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Cracker Barrel Hands CEO Job to David Deno After Rebrand Backlash

Cracker Barrel named former Bloomin' Brands chief David Deno as CEO, closing out Julie Masino's turbulent tenure a year after the logo backlash.

28 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Ocean Casino Suspends Gaming After Fire and Burst Pipe in Atlantic City

Fire and a burst pipe forced Ocean Casino Resort to halt all gambling at the peak of Atlantic City's summer season, days after an Ilitch full-ownership push.

28 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Amazon Prime Settlement Claims Close on $2.5 Billion FTC Payout

Filing window for Amazon's $2.5 billion FTC settlement closed July 27, leaving roughly 35 million Prime customers awaiting refunds of up to $51 each.

28 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
Ford Motor Company world headquarters building, known as the Glass House, in Dearborn, Michigan. Photo: Dave Parker / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
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Ford Earnings Arrive With Guidance, Tariffs and Truck Sales in Focus

Ford reports second quarter results after Tuesday's close, with Wall Street fixed on whether it matches GM's guidance raise despite a 10 percent sales drop.

28 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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AstraZeneca Earnings Open a Heavy Week for Global Pharma Investors

AstraZeneca opens a packed reporting week with Wall Street focused on Farxiga generic erosion, oncology momentum and whether margins can keep expanding into 2027.

27 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
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Business

Paramount Accepts 2027 Deadline in Warner Bros. Discovery Battle

Paramount Skydance agreed to hold off closing its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery purchase until as late as June 2027 while a state antitrust suit proceeds.

27 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Business

Brent Crude Breaches $100 as Red Sea Attacks Widen Gulf Supply Crisis

Houthi strikes on Saudi tankers pushed Brent crude past $100 for the first time since May, closing the detour that kept Gulf oil flowing to market.

26 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
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Alphabet's $205 Billion AI Capital Spending Plan Rattles Wall Street

Alphabet beat second-quarter estimates on nearly every line, yet a capex forecast of up to $205 billion triggered the sharpest Nasdaq drop in months.

26 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Ford Books Another Rollaway Recall Days After Declaring a Quality Turn

Ford recalled 741,195 vehicles over a park-by-wire defect that can allow rollaways, a filing that landed just after Chief Executive Jim Farley described the automaker crossing a durable quality threshold.

14 Jul 2026 ·6 min
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Birla Buys Back Shell's India Renewables in $1.8 Billion Reversal of the Majors' Green Retreat

Aditya Birla Renewables will acquire Shell's Indian clean-power arm Sprng Energy for a $1.8 billion enterprise value, a transaction that hands a domestic industrial house 5 GW of capacity that an oil major spent four years assembling and then chose to sell.

14 Jul 2026 ·7 min read
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Samsung Board Readies Record Q2 Disclosure as AI Memory Profit Climbs Nearly 18-Fold

Samsung Electronics prepares to disclose preliminary second-quarter figures on July 7, with operating profit seen near 86 trillion won as DRAM and NAND prices spike alongside high-bandwidth memory.

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