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MARKETS AM NEWSLETTER Oil prices surged Monday, erasing a month of declines, amid renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran. But investors’ attention will likely drift Tuesday, at least temporarily, to a flood of bank earnings and the latest reading of U.

(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said that in the not-so-distant future, nuclear fusion technology will offer the most realistic solution for powering AI data centers’ ballooning needs. Most Read from BloombergUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Trump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleHormuz Route

Big banks are kicking off second quarter earnings season on Tuesday, with reports from JPMorgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Wells Fargo (WFC), Bank of America (BAC), and Citigroup (C). Morgan Stanley (MS) posts its results on Wednesday. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter David Hollerith explains what investors need to know.

(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street’s trading bonanza is poised to keep rolling. Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Hormuz Route Open Despite Iran Declaration, Maritime Group SaysTrump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleUS Renews Iran Strikes as Both Sides Dispute Hormuz StatusThe biggest US banks — set to kick off a marathon Tuesday with five of those firms reporting se

July 13 (Reuters) - More than 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, have called for governments and technology leaders to

(Bloomberg) -- Investors are flocking back to Apple Inc. as nervousness about artificial intelligence spending weighs on the stocks of chipmakers and cloud-computing giants. Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Hormuz Route Open Despite Iran Declaration, Maritime Group SaysOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleTrump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkUS Renews Iran Strikes as Both Sides Dispute Hormuz

(Bloomberg) -- The European Union will propose a law to restrict children’s access to social media, according to the bloc’s top official, as part of a growing global consensus about the harm it causes. Most Read from BloombergLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Hormuz Route Open Despite Iran Declaration, Maritime Group SaysOpenAI Engineer’s ‘LOL’ Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight With AppleTrump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkUS Renews Iran Strikes

Analysts expect Alphabet’s second-quarter capital expenditures to reach $44.9 billion, a 100% increase from the prior year period.

Investing.com -- Investors are reassessing artificial intelligence investments as surging infrastructure spending could weigh on earnings growth and valuation multiples, even as demand for AI services remains robust, according to ING.

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Jim Cramer says the SK Hynix mega-listing clears the biggest threat hanging over AI stocks in 2026, but one scenario could blow that thesis apart before summer ends.

The project pipeline for data centers in North America increased by 4% in June from May, with hyperscalers driving the growth.

Police officers across the country are learning how to direct, corral, and when necessary, punish autonomous taxis.

B. Riley Wealth chief market strategist Art Hogan shares his outlook for this earnings season and the opportunities he sees in Big Tech, while Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre discusses what recent Hindenburg Omens may be signaling for US markets (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC).

LONDON, July 10 () - Britain has designated cloud service providers Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as ‌critical third-party suppliers to its financial sector, bringing them ‌under direct regulatory oversight. The move is aimed at strengthening the resilience ​of financial firms by reducing the risk of widespread disruption from cyber attacks or technology outages.

Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya Technology said on Friday it plans capital spending of more than ‌T$200 billion ($6.2 billion) next year, roughly four times this year's figure, ‌amid soaring demand for memory chips as it rides an AI boom. President Pei-Ing Lee told ​an online press briefing that the preliminary expenditure plan aims to help ramp up spending on a new plant, although the budget has yet to receive board approval. Lee was speaking after Nanya reported unaudited second-quarter revenue of ‌T$82.55 billion, up 684% from ⁠a year earlier.

Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton previews several of the biggest stories to come tomorrow, Friday, July 10, including SK Hynix (000660.KS) making its debut on the Nasdaq, Delta Air Lines (DAL) earnings, monthly sales results from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM), and the pending approval of Congress' housing affordability bill.

Investing.com -- Elon Musk said on Thursday that artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is "obviously" the current leader in AI, offering rare praise for a rival as competition intensifies among the industry’s biggest players.

T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund portfolio manager Tony Wang examines the back-and-forth activity appearing in semiconductor stocks, especially as the bar remains high for memory chip makers and SK Hynix's (000660.KS) US IPO listing is seven-times oversubscribed.

(Bloomberg) -- More money managers and dealers are about to get their hands on pieces of the largest private credit deal on record — when a chunk of a $35 billion financing package for Broadcom Inc. and Anthropic PBC’s AI infrastructure expansion begins trading.Most Read from BloombergMicrosoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video GameNvidia’s $1 Trillion Slide Sends Valuation to Pre-AI Boom LevelsTrump Vents Anger With Iran and Warns Ceasefire May Be ‘Over’US Military Launches

The Federal Reserve’s first policy meeting under Chairman Kevin Warsh highlighted a big focus on artificial intelligence spending. Bond markets are listening. Minutes of the Fed’s June meeting, where interest rates were kept unchanged at between 3.5% and 3.75% but communication was sharply pared back under Warsh’s new leadership, suggested a hawkish stance among Fed governors, many of whom remained focused on inflation pressures in the world’s biggest economy.

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, July 9 (Reuters) - Google has challenged an Indian court ruling that it infringed on a company's trademark rights by allowing rivals to use its name as an advertising

Baseball legend Tommy Lasorda, the former Los Angeles Dodgers manager who won two World Series, didn’t have much time for the idea of “pressure” in professional sports. Stock markets are different matter, however. The looming second-quarter earnings season—set against the pullback in big tech stocks, the resurgence of global geopolitical risks, and the specter of renewed inflation—has investors on edge.

On CNBC’s Squawk Box on July 7, 2026, anchors dug into fresh Reuters reporting that the U.S. cyber defense agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos software to audit federal code for vulnerabilities foreign adversaries could exploit. The tool, per that reporting, has already flagged a meaningful number of bugs in government systems. For an industry that ... The U.S. Government Is Now Using Anthropic’s AI to Hunt Bugs in Its Own Code

(Bloomberg) -- Luxury real estate brokerage Douglas Elliman Inc. is betting artificial intelligence can expand its business beyond buying and selling homes. Most Read from BloombergTrump Vents Anger With Iran and Warns Ceasefire May Be ‘Over’Greece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaUS Strikes Iran and Blocks Oil Sales in New Test of TruceChip Stocks Sink After Blistering Run as Oil Jumps: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthOn Wednesda

By Amanda Stephenson CALGARY, July 8 (Reuters) - Big Tech has joined the party at the Calgary Stampede, a sign of growing interest in Canada from U.S.-based hyperscalers as the province of Alberta

By Amanda Stephenson CALGARY, July 8 (Reuters) - Big Tech has joined the party at the Calgary Stampede, a sign of growing interest in Canada from U.S.-based hyperscalers as the province of Alberta

The cryptocurrency industry is starting to prepare for the threat of quantum computing as recent advances fuel concerns that the technology could soon be able to crack the cryptography that protects transactions and digital wallets. Quantum computers can solve complex mathematical problems much faster than today's sophisticated computers, and could be used to unscramble conventional methods for encrypting digital ‌information. While the technology remains largely experimental, crypto industry concerns ‌have grown since March research from Alphabet's Google, one of several tech giants pioneering the technology, suggested quantum computers may be able to break that cryptography sooner than previously expected, according to executives and analysts.

(Bloomberg) -- After losing roughly $1 trillion in market value in less than two months, Nvidia Corp.’s stock is the cheapest it’s been since before the AI boom kicked off and sent the shares into the stratosphere.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Sink After Blistering Run as Oil Jumps: Markets WrapUS Strikes Iran and Blocks Oil Sales in New Test of TruceTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthChina Sentences

Second-quarter reports coming later this month will likely show another period of blowout AI investments. Wall Street analysts estimate that combined capital spending by Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms surged 74% year over year to hit $168 billion in the June-ending quarter, according to consensus estimates from Visible Alpha.