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My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, June 10 1. Stocks are headed for a lower open. Following retaliatory U.S. airstrikes, President Donald Trump said this morning that Iran is taking too long to agree on a peace deal and must “pay the price.” Oil prices are up. The May consumer price index matched expectations. Bond yields ticked lower. While the highest in three years , the inflation reading didn’t change either way the market’s odds favoring at least one Fed interest rate increase this year. 2. The liquidating of stock positions to buy into the SpaceX IPO continues. It…

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Investing.com — stock is down 7.3% during today’s session after the Finnish chemicals company issued a profit warning and lowered its 2026 profitability outlook, citing higher raw material and logistics costs linked to the prolonged conflict in Iran. The company now expects 2026 revenue of €2.6 billion to €3.0 billion and operative EBITDA of €400 million to €500 million. As a result, the stock touched a new 52-week low of €15.29 intraday as persistent selling pressure from today’s news as well as a weak Q1 2026 earnings report continues to erode investor confidence in the Finnish specialty chemicals company. The…

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MUNICH, GERMANY—Audi is having a bit of an SUV renaissance lately. Over the past 18 months, it has brought out a new electric Q6 and replaced the midsize Q5, and later this summer we’ll get to see the Q9, a full-size leviathan with the Escalade in its sights. But today it’s the turn of an all-new version of the Q7, and the North America-only SQ7, both of which go on sale later this year for model year 2027. The standard Q7 will come to the US with a twin-turbo 2.9 L V6 that generates 429 hp (320 kW) and 442 lb-ft…

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To confirm this, the researchers studied the behavior of an oxygen molecule on each type of gold surface. They asked how much molecular oxygen would stick to the surface, and for the molecules that did stick, what energy is required to cause the oxygen molecule to split. They showed that the surface structure commonly observed in bulk gold—a hexagonal pattern—does not hold onto oxygen very strongly, and the oxygen’s structure is not deformed. That means it still takes a lot of energy to split the oxygen molecule into two atoms that are ready to react. On the other hand, if…

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran has taken too long to negotiate a peace deal and will now have to “pay the price.””Iran’s Military is a complete and total mess,” the president said in a post on Truth Social. “Much of it, like their Navy and Air Force, doesn’t even exist anymore – They have been completely defeated. Iran is all talk and no action.”Oil prices ticked higher and U.S. stock futures fell after Trump’s comments. U.S. crude oil futures for July delivery jumped nearly 2% to $89.72 per barrel and Brent futures, the international benchmark, for August delivery, rose…

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The shockwaves of the Covid-19 pandemic are still hitting the U.S. car market and pushing prices up, even for exceptionally old cars. The pandemic dealt a severe blow to the total supply of new cars, which has rippled down to the used market.About 8 million vehicles that would have been made for U.S. buyers during those years never were, largely due to production shutdowns and supply shortages, said Jeremy Robb, chief economist for Cox Automotive. Automakers faced with curtailed production weighted their lineups toward money-making high-end vehicles, a strategy they have largely continued. These factors have been pushing up prices…

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Investing.com — stock fell 4.5% in pre-open trading today after Goldman Sachs lowered its price target on the German enterprise software giant to $265 from $271, while maintaining a Buy rating. The move comes as the Wall Street bank trimmed its margin forecasts for the German software giant amid expectations of higher hardware costs in the second half of the year. The bank made no changes to its organic current cloud backlog growth assumptions of 23.5% year-over-year for Q2 2026, but the target and margin outlook cut — arriving ahead of the company’s next scheduled earnings release on July 23…

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