Royal Caribbean CEO Touts ‘Double-Digit Growth’ As Record Pricing Boosts Q2 Results Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE:RCL) shares spiked Tuesday after the cruise operator reported second-quarter 2026 results. Benzinga · Jul 28
China Can't Beat Sam Altman on AI, Expert Says—Here's Why It Doesn't Need To China has stopped trying to beat Sam Altman’s OpenAI at building the world’s best AI, according to an expert who says the strategy of deliberately running months behind may be paying off. Benzinga · Jul 28
Is Elon Musk Borrowing Amazon Prime's Playbook for X Money? Everyone sees X Money as Elon Musk‘s latest attempt to take on PayPal Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL)-owned Venmo, Apple Inc‘s (NASDAQ:AAPL) Apple Pay and Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD). But investors may be asking the wrong question. Benzinga · Jul 28
The AI Memory Trade Is Crumbling: SanDisk, Micron and Western Digital Extend Brutal Selloff Just a month ago, memory was Wall Street’s favorite AI trade. Today, it has become one of the market’s biggest casualties. Benzinga · Jul 28
Applied Digital Leverages Mystery Tech Titan for Cheaper Debt Applied Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:APLD) investors have largely focused on the company’s roughly $20 billion lease commitment from an unnamed investment-grade hyperscaler. But management believes the biggest benefit of landing that customer may not be the revenue—it’s the cheaper financing that comes with it. Benzinga · Jul 28
Corning's AI-Fueled Expectations Crush the Stock Corning Inc. (NYSE:GLW), a supplier of specialty glass for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Apple Watch, stock fell sharply Tuesday despite reporting better-than-expected second-quarter 2026 results, as investors focused on revenue guidance that largely matched Wall Street expectations after a year of AI-driven gains. Benzinga · Jul 28
Nvidia's Potential $250 Billion OpenAI Financing Deal Is Reviving a 1990s Tech Bubble Habit, Analyst Warns: 'Usually Don't End Well' While the structure of Nvidia Corp.‘s (NASDAQ:NVDA) potential financing to help OpenAI lease a massive Ohio data center remains unclear, Seaport Research analyst Jay Goldberg expressed caution about such an arrangement. Benzinga · Jul 28
Micron, Nvidia, AMD on Watch as Asia's Chip Selloff Sends Warning to Wall Street The chip-stock bloodbath that started in Seoul overnight is crossing the Pacific — and Wall Street’s premarket screens are flashing red. Benzinga · Jul 28
Tesla's Optimus May Soon Have Company as China's BYD Confirms Its First Humanoid Robot Will Debut in August Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD Co. Ltd. (OTC:BYDDY) (OTC:BYDDF) reportedly confirmed on Tuesday that its first humanoid robot will formally debut in August at its Di Space experience venues, pushing the automaker into a robotics contest already drawing Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) and other carmakers. Benzinga · Jul 28
Google's Antitrust Woes Deepen As EU Ruling Sparks Potential $10 Billion Legal Threat: Report Alphabet Inc.-owned (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google’s years-long regulatory fight in Europe has intensified after its first defeat under the EU’s new digital competition rules, clearing the way for private damages claims that could total as much as $10 billion. Benzinga · Jul 28
Trump's Zombie Tariffs Are Back— and Top Economist Justin Wolfers Says It's a 'Never-Ending 24/7 Saga' President Donald Trump’s sweeping import taxes have returned from the dead, earning the moniker “zombie tariffs,” and economists warn the chaotic policy is wreaking havoc on U.S. businesses. Benzinga · Jul 28
Kalshi's Flight-Cancellation Betting Is Back— Now Restricted to JFK And Blocked From Anyone Who Could Cause a Crash Kalshi revived its controversial flight-cancellation market with a restricted contract tied to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, weeks after security concerns forced the prediction-market operator to pause wider wagering. Benzinga · Jul 28
Rep. Garcia Grills Taylor Farms CEO Over Trump Ties Amid Cyclospora Lettuce Outbreak: 'Tried to Distance Themselves...' Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), on the House Oversight Committee, is investigating whether Taylor Farms used its White House connections to influence the federal response to a nationwide cyclospora outbreak linked to its recalled lettuce. Benzinga · Jul 28
RFK Jr. Accuses Fauci of ‘Incalculable’ Harm as Rand Paul Revives Claims of a COVID ‘Coverup From the Very Beginning’ Ahead of Senate Showdown Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blamed Dr. Anthony Fauci for "incalculable damage" to public trust after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci’s pandemic-era journals on Monday ahead of a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Benzinga · Jul 28
Benzinga · Jul 28 Elissa Slotkin Warns Trump's Generic Drug Tariffs Risk Raising Prescription Costs: 'You, the Customer, Will Pay That Price' Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) warned that President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on generic prescription drugs could increase costs for patients, arguing that allowing Medicare to negotiate broader drug prices would be a more effective way to lower healthcare expenses.
Benzinga · Jul 28 John Thune Pushes Back on Trump’s Call to Cancel August Recess Over SAVE America Act: ‘Show Me How This Ends’ Senate Majority Leader John Thune responded cautiously to President Donald Trump‘s call to cancel the Senate’s five-week August recess to debate the SAVE America Act, saying he is open to the idea only if there is a realistic chance of success and not merely to hold unproductive procedural votes.
Benzinga · Jul 28 Trump's Critical Minerals Policy Is A $6.5 Trillion Trap President Donald Trump’s campaign to purge Chinese-linked critical minerals from federal supply chains is facing the U.S. industrial reality check.
Benzinga · Jul 28 Trump Touts 'Thousand-Year' Gasoline Supply, Says China Lacks It, as Adam Schiff Questions $13 Billion Venezuelan Oil Claim As the U.S. and Iran pause hostilities after weeks of continuous strikes, oil prices in the global markets fell sharply. However, gas prices could remain elevated at the pump despite the decline in crude oil prices.
Benzinga · Jul 28 Ron Baron Predicts SpaceX Will Be the World's Biggest Company, Says His $25 Billion Stake Could Still Rise 30-Fold Despite IPO Stumble: 'We Consider Ourselves...' Ron Baron expects SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) to become the world’s largest company by a wide margin, predicting Baron Capital’s IPO investment could rise 20 to 30 times over the next 10 to 15 years.
Benzinga · Jul 28 Stock Market Today: Dow Jones Futures Gain as Coca-Cola Jumps After Q2 Beat, S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 Decline—Boeing, Johnson & Johnson in Focus (UPDATED) (Editor’s note: The headline, lede, futures, ETFs, stocks and economic data were updated.)
Benzinga · Jul 28 SK Hynix Sinks Below Nasdaq IPO Price as China Chip Fears Trigger Memory Stock Rout SK Hynix Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:SKHY) American depositary receipts (ADRs) closed below their IPO price for the first time Monday as investors continued to unwind positions in AI-related semiconductor stocks despite strong long-term demand for memory chips.
Benzinga · Jul 28 NASA Chief Jared Isaacman Says 'Never Bet Against' Elon Musk, Adds 'We Can't Do It Without' SpaceX for Moon Base NASA Administrator and former Shift4 Payments Inc. (NYSE:FOUR) CEO Jared Isaacman has backed Elon Musk and Space Exploration Technologies Corp.‘s (NASDAQ:SPCX) goal of establishing space-based compute capacity via orbital data centers.
Benzinga · Jul 28 Adam Schiff Revives AI Ads Act to Ban Deceptive Political Deepfakes: 'We Cannot Allow AI to Further Blur the Line Between…' On Monday, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) announced the reintroduction of the AI Ads Act, a bill designed to prohibit the fraudulent use of artificial intelligence (AI) to misrepresent political candidates, campaigns and committees in federal elections.
Benzinga · Jul 28 Nikki Haley Says Washington Is Borrowing $60,000 Every Second as Congress Takes Summer Recess: 'Our National Debt Is Spiraling' Former U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley criticized Congress on Monday, accusing lawmakers of ignoring the nation’s growing debt burden as the House and Senate prepared for their summer recess.
Benzinga · Jul 28 Iran, Oman Reportedly Work Out Hormuz Deal as Trump Sees 'Very Friendly Negotiations' On Ending the War: 'Good Chance…Something Could Happen' A pause in U.S.-Iran hostilities has sped up diplomatic efforts to secure a temporary agreement to reopen shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a major flashpoint in the conflict.