Palantir earnings, McDonald's new U.S. head, tiny 'cars' and more in Morning Squawk

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · Aug 04, 2026 · 773 words · By Alex Harring

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 16 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “ExxonMobil and Chevron reported banner second-quarter profits”

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Claim 2: “McDonald's... reported mixed results for the second quarter, beating analysts' earnings estimates but missing on revenue.”

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Both CNBC and Investing.com confirm that McDonald's Q2 earnings beat analyst estimates while revenue fell short of expectations.

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web search NEUTRAL — Investing.com - McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) reported second quarter EPS of $3.38, $0.04 better than the analyst estimate of $3.34. Revenue for the quarter came in at $7.1B versus the consensus estimate of …
https://www.investing.com/news/earnings/mcdonalds-earnings-b…

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web search NEUTRAL — McDonald’s Corporation (MCD) reported strong earnings, ahead of market estimates helped by higher prices, larger order sizes, and entry of new menu items.
https://vistapglobal.com/mcdonalds-q4-earnings-exceed-higher…

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web search NEUTRAL — The company’s Q2 earnings beat estimates while its revenue fell 3% to $5.72B in the April-June period due to the closure of McDonald’s Russian and Ukrainian restaurants and coronavirus restrictions in…
https://forums.babypips.com/t/mcdonald-s-q2-earnings-beats-b…

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Claim 3: “Palantir's overall revenue nearly doubled from the same time a year ago”

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The Guardian reports overall revenue grew 93% year over year, and SiliconANGLE reports revenue was $1.935 billion, up 93% year-over-year, which aligns with the claim that it 'nearly doubled'.

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web search NEUTRAL — Although Palantir was not immune to the AI jitters that caused industry-wide drops in share prices earlier this year, the AI and analytics company reported that its overall revenue grew 93% year over …
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/palantir-sec…

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web search NEUTRAL — Over the past year, Palantir's year-over-year revenue growth accelerated every quarter. That acceleration was driven by both its commercial and government businesses -- which accounted for 46% and 54%…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/11/24/where-will-palanti…

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web search NEUTRAL — For years, Palantir was primarily known for its government business. Today, its commercial segment is becoming an equally powerful growth engine. U.S. commercial revenue surged 149% year over year...
https://wirehubnews.com/palantir-ai-growth/

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Claim 4: “McDonald's this morning named 26-year company veteran Skye Anderson president of its U.S. business”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries about McDonald's and unrelated entries about the Capitol attack and Mckenna Grace. No mention of Skye Anderson is found in the evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mckenna Grace is an American actress who has appeared in films, television series, video games, and narrative podcasts. A 2022 Yahoo! Entertainment article referred to her as "one of the most successf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mckenna_Grace_performa…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump. Academic debate exists about whether to characterize the event as a cou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William I, Earl of Ross (Gaelic: Uilleam; died 1274) was ruler of the province of Ross in northern Scotland. William appears as early as 1232, witnessing a charter as the son of Ferquhard, Earl of Ros…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I,_Earl_of_Ross

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Claim 5: “Stellantis and other carmakers are focusing on electric low-speed vehicles”

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Claim 6: “Michigan has been the hardest hit by the outbreak, reporting more than 11,000 cases and almost 200 hospitalizations.”

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Claim 7: “its commercial revenue surged 149%”

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Multiple CNBC cross-references and a web search result explicitly state that U.S. commercial revenue surged 149% year over year.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A palantír ([paˈlanˌtiːr]; in-universe pl. palantíri) is one of several indestructible crystal balls from J. R. R. Tolkien's epic-fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. The word comes from Quenya palan …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantír

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. () is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics software. Palantir is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and was founded in 2003 by Pete…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexander Caedmon Karp (born October 2, 1967) is an American billionaire businessman and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. Karp earned his J.D. de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp

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Claim 8: “OpenAI disclosed that its agents hacked Hugging Face's systems”

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Claim 9: “Michigan authorities reported two deaths from the cyclospora outbreak yesterday”

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Claim 10: “The Nasdaq-100 climbed nearly 2% in yesterday's session”

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While evidence defines what the Nasdaq-100 is, none of the provided search results or Wikipedia entries contain the specific percentage increase for 'yesterday's session'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nasdaq-100 is a stock market index made up of equity securities issued by approximately 100 (currently 101) of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The Nasdaq-1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NASDAQ-100_companies

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nasdaq Stock Market (formerly National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange. It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization and t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq

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Claim 11: “SpaceX... reports its first earnings report after the bell today.”

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Multiple web search results confirm SpaceX is scheduled to report its first earnings as a public company today/soon following its IPO.

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web search NEUTRAL — Compare with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Key facts today.Space Exploration Technologies Corp is going to release the next earnings report on Dec 2, 2026. Keep track of upcoming events with ou…
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-SPCX/

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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX’s first earnings report since its record-setting early June IPO is just hours away and will test whether investors can justify the company’s lofty valuation after a vicious post-IPO bear market…
https://nemosnewsnetwork.com/musk-taunts-spacex-bears-ahead-…

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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX is scheduled to report its first earnings as a public company on Tuesday. While newly public companies traditionally prevent insiders from trading for the first 180 days after the I.P.O...
https://dnyuz.com/2026/08/03/spacexs-bumpy-ride-on-the-stock…

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Claim 12: “Shares of Palantir jumped more than 14% after the AI software company reported better-than-expected quarterly results.”

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Sources contradict each other: one web search result states Palantir shares 'fall more than 14%' following earnings, while another states they 'jump 12%' and another 'surge 9%'.

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Claim 13: “The company said its U.S. same-store sales rose just 0.8% in the period”

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CNBC explicitly states that McDonald's U.S. same-store sales increased 0.8% in the quarter.

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web search NEUTRAL — Popeyes’ same-store sales slid 5.2 percent in the U.S. (–5.1 percent overall) and are down 6.1 percent over two years. It grew 0.5 percent from 3,524 units to 3,542.
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/burger-king-leaves-mcdon…

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web search NEUTRAL — McDonald's faces steepest sales decline since COVID as consumer spending tightens.The sales drop wasn't limited to the United States. The company's International Operated Markets segment saw a 1.0% de…
https://www.deepresearchglobal.com/p/mcdonalds-us-sales-plum…

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web search NEUTRAL — Last month’s US same-store sales increase beat estimates for a 0.8 percent drop and marked the first gain since October 2013. For the fourth quarter, U.S. same-store sales fell 1.7 percent, better tha…
https://www.hospitalityireland.com/food/mcdonald-s-same-stor…

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Claim 14: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average's nearly 700-point surge brought the blue-chip index to a new record close.”

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The claim is corroborated by an AOL report stating the Dow surged by 742.76 points to close at a new high of 40,954.48.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article is a summary of the closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a United States stock market index. Since first closing at 62.76 on February 16, 1885, the Dow Jones Industrial…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_milestones_of_the_Dow_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The DJIA is one of the olde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of the largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1896. Compare to the list of largest daily changes in the S&P 500 Index.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_daily_changes_…

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Claim 15: “Amazon extended its post-earnings rally, sending the stock's market cap above $3 trillion for the first time”

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Multiple cross-references from CNBC explicitly confirm that Amazon's market cap exceeded the $3 trillion threshold for the first time.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — putting its market cap over the $3 trillion threshold for the first time
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/amazon-amzn-stock-market-cap…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Amazon hit a new all-time high on Monday, putting its market cap over the $3 trillion threshold for the first time
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/cnbc-daily-open-yen-interven…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — putting its market cap over the $3 trillion threshold for the first time following a better-than-expected earnings report last week.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/cnbc-daily-open-japan-yen-in…

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Claim 16: “Representatives for artificial intelligence companies will meet with the Trump administration today about a new framework for reviewing cybersecurity capabilities of advanced models.”

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