A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the April PPI report lifted the 10-year Treasury yield to a 10-month high of 4.49%, eliminating 2026 rate-cut expectations and raising the discount rate for long-duration growth valuations.
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A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the April PPI report lifted the 10-year Treasury yield to a 10-month high of 4.49%, eliminating 2026 rate-cut expectations and raising the discount rate for long-duration growth valuations.
Shares of latin American e-commerce and fintech company MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) fell 2.9% in the afternoon session after the April PPI report lifted the 10-year Treasury yield to a 10-month high of 4.49%, eliminating 2026 rate-cut expectations and raising the discount rate for long-duration growth valuations.
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Investing.com -- Billionaire investor Bill Ackman clarified on Saturday that his hedge fund’s decision to fully liquidate its long-held stake in Google parent Alphabet Inc Class A (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was driven by portfolio rebalancing rather than negative sentiment.
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said on Saturday that the sale of Google parent Alphabet's shares was not a bet against the company. Ackman on Friday said his firm Pershing Square had built a new position in tech giant Microsoft after its stock price dropped recently, and sold his long-owned investment in Alphabet to help pay for it.
Netlist (OTCMKTS:NLST) reported record quarterly revenue for the first quarter of 2026, citing strong demand for memory products, tight industry supply and higher DRAM pricing as key drivers of its performance. Chief Executive Officer Chuck Hong said the company delivered “a strong first quarter pe
Affirm Holdings (AFRM) is back in focus after announcing a new collaboration with Google that will put its buy now, pay later options directly into Google Search, AI Mode, the Gemini app and Google Pay checkout. See our latest analysis for Affirm Holdings. The stock has had a strong 90-day share price return of 32.14% and a 10.40% 30-day share price gain, even though the year-to-date share price return is down 11.09%. Over the longer term, the 1-year total shareholder return of 25.20% and...
Alphabet's YouTube and Snap have reached settlements in the first case set for trial in litigation seeking to force social media platforms to cover the costs school districts incur to combat a youth mental health crisis they say the companies fueled. The settlements were detailed in court filings on Friday in federal court in Oakland, California, and resolve claims by a Kentucky school district that is still due to take Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms and TikTok to trial on June 15. Terms of the settlements with Breathitt County School District in rural Eastern Kentucky were not disclosed.
Two of Wall Street's most closely watched billionaire stock pickers, both once voluble activist investors, took opposite tacks this year when Bill Ackman bet on Microsoft and exited Google parent Alphabet and Daniel Loeb did the opposite. Ackman said on X his firm Pershing Square began building a new position in software giant Microsoft in February after shares dropped, saying investors weren't giving it enough credit for its Microsoft 365 office suite and artificial intelligence investments.
Elon Musk‘s rocket company, SpaceX and Alphabet Inc are reportedly negotiating a launch deal to put data centers into orbit. The speculative technology would bypass Earth’s massive power grid constraints just as SpaceX gears up for what may become the...
Alphabet issued a record ¥576.5 billion (about $3.6b) yen-denominated corporate bond, the largest ever by a foreign company in Japan. The sale is Alphabet's first yen bond and is aimed at funding AI infrastructure, including cloud and datacenter capacity. This deal is part of a wider funding push that has seen Alphabet raise close to $60b in global debt markets for AI spending. Wall Street is increasingly focused on the scale of AI related borrowing by large tech companies and its impact on...
Berkshire Hathaway more than tripled the size of its investment in Google's parent company and bought over $2.6 billion worth of Delta Airlines stock as Greg Abel settled into the CEO job after taking over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year. The conglomerate also dumped a number of other stocks, including Visa, Mastercard, Domino's Pizza, Amazon and United Healthcare after the departure late last year of Todd Combs, who was one of the two investment mangers Buffett hired to help manage the portfolio. Buffett was always reluctant to invest in tech companies because he said he didn't understand them well enough to predict the long-term winners.
Pershing Square Capital Management, the hedge fund run by billionaire Bill Ackman, added Microsoft as a core holding during the first quarter of 2026, betting that the software giant will be a winner in the artificial-intelligence race. Pershing Square held 11 U.S.-listed equity positions with a disclosed market value of about $13.71 billion by the end of the first quarter, according to the fund’s latest 13F filing, which was submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The top holding was Brookfield , valued at roughly $2.42 billion; followed by Amazon valued at $2.39 billion; and Uber valued at $2.15 billion.