Feng Huang Wang Cai Jing·2025-07-30 13:41Group 1 - U.S. stock indices opened slightly higher, with Dow Jones up 0.05%, Nasdaq up 0.19%, and S&P 500 up 0.11% [1] - New Oriental's net profit for Q4 FY2025 decreased by 73.7% year-on-year, leading to a drop of over 10% in its stock price [1] - Starbucks saw a stock increase of over 5% after reporting third-quarter revenue that exceeded expectations [1] Group 2 - Novo Nordisk's stock fell over 5% in pre-market trading after a significant drop of 21% the previous day, as new CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen failed to reassure investors [2] - Apple has lost four AI researchers to Meta in a month, with the latest departure being multimodal AI researcher Bowen Zhang [2] Group 3 - LG Energy Solution secured a supply contract for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries worth 5.9442 trillion KRW (approximately $4.3 billion), which represents 23.2% of its projected 2024 sales [3] - The customer behind the $4.3 billion contract is reportedly Tesla, although LG did not disclose the client's identity [3] Group 4 - Starbucks reported its first same-store sales growth in China in a year and a half, despite a global decline in same-store sales for six consecutive quarters [4]