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Asking for a Trend Host Brooke DiPalma previews several of the biggest stories to come next week, including Mag 7 earnings from Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN), as well as the Fed decision and the latest Consumer confidence data.
Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com headline a massive earnings wave. The Federal Reserve meets, with a rate hike a possibility.
Investors aren’t buying the earnings story this summer, in contrast to the spring rally that powered stocks to a record high in early June, suggesting a tough climb for markets over the back half of the year. Early second-quarter earnings data suggests companies are beating Wall Street forecasts by nearly 9%, well ahead of the four-quarter average of around 7.5% and the 4.4% tallied since 1994, according to LSEG. Nearly 85% of companies are beating estimates, compared with the recent average of around 80% and the historic reading of around 68%, and LSEG figures suggest overall second-quarter profit growth of 27%.
Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta joined more than 20 technology companies in urging U.S. policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models
<body><p>STORY: Investor concerns over the growing cost of AI investments have become a central theme for markets after results from Google parent Alphabet, and Tesla, highlighted rising capital spending and cash burn among major technology companies.</p><p>That has set a cautious tone ahead of next week's earnings from Microsoft, Amazon and Meta.</p><p>If those companies "continue to raise their CapEx spending, then guess what? There'll be a negative reaction from the stocks, just like we saw this week from Google," Reyle said.</p><p>"I think the real trick will be, one of these guys is going to finally say 'enough's enough' and they will finally cut back on spending," he added. "And guess what? Their stock price will react positively to that."</p><p>To that point, Reyle noted that Apple, which has avoided massive AI spending, has seen its stock rise more than 20% this year. </p></body>
The chip king’s debut post on X, backed by twenty-five other big tech companies, supports open weights as Washington prepares to clamp down.
Real risk-free bond yields haven’t been this high in years. As for 30-year maturities, you would have to go back to the 2008-09 financial crisis to encounter real yields of nearly 3%. Real interest rates are what you earn after the bite taken by inflation.
Tech coalition urges US support for open-weight AI to strengthen competitiveness and expand AI adoption.
Nvidia chief backs open models alongside Microsoft and Meta
Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech heavyweights made a public case to lawmakers on Friday in favor of open-source AI models, wading into a debate roiling the business and policy worlds over who controls the powerful technology. In a letter posted on X and also signed by two dozen companies and groups including Meta Platforms and IBM, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that lawmakers should avoid "premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." The letter adds to the growing debate about open-source models that are harder to regulate, such as Nvidia's own and those released in recent weeks by Chinese labs, and the closed-source models controlled by specific companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Meta avoids an immediate setback as refiling remains possible
Alphabet just reported the strongest quarter in Google Cloud's history. Revenue came in at $119.8 billion, up 24% year over year. Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion and blew past analyst estimates. The Cloud backlog hit $514 billion. Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 is using Gemini Enterprise. By most ...
AMD (AMD) CEO Lisa Su sits down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss the company's new partnership with Anthropic and explain why it's important for AI companies to be "intertwined."
Meta’s latest corporate bonds earmarked for AI data center spending are called Beignet Investor and Sopaipilla Investor, after two popular sweet treats popular in these states.
Bond investors are repricing AI infrastructure risk
The AI budget keeps growing. The stock hasn't kept up. Investors will be looking for answers in Meta's earnings report next week.
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Two neoclouds are racing for the same gigawatts and hyperscaler contracts, but one bets on owned dirt while the other bets on a full software stack. Only one of those bets looks defensible heading into 2026.
7.4 % That is the expected swing, higher or lower, expected by options traders in Meta Platforms' stock for the session after the company reports earnings next week, according to data from Option Research & Technology Services.
Uber just cut a chunk of its customer service workforce in the name of AI efficiency, and it is far from alone. The real question is whether these scattered layoffs signal the early edge of a wave that could reshape employment across entire industries.
Meta Platforms (META) is expected to report strong second-quarter results as improvements in adverti
Meta and Alphabet both reported blowout quarters, but one relied on a tax windfall while the other borrowed billions to fund its AI ambitions. The gap between their valuations tells a story that ad revenue and cloud growth alone cannot explain.
Investing.com -- The heavyweights of the tech world just drew a line in the sand. In a massive show of force, a coalition of major companies—including Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and IBM—released an open letter demanding the U.S. government embrace open-weight AI models to secure its global edge.
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Wall Street’s concerns about capex and free cash flow for big tech now outweigh optimism regarding cloud performance.
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