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Apple to hold iPhone launch event on Sept. 12

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Some 35 million drivers will be on the road, traveling 50 miles or more for the holiday weekend.

Scholar Rock Holding Corp. shares dropped 11% in active Thursday trade after Pfizer Inc. announced it plans to stop two ongoing clinical trials for a similar rare-disease drug. The Pfizer drug in question, domagrozumab, was designed to block a protein that is involved in muscle growth called myostatin; the therapy was being developed for the rare disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy but the company decided there wasn't evidence of a "significant treatment effect." Scholar Rock's lead therapy... Читать дальше...

A measure of home sales hit its lowest in two years in July, a reminder that the overall housing market has lost momentum, possibly for good.

Shares of Kirkland's Inc. plummeted 20% in midday trade Thursday, after the home decor retailer's fiscal second-quarter results hit the trifecta of misses. The net loss for the quarter to Aug. 4 widened to $6.7 million, or 43 cents a share, from $3.8 million, or 24 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. Excluding non-recurring items, the adjusted per-share loss of 40 cents was wider than the FactSet loss consensus of 36 cents a share. Sales rose to $133.9 million from $131.7 million, but... Читать дальше...

Amazon shares surge past the $2,000 milestone for the first time Thursday, as yet another analyst boosted their price target above the level needed to give the e-commerce giant a $1 trillion market capitalization.

Apple Inc. will hold an event on Sept. 12 where the company is expected to announce its new iPhone lineup, according to multiple reports. The company has sent out invitations to an event at the Steve Jobs Theater at its new headquarters. Apple is expected to roll out three new phones at the event, including an enhanced version of the current iPhone X, a larger-screen OLED model, and a cheaper phone. Apple shares are up 0.6% in midday trading Thursday. The stock is up 37% over the past 12 months... Читать дальше...

California may be home to some of the deepest pockets in tech, but when it comes to the average income of its wealthiest 1%, it trails five other states. That’s just one of the nuggets from a recent Economic Policy Institute report.

Investors in U.S. stocks have plenty of reasons to feel good about the market right now, between major indexes trading at records, a wave of positive economic data, and signs of easing tensions on the trade front. Ironically, however, the degree to which investors are feeling good may be a reason to feel cautious.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Thursday says he had bought “just a little” more of Apple Inc. in an interview with CNBC.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has bought back shares of the company since changing the metric it uses to gauge when such a move would be appropriate, Chairman Warren Buffett said Thursday, in an interview with CNBC. "We bought back a little ... We tie it now to intrinsic business value, which we should have done all along," he said. Berkshire, in July, approved an amendment to its buyback program, giving Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger more flexibility in deciding when to buy back shares... Читать дальше...

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Economist Carl Schramm has resigned from the board of the directors at Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc., saying management withheld material information from the board and made important corporate decisions without the board’s knowledge or approval.

Analysts found plenty of reasons to cheer Salesforce.com Inc.’s latest earnings report, though investors aren’t as convinced.

Former White House strategist Steven Bannon had some biting words for high-profile tech executives in an interview with CNN’s Oliver Darcy on Wednesday, but he called out Tesla’s boss, specifically:

Two exchange-traded funds that track Argentina's equity market tumbled on Thursday, after the country's central bank dramatically raised its benchmark interest rate in an attempt to arrest a sharp drop in its currency. The iShares MSCI Argentina & Global Exposure ETF tumbled 5.4% while the Global X MSCI Argentina ETF was down 5.5%. Argentina's central bank raised its interest rate by 15 percentage points to 60% and news reports quoted it as saying it wouldn't cut rates before December. The... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Department of Justice says Harvard University puts Asian-American applicants at a disadvantage through the school’s use of a subjective “personal rating” in the admissions process, according to a new court filing in a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of affirmative action.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Thursday said he had bought "just a little" more of Apple Inc. , in an interview with CNBC. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. [s:brkb] revealed in a regulatory filing earlier this month that it had bought 12.4 million shares of Apple in the second quarter to a total of nearly 252 million shares as of June 30. Apple shares were up 0.4%.

Investors in U.S. stocks have plenty of reasons to feel good about the market right now, between major indexes trading at records, a wave of positive economic data, and signs of easing tensions on the trade front. Ironically, however, the degree to which investors are feeling good may be a reason to feel cautious.

A record low for the Argentine peso and continued weakness for the Turkish lira keep emerging markets on investors’ radar.

Shares of marijuana company Cronos Group Inc. are down 8.4% in Thursday morning trading after noted short seller Citron Research made a bearish call on the stock. He set a price target of $3.50, 70% below the stock's recent price of $11.66. "Although the hype is big and the prohibition after 100 years is real, it is critical to understand that in the Canadian landscape, there are over 100 licensed producers and there will ultimately be more losers than winners," the Citron analysts wrote. Canada... Читать дальше...

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