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Kenya's Nairobi Securities Exchange is creating East Africa's first AI stocks-focused exchange-traded fund, which it plans to offer to investors before year-end, its CEO said. The Nairobi market attracts a sizeable ‌proportion of foreign equity investors given its profitable banking sector and telecoms operator Safaricom, but it does not currently ‌offer exposure to AI stocks. "We want essentially to be able to bring a product to our market where the underlying basket is a reflection of companies that ​have a direct exposure to AI," Frank Mwiti told Reuters.

Citadel’s purchase of the bulk of the stock portfolio of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness helped propel its performance last month. Citadel’s flagship Wellington fund, a more diversified vehicle that includes wagers on and against shares alongside credit, commodity, macro and quant positions, gained about 6% in July, while Citadel’s tactical-trading fund gained about 11%, the person said. Citadel snapped up the AI stocks from Situational on July 30, at a discount of greater than 10%, as the San Francisco-based firm was scrambling to raise cash to meet margin calls following a brutal tech selloff, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

Host Kenny Polcari joins Man Group Chief Market Strategist Kristina Hooper and Legato Financial CIO Ryan Kelly to debate the risks of massive AI CapEx spending and how a hawkish Federal Reserve could impact markets ahead of the midterms.

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Asian equities climbed again Wednesday, tracking another record on Wall Street, as tech firms continued to enjoy a revival after a month-long rout, with confidence also boosted by the prospect of an imminent deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.Crude tumbled more than five percent Tuesday -- and are down more than 10 percent this week -- after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a deal could be reached imminently with Tehran on re-opening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping traffic. 

Short sellers piled into Microsoft and Amazon at historically stretched levels before earnings, and the beats that followed set off a covering scramble that has powered both stocks for weeks. Now the question is whether the rally has legs or whether the easiest gains are already gone.

Last month, Satya Nadella sounded the alarm for corporate America by questioning the true cost of enterprise AI. The Microsoft (MSFT) CEO argued that businesses are essentially paying twice for using AI services: once for the intelligence and again for the proprietary knowledge they must give ...

Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Oracle Corp, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future payments under leases that have not yet begun, mostly for data centres ‌needed to power the artificial intelligence boom. The commitments show that a substantial part of Big Tech's ‌AI spending spree has already been locked in, without yet appearing as debt-like lease liabilities on company balance sheets. The total is nearly four times the roughly $285 billion of lease liabilities already recognised on the companies' balance sheets, according to company filings compiled by ‌Reuters.

Free cash flow is negative while the cloud build runs, and that is the whole question for anyone weighing the stock today.

Next year, sales are expected to grow by 59% to $80 billion with earnings surging by more than 80% to $13.87.

Meta's ad business is on fire, but on its latest earnings call, analysts kept probing the large, open-ended bill for its AI future, and management’s answers revealed the real risk.

Here's a look at the Magnificent Seven tech stocks, which are on quite a roll. The megacap stocks have added about $800 billion in market cap today alone, adding to about $1.1 trillion over the past two trading sessions, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

Tech stocks coverage for the week of Aug. 3.

Tech stocks coverage for the week of Aug. 3.

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Investing.com -- The software sector is catching a major tailwind today, fueled by a noticeable rotation out of semiconductor stocks and into high-growth enterprise tech. Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) strong pre-market rally—driven by a massive $90 billion Q4 print and 43% Azure growth—has ignited a broader bid across the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF.

SoundHound AI has built something rare in the voice-AI space: a platform that major automakers, restaurant chains, banks, and smart TV brands all depend on. Now, with shares down sharply and a transformative merger pending, several trillion-dollar companies have real reasons to consider writing a check.

Investing.com -- Goldman Sachs reshuffled its U.S. Conviction List in its August update, adding Microsoft and five other names while removing Broadcom and three others.

AMD will report its Q2 earnings Tuesday.

US equity investors are expected to focus on earnings, labor market data, and messaging from top Fed

Recent earnings reports by the so-called hyperscalers have driven expectations even higher for their collective AI spending plans. Goldman Sachs credit strategists estimate that approximately $400 billion in highly rated investment-grade bonds could be issued directly by hyperscalers globally in 2027. A group of investment-grade hyperscalers tracked by Barclays credit strategists includes Alphabet Amazon.com Meta Platforms Microsoft Oracle and SpaceX. The spread offered by these companies’ bonds over benchmark Treasurys has widened by almost a quarter percentage point over the past month through July 30, according to tracking by Barclays.

Microsoft's earnings report was a big win for bulls.

Reports from tech giants drove big gains and losses, while the Fed-fueled bond selloff adds to market pressures.

Wall Street just drove a harsh line through the artificial intelligence trade. Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL)added nearly $1.5 trillion in combined market value during earnings week, according to CNBC. Microsoft gained more than $600 billion, while Amazon and Alphabet each ...

Meta Platforms reported its second-quarter earnings with one issue dominating investor attention: the soaring cost of its artificial-intelligence expansion. Meta is not alone. Amazon raised its expected 2026 capital spending to approximately $220 billion, while Microsoft expects to invest around ...

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Investors are coming around to the idea that Big Tech spending on AI can make sense—as long as there is a cloud-computing business involved.