A dovish Federal Reserve can use tools such as rate cuts to lessen the damage of America’s tariff skirmishes with China and Mexico, but it is either limited in its effectiveness or in its motivations, two economists told CNBC on Thursday.

This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, has a new entrant and it is raising eyebrows. The world’s largest get-together for some of the biggest names in gaming is set to stage its latest show next week, but one particular name has taken the gaming world by surprise — Google.

There’s still a chance that the U.S. and China could reach a trade deal by the end of this year, but that won’t be enough to cause investors to cheer, according to an investment expert from BlackRock. Isabelle Mateos y Lago, deputy head of BlackRock’s Official Institutions Group, said Friday that any trade deal between Washington and Beijing will likely be “narrow.” That means the deal won’t likely resolve all the tensions between the two countries, she explained.

  Ethan Brown, Beyond Meat's President and Chief Executive Officer, noted that the company upped the ante on both retail and foodservice businesses, as it benefited from first quarter's strong demand.He also expressed that Beyond Meat plans to  expand its distribution network, launch additional innovative products, and invest in growing its infrastructure. Looking ahead, Beyond Meat predicts that revenue would increase 140% over the full year to $210 million – which would lead to an almost break-even adjusted EBITDA.

Even as some analysts raised their price targets for MongoDB following the company’s higher-than-expected first quarter results, its shares declined on Thursday. The software company reported a loss of -22 cents per share for the quarter, which is narrower compared to Wall Street expectations of -24 cents loss.The earnings report was also an improvement over the year-ago quarter’s loss of -37 cents a share. Revenue of $89.4 million also came in higher than analysts’ estimates of $83 million. After the release of the quarterly results, analysts at KeyBanc Capital raised their price target on MongoDB stock to $165 from $150 a share.

Interest rates on U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to their lowest levels since September 2017.This comes as U.S. bond yields fall due to trade tension between United States and its trading partners, Freddie Mac said.  Thirty-year mortgage rates averaged 3.82% in the week ended June 6, down from 3.99% a week ago and 4.54% a year earlier, the mortgage finance agency said.

Mexico says it will use its national guard at its southern border with Guatemala as part of the country’s bid to curb Central American migration.  “We have explained that there are 6,000 men and that they will be deployed there,” Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters in televised remarks as he left a meeting with U.S. officials in Washington.  Ebrard added that Mexico’s talks with the United States about migration will continue on Friday.Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican imports starting next week if Mexico does not do more to contain the migrant flows.

Sanofi is poised to appoint Paul Hudson, a top executive with Switzerland’s Novartis, to become the French drugmaker’s next CEO from Sept. 1, a source familiar with the decision told Reuters on Thursday.

Over the last four months, the Brazilian stock market has been trading in a different rhythm from the rest of the world’s markets.It has been trending lower since late January/early February while most of the others have been moving higher with the exception of the last month. The iShares MSCI Brazil Capped ETF (NYSE: EWZ) peaked on January 31 and then again on March 19.

Facebook is indisputably one of technology’s biggest companies, boasting an average of 1.56 billion daily active users across it and its Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger family of apps in March 2019, with sixty-six percent of total users being considered daily, rather than monthly, active users.Recent times have seen Facebook taken to task for a string of issues, including data impropriety, controversial and dangerous user-posted content that results in real-world consequences, and privacy concerns.

Its shares are trading close to $200, well below the company’s $300-plus share price at the beginning of 2019. The month of May witnessed Tesla ahead of other electric auto making competitors.Also, Tesla’s estimated total U.S. sales of 11,300 vehicles in May was 2.6 times the combined total of its competitors’ EV offerings - up from 2.1 times last year. Morgan Stanley (MS) forecasts Tesla will deliver between a range of 360,000 and 400,000 vehicles this year, an increase of approximately 45% to 65% compared to 2018.

Taiwan-based electronics automaker, Foxconn, has off-shored 155 jobs from a factory outside Indianapolis to Mexico, following changes in business and production objectives.Foxconn has so far failed to meet job creation targets promised, as part of a massive new factory supported by large tax breaks.

Other manufacturers like Bridgestone-Firestone have also been working on airless tires. The new Uptis will look like a conventional tire, but it will have three individual components.Instead, the latest prototype uses high-strength composite spokes that are mated to an aluminum hub, which mounts to a car’s axle, just like a conventional tire. The Uptis can neither be inflated nor can it go flat which means it can improve highway safety. Airless tires have long been on the list of manufacturers but so far they have progressed rather slowly.

The euro climbed higher against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it would delay its first post-crisis interest rate hike until at least the middle of next year.

New York Federal Reserve President John Williams, addressing a key market concern, said Thursday the move of near-term bond yields above their longer-duration counterparts is only one consideration when determining what the economy will look like in the future. The inverted yield curve is not “an oracle,” he said during a question-and-answer session with CNBC’s Steve Liesman.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. shares jumped nearly +6% Thursday, following a rating upgrade by Morgan Stanley.  Analysts at Morgan Stanley raised their rating on the semiconductor company to equal weight from underweight.The analysts feel there are enough positive near-term tailwinds for AMD. Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore mentioned cloud gaming as a key strength for AMD.

On Wednesday, Pivotal Software’s latest quarterly results turned several analysts’ cautious on the stock. Generating an adjusted loss of -3 cents a share for the fiscal first quarter, the cloud-oriented software company  fared better compared to analysts’ estimates of -5 cents a share.It is also an improvement  over the -10 cents a share loss of the year-ago quarter.  Pivotal’s first quarter revenue of $185.7 million also beat analysts’ expectation of $184.1 million. However, the company lowered its full-year revenue outlook to a range of $756 million to $767 million, well below analysts’ consensus estimate of $803 million (based on Refinitiv poll). For the fiscal second quarter in particular, Pivotal expects revenue to range between $185 million to $189 million, lagging the average analyst estimate of $198 million, (based on Refinitiv poll). Following the report, analysts Daniel Ives and Strecker Backe of Wedbush Securities called Pivotal’s first quarter results a

Fiat Chrysler has withdrawn its merger proposal for French automaker Renault “with immediate effect,” the board of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced Wednesday in a statement.

Google (GOOG,GOOGL) acquires the business intelligence and big data analytics startup for $2.6B in cash to add to Google Cloud.

A cautious stance on Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD 5.69% over the past year was "obviously" the wrong call but the "table is set well" for 2020, according to Morgan Stanley.