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By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 29 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 has struggled to make further headway since its early June record peak, but that tepid performance belies churning beneath the market's
Options traders expect a roughly $190 billion swing in Microsoft's market value after it reports earnings on Wednesday, an unusually large move that underscores investors' growing eagerness to see if billions of dollars in AI spending are beginning to pay off. By comparison, over the last 12 earnings cycles, Microsoft has averaged a 4.8% implied move and a 4.4% actual move, Option Research & Technology Services (ORATS) data showed. The significantly higher pricing this quarter suggests that investors view Microsoft — one of the hyperscalers whose massive AI capital spending is at the heart of this year's AI rally and the broader bull market — as central to the AI earnings story.
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By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, July 29 (Reuters) - Single-stock leveraged ETFs, launched in the United States in 2022, have boomed in Asia as a way to juice bets on South Korean chipmakers Samsung
Tech giant Microsoft is set to report earnings today after the market close, and investors will be listening to hear whether the company expects to maintain the rapid growth at its cloud business, Azure. In its last quarterly earnings call, Microsoft said it expected roughly $190 billion in capex this calendar year, but the firm only spent about $30 billion in the first three months of the year. Microsoft shares closed up 1.1% yesterday, but they are 19% lower so far this year.
Meta stock has declined for nine consecutive sessions, falling about 13% cumulatively.
Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Wednesday that its board approved an expansion plan, including additional cleanroom capacity at its Singapore facility and a new fab building at its flagship Tainan campus in Taiwan, to meet growing AI-driven demand. The plan will be executed in phases, enabling UMC to remain ocused on capital discipline while flexibly deploying capacity to fulfill customer demand. As a result, 2026 capital expenditure budget will be revised upward to US$2 billion,” said CEO Jason Wang.
The second-largest oil-producing state is also one of the poorest. How can it make its new wealth count?
The sandwich chain is set to go public at an $8 billion valuation after the private-equity firm reduced expenses.
JetZero’s blended-wing aircraft, the Z4, just got a boost from Washington: a $3 billion loan commitment to help start production.
SK Hynix reported a record operating profit of 60.54 trillion won (about $41.66 billion) in the second quarter, up 557% from the a year earlier. Its operating margin was 76%, up from 41% a year earlier. Analyst expectations for operating profit were even higher, and the miss fueled investors' concerns that SK Hynix's rival Samsung is pricing its products more aggressively, Jefferies wrote.
The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates twice by year-end -- history suggests that tighter monetary policy could trigger a stock market correction.
UBS Group (NYSE:UBS) reported second-quarter 2026 net profit of CHF 2.8 billion and earnings per share of CHF 0.87, as growth in wealth management and the investment bank helped lift underlying pre-tax profit by 45% from a year earlier to CHF 3.9 billion. Group Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermott
By Niket Nishant and Ankur Banerjee July 29 (Reuters) - Global shares struggled to push higher on Wednesday, as modest gains in Europe and the U.S. did little to soothe investors spooked by a
The deal broadens AT&T’s national spectrum holdings and expands its presence across over 400 US markets.
Stocks were on track to open a touch higher Wednesday as investors shrugged off a rally in oil prices ahead of the Federal Reserve’s July interest-rate decision. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 41 points, or 0.1%. This could be a crucial day for the market, with the Fed set to announce its policy decision and mega-cap tech companies Meta and Microsoft due to report earnings after the closing bell.
U.S. stock futures largely moved higher, though Sandisk and Micron Technology fell premarket as investor enthusiasm around semiconductor companies continued to wane.
Hard economic data, not proactive guesswork, drive Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy decisions.
After back-to-back days of outperformance this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has nudged ahead the other major U.S. benchmarks for the month and year as well. On a year-to-date basis, the Dow is up 9.7%, holding a small lead over of the S&P 500, which is up 8.5%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite, which is up 7%. The Nasdaq yesterday flirted with trading in correction territory, or 10% below a recent high.
Today Federal Reserve meeting: Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh will hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET, following the FOMC interest-rate decision at 2 p.m. Earnings (a.m): Procter & Gamble, Humana, L3Harris, Biogen, General Dynamics, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Airbus Earnings (p.
Sony is set to be a major beneficiary of the launch of "Grand Theft Auto VI" but the highly anticipated game is landing as the PlayStation maker grapples with rising prices of memory chips. The Japanese entertainment conglomerate, widely seen as the winner of the high-end console wars as Microsoft's Xbox business retrenches, has a long history with Take-Two Interactive Software, which will launch its delayed "GTA VI" on November 19. "GTA VI will be console only and the vast majority of new users will choose a PlayStation 5," said Serkan Toto, founder of Kantan Games consultancy.
UBS estimates SpaceX could spend about $135 billion on wafer-fab equipment over five years for Terafab.
Dillard's currently trades at $573.95 per share and has shown little upside over the past six months, posting a small loss of 4.9%. The stock also fell short of the S&P 500’s 6.3% gain during that period.
MOSCOW, July 29 () - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, and that it had issued an international warrant for his arrest. The FSB said that the charges related to Telegram's failure to remove material "used by Ukrainian special services and by terrorist and extremist organisations to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism, mass killings, and cyber-fraud operations wit
July 29 (Reuters) - Colgate-Palmolive India reported a rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday, helped by healthy demand in its core oral care product portfolio as well as premium offerings.
What a time it’s been for DaVita. In the past six months alone, the company’s stock price has increased by a massive 122%, reaching $235.17 per share. This was partly thanks to its solid quarterly results, and the run-up might have investors contemplating their next move.
Skyworks Solutions Inc (SWKS) surpasses revenue expectations, announces a $2 billion stock repurchase program, and anticipates a promising Qorvo combination.
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