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Chip stocks have taken it on the chin lately, but worries about the AI trade don’t have to bring down the entire market. The S&P 500’s information technology and communications sectors fell 15% from June 1 through July 29, when the Federal Reserve announced it was holding the fed-funds rate steady, strategist Jim Paulsen wrote Monday on Substack. The overall S&P 500 ended up down less than 4%.
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Sony (NYSE:SONY) reported record first-quarter sales and operating income for fiscal 2026, raised its full-year sales, operating income and net-income forecasts, and said it expects most of an estimated ¥80 billion in U.S. tariff refunds to benefit results during the current fiscal year. For the qu
<body><p>STORY: Wall Street ended higher on Friday, with the Dow adding more than half a percent, the S&P 500 gaining seven-tenths of a percent and the Nasdaq climbing one percent.</p><p>:: Amazon</p><p>Amazon surged more than 15% after the tech giant posted its biggest quarterly revenue growth in over four years. Its results, along with a similar report from Microsoft this week, alleviated investor concerns about potential overspending on AI data centers.</p><p>Meanwhile, shares of Apple tumbled more than 7% after a disappointing forecast showed that the iPhone maker was struggling to secure enough components, as the AI-driven data center boom strains global supply chains.</p><p>Friday marked the end of a bumpy week for stocks that included a Fed policy meeting in which the central bank left rates unchanged - but with three dissenters pushing for a 25 basis point hike.</p><p>Dean Smith is chief strategist & portfolio manager at FolioBeyond.</p><p>"I think there was a decent case to be made that a hike is in order. Inflation, we had a slightly softer print on the most recent one, but inflation is now running well above Fed's 2% stated target. It's higher now than it was a year ago and it seems to be reaccelerating. [FLASH] So it was a close call probably, but I think, you know, if I had been on that voting committee, I would have voted for a rate hike as well."</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Other stocks on the move Friday included Monolithic Power Systems, which rose more than 8% after forecasting third-quarter revenue above estimates.</p><p>But shares of GoDaddy slid nearly 17% after the domain registrar narrowed its annual revenue forecast.</p></body>
Everyone knows that interest rates affect stock prices. The Fed’s decision Wednesday to keep overnight rates unchanged sounds like it would have been clearly bullish, but stocks sold off just after Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference. Also following Warsh’s Q&A, long-term Treasury yields hit a 19-year high.
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - U.S. employment data and a batch of corporate results this coming week will keep equity investors on edge over the direction of the stock market, which
Scott Melker discusses the Federal Reserve's latest decision to hold interest rates steady, Meta (META) and Microsoft's (MSFT) increasing AI expenses, but only one stock is getting punished. Meanwhile, bitcoin (BTC-USD) continues to hover around $64,000, Melker explains why the cryptocurrency's resilience is a bullish sign despite the broader market uncertainty. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto. Make sure to also check out Yahoo Finance's new crypto hub to find the latest crypto-related news.
By Karen Brettell July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks gained on Thursday as Microsoft's forecast-beating results eased investor concerns about massive AI spending by companies, while 30-year Treasury
Stocks kicked off Thursday’s trading session higher, reemerging from the carnage of Wednesday’s selloff. The S&P 500 was up 0.9%, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.6%. Rosenberg Research’s Dave Rosenberg described the moves as “a weak stock-market bound on shaky ground,” nodding to the major averages’ “precarious technical positions,” yesterday’s rise in bond yields, and oil price spikes.
Wall Street is set to open higher on Thursday as strong Microsoft results helped technology stocks recover from their sharp post-Federal Reserve sell-off. Dow Jones futures were up 225 points, or 0.4%, while S&P 500 futures pointed to a 0.6% gain and the Nasdaq was called 1.3%...
Stocks looked set to open higher on Thursday as investors weighed up earnings reports from Microsoft and Meta Platforms, which came just hours after Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s press conference triggered a brutal market selloff.
U. S. stock futures edged higher on Thursday as investors weighed the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision alongside a fresh wave of earnings from major technology companies.
Microsoft topped earnings estimates while the Fed held rates steady, as mixed results from Meta and Qualcomm and upbeat reports from Starbucks and Chipotle shaped trading.
U.S. equity futures were little changed on Wednesday as investors digested Microsoft, Meta and Qualcomm earnings and the Federal Reserve’s decision.
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