Business & Markets — July 17, 2026

Netflix cuts back viewing data. Netflix shares fell after mixed earnings and a disappointing forecast, compounded by a plan to reduce its 'What We Watched' engagement reports to once a year.

According to MarketWatch, the stock decline reflected more than the quarterly numbers themselves: investors reacted to the combination of results that missed on some measures, guidance that fell short of expectations, and reduced transparency into how much subscribers are actually watching. Moving the 'What We Watched' report to an annual schedule leaves Wall Street with less frequent engagement data to gauge the streamer's performance between earnings periods.

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Uber agrees to $14.8 billion Delivery Hero deal. Uber agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in an all-stock deal that would nearly double its global footprint, creating one of the largest food-delivery platforms outside China.

The transaction is structured entirely in stock rather than cash, and TechCrunch notes it would roughly double Uber's reach worldwide. Combining Uber's delivery operations with Delivery Hero's would create a food-delivery business of a scale unmatched outside China, consolidating two of the industry's biggest players into a single platform and reshaping the competitive landscape in the markets where the companies operate.

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Trump Media sells early access to posts. Trump Media will sell trading firms millisecond-early access to Truth Social's most market-moving posts, potentially including the president's own, raising conflict-of-interest questions.

Quartz reports the arrangement would give paying trading firms a millisecond head start on Truth Social posts deemed most likely to move markets, a window that can be valuable to high-speed traders. Because those posts could include ones written by the president himself, and the platform's parent company profits from selling that access, the plan has prompted questions about conflicts of interest, according to the outlet.

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