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The Morning Bull - US Market Morning Update Monday, Jul, 13 2026 US stock futures are pointing higher this morning, with E-mini S&P 500 contracts up about 0.4%, as investors digest a mix of cooling inflation and uneven growth signals abroad. Softer price data in countries like France, where inflation sits at 1.8%, suggests global cost of living pressures are easing, which can take some pressure off central banks to keep lifting interest rates. At the same time, weaker industrial output in...

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Analysts expect Alphabet’s second-quarter capital expenditures to reach $44.9 billion, a 100% increase from the prior year period.

Csquare, a data center operator backed by Brookfield, is going public as investors are growing skeptical about AI and IPOs.

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Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley discusses OpenAI Product and Business Chief Fidji Simo stepping down from her role due to ongoing medical issues.

Jim Cramer says the SK Hynix mega-listing clears the biggest threat hanging over AI stocks in 2026, but one scenario could blow that thesis apart before summer ends.

Investing.com -- The AI arms race dominated headlines this week, with Meta unveiling a new frontier model and a chip supply deal between Apple and Broadcom.

Meta's stock is down more than 7% year to date. The company spent much of this year defending its decision to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, and investors who followed the Q1 earnings call on April 29 watched the stock drop another 6% to 7% after the company raised its ...

(Bloomberg) -- In the weeks leading up to SpaceX’s monster IPO, many Wall Street pros feared the deal represented an existential threat for Elon Musk’s other giant, Tesla Inc. But after a month in the stock market, the outcome is far from clear. Most Read from BloombergMicrosoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video GameNvidia’s $1 Trillion Slide Sends Valuation to Pre-AI Boom LevelsZuckerberg Pledges ‘Aggressive’ Pricing With Meta’s First Pay-to-Use AITrump Vents Anger With Ira

Investing.com -- The European Union issued preliminary findings on Friday accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of using addictive design features and disregarding risks to children on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.

The bloc’s regulator said the tech giant may be in breach of its digital rules, opening the door to heavy fines.

Tencent ‌is in ‌talks to ​become Manus' largest shareholder as ‌investors ⁠seek alternatives after Beijing ⁠ordered Meta ​to ​unwind ​its $2 billion ‌acquisition of the AI start-up, the ‌Financial ​Times ​reported ​on Thursday, ‌citing two ​sources. (Reporting ​by Preetika Parashuraman ​in ‌Bengaluru; Editing ​by Sherry ​Jacob-Phillips)

Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder of Manus as investors race to unwind Meta’s $2bn acquisition of the AI agent start-up after...

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - A microchip rebound on Thursday helped investors look past roiling Middle East tensions and the potential of renewed hostilities fueling longer-term

Dividends are one way for profitable companies to reward their shareholders, while also signaling financial strength and confidence in their future cash flow. Tech stocks, however, have traditionally prioritized stock buybacks over dividends as a way to reinvest excess cash and return value to ...

T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund portfolio manager Tony Wang examines the back-and-forth activity appearing in semiconductor stocks, especially as the bar remains high for memory chip makers and SK Hynix's (000660.KS) US IPO listing is seven-times oversubscribed.

By Ragini Mathur and Avinash P July 9 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes advanced on Thursday, as rising chipmakers helped outweigh geopolitical anxiety over renewed attacks that could prolong the

Investing.com -- Meta Platforms’ specialized AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, announced Thursday the release of Muse Spark 1.1. The updated multimodal reasoning model is specifically engineered to handle autonomous "agentic" workflows, boasting a massive one-million-token context window alongside major upgrades to coding and direct computer control. The release marks a significant push by Meta to lead the enterprise AI market. Alongside the consumer-facing rollout, the company launched

SanDisk is the most direct publicly traded beneficiary of the disclosed arrangement, given that the memo specifically names the company as Meta's flash storage supplier; the stock's move reverses a bruising stretch that had weighed on the NAND-flash sector coming into this week.

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July 9 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Thursday released long-awaited developer access to its Muse Spark AI model alongside an upgraded version, pitting it directly against the business models of

Meta Platforms plans to start manufacturing an artificial intelligence chip from September as part of its plan to boost overall ‌computing power to 14 gigawatts next year, showed an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. The tech firm's data center ‌chip, code-named "Iris", is part of a four-generation project for Meta Training and Inference Accelerators (MTIA) that it will design in-house. Meta tailored the chip for its own needs and is working with Broadcom ‌to help design it and Taiwan Semiconductor ⁠Manufacturing Co to manufacture it.

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said Wednesday it will invest more than US$9.1 billion to build its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada and its largest outside the United States. The facility will be built in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and powered by a natural gas-fired plant being developed by a consortium that includes Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Ltd. Technology and Innovation Minister Nate Glubish called the project “a big deal for Alberta,” saying the province had created a regulatory framework to attract data center investment.

Meta says it will build its first data center in Canada.

Tech giant Meta announced Wednesday it will build a massive data center in central Alberta, the company's first in Canada, as it rapidly ‌builds out computing capacity to support the global AI boom. The 1-gigawatt data center will ‌be located in Sturgeon County and represents a total investment of C$13 billion, or $9.17 billion, Meta said. Meta has doubled down on ​AI, pledging hundreds of billions of dollars to build large AI data centers in the U.S. The Alberta announcement represents the company's 33rd data center globally.

PARIS, July 8 (Reuters) - France's competition authority on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to resume talks with French media groups over payments for publishing content, after the publishers

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