Starbucks Workers United holds rally in NYC as strikes continue for a third week

Several hundred picketers gathered outside of the Empire State Building, the site of a Starbucks Reserve location and the company’s regional headquarters.
Ulta shares pop as beauty retailer hikes sales and earnings outlook for second straight quarter

Ulta easily beat Wall Street’s earnings expectations for its third quarter.
New York Times sues Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth over restrictive Pentagon media rules

Reporters from The New York Times, CNN, Fox News, NBC and others staged a walkout after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled new Pentagon press rules.
Meta is rebounding on report of job cuts. Why Stephanie Link is adding to her position

Hightower Advisors’ Link said she expects the Facebook parent’s stock to rise further.
Top analyst Mayo says deregulation to spark bank M&A boom. Here are his takeover candidates

Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo believes that investors are still underappreciating a multiyear deregulation story.
Microsoft will raise prices of commercial Office subscriptions in July

For the second time in five years, Microsoft is hiking prices for commercial customers of its widely used Office bundles.
Congressional watchdog probes Trump FHFA chief Bill Pulte

Pulte has made allegations of mortgage fraud against New York Attorney General Letitia James, Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, Sen. Adam Schiff, and Rep. Eric Swalwell.
Wisdom of crowds: Josh Brown says the market is telling you this stock is special

Josh and Sean discuss how to read when the market is telling you a stock is special.
Google taps AI vibe-coder Replit in challenge to Anthropic and Cursor

Replit will expand usage of Google Cloud services, add more of Google’s models onto its platform, and support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers.
Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Meta Platforms, Kroger, SAIC, PVH, Snowflake and more

These are some of the stocks posting the largest midday moves.