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The tech stock rally continued, extending yesterday's gains, but today's rise looks a little different. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was up 1.1%. The tech sector led the S&P 500, up 3.1%. Unlike yesterday, it wasn't the Magnificent Seven stocks doing the heavy lifting.
The Middle East conflict is impacting many industries, but Meta's bump amid a cooling in the conflict highlights something important.
Everyone is waiting for when the major AI spending would start bearing fruit. But Aswath Damodaran, the NYU Stern finance professor known as the “Dean of Valuation,” is raising alarm bells and thinks the ROI may not return soon and may not reach the levels many expect. During a program on CNBC, he specifically mentioned […]
Ford Motor (NYSE:F) The surprise: Wall Street expected Ford’s Q2 2026 earnings to fall about 5% year over year. Ford instead posted an increase. The stock jumped more than 6% after the report. The quarter’s story was Ford making more money on fewer sales. Wholesale volumes dropped 12% year over year, but revenue fell just […]
Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta have been highlighted in this Investment Ideas article.
Reddit beat earnings estimates and raised guidance, yet the stock cratered anyway after four words from the CEO spooked investors. Now the platform's own users are fighting each other over whether the selloff is a gift or a warning sign.
Which big tech giants can actually prove their AI spending is paying off? Microsoft and Amazon show some clear numbers; the rest will make you squint.
Analyst upgrades are piling up ahead of earnings
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The Meta founder is looking to have his cake and eat it too by acquiring short-term revenue from compute, while playing the long game.
With volatility heating up, some investors may prefer the straightforward approach of the Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF.
Social network operator Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q2 CY2026, with sales up 28% year on year to $60.8 billion. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $62.5 billion was less impressive, coming in 0.9% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $6.18 per share was 16.5% below analysts’ consensus estimates.
(Bloomberg) -- Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., a new artificial intelligence cloud company, has raised $300 million in venture funding and secured an additional $5 billion worth of financing to help a wider mix of technology companies gain access to costly AI chips. The funding, set to be announced Tuesday, values Volta at $2.4 billion, and was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter Capital. Nvidia Corp. and Michael Dell also participated. Azora, the asset-management firm providing the financing
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President Trump's brokerage accounts have bought substantial shares of Alphabet and Meta Platforms stock this year.
Amazon posted its biggest rally since 2012 after AWS revenue surged to $42.2 billion, while Microsoft's Copilot adoption doubled to 30 million users.
Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP) said its $2,195 artificial intelligence-powered Spectacles are a long-term investment, with CEO Evan Spiegel acknowledging that mass-market adoption is unlikely before the end of the decade even as the company continues to invest in what it sees as the next computing platform. Mass Market Adoption May Take Years Speaking on the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Spiegel said Snap plans to unveil its augmented reality glasses at its Sept. 16 event before a commercial la
BlueBird satellites 11-13 are scheduled to launch on Wednesday aboard a Falcon 9.
Mark Zuckerberg is pouring over $130 billion into AI infrastructure, and one leveraged ETF bets those dollars will double your returns. But the mechanics behind that promise carry a risk most investors never see coming.
Apart from Google and Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic were also reportedly invited to discuss voluntary AI safety testing with White House officials.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks kicked off August with a rally on Monday, as the Dow added about one-and-a-third percent to close at a record high, the S&P 500 climbed one-and-a-half percent and the Nasdaq added more than two percent.</p><p>Communication services was the best performing of the 11 major S&P sectors, boosted by a 6% jump for Meta and a nearly 5% gain by Alphabet.</p><p>Jed Ellerbroek is portfolio manager at Argent Capital Management.</p><p>“Obviously, an extension from last week, in terms of the big cloud computing giants, doing well after their earnings report. And then I think we're also starting to see some semiconductor and AI data center CapEx beneficiary flow through and do well too. Nvidia, for example, is up I think a little more than 3% today. So, I guess a broad tech rally. And I think investors are becoming increasingly convinced that the return on investment from all of the CapEx spending that the big tech companies are doing has got an appealing ROI to it - both now and I think in the future, too. And so that's why we've seen those stocks rally so much here in the last three or four trading days. And that’s really an amazing contrast to just the week before.”'</p><p>:: Amazon</p><p>Sticking with tech, shares of Amazon gained about four-and-a-half percent as the company's market cap surpassed $3 trillion for the first time after its earnings results last week.</p><p>And shares of SpaceX, which will report its first quarterly results on Tuesday, jumped more than five-and-half percent. The stock has been trading below its $135 issue price for nearly three weeks after its debut in mid-June.</p><p>Meanwhile, crude prices settled down about 5% after President Donald Trump said on Sunday that talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would take place on Monday, though Iran disputed that talks were planned.</p><p>Lower oil prices helped push the S&P 500 Energy sector down more than one percent, making it the worst performing sector of Monday's session.</p></body>
Wall Street's Magnificent Seven -- Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Tesla -- are quickly losing their luster.
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