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A 30-year yield above 5.33% and Iran-driven oil prices are overwhelming good numbers from good companies. Walmart down 9% and Micron down 20% from its highs tell the same story.
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US dealership service and parts sales hit $164.6 billion last year, up 48% in five years, while average profit per public store sits well below its 2022 peak.
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Battery Ventures led a $30 million Series B into a company selling POS, CRM, ledger and e-commerce under one agent to 500-plus independent supply stores.
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Amazon booked about $640 million and has offered little back. FedEx is holding roughly $800 million for customers. The split tracks how the duty was billed, not how firms talk about value.
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A Utah keto ice cream maker sold at Target, Kroger and Walmart listed $13.78 million in assets against $23.85 million in liabilities weeks after a judge found it copied Van Leeuwen's pints.
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A record long-bond yield in the US and decade-high yields in Germany and France are the week's real story. Mortgages moved first; AI capex plans are next in line for scrutiny.
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Refunded IEEPA duties are landing in retailers' accounts as lump sums, but at Home Depot inflation and acquisition mix consumed most of the benefit before it reached the margin line.
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The sixfold expansion moves drone delivery out of pilot mode. It does not move the payload limit, the 7.5-mile radius, or three open crash investigations.
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Transaction margin grew 15 points faster than revenue in Q2 2026. For lenders and acquirers, that spread is the benchmark, not headline volume.
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Small importers are carrying the tariff cases while the largest buyers route objections through trade associations. The plaintiffs setting your cost baseline answer to nobody's risk model.
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Foundry, announced August 17th, lets brokers describe a workflow in plain English and deploy it to one lane. The buy decision moves from which agents ship to who owns the process logic.
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A GAO count puts DoorDash, Lyft and Uber ahead of Walmart and McDonald's on workers drawing food aid. The durable number here is the ranking, not the sentiment survey attached to it.
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Consensus has Walmart earnings up 9% on 5% revenue and Target up 13% on 4%. The gap between profit growth and sales growth is where the story actually sits.
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Home Depot, Target and Walmart report on consecutive mornings into a thin data calendar. Their guidance, not the macro releases, is where tariff pass-through shows up first.
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Unadjusted spending rose 0.9% in July and 5.2% year over year, with restaurants up 6.0%. The seasonally adjusted decline mostly reflects Prime Day moving from July to June.
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