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Omar Mariques | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesReddit shares fell about 6% on Friday on concern that a new app from Meta called Forum could create an alternative avenue for internet users to congregate and create discussion groups.Forum, launched as a test app on Apple’s iOS, is part of Facebook Groups. Analysts at Truist wrote in a note on Friday that it’s “an attempt by the company to compete against Reddit as an online forum for public discourse” and “represents a new threat.”Reddit’s stock is now down almost 40% this year despite a strengthening online ad business. In April, the company…

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Customers shop for eggs at an H-E-B grocery store on May 11, 2026 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesEgg prices are finally cooling in a welcome shift for consumers. But now a new challenge is sending producers scrambling: they have too many eggs at a time when their input costs are rising. As the market swings from last year’s avian flu-driven shortage to a growing oversupply, producers say lower grocery store prices are masking the squeeze from cost inflation.”A year ago, all anybody could talk about was how expensive eggs were because a lot of birds were unfortunately…

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Last year, the first few months of data from the US grid suggested that fears of a data-center-driven surge in demand were becoming a reality. Demand had risen by about 3 percent, triggering a surge in coal, interrupting what had been a long downward trend. But over the course of the year, both trends slowed considerably. A year later, all of that seems to be in the past, as the US has returned to its normal pattern: slow growth, with renewables pushing coal off the grid. The one oddity is that hydroelectric production has surged without a corresponding increase in…

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President Donald Trump led a ceremony swearing in Kevin Warsh as chair of the Federal Reserve, putting him in charge of a central bank that must navigate a tumultuous economy and a president with very specific expectations on interest rates.Trump, whose actions toward the Fed have spurred bipartisan alarms about executive influence on the historically independent central bank, said he wanted Warsh to “just do your own thing and do a great job.””I want Kevin to be totally independent,” Trump said at the start of the event Friday morning. “Don’t look at me, don’t look at anybody.”But the swearing-in ceremony…

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Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard speaks during a press briefing, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersTulsi Gabbard is resigning as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, MS NOW reported Friday, citing a White House official and a senior administration official.Gabbard is leaving her post to support her husband, who is battling a rare form of bone cancer, the White House official told MS NOW.Gabbard told Trump during an Oval Office meeting Friday that she would step down from his Cabinet, with her last day expected to be June…

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By Matthias Inverardi DUESSELDORF, May 22 (Reuters) – , and urged European Union finance ministers to phase in new duty rules on low-value packages on Friday, warning of supply chain bottlenecks and an impact on the availability of some medical supplies. The rules are part of efforts to crack down on cheap Chinese e-commerce imports such as from online retailers Shein and Temu. In a letter dated May 22 seen by Reuters, the three companies said the EU should proceed with a €3 flat-rate duty from July 1, but defer “more complex and unresolved elements until they are legally certain…

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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Friday. If you’re looking for a book for the long weekend, JPMorgan has some ideas.Stock futures are higher before the bell. All three major indexes posted a winning day yesterday and are on track for a positive week.Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. Deals, demand and a delayThe logos of Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, Perplexity, and Bing apps are displayed on the screen of a smartphone in Reno, United States, on November 21, 2024.Jaque Silva…

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