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Deere Lifts Profit Outlook as Construction and Small-Farm Segments Offset Large-Ag Slump

The farm and construction equipment maker raised its full-year net income forecast to $4.75 billion to $5.00 billion after third-quarter earnings rose 7%.
Earnings · August 20, 2026

Corteva raises full-year guidance as seed sales offset crop protection pricing

The agricultural company projected full-year operating EBITDA between $4.1 billion and $4.3 billion in a July update.
Earnings · August 20, 2026

Keysight Orders Top $2 Billion Again as AI Test Demand Accelerates

The electronic-measurement company posted $1.85 billion in quarterly revenue, beating its own guidance by nearly $100 million.
Earnings · August 19, 2026

Home Depot Sales Accelerate as Average Ticket Gains Offset Traffic

Net sales rose 5.7% to $47.9 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2026.
Earnings · August 19, 2026

Rates Pinch Credit as Backlogs Signal Uneven Demand

Companies across 14 industries flagged rising borrowing costs and mixed demand signals in their latest disclosures.
Economy Survey · August 17, 2026

Sempra's Cameron Interstate Pipeline Locks In Steady Revenue on LNG Backbone

Cameron Interstate Pipeline held rates flat and construction quiet in 2024, leaning instead on a $410 million backlog of fixed-fee contracts tied to Sempra's Cameron LNG export venture.
Utility Annual Reviews · August 16, 2026

MPLX's Twelve FERC Carriers Show Ozark Rate Win, THPP Standoff

MPLX's oil-pipeline subsidiaries closed out 2024 with a court victory on Ozark's market-based rates and an unresolved tribal-land dispute still idling part of the Tesoro High Plains system.
Utility Annual Reviews · August 15, 2026

Dominion Energy Expands Gas and Wind Capacity Across Mid-Atlantic

The holding company is balancing a massive offshore wind build-out with new combined-cycle natural gas stations to meet regional demand.
Utility Annual Reviews · August 15, 2026

Media Earnings: Demand, Outlook Broadly Upbeat as Costs Diverge

Communications and media companies described a strong demand backdrop and confident guidance for the second quarter of 2026, even as cost management and hiring told a more uneven story.
Industry Earnings Roundup · August 14, 2026

Materials & Chemicals: Demand and Pricing Firm, Costs Squeeze

Materials and chemicals producers reported broad demand and pricing strength this quarter, but rising input costs ate into much of the gain.
Industry Earnings Roundup · August 14, 2026

Healthcare Earnings: Demand Surges, Costs Bite Back

Healthcare and pharma companies described broad-based patient and prescription demand alongside investment-heavy capex plans, even as input costs emerged as the one category tilting negative.
Industry Earnings Roundup · August 14, 2026

Financial Services Earnings: Demand Strong, Costs Bite Back

Financial services companies reported broad demand strength and expanding capex plans in 2026Q2, even as rising input costs and a softening insurance pricing cycle complicated the picture.
Industry Earnings Roundup · August 14, 2026

Energy Earnings: Demand Runs Hot, Capex Stays Disciplined

Across oilfield services, midstream and E&Ps, management teams described strengthening activity and firming prices while working costs down rather than opening the spending taps.
Industry Earnings Roundup · August 14, 2026

Banks Post Broad Loan Growth as Funding Costs Ease

Lenders described widespread loan and deposit growth alongside falling deposit costs, even as a chunk of the group flagged rising personnel and technology spending.
Industry Earnings Roundup · August 14, 2026

Tapestry Hits Investor-Day Targets Two Years Early

Fourth-quarter sales were $1.88 billion, up 9%, as the company met 2028 revenue, margin and EPS goals and set a $8.4 billion to $8.5 billion 2027 outlook.
Earnings · August 13, 2026

Coherent's Fourth-Quarter Sales Growth Accelerates

Fourth-quarter revenue reached $2.05 billion, up 33.8% from a year earlier, and the company guided first-quarter fiscal 2027 sales to $2.2 billion to $2.4 billion.
Earnings · August 12, 2026

Lumentum Revenue Doubles Year-Over-Year as AI Demand Accelerates

The optical-components maker posted $1.006 billion in quarterly revenue, surpassing the high end of its own guidance, and projected another 24% sequential jump for the current quarter.
Earnings · August 11, 2026

Cardinal Health raises share buyback as annual earnings exceed guidance

The healthcare services company reported fiscal year non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $11.26, surpassing its previous guidance range of $10.70 to $10.80.
Earnings · August 11, 2026

Cost Inflation Outruns Relief Across 14 Industries

Of 126 companies reporting on the domestic economy this week, 42 across 11 industries pointed to pricing and cost pressure as the defining issue, from oilfield services to hardware to real estate.
Economy Survey · August 10, 2026

Simon Property Group Raises Full-Year Outlook on NOI Growth

The real estate investment trust increased its full-year Real Estate FFO per share guidance midpoint by $0.08.
Earnings · August 10, 2026

Ferguson Raises Outlook as U.S. Sales Accelerate

Reported earnings rose 6.9% to $3.43 a share as share count declined.
Earnings · August 10, 2026

Rocket Lab to Buy Iridium in $8 Billion Cash-and-Stock Deal

The acquisition would create a vertically integrated space company spanning launch, satellite manufacturing, spectrum, and on-orbit communications services.
Deals · August 10, 2026

Truist Cuts Funding Costs as Full-Year Lending Expands

Deposit interest expense fell 10.2% to $7.05 billion in 2025, supporting higher net interest income.
Global Banks · August 9, 2026

Schwab's Funding Costs Fall, Driving Record Revenue and Margin

Charles Schwab's net interest margin expanded 62 basis points to 2.74% in 2025 as funding costs fell to 0.88%, powering record net revenues of $23,921 million.
Global Banks · August 9, 2026

Oneok Maintains Steady Footprint via Coronado Midstream Operations

The company reported a period of operational stability with no major rate adjustments or system extensions across its New Mexico and Texas transmission assets.
Utility Annual Reviews · August 9, 2026

Kinder Morgan Manages Regulatory Contingencies Across Diversified Pipeline Fleet

The energy infrastructure giant navigated a complex web of commitments and contingencies across five key operating subsidiaries in 2024.
Utility Annual Reviews · August 8, 2026

CenterPoint Energy Secures Recovery for Storm Costs and Rate Adjustments

The Houston-based utility moves to amortize winter storm bad debt and securitize $1.1 billion in Hurricane Beryl restoration expenses.
Utility Annual Reviews · August 8, 2026

Insiders Buy Into Boston Scientific Restructuring

Three Boston Scientific executives added $9.3 million in shares as the company accelerates cost reduction initiatives.
Insider Signal · August 7, 2026

Vistra Reaffirms 2026 Outlook After Helix and Cogentrix

Ongoing Operations Adjusted EBITDA reached $1,767 million, up more than 30% from a year earlier, as the company locked in 2026 volumes and kept its $6.8 billion to $7.6 billion range.
Earnings · August 7, 2026

Take-Two Bookings Slip as Mobile Revenue Retreats

The videogame publisher recorded a $43.4 million impairment charge after halting an unannounced title.
Earnings · August 7, 2026