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American Airlines further cut its 2026 earnings outlook, citing higher fuel costs, a sign that a jump in fares isn’t enough for the U.S. airline that flies the most to fully offset this year’s spike in fuel prices.American said it could post an adjusted loss per share of as much as 65 cents up to earnings per share of 65 cents this year, below the range it estimated in April between a loss of 40 cents per share up to earnings of $1.10 a share.Fuel prices have been volatile even in the few short weeks of the U.S. airline earnings…

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Investing.com — stock rose 4.8% in pre-open trading after the recreational boat and yacht retailer reported its fiscal third-quarter 2026 results before the market opened, delivering a return to meaningful profitability that appeared to outweigh headline misses on both earnings and revenue. The company posted adjusted EPS of $0.81, just shy of the $0.83 analyst consensus, while revenue of $611.3 million fell well short of the $683.36 million estimate — a 7.0% year-over-year decline reflecting continued softness in the recreational marine retail market. The key positive surprise for investors was the improvement in gross margins and the company’s return to…

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Here, its solution is grand in scope. It views the maker community, which is mostly interested in scratching personal itches, as a sign that the US public wants to make things again. The SNGA authors figure that they would be perfectly happy making things for science. “Establish national fellowships for skilled craftspeople,” they suggest, “practitioner-in-residence programs embedding machinists and technicians alongside Ph.D. researchers, and portable industry-recognized credentials in advanced manufacturing and lab techniques.” It’s unclear what these machinists will be doing with the researchers. But the results will be glorious: “By rebuilding the link between science and hands-on craft, federal…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged at 2.25 per cent on Thursday, despite a renewed surge in oil prices.The widely expected decision comes six weeks after the ECB lifted borrowing costs by a quarter point, becoming the first central bank in the G7 to tighten monetary policy in response to sharp increases in energy costs triggered by the conflict in the Middle East.Since early July, oil prices have gained more than 30 per cent as the ceasefire between the US…

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The increased use of weight-loss drugs has created a big opportunity for aesthetics company Galderma, its CEO told CNBC on Thursday.”We were actually the first one to show that if you take two of our products [filler and Sculptra]… you can mitigate some of the facial sagging that you see if you have significant weight loss,” CEO Flemming Ørnskov said.The increasing rate of patients using the so-called GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, its weight-loss equivalent Wegovy, or Zepbound, especially in the U.S., is now feeding into “the very strong growth that we’re seeing in our aesthetics portfolio,” Ørnskov told CNBC’s “Europe…

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A White House official has accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of accessing Nvidia’s advanced chips, despite export controls banning them from doing so. Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3 on Friday. It closes the performance gap with frontier models including Anthropic’s Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol, even surpassing them on some benchmarks. It’s the largest open source model so far, with 2.8 trillion parameters, referring to the size of its neural network.The Chinese company “acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models,” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and…

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Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration and former chairman and CEO of Fiserv, speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., August 12, 2025. Brendan McDermid | ReutersInternal Revenue Service chief Frank Bisignano may have lied to Congress about staffing issues as the tax agency races to hire after making deep personnel cuts at the beginning of the Trump administration, a group of Senate Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren alleged in a letter sent late Wednesday and shared exclusively with CNBC.Bisignano, who is also…

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