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A week of tech stock crashes!

Wall Street is looking to earnings season for evidence that the AI trade is tact.

IBM just handed retirees a lesson they never expected from one of the most storied dividend payers in market history, and the real danger has nothing to do with the stock price itself.

Sideways stock market action can be challenging. IBD's Stock Market Week Ahead provides some tips for how to play the coming week, and what to watch for.

The tech company pre-announced earnings and revenue that fell short of investors' expectations.

The problem for IBM Chief Executive Arvind Krishna is that things are going too fast and too slow—all at the same time—and he’s stuck in the middle. Krishna bet big on a hybrid-cloud approach in response to the rise of hyperscalers and has long sold investors on IBM’s role in quantum computing—a next-generation technology he says is three to five years away. While the biggest tech companies’ cloud businesses have helped position them to adapt to AI, many, like Krishna, find themselves trying to manage legacy businesses even as they struggle to keep pace with emerging, pure-play rivals.

Here is a way to collect an attractive income stream on a top-tier tech consultant now, which you keep no matter what, while lining up a chance to buy the stock at a serious discount if it keeps falling.

US equities (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) closed Friday's session in negative territory — led by the Nasdaq Composite's 1.4% drop — all three of the market indexes seeing weekly losses amid the recent sell-off in semiconductor stocks. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre examines the day's market moves, taking a closer look at the losses in semiconductor stocks and the gains seen across the software landscape.

Investing.com -- Profit-taking in AI names, a decline in IBM, and a disappointing Netflix outlook have helped push markets lower this week, while rising oil prices offered one of the few pockets of strength.

Stock market indexes fell this week, with the heaviest losses on the Nasdaq and AI stocks. Goldman, GE, TSMC, IBM were notable movers.

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"For those intoxicated by the ride and potential profit opportunity, the lesson that ‘what goes up’ can ‘COME DOWN A LOT FASTER’ is often a painful surprise," InvesTech Research's Claire Cantalupo wrote. The analyst flagged SpaceX's post-IPO plunge, the stock has shaved $1 trillion from its market capitalization at its peak. The PHLX Semiconductor Index has also entered a technical bull market, down more than 20% from all-time highs seen just one month prior.

IBM heads into Q2 earnings with AI and cloud momentum, but premium valuation, margin pressure and weaker estimates argue for caution.

Oracle just shed a third of its value in a month while sitting on a backlog that one top Wall Street analyst calls the clearest forward-revenue signal he has ever seen in enterprise software. Something in that math does not add up, and figuring out which side is wrong could define the trade of the year.

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The Dow opened down 1%, or more than 500 points, but within the first hour of the trading day the blue-chip index clawed its way back to the flatline. Travelers Companies was the Dow's best performing component, up 8.

Investors continue booking profits on the AI trade, especially overseas, on concerns over high capex spending.

The backdrop of IBM stock falling on Tuesday provided an opportunity for investor Chamath Palihapitiya to share his latest thoughts on the AI sector and heavy spending leading to potential risks down the road. Palihapitiya on AI Spending The CEO...

Oracle's cloud backlog just shattered records while the stock collapsed to near its 52-week low, creating a gap between fundamentals and price that rarely survives for long. Two overlooked forces from last quarter suggest the selloff may have handed investors a rare window.

IBM (IBM) was a big mover last session on higher-than-average trading volume. The latest trend in earnings estimate revisions might not help the stock continue moving higher in the near term.

IBM's CEO recently highlighted stronger enterprise spending on AI infrastructure, including servers, storage, and memory. This commentary supports growing demand expectations for AI hardware, a key end market for Monolithic Power Systems (NasdaqGS:MPWR). A softer-than-expected inflation report has added to broader optimism around semiconductor companies tied to AI themes. Monolithic Power Systems, or MPWR, designs and supplies power solutions used in data centers, automotive systems,...

The most dangerous moment for a stock is rarely when the skeptics pile on. It is when the last true believer quietly heads for the door. Wall Street runs on a simple hierarchy. There are the analysts who never liked a company, the ones who flip with the wind, and the rare few who plant a flag and ...

Big Blue had been riding high. Not only did fewer companies buy the actual mainframe hardware, they also bought less of the high-margin software required for tasks like banking and credit-card payments.

While the market frets about near-term headwinds, the consulting giant is quietly deploying billions to buy its next wave of growth.

According to TheFly, Citi analyst Fatima Boolani cut her price target on IBM to $255 from $375 while maintaining a ‘Buy’ rating.

Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures fell sharply on Friday, pointing to a second straight day of losses on Wall Street as investors continued to reassess lofty technology valuations following a string of disappointing corporate updates tied to artificial intelligence spending.

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The company is making an enormous bet on AI infrastructure, and the sheer scale of that wager is now the central vulnerability for investors.

It was a blue chip day for IBM.