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Jensen Huang had never posted on X before July 24. His first post on the platform wasn't about chips or Nvidia's earnings or the next GPU architecture. It was a letter. An open letter signed by more than 20 tech companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Google, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Mistral, ...
One trades at a 23x revenue multiple with $6.7B in free cash flow; the other is burning cash and facing litigation.
<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. 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>
The veteran tech investor says Microsoft’s long-term valuation will depend less on quarterly results and more on how it adapts to AI-driven software and pricing changes.
Etsy recently expanded its artificial intelligence push by embedding conversational agents across buyer discovery, seller tools, and off-site commerce, supported by partnerships with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. This move positions Etsy to integrate agent-driven shopping directly into its marketplace, potentially reshaping how high-intent buyers and sellers interact on the platform. Next, we’ll examine how Etsy’s new conversational AI partnerships could influence its existing investment...
Rezolve AI, NasdaqGM:RZLV, has reported preliminary first half 2026 revenues of about US$127 million. The figure is nearly 20 times higher than the same period a year earlier. Management links this revenue step up to recent enterprise deployments and partnerships with Tata Consultancy Services, Zilch and Microsoft. Rezolve AI focuses on AI driven commerce infrastructure, which aims to connect retailers, payment providers and consumers across digital and physical channels. The wider AI and...
Josh Lipton stock the market movers for Wednesday, July 29th, including the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision. After the closing bell, Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta (META) report second quarter earnings, with investors watching closely for signs that their massive AI investments are beginning to pay off.
<body><p>STORY: :: Lisa Bernhard, Reuters</p><p>:: Nancy Tengler, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Laffer Tengler Investments</p><p>Global markets have been volatile this month as investors worry that Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and other tech heavyweights may be overspending on data centers as they race to build out AI infrastructure.</p><p>"I actually think they are right to spend," Tengler said. "Make no mistake, we're in an AI arms race. I think you will continue to see spending."</p><p>Speaking with Reuters' Lisa Bernhard, Tengler also discussed this week's Federal Reserve policy meeting, the second under new Chair Kevin Warsh.</p><p>And though markets are pricing in rate hikes before the end of the year, Tengler said she believes Warsh will "persuade his colleagues that raising [rates] would be perilous in this environment."</p></body>
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%.
In recent days, multiple partners including Broadvoice, CloudMoyo, Hanshow, Knox Systems, and others have launched or deepened integrations with Microsoft platforms such as Dynamics 365, Azure, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, while investors focus on Microsoft’s upcoming Q4 earnings amid heavy AI and cloud infrastructure spending. These developments highlight how Microsoft’s ecosystem, spanning AI security models like MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, partner-led industry solutions, and expanded Azure...
Value stocks are quietly outperforming growth this year, but the companies driving the surge look nothing like traditional value plays. The Russell 1000 Value Index has gained about 20% this year, trouncing its growth counterpart, the Russell 1000 Growth Index, which has declined 1.6%. Value stocks typically trade at a discount to what a company’s profits suggest they are worth; growth stocks aren’t cheap, but are expected to increase earnings at a faster-than-average pace.
Microsoft stock headed higher Tuesday, building on two straight advances as investors awaited the tech heavyweight's fourth-quarter earnings report due Wednesday. Is Microsoft stock a buy or sell now? Coming into Tuesday's session, the stock had risen more than 10% from its June lows and was running into its 50-day moving average.
Morgan Stanley analysts say despite growing investor anxiety, major tech giants will achieve returns on invested capital between 25% and 50% from their massive trillion-dollar artificial intelligence spending.
AI models just crossed a staggering revenue milestone that took the industry two years to reach, but the analyst who flagged it says the real story is the structural trap waiting for thousands of companies built on top of it.
Microsoft and Meta both crushed their last quarters, yet Wall Street's real verdict on July 29 has nothing to do with revenue beats. The question traders are actually pricing is which AI capex monster blinks first.
Technology giant Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what investors should know.
Wedbush's most vocal AI bull thinks investors keep flinching at the wrong signals, and he has a map of five stocks that traces where the real money is moving before the crowd catches on.
Nvidia is reported to be in talks to provide substantial financial backing for a Microsoft supported OpenAI AI data center project in Ohio. The initiative would expand OpenAI’s US AI infrastructure while deepening ties between Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia. Following a recent US national security AI review, the CEOs of OpenAI and Nvidia met with Senator Mark Warner to discuss AI related issues. Microsoft, traded as NasdaqGS:MSFT, sits at a current share price of $389.1. The stock is down...
Tesla sells battery storage, but needs power to keep its own AI infrastructure running, as it develops self-driving cars and Optimus robots.
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