📌 SoftBank Group Corp’s fiscal first-quarter profit fell less than expected, as strong gains on its Intel stake and Vision Fund investments helped offset rising costs and losses on other holdings. Softbank’s net income attributable in the three months to June 30 fell 17.7% to 347.33 billion yen ($2.20 billion). The print was nearly twice Bloomberg estimates of 165.83 billion yen
‼️ 🧠 Meta is rolling out its first coding agent called Muse Code as the company ramps up its investment in AI models and services to try and take on Anthropic and OpenAI.
‼️ 💊 Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said the company is spending more than $250 million annually to provide GLP-1 weight loss medications to its workforce.
‼️ JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon has warned that leverage across financial markets remained elevated, adding that investors should be mindful that hidden borrowing could amplify market disruptions.
‼️ BREAKING: AIA Group Ltd., HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc dropped at the open in Hong Kong trading after some Chinese cities targeted overseas insurance policies in their latest effort to boost tax revenues.
‼️ 🇰🇷 🧠 South Korea’s current-account surplus widened to a record for a second straight month as booming semiconductor exports pushed the goods balance to another all-time high — even as foreign investors dumped a record amount of domestic equities