Wall Street has a new favorite trade: lending money to artificial intelligence. NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, and Oracle have all rushed into debt markets to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to fund data centers, chips, and AI infrastructure. Investors have been lining up to buy, and the demand ...
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Allbirds is not big enough to define the artificial intelligence market. That’s exactly why investors need to pay attention. The sneaker maker’s transition into Smartbird (BIRD) is more than just another strange corporate rebranding. It could be a good sign for where the AI trade has gone following ...

<body><p>STORY: From SpaceX's colossal climb up the market...to Pizza Hut's price tag</p><p>This is the week in numbers.</p><p>:: The Week In Numbers</p><p>:: $2.52 trln</p><p>$2.52 trillion was the market cap given to SpaceX as shares of the rocket maker soared this week.</p><p>Elon Musk's company's value catapulted past Amazon's and briefly above Microsoft's.</p><p>Towards the end of the week though, shares dropped more than 6%...</p><p>as the post-IPO frenzy that briefly placed Elon Musk's rockets-to-AI firm...</p><p>among the world's top five most valuable companies, appeared to fizzle out.</p><p>:: 30%</p><p>30% is how much Allbirds shares soared by after the former footwear company changed its name to Smartbird.</p><p>The move cemented its months-long transformation from shoemaker to AI infrastructure firm, shifting its focus to offer cloud computing capacity.</p><p>The company also appointed former Amazon executive Nadia Carlsten as its new CEO. </p><p>:: 7%</p><p>More than 7% is the hit BMW's shares took after the German automaker issued a profit warning.</p><p>The premium carmaker blamed ongoing weakness in the world's largest auto market China, and the impact of the Iran war on prices and customer sentiment.</p><p>Analysts said the outlook cut was significantly larger than expected.</p><p>BMW shares dipped to their lowest level since 2020.</p><p>:: $22 bln </p><p>$22 billion is the amount media giant Fox is spending on buying streaming platform Roku.</p><p>The deal gives the parent company of Fox News access to Roku's more than 100 million households.</p><p>Potentially helping the legacy cable and broadcast company better compete for eyeballs, target its ads and reduce reliance on traditional distribution. </p><p>:: $2.7 bln</p><p>$2.7 billion is the price tag Yum brands set for Pizza Hut as the fast-food business struggles with stiff competition and cautious consumer spending.</p><p>Rising inflation and higher commodity costs have weighed on U.S. pizza chains facing weak demand.</p><p>Growing use of weight-loss drugs is nudging consumers toward healthier options.</p></body>
By Helen Reid LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Eurocommerce, the European retail association whose members include Amazon, H&M, Inditex, and Ikea, is asking EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to exempt AI-
Amazon said on Friday its Indian operations had reached a major milestone in water conservation, at a time when global tech giants face increasing pressure over their expansion of resource-hungry AI data centres. The U.S.-based company announced it had turned "water positive" in India this year - meaning it returns more water to communities than it uses across its operations, which include data centres, corporate offices and warehouses. Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google are among companies that are facing shareholder and activist pushback over the environmental impact of data centre projects, Reuters reported earlier this year.
Regulators may outline who pays for grid upgrades needed to support surging AI power demand.
The post-IPO run-up had drawn scrutiny from analysts concerned about whether SpaceX's fundamentals could eventually support its valuation
Every wave of new technology arrives with a rich man telling everyone else to relax. The machine will lift you up, not push you out, he says. He is usually right about what the machine can do, and wrong about how it feels to be the person standing closest to it. The argument over artificial ...
$1.3 trillion S&P 500 companies reported that level of capex for 2025, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. That figure includes $412 billion for just five large hyperscalers: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle.
SpaceX was set to open lower on Thursday, extending losses from the prior session.
SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) shares edged higher in premarket trading on Thursday after posting their first daily decline since the company’s record-breaking stock market debut, following a remarkable rally that briefly propelled the aerospace group above some of the world’s largest technology companies by market value. SPCX rose 1.
The stock market is salivating over big increases in corporate earnings, but there’s a catch. Analysts expect S&P 500 companies’ earnings growth to top 20% for a second consecutive quarter in the current period, in part because of soaring profits by semiconductor makers and other AI-infrastructure companies. This combination has worked wonders for corporate earnings broadly.
SpaceX's record-setting IPO has investors rushing into space stocks. From Rocket Lab to AST SpaceMobile, here's how to separate the durable winners from the hype in a fast-growing $1 trillion market.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Wednesday closed down -1.21%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.98%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.99%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) fell -1.19%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) ended Wednesday's session in negative territory after Federal Reserve officials unanimously voted to hold interest rates at their June FOMC meeting today, while also forecasting at least one possible rate hike ahead. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre breaks down the trading day's market reactions to the Fed's big decision. This was Kevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting he presided over as the new chairman of the Fed.
AI lab Odyssey on Wednesday said it has raised $310 million in a Series B round valuing it at $1.45 billion, and struck a deal with Amazon Web Services that gives it access to specialized chips designed for high‑performance machine-learning workloads. The round, led by Natural Capital, saw participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google Ventures, EQT and In-Q-Tel, alongside prominent individual investors including Google’s chief scientist Jeff Dean and Garry Tan, president and CEO of Y Combinator. Odyssey is building models that can simulate the real world and act without human input.
Shipping a product people love and running a company that makes money are two different jobs. One earns applause. The other earns a line on the balance sheet, and the two rarely arrive in the same week. Rivian spent years selling the idea that it could become the next great American carmaker. Its ...
AI lab Odyssey said on Wednesday it has raised $310 million in a funding round that valued it at $1.45 billion. The Series B round was led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT, IQT and others. The last few years have seen major breakthroughs in scaling, interactivity, multimodality and physics accuracy, and the field is now advancing extremely quickly,” said Oliver Cameron, Co-founder and CEO of Odyssey.
Amazon’s growth over the past three decades has been phenomenal. The company initially started out selling books online at the start of the internet boom in the mid-1990s, but its online marketplace now offers millions of goods, from clothing to electronics to groceries and household essentials. ...
SpaceX stock has risen around 50% since its Nasdaq debut last Friday, pushing its valuation above $2.66 trillion at Tuesday's close
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The FTC has drafted a potential complaint against Amazon as part of an ongoing investigation, Bloomberg reported, with multiple state attorneys general also involved alongside the federal regulator. The agency may resolve the matter, either through a formal lawsuit or a negotiated settlement, as soon as this summer. Any final action would require a vote from the FTC's two Republican commissioners, Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner Mark Meador.
NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - Wall Street was mixed on Tuesday as tech shares weighed on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq while the Dow notched another record high and crude prices resumed their post-Iran-
Amazon.com may face a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that could result in civil penalties, following allegations that the e-commerce giant misled advertisers, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The FTC has a possible complaint against Amazon as part of an ongoing probe, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The agency has been investigating whether Amazon and Alphabet's Google misled advertisers that place ads on their websites, Reuters reported last year.