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Alphabet joins the Dow today, replacing Verizon Communications. Its addition will give the index more AI exposure... though its methodology means it won’t be as great as you might think. We broke it down in charts.
(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street bankers are on a high after record-setting offerings from SpaceX and Google parent Alphabet Inc., lifting expectations for deal activity in the rest of 2026.Most Read from BloombergTrump’s U-Turn on Iran Sanctions Would Unravel Decades of CurbsUS and Iran Agree to Halt Attacking Each Other Ahead of TalksOil Trades Near Four-Month Low as US and Iran Halt Fresh AttacksAramco Helicopter Crash in Ras Tanura Kills All 14 on BoardPrabowo Risks Prompt Global Banks to Pull Cas
Technology stocks were trading higher in premarket trading Monday as the looked set to finally snap its five-day losing streak. Semiconductor companies, other artificial-intelligence stocks, and the Magnificent Seven were among those rebounding to start the week. Microsoft jumped 2% ahead of the open, while Amazon Alphabet Nvidia Meta and Tesla were all up around 1%.
As corporate borrowing tied to artificial intelligence shows no sign of slowing, bankers are coming up with new ways to sell ever larger volumes of debt. The surge in spending on chips, cloud infrastructure and data centers has led large technology companies, known as hyperscalers, to increasingly issue bonds in currencies other than the U.S. dollar to tap a wider pool of investors and prevent saturation in the U.S. with colossal volumes of debt. Companies such as Amazon.com and Alphabet have issued $60 billion in bonds in multiple currencies in the last 12 months.
(Bloomberg) -- South Korea’s Samsung Group and SK Group are poised to announce as much as 2,000 trillion won ($1.3 trillion) of investments over the next decade as part of President Lee Jae Myung’s flagship industrial strategy, Korea Economic Daily reported Monday. Most Read from BloombergTrump’s U-Turn on Iran Sanctions Would Unravel Decades of CurbsAramco Helicopter Crash in Ras Tanura Kills All 14 on BoardAnthropic’s Mythos 5 AI Model Cleared by US for Wider UseUS Launches Fresh Strikes on Ir
Here's to play SpaceX amid the selloff triggered in part by a debt funding plan.
June 28 (Reuters) - Google has put limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models after the social media company sought more computing capacity than the rival tech group could provide, the Financial
Few congressional portfolios attract as much scrutiny as Nancy Pelosi's. Her husband, Paul Pelosi, who executes the family's trades, has previously disclosed bets on Microsoft and Alphabet that outpaced the S&P 500. His latest moves may draw even more attention. Investing.com ...
(Bloomberg) -- Tech companies are selling stock like it’s the dot-com boom, and some investors fear that’s a bad sign for bondholders.Most Read from BloombergLutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll RevenueOman Tells Allies Ships Going Through Hormuz May Have to PayIndonesia Opens Door to Dirty Money to Fund Prabowo’s PlansAn Analyst’s Missed Remark Surfaced in Deadly Iran School Strike ProbeApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsThis month alone, there’s bee
Verizon joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2004, when AT&T was removed and the index needed a new telecommunications name. It held that seat for 22 years. S&P Dow Jones Indices revealed on June 23 that the seat now belongs to someone else. Alphabet (GOOGL) will replace Verizon ...
Oil prices are tumbling now that the Strait of Hormuz is open, potentially averting a continued rise that could have led to broader, more persistent inflation. But as energy prices plunge, the Federal Reserve may have a new inflation hurdle: artificial intelligence.
Investing.com -- Bernstein said Google Cloud has emerged as the leading AI cloud platform after a strong first quarter, with accelerating cloud growth and rising profitability helping it pull ahead of rivals in incremental cloud revenue despite continued heavy spending on AI infrastructure.
An annual report finds donations to nonprofits rose by 3% in inflation-adjusted dollars to $617.2 billion in 2025
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Investing.com -- President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States will impose a 100% tariff on all imports from countries that levy digital services taxes on American companies, escalating tensions over taxation of U.S. technology firms. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said several European countries are considering digital services taxes and warned that any nation adopting such measures would face immediate 100% tariffs on all goods exported to the United States, and adding that th
On CNBC’s Closing Bell Overtime Thursday, the conversation circled back to the question every AI investor is now asking out loud. When do OpenAI and Anthropic stop pretending they want to stay private? The reporters laid out a clock that is mostly running on revenue physics. Anthropic’s revenue is up roughly 4x from last year, ... OpenAI vs. Anthropic: The Race to IPO Before the AI Hype Peaks Is On
June 26 (Reuters) - Futures tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq led Wall Street losses on Friday, as chip stocks came under renewed pressure after a sharp rally in the previous session, while some megacap
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister vowed on Friday to bullet-proof laws supporting a social media ban for under-16s as the government prepares legal action against
On June 14, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a 1,200-word essay on X titled "A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable." It got 28 million views. The essay drew a direct line between AI concentration and globalization and argued that the AI industry is heading toward the same kind of ...
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister said on Friday he was keen to make sure the country's social media ban for children was as strong as possible, as a new study found
(Bloomberg) -- Australians are sleepwalking into their retirement, according to new research.Most Read from BloombergInvestor Who Scored 900% Win in 2008 Crisis Has New Big Short BetApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsStocks Whipsaw as Micron Surges While Apple Sinks: Markets WrapShip Struck in Hormuz as Oil Supertankers Turn Back AgainGrand Ole Opry House Up For Sale by Owner Ryman HospitalityOnly half of adults have accessed any source of retirement information, a survey by t
TECHnalysis Research President Bob O'Donnell joins Josh Lipton on Market Domination to break down Micron's (MU) strong earnings beat and what it could mean for a broader tech rally rebound.
(Bloomberg) -- Moving from Pfizer Inc. to Nike Inc. may seem like an unusual career shift for a finance chief. For David Denton, it marks a return to the consumer sector after four years in pharmaceuticals.Most Read from BloombergInvestor Who Scored 900% Win in 2008 Crisis Has New Big Short BetGrand Ole Opry House Up For Sale by Owner Ryman HospitalityMicron Shares Soar After AI-Fueled Forecast Shatters ProjectionsStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapStocks Erase Gains a
Alphabet shares fell further premarket following a report that two researchers key to Google’s artificial-intelligence model left the group, extending an exodus in top talent from the search company’s AI team. Shares in the Google owner slid 1.3% to $340.82 in premarket trade even as the broader tech complex rallied. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are planning to leave Google for Anthropic, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources.