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Meta Platforms and BlackRock announced a partnership to develop a US$14b data center campus in Texas focused on AI infrastructure. The project is structured as Meta's largest external infrastructure collaboration to date and is intended to expand AI compute capacity. The data center campus is designed to support the training and deployment of Meta's AI models for its products and services. Meta Platforms, trading on NasdaqGS:META, is moving ahead with this large AI focused buildout while...

US benchmark equity indexes fell intraday as traders awaited the Federal Reserve's policy decision a

Second place in AI chips sounds like a consolation prize until you see who is writing the checks to keep it alive. Here is why the challenger seat looks more attractive than the throne right now.

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The telehealth provider shared patient health information with Snap and Meta, a federal complaint says.

Healthcare stocks were slightly lower Wednesday afternoon, with the NYSE Healthcare Index down 0.1%

A Fast Money host is sounding alarms that the AI buildout is quietly cracking under the weight of debt that even the bond market seems reluctant to absorb, and the ripple effects could reach far beyond Silicon Valley balance sheets.

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Federal Trade Commission is suing Hims & Hers ‌alleging the telehealth platform shared users' health ‌data with online advertisers despite promising privacy and engaged in ​deceptive billing and cancellation practices, an FTC spokesperson said. Hims & Hers is one of the largest telehealth players in the market for weight loss drugs.

By Purvi Agarwal, Tharuniyaa Lakshmi and Avinash P July 29 (Reuters) - European shares edged lower on Wednesday, as diverging results from French luxury groups weighed on the broader sector, while

Meta's stock has shed nearly 17% even as its advertising engine accelerated, creating the kind of price-versus-fundamentals gap that tends to resolve violently in one direction. Before Q2 earnings land, the window to position may be narrower than it looks.

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) is expected to post second-quarter results above Wall Street expectations, with analysts pointing to healthy advertising demand and early returns from artificial intelligence investment even as investors press the company for clearer evidence...

Meta has fallen in the last nine trading sessions, but the streak looks ready to come to an end.

Meta stock was lower Wednesday morning, setting up a 10th straight losing day for the social media giant.

Here is what investors will be looking for when Meta Platforms reports its earnings after markets close today: One big question is whether Meta will increase its capital expenditure estimate for the year, like Alphabet did last week.

Meta Platforms (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been defending AI in a media campaign, telling the New York Times that artificial intelligence discourse is "overwhelmingly filled with doom." Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian and Breaking News Reporter Jake Conley to break down the latest comments from Zuckerberg and Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) CEO Dario Amodei. Meta, alongside Microsoft (MSFT), will be releasing its latest quarterly earnings results after Wednesday's market close.

Traders are expecting big swings from tech earnings on Wednesday, with options pricing in major after-market risks and short sellers lining up to bet against one of the market’s biggest stocks. Microsoft shares, which have fallen more than 15% from their early June peak and remain nearly 25% lower over the past year, are likely to move more than 6.6% in either direction after tonight’s June-quarter earnings, well ahead of its three-year average of around 4.8%. Short sellers, meanwhile, are crowding into the stock, with bets against the tech and cloud giant representing around 92 million shares, or 1.27% of its outstanding float, according to data from S3 Partners.

Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds of the business press with a very public campaign to reshape AI regulation, but the real story is what his lobbying reveals about Meta's increasingly desperate position in the AI race.

The latest oil spike was sending the Dow tumbling, but the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision and a gauntlet of earnings loom. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 700 points, or 1.3%. The S&P 500 was down 0.

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It felt a little like the 1990s on Tuesday, as Coca-Cola took center stage in the stock market after the soft-drink leader reported strong second-quarter earnings. It now trades with a higher valuation than Nvidia and other Magnificent Seven stocks. Coke stock rallied 5% to $88.27 on Tuesday after touching a record $90 earlier in the session, and was up 2.4% at $90.38 in early trading Wedneday.

Major U.S. technology companies are borrowing heavily as they ramp up spending on their artificial intelligence buildout, and at steadily higher yields as investors become more selective about absorbing the growing supply. Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Oracle issued about $194 ‌billion of bonds in 2026 through July 7, up 79% from roughly $108 billion in all of 2025, according to a Reuters analysis ‌of LSEG data. Goldman Sachs expects bond issuance by the five hyperscalers, including Microsoft Corp, to reach roughly $250 billion this year and $400 billion in 2027.

Wall Street faces a twin set of risks on Wednesday, tied to Big Tech earnings and a Federal Reserve interest-rate decision, as stocks undergo a rare change of leadership ahead of the summer market doldrums. “The market’s response to both should provide a clearer indication of whether the current rotation continues or begins to develop into broader weakness,” said Zaheer Anwari, co-founder and CEO of the Luxembourg-based Revacy Fund.

Meta shares have fallen for nine straight sessions.

Investing.com -- Direxion on Wednesday launched a new family of exchange-traded funds designed to generate income by writing call options on individual high-volatility stocks, expanding beyond its traditional leveraged and inverse ETF offerings.

Investors are laser focused on capex heading to Meta' earnings report.

Meta Platforms, Inc. and BlackRock, Inc. recently announced a venture to develop and own a US$14.00 billion, 1‑gigawatt data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with funds managed by BlackRock holding an 80% stake and Meta contributing land and construction‑in‑progress assets valued at about US$2.30 billion. The structure of the deal, including BlackRock’s roughly US$4.90 billion cash contribution and use of a US$12.50 billion debt facility, highlights how large asset managers are increasingly...

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Wednesday ahead of the Fed decision and Fed Chair Warsh's comments. SK Hynix sold off.

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Wall Street is taking center stage in financing the AI buildout. On July 28, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) and asset ‌manager BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) announced a venture to develop and operate a one gigawatt data center campus in El Paso, Texas. The project, costing about $14 billion in development, marks the emergence of […]