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Plus, America’s big cities are rapidly losing kids, and Trump puts off a major escalation of his military campaign against Iran.

US equity investors will focus on big-tech earnings, inflation, and the Federal Reserve policy meeti

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July 27 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main stock index futures rose on Monday as the United States and Iran announced a pause in hostilities over the weekend, sending oil prices sharply lower.

Despite the futures rebound, retail investors remain cautious. Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment is ‘bearish’ on SPY and QQQ.

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and SK Hynix report this week as investors test Big Tech's AI spending against real returns.

The multiple has come down while the growth rate has gone up. Wednesday decides whether that gap is an opportunity or a warning.

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This is a huge earnings week, with nearly a third of S&P 500 companies reporting. The Fed is expected to hold rates steady after its confab ends Wednesday, and we’ll see key inflation data on Thursday.

Markets face the week's most consequential moment Wednesday at 2:00pm when the Federal Reserve announces its rate decision and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh holds his first post-decision press conference, setting policy direction.

Hyperscaler cash levels will be a key focus in the coming week as Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft report.

Earnings reports from four of the world’s largest tech companies, a decision on interest rates, and key economic data releases will be in focus this week.

Jensen Huang has been one of the most prominent voices in technology for years, but he had never once posted on X (the former Twitter). On July 24, he did. What he chose to say with his first-ever post on the platform says a lot about the fight now underway over who controls the future of AI. Huang ...

Investors step into the busiest week of the quarter with hyperscaler earnings, the June Fed meeting, and escalations in the Middle East all in focus.

The earnings season has kicked off with a bang, though not the kind that investors have been hoping for. Two Magnificent 7 members turned in their disappointing earnings on the same day. Alphabet (GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) both reported earnings on July 22, and both stocks dropped the following day. ...

Drive past enough American commercial real estate and you start to notice the second acts. The bowling alley that became a church. The Sears that became a self-storage warehouse. Somebody put up the building for one reason, the reason expired, and the concrete found a new job. That pattern is not a ...

It’s peak earnings season, and investors could be forgiven for wanting an escape hatch. Corporate America is delivering solid results, but it’s not helping stocks. Last night, chip maker Intel’s quarterly results blew past Wall Street estimates.

Asking for a Trend Host Brooke DiPalma previews several of the biggest stories to come next week, including Mag 7 earnings from Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN), as well as the Fed decision and the latest Consumer confidence data.

Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com headline a massive earnings wave. The Federal Reserve meets, with a rate hike a possibility.

Investors aren’t buying the earnings story this summer, in contrast to the spring rally that powered stocks to a record high in early June, suggesting a tough climb for markets over the back half of the year. Early second-quarter earnings data suggests companies are beating Wall Street forecasts by nearly 9%, well ahead of the four-quarter average of around 7.5% and the 4.4% tallied since 1994, according to LSEG. Nearly 85% of companies are beating estimates, compared with the recent average of around 80% and the historic reading of around 68%, and LSEG figures suggest overall second-quarter profit growth of 27%.

Real risk-free bond yields haven’t been this high in years. As for 30-year maturities, you would have to go back to the 2008-09 financial crisis to encounter real yields of nearly 3%. Real interest rates are what you earn after the bite taken by inflation.

Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech heavyweights made a public case to lawmakers on Friday in favor of open-source ‌AI models, wading into a debate roiling the business and policy worlds over ‌who controls the powerful technology. In a letter posted on X and also signed by two dozen companies and groups ​including Meta Platforms and IBM, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that lawmakers should avoid "premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." The letter adds to the growing debate about open-source models that are harder to regulate, such as Nvidia's own and those released ‌in recent weeks by Chinese ⁠labs, and the closed-source models controlled by specific companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

Alphabet just reported the strongest quarter in Google Cloud's history. Revenue came in at $119.8 billion, up 24% year over year. Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion and blew past analyst estimates. The Cloud backlog hit $514 billion. Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 is using Gemini Enterprise. By most ...

7.4 % That is the expected swing, higher or lower, expected by options traders in Meta Platforms' stock for the session after the company reports earnings next week, according to data from Option Research & Technology Services.

Uber just cut a chunk of its customer service workforce in the name of AI efficiency, and it is far from alone. The real question is whether these scattered layoffs signal the early edge of a wave that could reshape employment across entire industries.

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Wall Street’s concerns about capex and free cash flow for big tech now outweigh optimism regarding cloud performance.

Intel's stock is surging while the rest of the chip sector sits flat, and the reasons behind that split tell a much bigger story about where the semiconductor race is actually headed.

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Meta Platforms is launching a dedicated app for sellers on Facebook Marketplace. Meta stock was a fraction lower early Friday while the news appeared to weigh on eBay shares. The new app will be called Seller, according to an announcement from Meta on Friday morning.