Akamai-Anthropic Deal; People Inc. Gains as MGM Mulls Making a Bid; Costco Beats | Stock Movers

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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market. On this episode of Stock Movers: - Akamai Technologies (AKAM) shares soar after the cloud provider inked a seven-year $11.6 billion deal to provide computing power to Anthropic. Analysts say the deal should boost Akamai’s growth and its profitability profile looks attractive, given the contract is entirely focused on CPUs. - People (PPLI) shares jump on a report that MGM Resorts is discussing making a bid to purchase the Barry Diller-owned media giant. - Costco Wholesale (COST) quarterly profits surpassed Wall Street’s estimates after the company recorded a benefit related to tariff refunds. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information. Bloomberg journalists discuss today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market. Listen for analysis on the companies making news on Wall Street. Check out more episodes of Stock Movers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0NxhJreY_kjMB

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