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After a year of holding back on new hires, companies from tech and transportation to defense now say they need more people to work alongside AI.

This year’s stock rally has withstood war, inflation and uncertainty surrounding the tech sector’s massive artificial-intelligence investments. The question now is: Have investors finally reached their limit? Major stock indexes have posted healthy gains this year.

Nvidia is in talks to provide a roughly $250 billion financing ‌for OpenAI as part of a ‌massive data center project, The Wall Street Journal reported ​on Sunday. The guarantees from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10-gigawatt project that SoftBank's energy subsidiary is developing in southern Ohio, ‌the newspaper said, ⁠citing people familiar with the matter. Nvidia, OpenAI and U.S. Commerce Department did not respond to requests for comment outside ‌regular business hours.

Project would be one of the largest AI computing hubs and involve power controlled by the U.S. government.

(Bloomberg) -- CXMT Corp. is set to begin trading in Shanghai on Monday after raising 66.6 billion yuan ($9.8 billion) in the second-largest initial public offering in China’s history, with potential for a first-day gain that would make it the largest company in the country.Most Read from BloombergDeepSeek Said to Tell Backers of Funding Pause After Viral PostsSpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley SaysUS, Iran Extend Pause in Strikes as Oman Holds Hormuz TalksTrump Seethes as

The paycheck stopped, the 401(k) balance sits there, and now you need it to last three decades without a single mistake. Here is how four ETFs can replace your salary, cushion every market crash, and still grow faster than inflation.

Investing.com -- Investor attention is set to shift toward the U.S. midterm elections over the coming months, with Goldman Sachs expecting rising policy uncertainty and market volatility ahead of the November vote, while arguing that the election outcome itself is unlikely to be a major driver of equity performance.

Every powerful technology eventually reaches the same argument. Somebody has to decide whether the thing gets handed out or locked up. Encryption had that fight in the 1990s, when the federal government classified strong cryptography as a munition and tried to keep it away from ordinary people. ...

The airline just posted the biggest quarter in its history and told investors it may lose money this year. Both are true.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung flew to San Francisco on July 24 for a summit with the most powerful names in artificial intelligence. Jensen Huang was there. Sam Altman was there. The heads of Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor and Naver flew in. By the end of the day, roughly $950 billion in ...

The reported tie-up would have combined two of the nation’s largest airlines, but the preliminary discussions did not advance and both carriers ultimately moved on.

Investing.com -- United Airlines had reportedly approached Delta Air Lines last year about a potential merger between the two carriers

Treasury yields and oil prices surged, and the dollar confirmed the breakout toward a longer-term uptrend, to push the S 500 below key chart support.

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials will head into their policy meeting this week confronting a resurgence in price pressures that could make their decision on whether to hold or hike interest rates a close call — and a contentious one.Most Read from BloombergDeepSeek Said to Tell Backers of Funding Pause After Viral PostsSpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley SaysTrump Seethes as Iran War Spirals Anew With No End in SightUS, Iran Extend Pause in Strikes as Oman Holds Horm

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials will head into their policy meeting this week confronting a resurgence in price pressures that could make their decision on whether to hold or hike interest rates a close call — and a contentious one.Most Read from BloombergDeepSeek Said to Tell Backers of Funding Pause After Viral PostsSpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley SaysTrump Seethes as Iran War Spirals Anew With No End in SightUS, Iran Extend Pause in Strikes as Oman Holds Horm

United Chief Executive Scott Kirby called Delta’s CEO to discuss a potential deal but the talks didn’t progress, according to people familiar with the matter.

This is a huge earnings week, with nearly a third of S&P 500 companies reporting. The Fed is expected to hold rates steady after its confab ends Wednesday, and we’ll see key inflation data on Thursday.

Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve is likely to leave interest rates unchanged at its July policy meeting despite rising oil prices, with Citi arguing that markets are overstating the chances of an immediate rate hike as recent inflation and labor market data point to easing price pressures.

International Business Machines (IBM) CEO Arvind Krishna has spent the past 10 days apologizing. On July 14, he told shareholders his company had faltered. Eight days later, he opened the second-quarter earnings call by admitting that IBM fell short on execution. Krishna then told CNBC on Thursday, ...

A Senate investigation has created fresh uncertainty for Amazon just days before earnings, but Wall Street remains focused on AWS growth and AI investments.

Citigroup stock dropped 7% post-earnings.

If your portfolio has been riding the same cluster of mega-cap technology stocks since 2023, Morgan Stanley has a timely warning. The S&P 500climbed about 20% from its April low to a record high near 7,620 on June 2, fueled by optimism over the U.S.–Iran ceasefire and persistent ...

RTX and Lockheed Martin topped Q2 earnings estimates and grew their backlogs to record levels, sending both defense stocks higher as the Iran conflict reignites investor interest.

There's real uncertainty around what the Fed will do at the July meeting. Here's why it's probably best to not try to pick a side.

Hyperscaler cash levels will be a key focus in the coming week as Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft report.

Northrop Grumman, D.R. Horton, Capital One and Charles Schwab reported Q2 earnings beats on July 21, revealing diverging trends in defense, housing and financials sectors.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX pitched orbital data centers as a central part of its record-breaking IPO, but geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan says the physics may not cooperate. In a recent video, Zeihan argued a one-gigawatt orbital data center would require roughly...

Seven years ago, on an earnings call, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott promised the company would become the defining enterprise software company of the 21st century, according to a transcript published by Benzinga. That promise rested almost entirely on IT ticket routing, the unglamorous software ...

Michael Burry is warning about a market collision: rising oil prices, an artificial intelligence debt binge and mounting pressure in long-duration Treasuries. "Watch the long bonds," Burry wrote on X Thursday. He cited AI’s "debt explosion," rising inflation volatility, a...

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