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Healthcare giant slashes key consultation fee to beat rivals

CVS Health (CVS) is targeting the earliest point in a customer’s weight-loss drug decision: the first consultation. On Aug. 5, the company dropped the cash price of a MinuteClinic online weight-loss visit to $29, with no membership and no monthly fee.  That is the lowest sticker price in the retail telehealth market for a GLP-1

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Dozens of adult-only luxury resorts opened this year

Family vacations are a timeless way for people from all over the world to create generational memories. There’s also something to be said for escaping from reality or experiencing a romantic getaway in a place where you don’t hear any screaming about wanting French fries. The demand for adult-only luxury hotels and resorts is clearly

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Jim Cramer says surging defense stock is a sensational buy

Forget the usual Wall Street qualifiers. Jim Cramer went straight for the superlatives on Lockheed Martin (LMT).  During the August 6 episode of CNBC’s Mad Money Lightning Round, he called the stock “sensational” and its CEO “fantastic.” Two words that leave little doubt about where he stands. I think it’s sensational. I think the CEO

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Key HIV stat over 70% leaves BofA siding with Gilead

Gilead Sciences (GILD) closed a strong second quarter, and Wall Street noticed. The drugmaker beat sales expectations across its biggest franchises, raised its full-year outlook, and gave analysts fresh reasons to stay bullish heading into the back half of 2026. Bank of America was one of them. The bank reiterated its Buy rating and kept

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Publix struggles to reverse concerning customer behavior

Publix is struggling to overcome a worrying change in customer behavior that is noticeably affecting the grocery chain.  The company’s challenges come amid economic uncertainty and follow customer backlash it faced earlier this year over significant in-store changes. In March, Publix frustrated some customers when it discontinued Publix Pay, its contactless in-app payment option, which

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Bank of America revamps Apple stock price target after earnings

ChatGPT went from generating roughly $10 million a month on Apple’s App Store in Jan. 2024 to more than $275 million in July 2026. Apple did not build ChatGPT. It does not train it, run it, or market it. But every time someone subscribes, Apple collects a commission. That dynamic is playing out across Claude,

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Bank of America doubles down on SpaceX after earnings

SpaceX (SPCX) stock investors are still reeling from a post-earnings sell-off, digesting a quarter dominated by soaring CapEx and growing questions over cash generation. Before the report, Wall Street was looking for strong headline numbers but remained mostly skeptical of its ability to expand AI, satellite, and mobile ambitions to justify the sheer amount of

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Veteran manager buys 2 ETFs as market shifts

The S&P 500 has had a strong 2026. Most of the gains have come from the same group of technology and AI stocks that have been driving the market for two years. One portfolio manager just decided to look somewhere else. Chris Versace, portfolio manager of the TheStreet Pro Portfolio, initiated two new positions on

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Jim Cramer makes bold call on controversial fintech stock

Robinhood is one of those stocks that inspires strong opinions in both directions. The retail trading crowd loves it. Institutional investors have historically been suspicious of it. Critics have called it a glorified gambling app. Supporters also argue that it is democratizing finance in ways traditional brokerages never attempted. Jim Cramer landed on the bulls’

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Cathie Wood sells $17 million of popular AI stock

Cathie Wood, head of Ark Investment Management, often trades around earnings, taking advantage of sharp moves in some of her favorite tech stocks. That’s exactly what she’s doing with Palantir, trimming her position after the stock rallied following its latest earnings report. In 2025, the flagship Ark Innovation ETF gained 35.49%, far outpacing the S&P

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