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Morgan Stanley forecasts AI-related global debt issuance to more than double to nearly $570 billion in 2026, pointing to rising bond supply and credit market activity as hyperscalers turn to alternative funding sources to meet massive AI-driven capex needs. Here are some details: • Tech companies that have long relied on strong cash flows are increasingly turning to debt financing as investment needs surge • Morgan Stanley estimates AI-related global debt issuance stood at nearly $236 billion as of May 31, 2026, fourfold more than the same period last year • Hyperscalers Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are expected to spend $700 billion in outlays this year • Morgan Stanley ex...
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The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:SMH) closed Friday at $599, capping a stretch in which SMH has returned roughly 146% over the past year and tacked on nearly 20% in May alone. SMH is up about 66% year to date, and the rally has been driven less by NVIDIA than most holders assume. Because the fund ... SMH ETF Investors: Watch Hyperscaler Capex Guidance at July Earnings Calls
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the most vertically integrated company in tech, is turning to Nvidia and Google Cloud to power its most advanced AI workloads. According to CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos, Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed that the company’s new frontier language model, FM Cloud Pro, will run on Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google Cloud for agentic ... Apple Will Run Advanced AI Model on Nvidia GPUs via Google Cloud, Ditching Private Infrastructure
Super Micro Computer said on Tuesday it would raise $7 billion through a series of equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund the purchase of components needed to meet the growing demand for its advanced AI servers. AI infrastructure firms have seen accelerated demand as tech companies and cloud providers ramp up investments in data centers to support large language models and other AI applications. Super Micro also plans to sell shares worth up to $2 billion in an at-the-market offering not before the third quarter.
When a Wall Street heavyweight tells you a $1.8 trillion company still looks cheap, it's worth slowing down to understand why. That's roughly the message coming out of JPMorgan (JPM) this month. Fresh off Broadcom's latest earnings, the bank didn't just nudge its outlook higher. It made a ...
SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) continues to turn investors' heads ahead of its IPO this Friday, June 12, as Elon Musk's space company strikes a deal with Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) for the Big Tech company to borrow computing power for $920 million per month. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian discusses the value this has for investor sentiment on SpaceX's upcoming stock release. SpaceX is expected to go public on the Nasdaq this week under the ticker SPCX, with the space operator aiming for an IPO price of $135 per share.
Institutional demand builds as SpaceX prepares a $75 billion IPO that could value the company at about $1.8 trillion.
Mega-tech IPO history warns of sharp first-year declines, even as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI prepare massive listings.
The market is gearing up for a SpaceX IPO on June 12, and it feels like yesterday that the business confidentially filed for its IPO. That was on April 1 this year. You would expect quiet action since then, but the space-AI hybrid is accelerating before the ticker goes live. SpaceX has signed two monster ... Elon Musk Just Created $26 Billion a Year for SpaceX Days Before the IPO
MANGOS — no, not the tropical stone fruit — is the latest Big Tech acronym to be at the top of investors' minds ahead of 2026's biggest IPOs. MANGOS consists of Meta Platforms (META), Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), Nvidia (NVDA), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), and SpaceX (SPCX, SPAX.PVT). Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré explains the latest AI tech groupings being coined by Wall Street analysts.
Apple's newly introduced AI Siri will have limited use across much of the company's install base because older iPhones lack the capabilities to run advanced AI features, Morgan Stanley said in a research note on Tuesday. More than 850 million iPhones are incapable of running basic Apple Intelligence queries, and more than 1.3 billion iPhones cannot use advanced Siri features, the brokerage said. The long-delayed Siri overhaul was the centrepiece of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, with the world's most valuable smartphone maker betting on the feature to keep pace with rivals including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude.
While the SpaceX IPO grabs the headlines, three other private AI and defense names on the 2026 initial public offering (IPO) calendar are also highly anticipated: Anduril, Anthropic, and Databricks. None trades publicly. There are no analyst price targets, no consensus multiples, and no shares to buy in a brokerage account. What exists are prediction-market ... Three Hotly Anticipated AI IPOs: Which One Is Poised to List First?
As SpaceX's IPO approaches, the company has been securing some very lucrative AI compute deals, but the timing and terms of those deals are adding concern.
SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) is on the launch pad as it prepares to go public and begin trading on the Nasdaq as soon as this Friday, June 12. Has the IPO market recovered from prior years' slump as SpaceX and other mega-IPOs renew investor enthusiasm? ProShares global investment strategist Simeon Hyman weighs in on 2026's IPO activity and shares his outlook on how a post-IPO SpaceX may perform. SpaceX will trade under the ticker SPCX while Elon Musk's company eyes an IPO price of $135 per share.
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Investor Jim Chanos challenged the prevailing narrative comparing SpaceX‘s initial public offering (IPO) valuation to early tech giants like Amazon.com, Google, and Meta Platforms. Chanos took to X on Saturday to respond to a user, The_Real_Fly, stating SpaceX, OpenAI and...
An already interesting IPO story just became even more intriguing.
For millions of people, posting online is no longer just a hobby. It's a business. More than 200 million people considered themselves creators as of 2025. In the U.S. alone, 27 million creators make income through content, according to Salesforce data. And the money behind this work is also growing ...
Intel spent the second half of last week, between June 4 and 5, getting hammered alongside the rest of the chip sector. Then things changed on Monday, June 8. Shares of Intel (INTC) jumped about 13% to roughly $112 in early trading, one of the stock’s sharpest single-day moves of the year, after ...
Such is life on Wall Street at the dawn of the artificial-intelligence build-out. Tech companies are hungry for cash to invest in data centers, and investors are forking it over through all possible means, in all parts of the globe—a flurry of fundraising that has mostly supported markets by powering technological advances, even as it tests their ability to absorb it all. Alphabet’s announcement that it would raise $85 billion of equity was just the latest example.
Every company gets one shot to redefine what it is. Most never take it. The ones that do tend to look unrecognizable a few years later, and the market either rewards the reinvention or punishes the nerve. The artificial intelligence (AI) boom has turned raw computing power into the most valuable ...
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mostly higher Monday boosted by shares of chip companies.</p><p>While the Dow fell slightly, the S&P 500 added three tenths of one percent and the Nasdaq climbed about nine tenths.</p><p>:: Intel</p><p>Intel shares jumped 11% after news website The Information reported that Alphabet's Google had placed an order to manufacture more than 3 million tensor processing units in 2028.</p><p>:: Marvell Technology</p><p>And shares of Marvell Tech rose 9.5% after S&P announced that the company would be added to the S&P 500 index later this month.</p><p>Also, Iran and Israel said they had halted attacks on each other.</p><p>This came after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump that they immediately "stop shooting." </p><p>The attacks over 24 hours were the most direct confrontation between Iran and Israel since an April ceasefire in the war.</p><p>Justin Livengood, senior portfolio manager with Invesco, says he thinks regardless of when there is an end to the conflict in the Middle East, energy prices could stay higher, which could lead the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.</p><p>“Inflation's been drifting up in general the last six to nine months, not just for oil prices but even for core elements. And that's a concern. I think that concern persists as oil and natural gas prices linger higher. And the longer that persists, the more likely we are to have a Fed feel they need to raise rates late this year. I certainly feel that right now the base case for the Fed is a hike, not a cut, as their next move. And I think with each week and month that this Middle East conflict continues. The odds of that hike get pulled forward.” </p><p>:: Apple</p><p>Other stocks on the move included Apple which dropped almost 2% after announcing a Siri revamp at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.</p><p>:: AWS</p><p>And shares of Corning gained 5.5% after Amazon announced a multi-year multi-billion-dollar deal to buy the company's optical fiber and cables for its data centers. </p></body>
Bitcoin miners are emerging as an important part of the artificial intelligence buildout, according to a new research note from Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani. The firm initiated coverage of two mining companies, TeraWulf and Cipher Digital, with "Outperform" ratings, calling them "the power ...
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Apple on Monday will test its standing in the AI race, with analysts expecting the iPhone maker to open its developer conference with a long-awaited Siri overhaul and tools to tap the computing power of its 2.5 billion devices. Apple has been seeking to close a gap with rivals such as Microsoft and Alphabet's Google, which have moved faster to embed “agentic” AI — software that can carry out complex tasks — into everyday computing. The question is how far Apple is willing to go.