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(Bloomberg) -- A rapid selloff in the high-flying momentum trade is wrecking the strategy’s staunchest bulls: Retail traders. Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump Rebuilds Tariffs With New Levies on 60 EconomiesAlphabet Falls as $205 Billion Spending Plan Fuels AI Cost FearA basket of 50 stocks favored by amateur invest

Apple stock is holding up the best out of the Magnificent Seven stocks as the company has proceeded cautiously with its AI investments.

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July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Friday after a tech-led selloff in the previous session, as investors weighed fresh earnings, escalating Middle East tensions and a new

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - A wobbly U.S. stock market will take its cues in the coming week from a Federal Reserve meeting set to shed light on the path for interest rates, and

Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment is weak, with a shift toward ‘extremely bearish’ on SPY and QQQ.

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

Concerns about artificial-intelligence spending shaved roughly $890 billion in market value from the Magnificent Seven on Thursday.

AMDsigned a multibillion-dollar chip and investment deal with Anthropic on Wednesday, July 22, its second major AI infrastructure agreement in three days. Two days earlier, AMD’s Azure deal with Microsoft sent shares up as much as 5%. This time, AMD shares fell 2.5% in premarket trading, according ...

WASHINGTON, July 23 () - The Pentagon announced on Thursday a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle ‌to consolidate the department's on-premises software licenses ‌into a single contract, the latest move by the Pentagon's technology ​chief to cut costs by eliminating fragmented purchasing. The Enterprise Software Agreement, negotiated by the Department of the Navy, is between the Pentagon and Oracle for its on-premises ‌compute usage.

(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. launched products this week allowing investors to quickly cut — or ramp up — exposure to tech industry debt, as concerns mount over hyperscalers’ huge future bond sales for artificial intelligence investments.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandAlphabet Falls a

The "Magnificent Seven" group of stocks suffered its steepest one-day decline since the tariff-driven market sell-off in April 2025.

CEO Andy Jassy has pledged that Amazon will be a "meaningful leader" in AI.

(Bloomberg) -- The Magnificent Seven group of megacap technology stocks is on track for its biggest one-day drop since the tariff tantrum in April 2025 as results from Alphabet Inc. and Tesla Inc. are casting doubt on the durability of the artificial intelligence trade that has powered the stock market for more than three years.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of

$888.2 billion That's how much the Mag Seven tech stocks have collectively lost in market value today, as of midday trading. It's the biggest one-day market cap decline for those names since the tariff turmoil of April 2025.

Investing.com -- Alphabet burned $5.9 billion in free cash flow in the second quarter of 2026—its first cash burn on record. Tesla burned another $1.1 billion. Together, the two reports have crystallized a fear that has been building all year: Big Tech's AI infrastructure build-out is consuming capital faster than it can generate returns.

Databricks said on Thursday it would expand its partnership with Microsoft through the ‌2030s, a deal under which it will increase ‌its use of the Azure platform and Microsoft's custom chips. Databricks offers a ​platform that helps users ingest, analyze and build AI applications using complex data from various sources. One of the most valuable private companies, the San Francisco-based firm's move marks a ‌sizeable win for ⁠Microsoft's Azure cloud business and comes as enterprise AI adoption accelerates.

Oppenheimer Backs Microsoft Stock Ahead of Earnings Despite AI Capex Overhang

IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, a private quantum computing research lab jointly owned by Boeing Co and General Motors, the ‌company said on Thursday, adding a second pillar to IBM's quantum computing efforts. IBM has been racing ‌against Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and others to create practical quantum machines that can crack problems that would take conventional computers thousands ​of years to solve. In May, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it would award $1 billion to IBM to set up a new company called Anderon in New Albany, New York, to serve as a chip factory for U.S. quantum computing firms.

While stocks shrug off oil shocks and global tariff turmoil, businesses are transforming to prepare for a more volatile world.

I have covered each of the following four stocks separately over the past few weeks:Micron's historic earnings. Intel's painful turnaround. AMD's server CPU advantage heading into August 4. Applied Materials' wafer equipment supercycle. On July 21, Jim Cramer put them all in the same basket with a ...

Earnings dominated the narrative in the U.S. markets on Wednesday, with Alphabet, Tesla, and IBM reporting Q2 results.

Alphabet topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly cloud revenue growth on Wednesday, as the Google parent benefited from strong demand for its cloud computing services from ‌enterprises worldwide thanks to the AI boom. Revenue at Google Cloud rose 82% to $24.8 billion ‌during the quarter ended June, accelerating from the 63% jump reported in the preceding three months. The third-largest cloud services provider behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, Google has seen demand surge as companies race to secure the cloud capacity needed to develop, train and run AI models, helping it land ‌major deals with firms, including Anthropic.

3M beat second-quarter estimates and raised full-year adjusted EPS guidance following its AI infrastructure partnership with Microsoft.

Alphabet shareholders await results from the first of the Magnificent Seven stocks.

Infleqtion received three Department of Energy research projects and led gains among the companies tied to the initiative.

Advanced Micro Devices and Cerebras Systems on Wednesday separately announced partnerships related to their AI chips. AMD stock and Cerebras stock rose on the news as semiconductor stocks overall advanced.

Today, July 22, 2026, WTI crude oil jumped above $86 per barrel on Middle East tensions, sparking inflation fears.

Investing.com -- OpenAI is planning a massive data center complex in Effingham County, Georgia, near Savannah, according to The Wall Street Journal. The project underscores the extreme capital and energy demands required to power the next generation of AI. Core Project Details Power & Cost: OpenAI secured 3.2 gigawatts (GW) from Georgia Power—enough for ~2.4 million homes. It committed $20 billion locally to secure incentives, with total costs expected to exceed $30 billion at full capacity. Tim

Investors are asking whether cloud and AI revenue can keep pace with a sharp rise in capital spending.