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Shares of AT&T Inc fell nearly 7% to hit their lowest level in thirty years on Monday, after analysts downgraded the stock following a news report that the telecommunications giant left toxic lead cables buried across the U.S. A Wall Street Journal report on July 9 named AT&T and Verizon among several telecom giants that abandoned a sprawling network of underground toxic lead cables, with a huge number of them possibly contaminating neighboring soil and drinking water sources.

Investing.com — The Dow closed higher Monday, led by tech and financials as investors looked ahead to more quarterly results from Wall Street banks and other major corporations later this week, though broader market gains were kept in check by a stumble in telecoms.

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Investing.com — U.S. stocks were rising in midday trading as investors prepared for this week's deluge of quarterly earnings reports.

Here is your Pro Recap of the biggest analyst cuts you may have missed since Friday: downgrades at AT&T, Twilio, PepsiCo, and Telus International.

Here is your Pro Recap of the biggest analyst cuts you may have missed since Friday: downgrades at AT&T, Twilio, PepsiCo, and Telus International.

Investing.com — U.S. stocks rose on Friday, ending a strong week on a positive note following healthy results from some of the country’s leading banks and a stronger-than-expected reading on consumer sentiment for July.

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Here is your Pro Recap of the biggest analyst cuts you may have missed since yesterday: downgrades at AT&T, Progressive, Alcoa, and SoFi Technologies.

State Street Global Advisors recently reported a staggering inflow of approximately $53 billion into equity ETFs during June. This influx represents the highest amount of money flowing into these funds since October of the previous year.

Bayou City. Moreover, as per a website known as GlobalCallForwarding which describes area codes, 713 Day is named after Houston's oldest area code, established in 1947. It was one of the original 86 area codes in southeast Texas by AT&T and the Bell System.

At a gathering of telecom officials more than a decade ago, John Malone, a senior AT&T manager, cautioned the group about a little-known danger crisscrossing the nation. His topic was lead-covered cables, which once carried phone service and had long been obsolete. Weren’t these ancient cables gone? “NO," his slide presentation said.

When the PGA Tour viewed the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league as an existential threat, it counted politicians among its most prominent allies. A Senate hearing on Tuesday will be a public gauge of how dramatically and quickly that support transformed into antagonism. Tour officials will appear before the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for a first hearing on the agreement between the Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund—a pact between bitter enemies that shocked the golf world and quickly drew the ire of Capitol Hill.

Gold Cup soccer tournament, which kicked off on June 24 and runs through July 16, the excitement continues to build. The highly anticipated 2023 Gold Cup is set to take place in 13 cities across North America this summer. Teams such as the USMNT, Mexico, Canada, Jamaica, and Costa Rica are expected to make strong runs in the tournament, adding excitement to the upcoming knockout round stage, which promises intriguing matchups. The matches will be hosted in various cities including Toronto, Arlington, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Glendale, Harrison, Inglewood, Paradise, St. Louis, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Houston (twice). The USMNT aims to achieve a historic feat by becoming the first team to win consecutive Gold Cup titles since Mexico's triumph in 2009 and 2011. Meanwhile, the other participating teams are determined to break the trend of USA vs. Mexico finals, which have dominated the tournament since 2017.

It seemed to be a game-changer, Austin said. But since ChatGPT is a publicly available tool, he wondered if it was secure for businesses to use. So in January, AT&T tried a product from Microsoft called Azure OpenAI Services that lets businesses build their own artificial-intelligence-powered chatbots.

Media giant Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. (WBD) predicts write-downs and other restructuring costs could be as high as $5.3 billion, far more than previously estimated.

5G systems near major airports. Aviation groups have warned for years that 5G signals could interfere with aircraft equipment, especially devices using radio waves to measure distance above the ground and which are critical when planes land in low visibility. Predictions that interference would cause massive flight groundings failed to come true last year, when telecom companies began rolling out the new service.

Aviation groups have warned for years that 5G signals could interfere with aircraft equipment, especially devices using radio waves to measure distance above the ground and which are critical when planes land in low visibility. Predictions that interference would cause massive flight groundings failed to come true last year, when telecom companies began rolling out the new service. They then agreed to limit the power of the signals around busy airports, giving airlines an extra year to upgrade their planes.

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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.

AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and T-Mobile US Inc. said that consumers are still paying their bills on time despite months of high inflation and concerns over the pace of economic growth.