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A resident sits inside a bunker in Sisaket province, as Cambodia and Thailand each said the other had launched artillery attacks across contested border areas early on Sunday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said the leaders of both countries had agreed to work on a ceasefire, Thailand, on July 27, 2025.Athit Perawongmetha | ReutersThailand and Cambodia on Sunday signaled their readiness to negotiate an end to a deadly border dispute following mediation efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump. The fighting, now in its fourth day, has killed at least 34 people and displaced more than 168,000.Trump posted on Truth…

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FAA chief Steve Dickson flies a Boeing 737 MAX, from Boeing Field on September 30, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.Mike Siegel | Getty ImagesAfter spiraling from crisis to crisis over much of the past seven years, Boeing is stabilizing under CEO Kelly Ortberg’s leadership.Ortberg, a longtime aerospace executive and an engineer whom the manufacturer plucked from retirement to fix the problem-addled company last year, is set this week to outline significant progress since he took the helm a year ago. Boeing reports quarterly results and gives its outlook on Tuesday.So far, investors are liking what they’ve been seeing. Shares of the…

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Jefferies believes that some stocks that haven’t felt the love recently from Wall Street could win big this earnings season. The second-quarter reports are coming fast and furious, with this week expected to be the busiest one. Approximately 30% of the S & P 500 — or 151 companies in the benchmark — are scheduled to post their latest earnings. Nine of the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 30 stocks will also release results. Four of the “Magnificent Seven” cohort will headline the week, which will also be a big one for pharmaceutical and oil companies. Ahead of this, Jefferies analysts…

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This week marks the busiest week of the second-quarter corporate earnings season, and some of the world’s biggest companies are on the docket. In coming days, 151 companies in the S & P 500 are slated to release their latest quarterly results. That includes four of the “Magnificent Seven,” Meta Platforms and Microsoft on Wednesday and Amazon and Apple on Thursday. They will follow those from two other notable megacap technology companies, YouTube and Google parent Alphabet and Tesla . Alphabet shares closed higher Thursday after second-quarter earnings and revenue topped expectations, while Tesla shares nosedived after the electric vehicle…

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Stock analysts are getting excited about the potential boost to Asian crypto trading after Hong Kong’s stablecoin bill takes effect on Friday. Stablecoins are virtual assets that reference government-issued, or fiat, currencies. Hong Kong’s bill formalizes the process for financial companies to issue and manage the virtual assets, similar to the U.S. GENIUS Act . For now, Morgan Stanley analysts expect the main application for stablecoins centers around crypto trading, and say it could attract more institutional investors to the asset class. They view online brokerage Futu Holdings as the best play, and rate it overweight with a $164.25 price…

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A sign is posted on the exterior of a Verizon store on September 30, 2024 in Daly City, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAs the stock market focuses on major earnings and negotiations on the tariff front, investors seeking a regular income stream continue to look for attractive dividend stocks amid ongoing volatility.To this end, the analysis of top Wall Street analysts can provide useful insights that can help investors pick companies with solid fundamentals and the ability to pay dividends consistently.  Here are three dividend-paying stocks, highlighted by Wall Street’s top pros, as tracked by TipRanks, a platform that ranks…

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a tour of the Federal Reserve Board building, which is currently undergoing renovations, in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 24, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersI think most would agree that the news cycle has been relentless for most of 2025, but certain stories do seem a little “Groundhog Day” at the moment.Earlier this month, I wrote about the conundrum facing the newsroom over how to approach President Donald Trump’s then-trade talk deadline of July 9. Now, at the end of the month, we find ourselves in a similar position, but this time…

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US President Donald Trump (R) and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin speak during their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017Mikhail Klimentiev | AFP | Getty ImagesIn heady times — and with trade wars dominating the news agenda — it’s easy to forget that Russia and Ukraine’s soldiers continue to fight for every inch of frontline territory in Ukraine.Conflict in Gaza, ongoing economic uncertainty in the U.S. and Europe and the shifting geopolitical landscape with strengthening, and opposing, ‘axes of power’ are also at the fore of global policymakers’ minds, pushing more than…

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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefiting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on March 15, 2005.Joe Schildhorn | Patrick McMullan | Getty ImagesDeputy Attorney General Todd Blanche completed nine hours of meetings over two days with Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday but made no public statements about what she said or the next steps in the Justice Department’s much-criticized Jeffrey Epstein investigation.Former prosecutors said it was highly unusual — and potentially unprecedented — for a the department’s No. 2 official to personally interview…

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About 14% of all U.S. households make $200,000 or more per year, according to 2023 Census data.But a significant salary hasn’t translated to big account balances for some of these consumers — which experts have dubbed “HENRYs,” or “high earners, not rich yet.”Rising costs, debt and lifestyle creep can leave them feeling stuck, experts say. Nearly two-thirds, or 62%, of people with salaries over $300,000 a year struggle with credit card debt, a new survey from BHG Financial found. Other reports have found many six-figure earners still live paycheck to paycheck.”Earning doesn’t actually make you feel rich; spending it does,”…

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