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Wayfair soars after posting strongest revenue growth since 2021

The home goods giant delivered a surprise profit surge, even as customer counts dipped.

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Wayfair shares jumped over 10% after the online home retailer delivered a massive Q2 earnings beat and its best revenue growth, even amid a shaky housing market.

Adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.87, soaring ahead of Wall Street’s expectations of $0.33. Revenue also outperformed, hitting $3.27 billion versus the $3.12 billion expected by analysts polled by FactSet.

Excluding the impact of an exit from Germany, sales rose 6% from a year ago — the company’s highest growth rate since early 2021.

While the company didn’t give full-year guidance, execs say Wayfair is finally seeing its long-term investments pay off, with CEO Niraj Shah citing “accelerating sales and share gain” and calling the second quarter a “resounding success.”

Active customers fell 4.5% to 21 million, but revenue per customer rose nearly 6% to $572. Average order value climbed to $328, up from $313 last year, with repeat buyers making up over 80% of orders.

Wayfair shares are now up 50% year to date.

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Another record high for stocks as tech heavyweights put market on their shoulders

All of the gains on Monday are attributable to Nvidia and Apple.

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Chinese EV maker Nio sinks as a surge of orders for its new SUV create a 6-month backlog

Shares of Nio are falling Monday on the bittersweet news that its latest SUV (the ES8, priced to compete with Tesla’s Model Y) is too popular.

According to Chinese media reports, up to 50,000 ES8 orders may have been placed in the vehicle’s first 36 hours, surpassing Nio’s 40,000-vehicle production cap for this year.

Customers now ordering the ES8 won’t receive their vehicle for 24 to 26 weeks, or six months.

Nio CEO William Li said that the ES8’s production capacity will reach 15,000 units by December.

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Customers now ordering the ES8 won’t receive their vehicle for 24 to 26 weeks, or six months.

Nio CEO William Li said that the ES8’s production capacity will reach 15,000 units by December.

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Nvidia jumps on plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of data center expansion

Shares of Nvidia vaulted on the news, as CEO Jensen Huang says the new project would involve 4 million to 5 million GPUs.

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Moderna rises after RFK Jr. vaccine panel’s less-draconian-than-expected Covid recommendation

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US toys with making the world’s worst investment

Argentinian government bonds are up big today on reports that the US is considering some sort of a bailout for the chronically messy Latin American economy currently led by Trump-allied right-wing populist Javier Millei.

The country’s foreign minister knocked down previous reports that Argentina was negotiating a $30 billion loan with the US.

But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just came out saying that “all options” are being considered to stabilize the country’s currency, which plunged as Millei’s attempt to radically remake the economy with deep spending and tax cuts has shown signs of sputtering amid a series of government corruption scandals. Bessent even went so far as to say Argentina is a “systemically important” US ally, using a term of art that’s often bandied about when bailouts are in the offing.

For the record, lending Argentina US taxpayer money seems a bad idea.

The country has defaulted on foreign loans nine times, giving it one of the world’s worst credit histories. In fact, it’s defaulted three times since 2000, including in 2019, after the last attempt to “reform” the country lured in foreign lenders once again.

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