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In a classic “Friday news dump,” Apple filed a federal lawsuit in California against OpenAI, accusing its once-partner of stealing some of its trade secrets. Specifically, it’s alleging that two of its former employees brought proprietary and confidential information about its hardware to OpenAI when they joined. The lawsuit calls to mind Waymo’s trade secret theft lawsuit against Uber, filed in 2017. Similarly, a well-established tech giant publicly accused a fast-ascending private company, loc
Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of running a coordinated campaign to steal confidential product designs and trade secrets.
It appears that the president did very well in his trades.
July is shaping up as a pivotal month for index investors. The S&P 500 has cooled a bit, with Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) down 1.36% since its year-to-date high on June 2 as the 10-year Treasury yield has eased to 4% and the VIX has settled at 17.65. With the Fed funds rate parked ... 4 Brilliant Vanguard ETFs to Buy in July
Apple is ramping up its investment in U.S.-made chips, with plans to spend more than $30 billion with Broadcom in the next five years. The investment is the largest Apple has specified as part of its pledge to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over four years, a pledge that helped the company secure an exemption from proposed Trump administration tariffs. Apple said the investment will enable Broadcom to expand a manufacturing facility in Fort Collins, Colo.
US stock index futures traded cautiously on Tuesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a record high in the previous session, while investors weighed another strong earnings update from Samsung Electronics (USOTC:SSNHZ) alongside fresh comments from Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller. Futures pause after Wall Street recordsBy 03:02 ET (07:02 GMT), futures linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were little changed.
President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs in April 2025 pushed financial markets into a tailspin, sending Wall Street and everyday investors scrambling to shield themselves from the fallout. In a series of trades on April 3 and April 4—the days after Trump announced global tariffs in the Rose Garden—his investment accounts bought and sold hundreds of individual stocks, according to financial disclosures released this week. Trump posted on social media the next morning that it was “a great time to buy” and paused much of his tariff regimen that afternoon.
A weak jobs report met a strong Apple rally on Thursday. Here's why the major indexes couldn't agree on a direction.
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Investing.com -- Wolfe Research said surging memory chip prices driven by the artificial intelligence buildout have already added meaningfully to core inflation, with further upside likely as costs continue to filter through the consumer electronics supply chain.
(Bloomberg) -- After a banner year for Chinese stocks on the back of AI advances, 2026 is not going well.Most Read from BloombergTrump’s U-Turn on Iran Sanctions Would Unravel Decades of CurbsUS Stocks Get Tech Boost After AI-Fueled Selloff: Markets WrapCook Stays at Fed But Trump Wins Power Over Other AgenciesSupreme Court Leaves Trump’s Fed, Citizenship Gambits for LastPrabowo Risks Prompt Global Banks to Pull Cash Out of IndonesiaThe MSCI China Index has tumbled 15%, the worst performance glo
Technology stocks were trading higher in premarket trading Monday as the looked set to finally snap its five-day losing streak. Semiconductor companies, other artificial-intelligence stocks, and the Magnificent Seven were among those rebounding to start the week. Microsoft jumped 2% ahead of the open, while Amazon Alphabet Nvidia Meta and Tesla were all up around 1%.
Investing.com -- President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States will impose a 100% tariff on all imports from countries that levy digital services taxes on American companies, escalating tensions over taxation of U.S. technology firms. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said several European countries are considering digital services taxes and warned that any nation adopting such measures would face immediate 100% tariffs on all goods exported to the United States, and adding that th
Investing.com -- Apple's decision to raise Mac, iPad and accessories prices by 15% to 25% represents an unprecedented effort to defend gross margins amid record memory cost inflation, Morgan Stanley told investors in a note on Friday, adding that demand resilience and ecosystem lock-in could still drive revenue and earnings upside.
For most of the last decade, one promise held across the technology aisle. You paid a premium for the best-built hardware, and in exchange the number on the price tag held still. That stability was never an accident. It was a product, engineered as carefully as the devices themselves. Tariffs came ...
<body><p>STORY: From Micron's mega market cap to Apple's price hikes...</p><p>...this is the Week in Numbers.</p><p>:: The Week in Numbers</p><p>:: $1.4 trillion.</p><p>About $1.4 trillion was Micron's market cap after it briefly blew past the value of Meta and Tesla for the first time.</p><p>It came after the firm forecast quarterly profit and revenue well above expectations.</p><p>Micron is a major memory-chip maker and a key supplier to AI titan Nvidia.</p><p>The company's shares have more than tripled in value so far this year, and soared close to a fifth following its results.</p><p>:: 5%</p><p>Almost 5% is how far Apple shares fell after it announced price hikes.</p><p>The tech giant said its cheapest laptop will jump from $599 to $699, with iPad prices also rising - although the iPhone won't jump for now.</p><p>Apple says it can no longer avoid passing on rising costs to consumers.</p><p>The price of memory chips jumped by around 98% in the first quarter, and has kept soaring due to the AI boom.</p><p>:: 42% </p><p>42% was how much shares of Wendy's soared as retail traders bought up the beaten-down stock in the latest meme-like rally.</p><p>Trading on the heavily shorted stock was paused multiple times due to volatility..</p><p>Shares briefly hit a more than seven-month high.</p><p>The fast food chain is battling weak sales and pressure from an activist investor, with its stock down more than 78% from record highs five years ago.</p><p>:: $648 billion</p><p>Almost $648 billion is how much Samsung plans to invest in South Korea over 10 years.</p><p>That's according to the Maeil Business Newspaper, which said the firm will announce its intentions on Monday.</p><p>The investment includes a potential $194 billion to build chip factories in the country's southwest, as well as plans for AI data centers, batteries and displays.</p><p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Samsung.</p><p>:: $606.5 million</p><p>And $606.5 million was H&M's operating profit during its fiscal second quarter.</p><p>That was smaller than expected for the Swedish fashion retailer.</p><p>H&M blamed weaker consumer demand and inflation made worse by the Iran war.</p><p>CEO Daniel Erver said Europe, particularly the western part of it, had gone through a difficult quarter.</p></body>
US equity indexes were mixed on Thursday after Micron Technology's (MU) better-than-expected quarter
May's Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index — the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge — saw inflation rise 0.4% month-over-month and 4.1% year-over-year Core PCE, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.3% monthly and 3.4% annually, marking the highest level since 2023. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley and Epistrophy Capital Research chief market strategist Cory Johnson to further examine rising price trends.
Nasdaq jumps amid revived confidence in the AI trade, as Fed-favored inflation print keeps rate hikes in play.
US futures were pointing higher at the start of the week as investors return from the Juneteenth holiday weekend, with technology stocks expected to lead gains despite lingering uncertainty over the Middle East and the prospect of further Federal Reserve tightening. Dow Jones futures were up...