China GDP: Economic growth beats expectations as Trump tariffs loom - BBC
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The world's second largest economy grew by 5.2% in the three months to the end of June, official figures show.
JPMorgan Chase is set to report second-quarter earnings – here’s what the Street expects - CNBC
Hugh Son
JPMorgan Chase will give investors a view into how U.S. consumers and corporations fared in the second quarter.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Should Be Replaced, Research Firm Says - MacRumors
Hartley Charlton
Research firm LightShed partners says Apple should consider replacing Tim Cook as CEO, but the change is unlikely to occur any time soon. In a note...
America’s Biggest Rare-Earth Producer Makes a Play to End China’s Dominance - The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
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Personal views of Elon Musk loom large in jury selection for Tesla trial - The Washington Post
Trisha Thadani
Tesla faces trial in Miami over a fatal 2019 crash involving a distracted driver using the car’s Autopilot technology. A woman died, and her boyfriend was gravely injured.
Stock futures are little changed as investors await bank earnings, inflation reading: Live updates - CNBC
Sarah Min
Stocks managed to eke out a gain in Monday's session even after the latest trade developments.
Elon Musk spent months slashing federal contracts — Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business - Fortune
Jessica Mathews
xAI says that it wants to start servicing federal, local, state, and national security customers.
Trade Desk To Join S&P 500 Index; Robinhood Snubbed Again - Investor's Business Daily
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Trade Desk will join Friday, with Synopsys closing its Ansys takeover by Thursday.
Starbucks tightens in-person work policy, offers buyouts - The Seattle Times
Alex Halverson
Starbucks delivers an ultimatum for employees: Come back to the office four days a week or take a buyout.
House Democratic leaders won’t whip against crypto bills - Politico
Jasper Goodman, Nicholas Wu
A slate of digital currency bills is poised to split Democrats on the House floor this week.
Zuck is building Meta data centers in tents now, part of a mad dash to catch up in AI - Business Insider
Alistair Barr
Meta is building data centers in tents to rapidly scale AI infrastructure and try to catch rivals such as DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Port of LA just had its best June on record as importers rushed to beat tariff deadlines - CNN
Vanessa Yurkevich
The Port of Los Angeles rebounded in June for a record-breaking month as importers raced to get cargo into the US port before the “reciprocal” tariff pause ended July 9, port executive director Gene Seroka announced on Monday. President Donald Trump has since…
Elon Musk never liked Tesla being a car company, anyway - Axios
Nathan Bomey
Elon Musk is kicking around the idea of Tesla expanding with an investment in xAI.
Wall Street holds near its record amid doubts about Trump’s tariffs - AP News
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U.S. stock indexes held near their records following President Donald Trump’s latest updates to his tariffs, as speculation continues that he may ultimately back down on them. The S&P 500 edged up by 0.1% Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.2%, a…
Why Trump wants to fire Fed chair Jerome Powell - Axios
Josephine Walker
Trump has repeatedly blasted Powell over the Fed's decision not to lower interest rates as much as the president desires.
Bitcoin price sets record, surges past $120,000 - NBC News
Rob Wile
The value of a single bitcoin surpassed $120,000 early Monday, the latest record price for the digital token.
US ice cream makers say they’ll stop using artificial dyes by 2028 - AP News
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Dozens of ice cream makers pledged on Monday to remove artificial dyes from their products by 2028. The move is the latest voluntary effort by U.S. food manufacturers to heed calls from the Trump administration to remove synthetic dyes over potential health c…