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The global artificial intelligence boom has propelled ASML to the top of Europe's stock market, as soaring demand for AI computer chips flows to the Dutch company that dominates the market for the equipment needed to ‌make them. After blowout second quarter earnings, investors and analysts are asking a once far-fetched question: could ASML become Europe's first ever trillion-dollar firm? Key ‌obstacles include doubts over how long Google, Amazon, and other hyperscalers will keep spending heavily on data centres, and whether ASML, its suppliers and customers such as TSMC and Samsung can execute expansion ​plans.

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Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton previews several of the biggest stories to come throughout next week, including earnings results out from Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Tesla (TSLA), General Motors (GM), and Intel (INTC).

Alphabet reports Q2 2026 earnings on July 22. Most investors going into the print are focused on Search growth and whether Cloud can sustain its acceleration. But Bank of America's latest note highlights something that could make the headline numbers look unusual: an estimated $80 billion boost to ...

Markets face a potentially volatile week as AI bubble fears intensify amid concerns that technology sector repricing has not yet reached equilibrium, coinciding with earnings season ramping dramatically through late July.

Earnings results from Alphabet and Tesla headline a busy week, amid a chip sell-off and a conflict in Iran that keeps geopolitics simmering and oil prices rising.

AI stocks have driven stock market direction.

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The Trump Administration announced a 25% tariff on most Brazilian imports late Wednesday, effective July 22. The U.S. has invoked Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, targeting certain Brazilian practices, which include directives to American tech giants like...

Intel Corporation (INTC) and Google Cloud announced an expanded partnership on Thursday 16th, deploying Gemini Enterprise across Intel’s workforce and pushing agentic AI tools into its chip design process, according to an Intel Newsroom statement. The announcement should have read as an unambiguous ...

Apple isn't just counting on customers to keep buying iPhones. It also expects them to keep paying every month long after they've bought one. While Apple built its reputation selling cutting-edge devices, its fastest-growing profit engine has become Services, the business that keeps generating ...

Warren Buffett’s decision to start building a stake in Alphabet is being seen as a late-career imprimatur for artificial intelligence. For stockholders in Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B), it could have a more crucial message. Buffett relinquished the CEO title on Jan. 1, passing the baton to ...

A duo of Magnificent 7 members, namely Tesla (TSLA) and Alphabet (GOOGL), will help headline the reporting docket this week, who both head into their reports with favorable revisions for both earnings and sales.

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The market is pricing Alphabet like a legacy ad company with an AI problem, and that gap between perception and reality is exactly where the opportunity lives ahead of the July 22 earnings report.

Analysts say Netflix is losing control of its own story, and a single line buried in Friday's earnings report about future disclosures is making Wall Street more nervous than the guidance miss itself.

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. corporate earnings season heats up in the coming week, with Alphabet and Intel set to offer updates that could sway the market-leading AI trade

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Big Tech's earnings are coming fast, and it'll be all about AI spending.

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The social media giant is pouring record sums into an artificial intelligence future, forcing investors to decide if they are buying a proven profit machine or funding an unproven science project.

The European Union gave Google binding instructions to open up its Android operating system and search engine data to greater competition.

Wall Street analysts are reshuffling their bets on Thursday, sending some of the market's biggest names in opposite directions as geopolitical tensions and inflation crosscurrents cloud the outlook. Find out which stocks got upgraded, downgraded, or newly covered today.

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U.S. trade regulators have launched ‌a probe into ‌Samsung Electronics' memory chips and ​products sold by Google, Nvidia, Broadcom and Super Micro Computer that use ‌them ⁠after a complaint by Netlist alleging infringement ⁠of its patents. California-based Netlist has accused Samsung ​and its ​U.S. ​units of ‌infringing its patents on dynamic random access memory, a type of chip that temporarily stores data ‌for processors ​and is a ​critical ​component in the ‌servers powering the ​AI ​boom, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) said ​on ‌Wednesday.

Robinhood executives Stephanie Guild and Steve Quirk join Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to break down the unprecedented wave of upcoming AI and SpaceX IPOs, the risks of the "Magnificent Seven" market concentration, and why a looming $150 oil shock could test the stock market this summer.

Europe's top ‌court on ‌Thursday sided with Italy's ​communication authority which fined Alphabet unit Google €750,000 ($854,250) four ‌years ago ⁠over gambling advertising on its ⁠YouTube video platform. "Google may ​be held ​liable ​for the ‌YouTube videos of a content creator with whom it has a ‌commercial partnership," ​the Luxembourg-based ​Court ​of Justice ‌of the European ​Union ​said. The case is C-421/24AGCOM (Online gambling).