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Wall Street's Best Quarter in Six Years Will Be a Hard Act to Follow

The Dow industrials closed June at a record high. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite rose 15% and 21%, respectively, in the second quarter.

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Yen Hits Fresh 40-Year Low Versus Dollar

The yen hit a fresh 40-year low against the dollar in Asia on Wednesday, keeping traders on high alert for possible currency intervention by the Japanese government.

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Trump Briefed on All-Out War Options in Iran but Opts to Stick With Talks

The president has told aides that he is fine if negotiations with Tehran blow past an Aug. 18 deadline for a nuclear deal, officials said.

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China Manufacturing Gauge Shows Slower Growth in Activity

A private gauge showed China's manufacturing activity grew at a slower pace in June due to tapered factory production, diverging from a pickup shown in a competing index.

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South Korea's Exports Surge by Most Since 1978 on Red-Hot Demand for Chips

The global artificial-intelligence buildout continues to fuel demand for chips.

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Activist Investors' Campaigns Hit Global Record, With More on the Way

Activist investors launched 184 new campaigns globally in the first and second quarters, up 20% in a year, according to Lazard.

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Trump Made More Than $1 Billion on Crypto Deals, Part of 2025 Windfall

The president also brought in vast sums from licensing and legal settlements, according to his latest financial disclosure report.

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Bitcoin ETFs were supposed to make selloffs less painful. That theory is being put to the test.

Crypto investors had hoped that increased institutional adoption and a crypto-friendly administration could help the largest cryptocurrency avoid the painful cycles it once experienced.

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Warsh Wants the Fed to Talk Less. That Only Gets Wall Street to Listen Harder.

Investors are trying to get a read on the new chairman even as he seeks to limit communication so markets can respond independently to economic data.

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Oil posts largest quarterly price drop in 6 years as historic supply crunch eases

Workarounds to the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint and a drop in crude imports to China helped ease the impact of lost Persian Gulf oil supplies.

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Gold is on the verge of a 'death cross' that could surprisingly foreshadow gains

Here's what 45 years of data on death crosses in gold can tell us about the path ahead.

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Iran's Diverging Priorities Are Jeopardizing U.S. Peace Talks

Moderates are eager to free up billions of dollars held in Qatar, but hard-liners in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are focused on controlling the Strait of Hormuz.

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USDA Plans to Pay Smaller Meatpackers to Keep Slaughtering Cattle

The Agriculture Department aims to offer up to $500 million in payments as meat processors navigate a livestock shortage.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

July 01, 2026 03:15 ET (07:15 GMT)