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After years of decline, the stock rallied by almost 50% in the first half of 2026.

Paramount Skydance has agreed to freeze its merger with rival entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros.

Coca-Cola (KO) is expected to report "strong" second-quarter results amid robust North America trend

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.

Inflation and geopolitics are becoming bigger considerations for these tech-centric investments.

Samsung is preparing to bring stablecoins to Samsung Wallet, marking one of the most significant crypto moves yet from a major smartphone maker. A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency designed to hold a steady value, typically pegged one-to-one to a currency like the U.S. dollar. Unlike Bitcoin ...

The company late Thursday posted adjusted earnings of 35 cents a share, from 2 cents a year ago and above Wall Street’s 33 cents expectation. Revenue grew 55% to $168.8 million, beating the analyst consensus view of $164.6 million, according to FactSet. The earnings and revenue growth were due to strong momentum in the company’s optical artificial-intelligence date center business, and management expects that demand to continue.

ServiceNow reported second-quarter results the evening of Wednesday, July 22, beating Wall Street’s expectations on revenue, margin, and bookings. The backdrop made that harder than it sounds. Investors had spent the prior week watching IBM and Pegasystems blame artificial intelligence spending ...

NHTSA rejects an investigation while acknowledging gaps in existing standards

Gene-editing biotech debuts at $25, backed by Sanofi and Eli Lilly, with a roughly $440.3 million valuation.

Elon Musk’s July slump is getting worse today. Tesla and SpaceX, the companies that helped Musk achieve trillionaire status last month, are now moving in the opposite direction, cutting his wealth by billions.

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AMD earned plaudits from Wall Street for its latest processors and computer systems for artificial intelligence.

President Trump threatened Friday to impose "a substantial tariff" on the European Union over the bloc's penalties against U.S. technology companies .

Amazon created Prime Day to reward its most loyal shoppers. More than a decade later, the event has grown far beyond Amazon. Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Kohl’s, and other major retailers now routinely launch competing promotions around Prime Day, turning a once Amazon-centric sale into one of the ...

Institutional cryptocurrency trading platform LMAX Group is considering going public.

PYPL heads into Q2 earnings with TPV growth and platform expansion in focus but faces margin pressure, competition and macroeconomic uncertainty.

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.

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 ...

Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) raised its full-year 2026 outlook for mobility and broadband service revenue, adjusted earnings per share and free cash flow after reporting improved subscriber trends, lower churn and stronger operating leverage in the second quarter. Chief Executive Officer Dan Sc

It makes sense for tech companies to work together in the age of AI, no?

Investors rotate out of AI chipmakers while software stocks show greater resilience during earnings season.

NextEra Energy beats second-quarter earnings estimates as FPL growth and record renewables bookings offset a revenue miss.

(Updates prices in the second and final paragraphs.) Gold was mostly steady midafternoon Friday,

Investing.com -- President Donald Trump said Friday the United States will start a Section 301 Investigation into the European Union’s practice of fining American technology companies after Google received another penalty from the bloc.

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South-Korea memory-chip maker SK Hynix stock offers its first buy point ahead of the firm's debut earnings report next week.

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. 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%. Earnings growth forecasts for the year remain robust, with analysts penciling in a 29.6% advance from 2025 levels, next year’s pace tailing off to around 17%.

Badger Meter's second-quarter earnings cleared a low bar, but the market still wasn't overly enthused.

Federal AI contracts are pouring into enterprise software order books, and two of the sector's most beaten-down stocks are suddenly surging. Whether today's rally marks a genuine turning point or a fleeting squeeze depends on details buried inside fresh earnings reports and a blockbuster government deal.