Day traders and market watchers are often left wondering whether -- and by how much -- President Trump's tweets affect the market and stocks.As the president unabashedly wages trade threats and targets companies like Amazon in his Twitter feed, traders have eyed the market closely for reactions. Now, Goldman Sachs has compiled data to pinpoint just how much tweets affect market action.

Meat is starting to pile up in U.S. warehouses, with some 2.5 billion pounds of beef, pork, poultry, and turkey now sitting in cold storage as producers confront the impact of rising tariffs with China.Government figures coming as early as today are expected to show record stockpiles.

There was acquisition buzz over the weekend, with Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba and Tencent involved in talks to buy an approximately 20% stake in the Chinese unit of WPP, the world's largest advertising group.This acquisition would value WPP at roughly $2.5 billion. Meanwhile, in Europe, French technology services company Atos has agreed to acquire Syntel in a $3.7 billion all-cash transaction.

They believe that some Ritz cracker items may contain whey powder tainted with salmonella. There's a benefit to nipping any health issue in the bud before it makes its way to the public eye.Many investors also remember Chipotle's long struggle to re-establish its brand after its E.coli outbreak, not to mention the stock's plummet that followed.  

So, it has prepared the “poison pill”. John Schnatter resigned as the firm’s chairman this year after admitting to using a racial slur in a conference call.But he now accuses the board of inadequate investigation into the matter, which he claims to have resulted in his forced resignation based on “rumor and innuendo”. Schnatter is still on the Papa John’s board, and owns 30% stake in the firm alongwith and his associates.

Tesla asks suppliers to refund a portion of its payments to them.Tesla hopes the cash return to help it become profitable, according to the Wall Street Journal’s review of a memo that the electric car-maker sent one of its suppliers last week. The refund request apparently seeks to enable Tesla to continue its operations and to bolster its long-term growth – something that both the company and its suppliers could potentially benefit from. Although Tesla declined to comment on the specific memo, the company did indicate that it is seeking price discounts from suppliers on projects (including incomplete ones and those dating back to 2016) – as mentioned by the Wall Street Journal.

Speculations of Japan’s momentary policy changes push up the nation’s currency and yields, which in turn triggers its central bank’s unlimited bond buying offer on Monday. The current policy of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) includes maintaining its short-term policy interest rate at negative levels, which has kept the 10-year yields near zero.Reports of possible tweaks in monetary easing measures to be made by the BOJ spurred a six basis point surge (sharpest increase in two years) in the Japanese 10-year government bond yields and pushed the yen to a two-week high against the U.S. dollar. In an attempt to apparently stem the tide, the BOJ announced an offer to buy unlimited bonds on Monday.

China is not manipulating its currency, according to Monday’s comments by the nation’s foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang. Shuang emphasized that the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan is “market-determined” and that there are “ups and downs”, possibly trying to quash U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent views on the currency.Trump is apparently worried about the adverse effect a weakening yuan could have on U.S. competitiveness in the export market, especially amidst the Fed’s policy rate hikes this year. Late last week, the U.S. President claimed that, if he feels the need, he’s ready to slap tariffs on all of the $500 billion worth of Chinese goods that the U.S. imports –  suggesting that he’s prepared to up the ante on the ‘trade war’ with China.

Prominent crypto exchange and digital wallet provider Coinbase announced on July 16th that they had officially been greenlit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to list security tokens on their exchange.News outlets reported Coinbase was also working to secure licenses to provide broker-dealer, alternative trading system, and registered investment advising services, and that they may work to tokenize traditional financial assets in the future.​ That announcement was corrected one day later by a Coinbase spokeswoman.

Adidas is aiming for 2024 to use strictly recycled plastics for all of their products and applications.With such a major goal and dedication to recycled plastic, there is a chance that many other companies will come out and set high expectations for themselves also.

The internal documents of the bank reviewed by Yahoo Finance and interviews with former employees of wealth and investment management division show that the investment management control was transferred from human advisors to robo-advisors. In 2014 Wells Fargo’s investment “managers” started to be investment “strategists” and investment management was moved to service centres, according to a document analyzed by the website.Wells Fargo also made it clear that investment advisors in the unit keep quiet about the changes. “As a company, they emphasized sales to such a point that I felt just like the salesmen in ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’” one employee tells Yahoo Finance, referencing to the David Mamet play and 1992 film about a salesman who was engaged in unethical and illegal acts under high-pressure to make more sales.

The alarming and rather surprising survey by Bank of the West of about 600 millennials found out that about 4 in 10 millennials are already homeowners.However, whooping 68% are feeling buyer’s remorse and regret their decision. There are many reasons for that, but the main ones are overspending on the down payment, underestimating the maintenance costs, and not being able to afford the home they really like – and therefore making a compromise on the house they buy. Sometimes the news are not what they seem to be.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that Deutsche Bank (DB) has agreed to pay $75 million in fines for its mishandling of pre-release American Depository Receipts (ADRs).Deutsche Bank did not agree with the SEC's findings nor did they explicitly admit guilt, but they did agree to pay the fine.  

The San Francisco and Oakland cases were thrown out some time ago, and now a U.S. district judge has dismissed New York's attempt to do the same. The lawsuits alleged that oil giants like BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, and Royal Dutch Shell knew about the climate impact of oil production and drilling, but they ignored their own scientific findings and broadly accepted scientific findings.The judges reviewing the case more or less arrived at the same conclusion, which was that problems related to climate change should be dealt with by Congress and the executive branch, not oil companies.  

Though Comcast lost this battle, they did succeed in making Disney go $20 billion higher than they would have originally, which could constrain Disney's ability for future acquisitions.  And that's key.Fox already owns 39% of Sky, and in their bidding war with Comcast they are valuing Sky at $32.5 billion while Comcast has valuation pegged at $34 billion.    

A major driver was its cloud computing segment which registered a +53% year-over-year surge in sales in the last quarter. CEO Satya Nadella’s strategy of prioritizing the firm’s cloud services (over Windows) seems to be paying off.What’s more, Microsoft recently signed a five-year cloud services deal with Walmart – a partnership that rival-in-common Amazon might need to watch out for. With worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure projected  to touch $160 billion in 2018 and burgeon to $277 billion by 2021(according to the International Data Corporation), Microsoft’s not so ‘cloudy’ ambitions could be its potential trump card.

GE Power’s profits plummeted -58% in Q2 2018 compared to the same period a year ago.A -26% decline in orders for its products and a -19% plunge in its revenues were some of the “big blows” to GE Power in Q2. The total profit of GE dropped – 30% year-over-year in Q2. The Power segment occupies the largest slice in the conglomerate's revenues. Nevertheless, GE's revenues managed to grow at +3%, on the back of solidly positive revenue growth in its Oil & Gas and Aviation segments. GE, which is in the process of shedding off some of its businesses and cutting costs, plans to lay off 12,000 workers at GE Power, as announced late last year.  

On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his disappointment with the Fed's policy  rate hikes and hinted at his worries about the impact on U.S. trade/economic growth. The Fed has raised rates twice so far in 2018 and is expected to make two more hikes by the end of the year.The U.S. President is worried that higher interest rates might heat up the U.S. dollar and therefore put the U.S. at a “disadvantage” - amidst low interest rates maintained by central banks in the Europe and Japan, coupled with China’s plunging currency. Following the interview’s airing, the White House released a statement asserting that “the President respects the independence of the Fed” and that his “well-known” opinions on interest rates are not intended to interfere with the Fed’s decisions.  

“I’m ready to go 500”, said U.S. President Donald Trump in CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ interview.Just a couple of days back, the Trump administration announced 10% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports. So far, $34 billion of Chinese goods have already met with Trump’s tariffs, to which China had responded with levies on $34 billion of U.S. goods imported into its nation. Trump seems to be in no mood to give up his one-upmanship in this apparent ‘tariff war’, as is suggested by his ‘threats’ and actions in recent days.

Canadian pot grower and seller Tilray (TLRY) went IPO today on Nasdaq and gained +31% to $22.39 per share.The offering was multiply oversubscribed to the large demand from investors in USA.  In that sense Tilray reminds of Canopy Growth (CGC) and Cronos Group (CRON) that are both Canadian marijuana companies that were first listed in Canada but than moved to Nasdaq and New York stock exchanges. After super successful IPO Tilray is planning to invest over $100,000,000 in expanding it’s growth operations to a close of whopping  1,000,000 square feet of growth space capable of delivering 1 million plants for harvesting every 3 months with an estimated retail value of $5,000 * 1mil = $5 Billion every quarter.