Just one day after enduring a bipartisan grilling on Capitol Hill over...
Just one day after enduring a bipartisan grilling on Capitol Hill over the security failures that allowed for the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Cheatle stepped down, writing in an email to Secret Service employees that she didn’t want the chorus of criticism to be a distraction. She admitted that the agency “fell short” of its mission to protect US leaders when a gunman managed to fire several shots at Trump and spectators from a nearby roof at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Democrats and Republicans in Congress are now launching a bipartisan task force to investigate the assassination attempt.
Tesla continued to ride the struggle bus. Profit at...
Tesla continued to ride the struggle bus. Profit at Elon Musk’s automaker failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations and fell for the second straight quarter as it tries to power through a period of weaker demand. The company also said 2024 growth will be “notably slower” than before, in part due to increased competition from rivals like China’s BYD. Meanwhile, Tesla plans to move ahead with a number of new ventures, including artificial intelligence, a robotaxi, and humanoid robots.
Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is reportedly expected to resign next month after he was convicted on all 16 counts in his federal corruption trial.
General Motors announced that it’s restarting its Cruise driverless taxi operations, which it had suspended last year after one of the vehicles hit a pedestrian in San Francisco.
Google’s proposed $23 billion takeover of cybersecurity company Wiz reportedly fell apart. The startup is now planning an IPO.
Philip Morris raised its annual profit forecast after it said sales of its ridiculously popular Zyn nicotine pouches could hit 580 million cans this year.
Best Buy refreshed its brand with a new color palette and a holographic spokesperson named Gram.
Crude oil inventories in the United States fell again this week, this time by 3.9 million barrels...
Crude oil inventories in the United States fell again this week, this time by 3.9 million barrels for the week ending July 19, according to The American Petroleum Institute (API). The reality was far from analyst predictions that pegged the inventory move at a 700,000-barrel build for the week.
This week marks the fourth week in a row of API-estimated crude oil inventory draws, with a total loss of 19.4 million barrels.
On Monday, the Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) rose by 0.7 million barrels as of July 19. Inventories are now at 374.4 million barrels—the highest level since December 2022, but still well below the 656 million barrels in inventory in June 2020.
Cushing inventories rounded out this week’s losses, losing 1.6 million barrels, according to API data, on to pof the 746,000 barrel drop in the previous week.
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery...
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $2.82to $76.96 per barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for September delivery fell $1.39 to $81.01 per barrel.
Wholesale gasoline for August delivery fell 6 cents to $2.41 a gallon. August heating oil fell 2 cents to $2.41 a gallon. August natural gas fell 6 cents to $2.19 per 1,000 cubic feet.
U.S. stocks finish lower as investors await Tesla, Alphabet earnings
U.S. stocks finished lower on Tuesday as investors awaited earnings reports...
U.S. stocks finished lower on Tuesday as investors awaited earnings reports from Google parent Alphabet Inc. and electric-car maker Tesla Inc. after the closing bell.
According to FactSet data, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished 57.35 points lower, or 0.1%, at 40,358.09.
The S&P 500 ended down 8.67 points, or 0.2%, to finish at 5,555.74.
The Nasdaq Composite shed 10.22, or 0.1%, ending at 17,997.35.
Small-cap stocks gained on Tuesday as a rotation out of megacap technology companies gathered more steam.
The Russell 2000 finished 1% higher on Tuesday to score its ninth move of 1% or move in the last 10 trading days. The last time the small-cap index moved 1% or more in at least nine of 10 trading days was March 23, 2023, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
After the closing bell, alphabet and Tesla were scheduled to report their quarterly results.
