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Cathie Wood sold a lot of AMD stock last week as it hit highs ahead of the chipmaker's earnings. AMD is still ARK Invest's No. 2 position.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company's market share in China has fallen to zero.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) stock received an analyst downgrade from HSBC on Monday, May 4, with the firm cutting its rating to Hold from Buy while nudging the price target to $340 from $335. The call lands one day before AMD reports its Q1 2026 earnings on May 5, and after a blistering 77% rally ... HSBC Downgrades AMD to Hold After 77% Rally: Is the AI Chip Trade Out of Steam?

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is positioned to beat expectations and guide higher on near-term outloo

AMD’s conviction case is strengthening with every data point. Hyperscaler capex, server CPU share gains, and AI accelerator traction all reinforce the bull thesis on AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) heading into 2026. Here is the simple version. Hyperscalers are pouring money into data centers fast enough that every component in the rack is straining on the supply ... AMD Will Be a $1 Trillion Company Faster Than You Think

The CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE:VIX) is up 2.2% today to hover just above 17, snapping back from Friday’s close as renewed Middle East tensions and crude price spikes reintroduce risk premium into options markets. The bounce comes one trading session after the S&P 500 set a fresh all-time high of 7,230, capping the index’s best ... Market Greed Is Back: Oil and the Hormuz Strait Didn’t Get the Memo.

Semiconductor stocks ripped higher in April, with several names posting one-month gains that would outperform one-year returns for most portfolios. On CNBC’s Halftime Report episode “Can the Market Move Higher in May?” (5/1/26), the panel openly split on a single question: Do you keep buying after a move this large, or sell on the risk ... Chip Stocks Soared 70%+ in April. Have They Gone Too Far?

The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) is leaning on its biggest tech names this morning to absorb a fresh oil shock, with index futures hovering near flat after climbing well off their overnight lows. A 3% spike in crude on renewed Iran tensions is the main drag, but blowout earnings from Alphabet and Amazon late last week ... Tech Giants Prop Up Nasdaq Composite as Oil Shock Tests Market Resilience

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Advanced Micro (AMD) is at a 52-week high, but can investors hope for more gains in the future? We take a look at the company's fundamentals for clues.

Wedbush Issues a Blunt Message for Intel Stock Investors

Investing.com -- HSBC on Monday downgraded Advanced Micro Devices to Hold from Buy, raising its price target slightly to $340 from $335, as the bank sees little room for the chipmaker to meaningfully beat market expectations despite strong demand for its server processors.

US equity futures were marginally lower pre-bell Monday as the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz cont

With Big Tech earnings behind it, stock markets face the gnawing worry of a rise in global crude prices and tensions in the Middle East.

Stock futures were falling Monday, putting a record-breaking rally for the and in jeopardy as Iran state media reported that the country struck a U.S. warship in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. military’s Central Command denied the report. Shares of eBay jumped 8.1% to $112.40.

US equity futures were lower pre-bell Monday as the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz continued, with

Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading lower as we start off the new week, as oil surges higher amid reports that a U.S. warship was turned back in the Strait of Hormuz, but what a start we had to the new month on Friday. The Thursday close on April’s last trading day marked the best ... Here Are Monday’s Top Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Advanced Micro Devices, Airbnb, Alphabet, Check Point Software, GlobalFoundries, Internatioinal Paper, Trade Desk, and More

Tellus Power has unveiled the Nexus Megawatt Charging System (MCS), a central feature of its innovative Nexus platform aimed at enhancing high-power distributed charging for fleet and commercial applications. The modular system delivers power outputs ranging from 600kW to 1.2MW and supports various charging standards to facilitate deployment across diverse site configurations. Designed to improve energy utilization and power management, the Nexus MCS centralizes power distribution to...

The benchmark US stock measures were mostly pointing lower before the opening bell Monday as investo

Wall Street futures pointed largely sideways pre-bell Monday, as traders weighed unverified reports

(Updates to add more information on the headline) US equity investors will look out for Iran endi

US equity investors will look out for Iran ending its ceasefire agreement with Washington if the US

First quarter earnings season is in full swing, with a full slate of semiconductor and consumer companies slated to report results.

Tech stocks are in focus amid an earnings bonanza, layoffs, and AI spending plans.

Investors won’t get too much of a respite from a big week trading the AI boom, with Palantir, Advanced Micro Devices, and CoreWeave reporting earnings. A bevy of data about the U.S. jobs market will also be watched closely, culminating in April nonfarm payroll numbers Friday.

In 2026, this AI chip stock has gained 68.4% through Friday, May 1, making it the 21st-best performer on the S&P 500 index.

Riot Platforms has already reported first-quarter 2026 results, with revenue rising to US$167.22 million while sales fell to US$111.90 million, and net loss widening to US$500.48 million or US$1.44 per share. The quarter marked Riot’s first meaningful data center income of US$33.20 million and a major expansion of its long-term AI infrastructure lease with AMD, underscoring the company’s shift away from relying solely on Bitcoin mining. Next, we’ll examine how Riot’s new AI data center...