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Key PointsiPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199, a $100 increase from last year’s model.Apple says it expects to pay even higher memory costs in the September quarter.Management expects gross margin to land between 47% and 48%, down from 50.1% in the June quarter.10 stocks we like better than Apple ›Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) put bigger price tags on its best iPhones on Wednesday. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199, up $100 from last year’s iPhone 17 Pro, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max starts at $1,299. Above both sits the iPhone Duo, Apple’s new $1,999 foldable.A $100 increase may sound like…

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) MedTech Chairman Tim Schmid said the company remains confident it is delivering growth at the high end of its previously stated 5% to 7% operational market-growth range for the 2022 through 2027 period, citing a portfolio shift toward cardiovascular products, operating-model changes and continued investment in differentiated technologies. Speaking in a fireside chat hosted by Wells Fargo MedTech Analyst Larry Biegelsen, Schmid said the company has moved from a highly centralized MedTech structure toward a business-unit model intended to improve specialization, speed of decision-making and accountability. Johnson & Johnson’s MedTech organization has roughly 75,000 employees, he…

By Alberto Onetti At Mind the Bridge, we are regularly asked to put numbers on something that is, by nature, hard to pin down: the health of an innovation ecosystem. Governments, corporates and investors all want the same thing: A benchmark that tells them how their country or region stacks up against the rest of the world. Alberto Onetti of Mind the Bridge. The problem is that no two ecosystems look alike, and any methodology rigid enough to allow cross-country comparison risks flattening exactly the traits that make a place distinctive. This is the tension we have been working on…

MELBOURNE, Australia — The NFL is making history this week with its first-ever regular-season game in Australia, but Commissioner Roger Goodell is already thinking well into the future. “Whether it’s media, or whether it’s labor, or whether it’s our international plans or what we’re doing with stadiums, all of that [requires] taking a 5-, 10-, 15-year look, and it’s critical to do that,” Goodell said in an exclusive interview with CNBC here ahead of the Week 1 game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams, set to kick off Thursday night at 8:35 pm ET. “If you’re…

The investing information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. NerdWallet, Inc. does not offer advisory or brokerage services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell particular stocks, securities or other investments.Each week, we answer money questions from around the web on the NerdWallet app. Here are three trending questions from September.Should I shop incognito to get better deals? The short answer is yes. Shopping incognito might help you find better deals, all because of tracking technology that allows retailers to use information like your location and purchase history to personalize prices. (Shopping incognito…

The price of oil has jumped to $105 a barrel amid signs the conflict in the Middle East will not be resolved quickly, fuelling fears that inflation could accelerate. With the conflict between the US and Iran in the Gulf intensifying in recent days, the cost of both crude oil and gas has been rising sharply. Brent crude went back above $100 a barrel on Wednesday and has continued to climb.The war has led to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, preventing supplies of oil and gas from the Gulf from reaching global markets.Worries over higher inflation have…

Catie, 30, and Phil, 34, were sat on a British Airways flight to Ljubljana on Tuesday that never took off. If a flight is cancelled, airlines must get customers to their destination as quickly as possible at no extra cost, even if it is with a rival carrier.Alternatively, passengers can take a refund, which should also be offered for flight delays of more than five hours.In Catie and Phil’s case, the alternative flight offered would not have arrived until Saturday morning – four days into their week-long holiday. So they took the refund. That was not easy. The chatbot only…

Primark has said it plans to launch a home delivery service in Britain, four years after it made its first foray into e-commerce.The retailer said it had bought a fulfilment facility in Sheffield to enable it to ship products to homes.Primark did not sell goods online until 2022, when it launched a click-and-collect service which meant shoppers still had to travel to pick up their purchases. The company said there was “opportunity for profitable growth” through home deliveries, which could help boost trade after Primark reported subdued sales following the recent hot weather.Associated British Foods (ABF), which owns Primark, said…

The Overnight Visitor Levy, which was outlined in the King’s Speech in May, has not been brought forward in Parliament yet.Prime Minister Andy Burnham has framed the policy as part of his wider devolution agenda with mayors able to set out plans for how new revenues will be invested by March 2028.He was mayor of Greater Manchester when the city introduced the City Visitor Charge in April 2023 – a £1 per room, per night fee – to pay for measures aimed at attracting more visitors.Regional mayors say the levy is needed to raise more income to invest in local…

A “social supermarket” offering low cost groceries and budgeting advice says it has had 600 sign-ups in its first year.The Dartford Larder in Kent opened in July 2025 and operates a subscription model, where members pay £4.50 to visit each week for essential items including unlimited fruit and vegetables.The facility, on Copperfields Walk, is run by Crossways Community Church, the Healthy Living Centre and Dartford Borough Council.The church’s pastor, Stephen Brindley, said organisers had “achieved what we intended to with the project, which was giving people back dignity”.He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that users had welcomed the subscription…