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Lowe's Companies is a major U.S. home improvement retail chain selling building materials, tools, appliances, and hardware.
July retail sales fell by the most in over a year. Home Depot, TJX, Target and Walmart will show whether that is a pause or a trade-down.
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CMO Tristan Pineiro says some advertisers disappeared after the DEI rollback. Grindr's response is to sell sponsorship of concerts and parties, where a brand reaches the same audience and its ad does not sit beside user content.
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A creator campaign has turned the question of who installs cameras in a parking lot into one executives answer in public. Home Depot had a reply on Friday about federal access; Lowe's did not comment.
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Nvidia is the reference customer for software it helped build, so its own allocation record becomes the pitch, and the metric both companies name as the whole point of the exercise has no published number attached to it yet.
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A women's advocacy petition and a 732,000-view video have Ulta publicly defending cameras it says sit in fewer than 1% of its stores. So far the record shows reputational pressure, with no clear commercial cost attached.
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Reuters says Goldman is advising a process that would value the alternative-data firm at roughly nine to 11 times a reported $280 million 2026 recurring-revenue target.
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A record long-bond yield in the US and decade-high yields in Germany and France are the week's real story. Mortgages moved first; AI capex plans are next in line for scrutiny.
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Consensus has Walmart earnings up 9% on 5% revenue and Target up 13% on 4%. The gap between profit growth and sales growth is where the story actually sits.
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Home Depot, Target and Walmart report on consecutive mornings into a thin data calendar. Their guidance, not the macro releases, is where tariff pass-through shows up first.
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