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Moderna Shares More Than Double on Success of mRNA Cancer Vaccine

The results from a Merck-Moderna partnership validate years of research into a new approach to cancer treatment.

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OpenAI's Latest Bid to Fight Anthropic: A Promise Not to Keep Customer Data

The ChatGPT maker hopes to win business customers who are upset that Anthropic is keeping their data.

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Target Raises Fiscal-Year Forecast Again as Turnaround Gains Traction

On the heels of a positive quarter, the retailer now expects sales growth of about 5% this fiscal year.

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Strategy, Coinbase Stocks Rose After Trump Met Crypto Execs

Shares of Strategy were the best performer in the Nasdaq 100.

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Women at L3Harris Shared Concerns About CEO's Behavior Years Before Ouster

Chris Kubasik was ousted after an investigation into conduct with a subordinate. Years earlier, another employee had made a harassment complaint.

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T.J. Maxx Parent TJX Says Self-Inflicted Issues Hurt Sales

The company's U.S. apparel business fell short of quarterly expectations, signaling a pullback among shoppers even as the discount retailer raised its full-year earnings.

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Lowe's Lowers Full-Year Targets as Homeowners Scale Back DIY Projects

Lowe's trimmed its full-year sales and profit targets, signaling that price-conscious homeowners are delaying major renovations and compounding back-half headwinds.

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Coty Looks to Finish Strategic Review, Guides for First-Quarter Sales Decline

The company guided for revenue to decline by a low- to mid-single-digit percentage as consumers become increasingly selective with their purchases, despite resilient demand for beauty overall.

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Novo Nordisk Starts Testing Lower-Doses of Its Wegovy Weight-Loss Pills

The study will run into 2028, testing two low doses of Wegovy, and follows the company disclosing recently that uptake of the pill had been particularly strong for its lowest doses across self-paying patients.

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Estee Lauder to Double Down on Turnaround Efforts as Sales Climb

The company narrowed its fiscal fourth-quarter loss as sales rose on broad-based strength across geographies and categories.

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Amazon to Expand Drone Delivery Service to Nearly 500 Locales

The e-commerce giant to launch Prime Air in metro areas including Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland, Syracuse, N.Y., and Boise, Idaho.

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Analog Devices Profit, Revenue Up on Surging AI Data Center Demand

The semiconductor company reported higher profit and revenue in its third quarter driven by accelerating demand for data center hardware and industrial chips.

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SK Hynix Plans More Than $28 Billion Share Buyback

The world's second-largest memory chip maker is accelerating its shareholder-return program via what it says would be South Korea's largest stock buyback.

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Chinese Humanoid Robot Leader Soars in Market Debut Despite U.S. Ban

Unitree Robotics is the first humanoid maker to list in mainland China.


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