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Post Holdings, Inc. POST is seeing stronger performance in pet food e-commerce than in traditional brick-and-mortar retail channels. In the third quarter of fiscal 2026 earnings call, management identified e-commerce as the fastest-growing channel in the pet category, with both pure-play online platforms and retailers’ e-commerce businesses outperforming physical stores. Within brick-and-mortar retail, mass-market retailers…

BlackRock (BLK) ended the recent trading session at $1,090.27, demonstrating a +1.92% change from the preceding day’s closing price. The stock outperformed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 1.49%. On the other hand, the Dow registered a gain of 0.71%, and the technology-centric Nasdaq increased by 2.26%.

Artificial intelligence now touches nearly every customer service operation, yet most deployments still stop at a single chatbot or an assist panel beside a human agent. The harder work — coordinating data, systems and people to resolve a request from beginning to end — remains largely undone, and it is fast becoming the dividing line…