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It’s peak earnings season, and investors could be forgiven for wanting an escape hatch. Corporate America is delivering solid results, but it’s not helping stocks. Last night, chip maker Intel’s quarterly results blew past Wall Street estimates.
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban is defending Alphabet Inc.‘s massive artificial intelligence capital expenditures, likening the tech giant’s strategy to the 1998 internet boom where companies must “push in all their chips” to secure dominance. Echoes of the 1998 Tech Boom...
The market reaction to Alphabet's Q2 results has significantly raised the bar for its Magnificent Seven peers that are on deck to report results this week, namely Microsoft and Meta Platforms on Wednesday, July 29th, and Apple and Amazon on Thursday, July 30th.
The White House is expanding its voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge for AI data centers, adding nearly 200 utilities, governors, electricity cooperatives, public power providers and developers to the initiative, according to a White House official who confirmed the move to...
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Friday, with the Dow gaining just under half a percent, the S&P 500 virtually flat and the tech-heavy Nasdaq sliding nearly two-thirds of a percent.</p><p>The S&P 500 technology index underperformed the broader market as chip stocks fell, with Intel dropping nearly 8% despite forecasting quarterly profit and revenue above Wall Street estimates.</p><p>Enthusiasm for the AI trade weakened after Alphabet's announcement earlier this week of a plan to hike capital spending even as it burns cash.</p><p>Richard Reyle, chief investment officer at Questar Capital Partners, said that as a result investors are rotating into what he called "safer parts of the market."</p><p>"Pharmaceuticals have been flying, and that's been, I think, where we see the rotation of the market right now. [FLASH] You look at the iShares, pharmaceutical fund, it's big components that are J&J and Eli Lilly, they're at all-time highs. And they're still relatively not super expensive stocks. So I think that's a place that can be bought and held. And of course, energy. Exxon's going to announce earnings next week. I bet they're going to be a blockbuster and they're going to continue to be because they make money at $60 a barrel. At $100 a barrel, forget about it. They do very well."</p><p>The S&P 500 real estate sector also outperformed during the session. Its leading gainer was Digital Realty Trust, which rallied 11% after it raised its full-year forecast for funds from operations.</p><p>Among other gainers, shares of SLB climbed 11% after the oilfield services firm beat expectations for second-quarter profit.</p><p>Investors now turn their attention to quarterly results next week from Magnificent 7 megacaps Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Apple.</p></body>
The business inventory-to-sales ratio has declined to the lowest level since 2021, suggesting inflation may be even stickier than expected. Plus, investment newsletter commentary on small-caps, AI spending, and the gold market’s nasty message for bonds.
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%.
Verizon Communications has reported its second-quarter 2026 results, with revenue of US$34,253 million and net income of US$3,835 million, while also completing US$3,500 million of share repurchases under its January 2026 buyback program. Alongside the earnings release, Verizon unveiled a dark-fiber deal with Google worth more than US$1 billion and raised its 2026 outlook for adjusted earnings, free cash flow and share repurchases, pointing to growing emphasis on AI infrastructure...
The reported split could reshape the robotaxi race as Waymo looks to expand independently and Uber faces fresh questions over its autonomous vehicle strategy.
The U.S. will consider applying additional tariffs to goods from the European Union in response to fines the 27-nation bloc has levied against U.S. tech firms. The EU this week announced it would fine Alphabet’s Google $1 billion for breaching digital competition rules—the latest in a series of penalties for American tech firms in recent years. In response, President Trump said on Friday that he would direct his government to open a tariff investigation that could result in new levies on the EU.
Alphabet shares sank after its Q2 earnings report.
Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre takes a closer look at stock valuation losses from Tesla (TSLA), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Meta (META), Amazon (AMZN), and Microsoft (MSFT).
Investing.com -- Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) shares skidded 4% on Friday, with losses accelerating in the final hour of trading following a revealing Financial Times report that Alphabet’s Waymo is eyeing the exit ramp on their alliance. According to the report, the self-driving car company is holding internal discussions about terminating its current agreements with the ride-hailing giant, which presently include joint operations in Austin and Atlanta. The Breakdown Uber has confirmed the fr
<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>
Alphabet's revenue towers over AMD, but AMD's growth rate tells a different story over the past eight quarters.
In many ways, Alphabet (GOOGL) stock investors entered the earnings season looking for proof that AI was strengthening its Search business without forcing another major bump in spending. Though the quarter delivered evidence of robust demand, it wasn’t the confirmation Wall Street was hoping ...
Google's $1B Fiber Bet Ignites Verizon Stock as AI Growth Story Accelerates
Tesla is bleeding market share in investor portfolios to Lucid and Rivian even as it posts record deliveries, and the reason points to a CEO distraction that could get louder before it fades.
(Corrects to say Trump in paragraph 3) July 24 (Reuters) - U.S.
President Trump threatened Friday to impose "a substantial tariff" on the European Union over the bloc's penalties against U.S. technology companies .
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said the company expects to announce additional AI infrastructure deals by year-end worth multiple billions of dollars
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
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