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Stock futures fall after record-setting week for Wall Street; traders await Nvidia and retail earnings: Live updates​

Stock futures fell Monday following a record-setting week, with traders awaiting quarterly results from Nvidia and major U.S. retailers. Investors also kept an eye on the U.S.-Iran war.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slipped 373 points, or 0.8%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures declined 0.4% and 0.3%, respectively.

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Stock futures fall after record-setting week for Wall Street; traders await Nvidia and retail earnings: Live updates

Nvidia is set to report earnings Wednesday along with Target, while Walmart is due to post results Thursday.
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What's caused the surge in bond yields towards 2007 highs? | Morning Bid​

May 18, 2026 Morning Bid
U.S. 30-year Treasury yields reach levels last seen before the 2008 financial crisis, rattling bond markets across the globe. Oil above $110 and sticky inflation add to the pressure as G7 finance chiefs meet in Paris, and markets await Nvidia earnings for the latest read on the AI spending surge.
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What's caused the surge in bond yields towards 2007 highs? | ​

 
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Borderlands Mexico: Cross-border trade tops $84B in March as USMCA talks heat up

This week in Borderlands Mexico: Cross-border trade tops $84B in March as USMCA talks heat up; United Foods International opens facility in Phoenix; and Chinese manufacturer to open electronics factory in Torreón.
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More than 5,100 freight-related layoffs hit US supply chain sector

Companies tied to transportation, warehousing, manufacturing and food logistics announced more than 5,000 layoffs stretching from California to Pennsylvania.
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  • Walmart issued a worse-than-expected financial outlook amid soaring gas prices.
  • Finance chief John David Rainey said high tax returns may have muted some of the impact high gas prices had on shoppers in the first quarter, indicating consumer pressures could rise in the current quarter
  • The big box retailer issued fiscal first-quarter results that beat Wall Street’s expectations on the top line but were only in line on the bottom.
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Walmart issues worse-than-expected outlook as high gas prices hit shoppers

Walmart's CFO John David Rainey said higher tax returns helped offset the effect of higher gas prices in the first quarter.
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A South Philly robot maker is now a publicly traded company​

A Philly-based tech company, whose Point Breeze warehouse buzzes with flashing drones testing hardware and software, went public on Monday as it looks to grow.

Exyn Technologies Inc., the robot-guidance systems maker, grossed $19.4 million in an initial public stock offering (IPO) on Monday.

The company employs 45, many of them engineers, and is adding to its sales and business staff. Exyn plans to use the share money for growth and working capital, to pay its IPO underwriters, and to repay around $6 million to its lenders, led by Western Alliance Bank.

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AI turned Samsung into a $1 trillion company. Its workers want a bigger slice of the pie​

Samsung Electronics has become one of the leading beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom. Surging demand for semiconductors has turned South Korea’s largest corporation into a $1 trillion company this year, propelling Seoul’s stock market to rank as the world’s sixth-largest.

But one segment of the country is unhappy with the result: Samsung workers. Tens of thousands of employees have threatened to strike, in an unprecedented walkout that would disrupt a crucial source of memory chips at a time when the AI industry is desperate for more.

Hours before the strike was scheduled to start Thursday, the workers’ unions announced they had reached a tentative deal with management. While the agreement still requires a vote by union members, it marks an early win for Samsung employees, who had been demanding higher pay in light of the company’s record profits.

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Deere's second-quarter profit falls as large equipment demand stays weak​

May 21 (Reuters) - Farm equipment maker Deere posted a lower second-quarter profit on Thursday, weighed down by sluggish demand for its large farm machinery.

Net income fell to $1.77 billion, or $6.55 per share, for the quarter ended May 3, from $1.8 billion, or $6.64 per share, a year earlier.

Tractor makers like Deere have been hamstrung by muted demand for new farm equipment over the last few years, as weak crop prices and rising costs have led farmers to extend use of their machinery.

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Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind​

Oceans — to state the obvious — are big. That makes it hard for governments, shipping companies, and insurance providers to know exactly what’s happening on them at any particular moment. It doesn’t help that these modern-day ships often aren’t equipped with modern technology or the right software behind those sensors to properly analyze what they see.

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Freight boom: The Hormuz blockade payday​

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  • Global maritime logistics operators are successfully implementing strategic surcharges to capture outsized revenue and drive immense operational profitability.
  • Fleet management teams are securing extended contract backlogs to establish incredibly solid cash flow floors that will persist well into the future.
  • Strategic corporate acquisitions and shareholder dividend programs are actively rewarding investors throughout this powerful cyclical sector upswing.
Ongoing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have gone from a temporary shipping disruption to a lasting driver of expanded margins for shipping companies. The effective closure of this critical waterway has constrained global fleet capacity, allowing operators with unhedged spot exposure and modern tonnage to capture unprecedented pricing premiums. This supply chain bottleneck is creating immediate, outsized yield generation and, in some cases, lucrative merger arbitrage opportunities for astute investors.

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