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Google stock faces Q2 earnings test as investors watch cloud growth, AI progress, advertising trends, capital spending and Gemini updates.

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July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures dipped on Wednesday, pressured by weakness in chip stocks, as investors remained cautious ahead of the first batch of Big Tech earnings that could decide

If Big Tech scales back its spending, it would have a cascading impact on semiconductor stocks as well as the global tech trade.

Alphabet will report second quarter earnings after the stock market closes Wednesday. Analysts expect capex for the quarter to be $45.1 billion, a 101% increase from a year earlier.

South Korea's Samsung is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of euros in the AI ‌start-up Mistral, as part of a fundraising round that ‌could value the group at roughly €20 billion ($22.81 billion), Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing ​sources. Samsung could invest about €1 billion in the new round, the report said, adding that Swedish investor EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund is in talks to back the fundraising round. In April, Samsung said it would ‌considerinvestment and acquisitions where ⁠necessary to accelerate development and commercialisation in robotics, while combining partnering local companies for technology development.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock jumped more than 7% Tuesday, July 21, as investors cheered the chipmaker's latest AI infrastructure push and looked ahead to its key AI event. On Monday, July 20, AMD introduced Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, which is expected to begin shipping later this ...

Today, July 21, 2026, memory-chip leaders rallied, leading stocks higher even as investors weighed geopolitical and tariff risks.

Earnings are the most important thing, and expectations are high. But interest rates are rising, and energy tensions aren't easing.

Alphabet and Tesla Are Due to Report Results Wednesday Afternoon

Microsoft earnings are coming up. Aim to profit from the software maker's report by selling an options spread with maximum risk of $415.

AMD has broken a chip monopoly before. In the 2000s, it took server market share away from Intel’s dominant x86 processors, forcing years of price and performance competition that reshaped enterprise computing. Two decades later, AMD is attempting a similar disruption, this time against Nvidia’s ...

CEO Michael Intrator says the global AI build-out requires capital on a scale rarely seen, but that he is on the “right side” of a generational change.

Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it is adding the Xbox Game Pass ‌starter edition to its Meta Horizon+ subscription service, ‌expanding its gaming offering on Quest virtual reality headsets. The move deepens ​Meta's partnership with Microsoft's Xbox and will give Horizon+ subscribers access to more than 50 Game Pass titles alongside the existing catalog of more than 100 ‌virtual reality games available ⁠through the service.

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, July 21 (Reuters) - A group of 25 U.S. lawmakers has written to U.S.

Investors have long priced in oil shocks and inflation from Middle East conflicts, but the Iran war is targeting something far more unfamiliar: the physical data centers powering the global cloud economy, and Big Tech is already absorbing the damage.

3M stock jumped on Tuesday after the industrial conglomerate beat Wall Street's earnings expectations and raised its full-year guidance.

The deal gives Microsoft more computing capacity in Europe and brings Mistral's AI models into Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio

Microsoft has agreed to spend billions of dollars on Mistral's computing infrastructure in Europe under a deal that will also expand distribution of the French AI startup's ‌technology through the U.S. cloud and software giant, the companies said on Tuesday. As part of the agreement, ‌Microsoft Azure customers will be able to develop software using Mistral's data centers in France, giving Microsoft more capacity in Europe and regulated industries an ​alternative to U.S.-controlled infrastructure. Mistral, meanwhile, has added its AI models called Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 to Microsoft's app builder known as Foundry.

TSLA has also dropped 8% over the past month and 6% over three months, while Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia and Amazon remain positive for the year.

Some contract announcements move stocks. And then there are the ones that reframe an entire investment thesis. We saw the latter on a Monday, July 20. IREN Limited (IREN) was trading up more than 21% to $40.57 as of July 20 midday, according to Yahoo Finance. That’s after the Australia-based ...

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Microsoft has been one of the worst large-cap tech stocks of 2026. While Nvidia kept climbing and the broader market recovered from its early-year lows, Microsoft went the other direction. The stock has shed roughly a fifth of its value this year, even as Azure kept growing and the AI business kept ...

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Expectations are running high for Alphabet's Q2 results on Wednesday, July 22, but so is the company's earnings momentum.

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s fiscal fourth quarter results will be a key test of the company's AI execution, with Azure growth, AI infrastructure spending and Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption expected to be the main focus when the software giant reports, according to Bank of America...

The next "Magnificent Seven" stocks won't be the "Mag 10," Citi analysts say: Watch these "Growth Industry" sectors instead.

The Magnificent Seven will again reign supreme over S&P 500 earnings, but their dominance is fading. As second-quarter earnings reports start to flow in, analysts expect the Magnificent Seven companies to grow earnings by a combined 31.1%. The other 493 S&P 500 companies are expected to increase earnings 22.8%, FactSet Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters wrote in a report.

The parabolic AI trade has sent many chip stocks to the moon, as investors have bet that hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta will continue to aggressively expand AI capital expenditures. However, the rally now faces significant headwinds, with valuation and revenue sustainability concerns resurfacing amid rising competition from cheaper Chinese models. The […]