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(Bloomberg) -- Corporate earnings strong enough to beat the highest expectations in years have failed to impress investors fretting about AI spending and economic growth.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 FearAbo

Shares of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) fell 3.7% Friday morning as investors reacted to Meta’s launch of a dedicated Seller app for Facebook Marketplace. While Meta’s product rollout was public, the stock decline underscores growing concern on Wall Street that Meta is making a direct play for eBay’s core seller base. Historically viewed as an informal, local yard-sale platform, Facebook Marketplace’s standalone "Seller" app introduces tools specifically engineered to siphon professional, high-margin power

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

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

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 from a packed slate of corporate earnings led by technology companies and heavyweights in artificial intelligence. Major equity ‌indexes were on track for weekly declines, dragged down on Thursday by steep slides in Alphabet and Tesla following their quarterly reports. The fallout for Google parent Alphabet, ‌sparked in part by an increase in its already massive AI spending plans, set a negative tone ahead of results next week from other AI "hyperscalers": Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms.

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.

Bond investors are looking for significantly higher yields on the latest $12bn Meta-backed data centre deal compared with the terms secured just...

(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.

A Senate China probe, AI spending fears, and fresh layoffs are hitting Amazon stock just one week before a quarter that Wall Street expects to be strong. Something does not add up, and earnings may force a reckoning either way.

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.

The European Commission fined Google the equivalent of about $1 billion Thursday for manipulating its search results to hurt competitors and blocking app developers from directing customers to cheaper deals outside its Play store.

Several Indian digital payments firms have opposed a proposal that would allow merchants to store customers' ‌preferred Unified Payments Interface option for one-click checkouts, arguing it could ‌entrench the dominance of the bigger payment apps. In a July 23 letter reviewed by Reuters, the ​companies told the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which oversees the UPI network, that the proposal could "adversely impact" competition. NPCI and the companies did not immediately reply to Reuters' requests for comments.

The Google parent’s results have provided fuel for a rally in chip stocks, but Nvidia has been left behind.

R.K.C. had already settled with YouTube, TikTok, and Snap, leaving Meta as the sole defendant ahead of jury selection

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.

A clip from an old Lex Fridman podcast interview with Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds on X (the former Twitter), and the timing of its revival is the most interesting part of the story. The clip shows Zuckerberg praising Elon Musk's overhaul of Twitter at a moment when the two men were in the ...

Google parent company Alphabet posted 24% revenue growth year-over-year in the second quarter, fueled by its booming cloud business, but the company continued to burn through cash building data centers for artificial-intelligence computing. Alphabet’s sales came in at $119.8 billion, exceeding analyst expectations. Net income for the April-June period was $112.1 billion, also ahead of analyst expectations.

A closely watched social media addiction lawsuit that had been set to go to trial next week has been dropped after the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his claims against Meta, leaving none of the major tech companies facing trial in the case.

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

A Florida teen suing social-media platforms over claims their design led to mental health issues dropped his lawsuit against Meta Platforms ahead of a trial slated to begin next week in Los Angeles.

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

A Florida teen dropped his lawsuit on Wednesday against Meta Platforms, canceling a Los Angeles trial over claims the social media company's apps caused his depression and anxiety. The trial, which had been ‌slated to begin on Monday, was expected to be the second trial in thousands of lawsuits that have been ‌consolidated in California state court over claims social media companies designed their platforms to be addictive to children, spurring a youth mental health crisis. The lawsuit, brought ​by a 15-year-old boy known as R.K.C. who started using social media when he was 8, originally named four defendants: Google's YouTube, Meta's Instagram, Snap Inc's Snapchat and ByteDance's TikTok, but YouTube and TikTok settled in June.