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An annual report finds donations to nonprofits rose by 3% in inflation-adjusted dollars to $617.2 billion in 2025

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

Demand for memory chips is pushing prices higher. Will AI’s promise of increased productivity come in time to temper that inflation?

Alphabet to replace Verizon in Dow reshuffle, FedEx boosted by higher shipping rates, Cerebras beats expectations, and more news to start your day.

The Nasdaq broke key support Tuesday as AI stocks sold off, even as SpaceX reversed higher. FedEx and AI chip IPO Cerebras reported late. Micron earnings loom.

Saturna Capital Chief Investment Officer Scott Klimo joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the Saturna Global Equity ETF, the principles of Shariah-compliant investing, and how the rapid growth of artificial intelligence is reshaping valuations and opportunities across global markets. Klimo explained that the actively managed ETF applies Islamic investment guidelines that exclude sectors such as conventional banking, insurance, gambling, tobacco, alcohol, and weapons. In addition to those sector screens, the strategy also emphasizes companies with low debt levels, a factor Klimo said can signal strong cash generation, disciplined capital allocation, and durable business models. The conversation also focused on the impact of AI on technology investing. Klimo noted that major technology companies such as Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are evolving from traditionally asset-light businesses into far more capital-intensive operators as they commit massive sums to AI infrastructure, data centers, and compute capacity. Beyond the large-cap AI leaders, Klimo highlighted a broader group of companies benefiting from the AI buildout, including ASML, Taiwan Semiconductor, Samsung Electronics, and Japan’s Fujikura, all of which play important roles in chip manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, and data-center connectivity. The discussion also touched on the pharmaceutical sector, where Klimo sees long-term value despite recent market weakness. He said healthcare companies can provide portfolio balance and defensive characteristics, even as investors continue to weigh regulatory uncertainty and shifting sentiment toward the sector. Looking at the broader market backdrop, Klimo pointed to continued geopolitical uncertainty, inflation trends, and energy prices as important factors to monitor. At the same time, he said he remains generally constructive on the market outlook, supported by resilient corporate earnings and the long-term productivity gains expected from AI adoption. #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews #SaturnaCapital #ShariahInvesting #ArtificialIntelligence #ETFInvesting #GlobalEquities #TechInvesting #AIInfrastructure #Semiconductors #HealthcareStocks #MarketOutlook

Stocks could be facing the end-of-quarter reckoning many investors feared when Elon Musk’s SpaceX unveiled plans for its multibillion-dollar initial public offering and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh took over the central bank’s policy reigns earlier this month. The early signs of a late June “tech wreck” started to formulate Monday, with Google parent Alphabet shedding more than $225 billion in market value, its biggest slump in more than a year, and SpaceX extending its three-day decline to more than $600 billion. Shares in SpaceX were falling 4.3% in premarket trading Tuesday, putting them below $150 a share.

Futures for the Nasdaq were more than 2% lower in early European trade as a global selloff in technology stocks gathered pace.

Tuesday's catalysts include flash PMIs, Richmond Fed data, ADP weekly employment, Treasury bill and 2-year note auctions, and May money supply.

The Trump administration backs quantum computing yet again following an unprecedented funding package in May.

Alphabet’s stock more than doubled on a simple, spectacular, and staggering premise: it built an AI engine so powerful it can’t keep it fed.

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...

Corporate bond issuance in the year through May totaled $1.23 trillion, up 21% from a year ago.

SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) is the ticker dominating every group chat this week, with the private-company exposure vehicle gaining 19.18% in five trading days on pure rocket-launch euphoria. But here is what you should actually be watching. The space narrative is colliding with a wall. Tighter global liquidity, sticky policy rates, and a Federal Reserve that is ... Forget SpaceX. Alphabet Just Beat Earnings by 94% and Doubled Its Cloud Backlog to $460 Billion

Stocks slide as interest rates remain the same and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh starts writing a shorter song for the biggest central bank in the world.

June 17 (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures edged higher on Wednesday, as chip stocks rebounded ahead of the first interest rate decision under new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh.

The Dow Jones hit a new high and SpaceX kept rising. But chips and most AI stocks fell. Fed chief Kevin Warsh's comments will be in focus Wednesday.

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.

After SpaceX’s (NASDAQ: SPCX) IPO, Elon Musk’s net worth rose to $1.27 billion, making him the first trillionaire in world history (at least as far as most people know, based on inflation-adjusted dollars). His net worth has risen to $653 billion this year. That increase alone is larger than the net worth of the second-richest ... Who Is The World’s Second Richest Person?

Trump declares Hormuz strait open, what to expect at Warsh’s first Fed meeting, where SpaceX stock goes from here, and more news to start your day.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.7% this week as the US edged closer to signing a peace deal w

Management has gone quiet on the geopolitical cost pressures that once dominated its calls, but the new, unquantified component headwind they're flagging instead could pose a more direct threat to record profits.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the most vertically integrated company in tech, is turning to Nvidia and Google Cloud to power its most advanced AI workloads. According to CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos, Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed that the company’s new frontier language model, FM Cloud Pro, will run on Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google Cloud for agentic ... Apple Will Run Advanced AI Model on Nvidia GPUs via Google Cloud, Ditching Private Infrastructure

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mostly higher Monday boosted by shares of chip companies.</p><p>While the Dow fell slightly, the S&P 500 added three tenths of one percent and the Nasdaq climbed about nine tenths.</p><p>:: Intel</p><p>Intel shares jumped 11% after news website The Information reported that Alphabet's Google had placed an order to manufacture more than 3 million tensor processing units in 2028.</p><p>:: Marvell Technology</p><p>And shares of Marvell Tech rose 9.5% after S&P announced that the company would be added to the&nbsp;S&P 500 index later this month.</p><p>Also, Iran and Israel said they had halted attacks on each other.</p><p>This came after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump that they immediately "stop shooting."&nbsp;</p><p>The attacks over 24 hours were the most direct confrontation between Iran and Israel since an April ceasefire in the war.</p><p>Justin Livengood, senior portfolio manager with Invesco, says he thinks regardless of when there is an end to the conflict in the Middle East, energy prices could stay higher, which could lead the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.</p><p>“Inflation's been drifting up in general the last six to nine months, not just for oil prices but even for core elements. And that's a concern. I think that concern persists as oil and natural gas prices linger higher. And the longer that persists, the more likely we are to have a Fed feel they need to raise rates late this year. I certainly feel that right now the base case for the Fed is a hike, not a cut, as their next move. And I think with each week and month that this Middle East conflict continues. The odds of that hike get pulled forward.”&nbsp;</p><p>:: Apple</p><p>Other stocks on the move included Apple which dropped almost 2% after announcing a Siri revamp at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.</p><p>:: AWS</p><p>And shares of Corning gained 5.5% after Amazon announced a multi-year multi-billion-dollar deal to buy the company's optical fiber and cables for its data centers.&nbsp;</p></body>

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Stock market investors could be facing a specter they haven’t had to navigate since early April, when the bull market in tech caught fire and powered domestic indices out of their early year torpor and tensions between Washington and Tehran simmered into a fragile truce effort. The two-day surge in volatility follows a series of events that have tested the strength of the current tech market wave, pushed the Federal Reserve into a challenging position of moving toward rate hikes while defying President Donald Trump’s public call for easier policy, and unsettled investors hoping for an extended cease-fire agreement between the U.S. and Iran. “At the same time, growing expectations of Fed tightening have caught an investor base overweight equities and overweight emerging markets,” said ING’s Chris Turner, the bank’s global head of markets.

Markets face a pivotal week marked by a significant structural shift away from richly valued AI and technology stocks toward lagging sectors, evident in Friday's steep Nasdaq and S&P 500 plunges that signal investor rotation and risk reassessment.

Americans are losing more money to scams, and fraudsters are getting better at making their messages look and sound familiar. In 2025, the Federal Trade Commission received 3 million fraud reports from consumers, who reported $15.9 billion in losses. That was a sharp increase from the ...

Investing.com -- Yardeni Research said growing evidence suggests the artificial intelligence boom is extending beyond major technology companies and into the broader U.S. economy, supporting hiring, business formation, and investment despite ongoing geopolitical and inflation risks.

Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices all ended the week ending June 5, lower.