lifting stocks across the globe. For Europe, the wildfires raging across France and Spain are causing a humanitarian and environmental disaster, with hundreds of thousands evacuated and historic damage to the countryside and farming. A cessation in attacks between the U.S. and Iran is driving oil prices sharply lower in early trading. Both Brent crude futures and U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures are down around 5%. A senior Iranian official has indicated that Tehran will halt attacks while the U.S. also pauses its strikes, Reuters reported . Washington has not ordered any action against the country since before the weekend. Over the weekend, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told NBC's Meet the Press that "what the presid...

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As the U.S. military conflict with Iran enters its sixth month, President Donald Trump has returned to a more familiar battleground: global trade. Trump on Friday launched a fresh tariff blitz targeting 60 trading partners, including the European Union, China, the U.K. and Canada. The latest wave of tariffs which took effect at 12:01 a.m. E.T. Friday, replacing the stopgap 10% baseline tariff that expired July 24 range from 10% to 12.5%. Initial market reaction Friday was muted, with the renewed tariff push largely anticipated by investors, given the approaching expiry of the previous duties. That contrasts with the 'shock and awe' approach that underpinned the sweeping ' Liberation Day ' levies announced in April 2025, which sent markets plummeting . However, investors and analysts say the circumstances surrounding the latest tariff push are markedly different this time round, landing amid a more challenging global economic landscape than last year and underpinned ...

No Matter Who Wins the Smartphone and AI Chip Races, ARM Stock Still Benefits Jabran Kundi Sat, July 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM PDT 5 min read ARM QCOM 005930.KS 2454.TW AAPL Research firm IDC published its first-quarter AI infrastructure numbers this week, and one line stood out. Arm (ARM) has overtaken x86 as the biggest platform in AI servers. Accelerated server value on Arm climbed to $53 billion in the quarter, from below $30 billion as recently as the third quarter of 2025. IDC also raised its full-year forecast for AI infrastructure spending to $497 billion. What the report really shows is who gets paid. Arm licenses its architecture and takes a royalty payment on every chip shipped using it. For Arm, this means that the war between chipmakers is largely a war between its own customers. Apple (AAPL), Qualcomm (QCOM), Samsung (SMSN.L.IX), and MediaTek all build their smartphone chips on Arm. In fiscal 2026, ended March 31, Arm posted record revenue of $4.92 billion, up 23%, with royal...