☀️📈 Top Stock Market Headlines for July 31

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💰 Featured News

Energy Giants Exxon and Chevron Report Mixed Results Amid Slump in Oil Prices - Reuters

US Inflation Slows, Fed Favored Rate Hits New Low - New York Post

Biogen acquires Reata Pharmaceuticals in $7.3 billion cash deal - The Motley Fool

Procter & Gamble exceeds expectations with strong earnings and positive momentum - CNBC

Enphase Energy's stock plummets on weak revenue and demand - Reuters

Alphabet Stock Beats Expectations and Rallies - CNBC

AstraZeneca exceeds expectations with strong earnings and strategic deals - Reuters

TC Energy's solid Q2 results drive progress on projects, plans spinoff of oil pipeline business, shares surge - Reuters

Volkswagen's Xpeng Deal Boosts China's EV Alliance - GuruFocus

Adidas to release second wave of unsold Yeezy shoes after Kanye West split - Fox Business

Sweetgreen reports narrowed losses, weak sales; stock down 9% - CNBC

🤝 Mergers and Acquisitions

Walmart buys out hedge fund to take control of Indian e-commerce giant - Proactive Investors

Titanium Transportation Group Expands North American Footprint with First U.S. Based Asset Acquisition - GlobeNewsWire

Surgalign Successfully Completes Auction and Names Successful Bidders For Asset Sales - GlobeNewsWire

Probe Gold Completes Acquisition of the Croinor Gold Property in Val-d'Or - GlobeNewsWire

Fresh2 Group Ltd. Completes Acquisition of SpeedIn INC, a Delivery Service Provider - PRNewsWire

L3Harris Completes Aerojet Rocketdyne Acquisition - Business Wire

💼 Executives

Telecoms giant BT Group appoints Allison Kirkby as CEO - CNBC

Bank of America CEO says China is ‘one of the great risks' to the economy - Fox Business

Two Goldman Sachs executives join exodus amid overhaul by CEO David Solomon - New York Post

T-Mobile reports mixed earnings, CEO explains 3 things that drove results - Yahoo Finance

Coursera stock jumps on earnings, upgrade; AI 'creating opportunities,' CEO says - Yahoo Finance

How AI could offer solution to ‘the privacy problem' in advertising: Inuvo CEO - Yahoo Finance

Intel Turnaround 'Far From Finished' After Q2 Beat: CEO - Bloomberg

A marathon, not sprint: Mercedes-Benz CEO outlines challenges in shift to EVs - CNBC

Lamborghini could hit 10,000 sales this year, CEO says - Reuters

Eni in advanced talks to sell minority stake in low-carbon unit, CFO says - Reuters

📈 Earnings

Heineken's profit hit by drop in beer sales in Asia - CNN

ExxonMobil earnings fell on sinking oil prices - CNN

Roku stock surges on strong Q2 earnings beat and Q3 outlook - Yahoo Finance

Ford stock down after Q2 earnings show a slowdown in electric vehicles - Yahoo Finance

Intel stock rises on Q2 earnings beat, slow recovery in PC segment - Yahoo Finance

CNH Earnings Beat but the Stock Falls. Investors Have a Concern About Agriculture. - Barrons

T. Rowe Price stock rises on stronger-than-expected profit - Market Watch

Newell Brands profit falls but revenue and adjusted profit beat forecasts - Market Watch

Panasonic Q1 profit jumps, maintains FY forecast - Reuters

Meta Q2 results top expectations, issues upbeat outlook for Q3 - CNBC

🇺🇸 North America

As Ford loses billions on EVs, the company embraces hybrids - CNBC

Microsoft warns of service disruptions if it can't get enough A.I. chips for its data centers - CNBC

Google's building A.I. into robots to teach them to throw out the trash - CNBC

Ford set to lose $4.5 billion on electric vehicles this year, despite increased revenue - Fox Business

Tupperware shares are up 140% this week as meme stock mania takes hold - CNN

Disney loses bid to dismiss or pause DeSantis board's state case - CNBC

Walmart Pays $1.4 Billion to Boost Flipkart Stake - Wall Street Journal

BlackRock Clashes With Hedge-Fund Giant Over Control - Wall Street Journal

Uber's Grand Plan to Go All-Electric in London Ran Into Gridlock - Wall Street Journal

Johnson & Johnson effort to resolve talc cancer lawsuits in bankruptcy fails a second time - CNBC

🇬🇧 Europe

Former Anheuser-Busch exec rips Bud Light layoffs: ‘Their CEO' should've been fired" - Fox Business

Troubles at Barclays Prompt a Shake-Up---and Banker Exits - Wall Street Journal

StanChart, Ant Group to partner in green finance, global fund management - Reuters

AXA says it will stop insuring new gas fields from 2025 - Reuters

‘Unilever has descended into a vortex of immorality': Pressure mounts on consumer goods giant to exit Russia - Market Watch

US seeks to end 2020 Airbus criminal case over bribery, export controls - Reuters

Telefonica has approached Vodafone on Spanish broadband deal - Bloomberg

Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson on Q2 results: Our underlying growth is still high-single digit - CNBC

Heineken shares slide after cutting 2023 guidance on soft Asia-Pacific sales - Market Watch

UK's BT appoints Telia exec Kirkby as new CEO - Reuters

🇨🇳 Asia

Toyota says to boost EV development and technology in China - Reuters

Panasonic Q1 profit jumps, maintains FY forecast - Reuters

Foxconn's EV consortium to use BlackBerry's software - Reuters

Vietnam EV maker VinFast to list in the US in Aug following regulator approval - Reuters

Why Is NIO Stock Up 30% This Week? - InvestorPlace

Mitsubishi Electric Announces Consolidated Financial Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2024 - Business Wire

A New Milestone: Qilun Group Inc. Gets Listed on OTC Markets U.S. (QLUNF) - GlobeNewsWire

AGBA's OnePlatform has Redefined the Standard for Integrated Health and Wealth Services - GlobeNewsWire

Taoping Announces 1-for -10 Reverse Stock Split - PRNewsWire

Emeren Group Announces Sale of First RTB Solar Power Project in Germany - PRNewsWire

🇲🇽 South / Central America

Minera IRL Completes Phase 1 of the Ongoing Long-Hole Drilling Campaign at the Corihuarmi Gold Mine - GlobeNewsWire

Itaú Chile Announces Second Quarter 2023 Management Discussion & Analysis Report - GlobeNewsWire

Brazil's Petrobras to trim dividends under new policy - Reuters