News

Volatility continued Friday as a new round of tariffs amplified inflation fears and Intel's earnings couldn't overcome a risk-off stance toward chip stocks.

The Dow rose on Friday, but the blue-chip index couldn’t stave off its third-consecutive weekly decline. The Nasdaq dropped 0.6%. Stocks traded sideways all day, as another slide in chip stocks dragged down the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.

Rivian has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to get the refund of tariffs it paid before the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional. Find out more.

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

By Jody Godoy July 24 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance has agreed to pause its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

Paramount Skydance has agreed to freeze its merger with rival entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros.

Coca-Cola (KO) is expected to report "strong" second-quarter results amid robust North America trend

Real risk-free bond yields haven’t been this high in years. As for 30-year maturities, you would have to go back to the 2008-09 financial crisis to encounter real yields of nearly 3%. Real interest rates are what you earn after the bite taken by inflation.

Inflation and geopolitics are becoming bigger considerations for these tech-centric investments.

Samsung is preparing to bring stablecoins to Samsung Wallet, marking one of the most significant crypto moves yet from a major smartphone maker. A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency designed to hold a steady value, typically pegged one-to-one to a currency like the U.S. dollar. Unlike Bitcoin ...

ServiceNow reported second-quarter results the evening of Wednesday, July 22, beating Wall Street’s expectations on revenue, margin, and bookings. The backdrop made that harder than it sounds. Investors had spent the prior week watching IBM and Pegasystems blame artificial intelligence spending ...

Elon Musk’s July slump is getting worse today. Tesla and SpaceX, the companies that helped Musk achieve trillionaire status last month, are now moving in the opposite direction, cutting his wealth by billions.

AMD earned plaudits from Wall Street for its latest processors and computer systems for artificial intelligence.

President Trump threatened Friday to impose "a substantial tariff" on the European Union over the bloc's penalties against U.S. technology companies .

Amazon created Prime Day to reward its most loyal shoppers. More than a decade later, the event has grown far beyond Amazon. Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Kohl’s, and other major retailers now routinely launch competing promotions around Prime Day, turning a once Amazon-centric sale into one of the ...

Institutional cryptocurrency trading platform LMAX Group is considering going public.

PYPL heads into Q2 earnings with TPV growth and platform expansion in focus but faces margin pressure, competition and macroeconomic uncertainty.

Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech heavyweights made a public case to lawmakers on Friday in favor of open-source ‌AI models, wading into a debate roiling the business and policy worlds over ‌who controls the powerful technology. In a letter posted on X and also signed by two dozen companies and groups ​including Meta Platforms and IBM, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that lawmakers should avoid "premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." The letter adds to the growing debate about open-source models that are harder to regulate, such as Nvidia's own and those released ‌in recent weeks by Chinese ⁠labs, and the closed-source models controlled by specific companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

Alphabet just reported the strongest quarter in Google Cloud's history. Revenue came in at $119.8 billion, up 24% year over year. Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion and blew past analyst estimates. The Cloud backlog hit $514 billion. Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 is using Gemini Enterprise. By most ...

Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) raised its full-year 2026 outlook for mobility and broadband service revenue, adjusted earnings per share and free cash flow after reporting improved subscriber trends, lower churn and stronger operating leverage in the second quarter. Chief Executive Officer Dan Sc

It makes sense for tech companies to work together in the age of AI, no?

(Updates prices in the second and final paragraphs.) Gold was mostly steady midafternoon Friday,

(Bloomberg) -- The selloff in SpaceX shares has driven the stock near a level that would imply investors are assigning no value to its artificial intelligence business, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley. Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump Rebuilds Tariffs With New Levies on 60 EconomiesSpaceX Turns Away Falcon C

Investors aren’t buying the earnings story this summer, in contrast to the spring rally that powered stocks to a record high in early June, suggesting a tough climb for markets over the back half of the year. Nearly 85% of companies are beating estimates, compared with the recent average of around 80% and the historic reading of around 68%, and LSEG figures suggest overall second-quarter profit growth of 27%. Earnings growth forecasts for the year remain robust, with analysts penciling in a 29.6% advance from 2025 levels, next year’s pace tailing off to around 17%.

Badger Meter's second-quarter earnings cleared a low bar, but the market still wasn't overly enthused.

Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm has told customers it would raise prices ‌by a percentage in the ‌double digits due to rising costs, Bloomberg News reported ​on Friday, citing a letter sent to clients. The San Diego, California-based company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for ‌comment. • Qualcomm told customers that it could no longer absorb rising supplier costs and had sought alternative ‌components from new suppliers, ​the report said.

Artificial intelligence has become the ultimate Rorschach test. Some see mass unemployment. Others see unlimited prosperity. Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) CEO Alex Karp believes the future will likely include plenty of wealth—but not everyone will share equally in it. "This is...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on products from the European Union in retaliation to the bloc’s $1 billion (€890 million) fine of Alphabet Inc.’s Google. Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump Rebuilds Tariffs With New Levies on 60 EconomiesSpaceX Turns Away Falcon Customers in Major Bet on S

There's increasing chatter that the U.S. will nationalize key AI companies.

Intel strong earnings weren’t enough to keep the stock’s gains going on Friday. Late Thursday, Intel reported per-share earnings that were almost double what analysts had forecast for the second quarter, while revenue jumped ahead of estimates. Intel management said on Thursday’s earnings call that they were raising their 2026 capital expenditure estimates to more than $20 billion, up from around $18 billion, as the company works to meet the rising demand of its products.