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Cloud computing and online retail behemoth Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will be reporting results this Thursday afternoon. Here’s what you need to know.

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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.

DoorDash on Wednesday launched its in-house drone-delivery program, DoorDash Air, after ‌securing a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration certification ‌to operate commercial drone deliveries in the U.S. The move marks ​the food-delivery company's push into autonomous delivery as it looks to reduce reliance on human couriers and expand its logistics network. • ‌The program was ⁠developed by DoorDash Labs, its robotics and autonomy unit, and will eventually be ⁠integrated into its delivery app, according to a TechCrunch report.

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.

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Amazon Earnings Take Center Stage as Wall Street Bets Big on AWS AI Boom

Amazon reported its Q2 earnings after the bell on Thursday.

Amazon reported its Q2 earnings after the bell on Thursday.

Amazon will report its second quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday.

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. Coke stock rallied 5% to $88.27 after touching a record $90 earlier in the session. Other consumer stocks gained, including PepsiCo Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble as investors continued to rotate out of technology, with the exchange-traded fund losing 1.8%.

Amazon is expected to report year-over-year AWS revenue growth of 31%-33%, but I think it could be even higher.

"This danger is real": AI training loads threaten the systems that power them, testing already-extensive turbine backlogs.

The market has hit new records this year, but it isn't the "Magnificent Seven" stocks that are leading the way.

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After Alphabet raised its 2026 CapEx forecast, analysts believe cloud peers Microsoft and Amazon could follow suit.

If Amazon is going to see a return on its AI investments, shareholders will need to have patience for the next several years.

Today Federal Reserve meeting: Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh will hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET, following the FOMC interest-rate decision at 2 p.m. Earnings (a.m): Procter & Gamble, Humana, L3Harris, Biogen, General Dynamics, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Airbus Earnings (p.

Meta reports Q2 results after the close as investors weigh AI spending, ad growth and Reality Labs performance against a lower-than-average valuation.

Binance will list 10 new bStock pairs, including Apple and Amazon, with zero maker fees running until August 31.

Microsoft stock, down earlier this year, is up 5.5% in the past month. The answers to three AI-related questions could determine whether shares continue to gain.

Wall Street is paying top dollar to buy insurance against tech giants like Meta and Alphabet defaulting on their debt, in a sign that AI spending is seriously worrying the bond market. The five main data center operators— Alphabet Amazon.com Meta Platforms Microsoft and Oracle —are spending huge sums on the artificial intelligence buildout. For 2026, the aggregate free cash flow of the five hyperscalers is estimated to fall to negative $2.8 billion, from $187 billion in 2025.

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Analysts raised price targets, but concerns over lower margins, and weak package volumes kept investors cautious about the company's outlook.

Kimi K3 has reignited AI cost fears and has decimated tech stocks. However, the current carnage echoes the DeepSeek disruption of early 2025.

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<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes closed mixed on Tuesday with the Dow gaining 1%, the S&P 500 edging up about two-tenths of a percent and the Nasdaq dipping by roughly two-tenths of a percent.</p><p>Markets have been volatile this month as investors worry that Microsoft, Amazon and other tech heavyweights may be overspending on data centers in the race to build out AI infrastructure.</p><p>But Nancy Tengler, CEO and chief investment officer of Laffer Tengler Investments, said to expect these companies to announce more AI spending when they report quarterly results this week.</p><p>"Make no mistake, we're in an AI arms race. I think you will continue to see spending. I think you'll actually see companies increase spending next year and then things will normalize and stabilize... We're focused on adding to the US names because you can't have a situation where companies are penalized for spending, i.e. the hyperscalers, and companies are penalized for being on the receiving end to the spending, Micron, chip names. At some point, this will come, regress to the mean and we'll start to pay attention to fundamentals."</p><p>Shares of Microsoft rose ahead of its report on Wednesday, while Amazon dipped before its results on Thursday.</p><p>Shares of Apple closed almost 1% higher, though they rose nearly 2% during the trading session and briefly exceeded a $5 trillion market valuation for the first time.&nbsp;The iPhone maker reports its results on Thursday.</p><p>Outside of technology, shares of Coca-Cola rallied 5% after the beverage company raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>And shares of Boeing jumped nearly 5% after the airplane maker generated positive free cash flow as its turnaround plans gained momentum.</p><p>Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is due to announce its interest-rate decision at the conclusion of its two-day policy meeting on Wednesday. Traders see about a 70% chance that the central bank will leave rates unchanged, according to CME's FedWatch tool.</p></body>

Nasdaq dropped for the fifth straight session on Tuesday, its longest losing streak since January this year.