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Online spending among shoppers on the first day of Amazon's Prime ‌Day rose 5.3% from a year earlier ‌to $8.3 billion across U.S. retailers, Adobe Analytics said on ​Wednesday. The four-day shopping event, which started on Tuesday and is being held earlier than usual this year, will be a litmus test of U.S. ‌shoppers' spending power ⁠as the focus shifts to essential goods. • Online ⁠spending on Tuesday is tracking ahead of its projections and marks the biggest e-commerce day so ​far in ​2026, Adobe said.

(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI unveiled its first custom artificial intelligence chip developed in partnership with Broadcom Inc., part of a bid by the ChatGPT maker to gain an edge by tailoring hardware to better run its AI products. Most Read from BloombergStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapInvestor Who Scored 900% Win in 2008 Crisis Has New Big Short BetOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some Roles‘FOMO Really Got Me’: Taiwanese Go Deep Into Debt to Amp 10

Paychex (PAYX) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +0.63% and +0.22%, respectively, for the quarter ended May 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

June 24 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes were muted on Wednesday, after two straight sessions of declines, as technology shares steadied after a sharp sell-off this week and investors awaited

Investing.com -- Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) shares jumped 3.4% Wednesday morning following the unveiling of "Jalapeño," a custom AI chip developed in partnership with OpenAI. Billed as OpenAI’s first "Intelligence Processor," the custom accelerator was designed specifically for large language model (LLM) inference and moved from design to production in just nine months. The chip marks OpenAI’s official expansion into proprietary hardware as part of its full-stack infrastructure strategy. Built from

(Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. believes US stocks are approaching their “blue sky” scenario, highlighting stronger-than-expected earnings growth and a potential peace deal to end the Iran war as key drivers.Most Read from BloombergStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some RolesInvestor Who Scored 900% Win in 2008 Crisis Has New Big Short Bet‘FOMO Really Got Me’: Taiwanese Go Deep Into Debt to Amp 100% Stock Rally

PepsiCo is set to announce its second-quarter earnings next month, and Wall Street expects the company’s EPS to increase by a single digit.

The deal gives Qualcomm access to Modular's AI-native software stack and engineering talent, including a team that helped build key components of the current AI infrastructure.

The chipmaker will issue up to 19.2 million shares to Modular's equity holders as it pushes deeper into data center AI

The retailer plans to strengthen its higher-margin advertising division through a deal to acquire the CTV tech platform.

Dollar General's (DG) core lower- and middle-income consumers are under pressure amid sticky inflati

Qualcomm agreed to acquire the AI software company Modular for about $3.9 billion, in a bid to make artificial intelligence faster and cheaper for its customers.

Burke Wealth Management, an investment management company, released its “Focused Growth Strategy” first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The Fund returned -10.6% in Q1 2026, significantly lagging the S&P 500’s -4.3% returns. The letter noted the quarter as the worst for equities since 2022, with strong corporate earnings being […]

The U.S. dollar has separated from the pack, rising to the highest levels in more than a year and building on gains again Wednesday, as investors use the greenback as a sanctuary from risks tied to the global tech selloff and calibrate the impact of expected Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes over the back half of the year. There also was little change in Fed forecasts with futures indicating a 60% chance of a rate hike in September. Charalampos Pissouros, senior market analyst at XM, thinks the dollar rally is extending beyond the Fed funds trade.

The buy-the-dip mindset on hot tech stocks is currently being challenged.

(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin spent years trying to shed its reputation as a playground for speculative retail traders. Its latest selloff is exposing the tradeoff: Wall Street brought scale and legitimacy, but the retail buyers who once helped absorb sharp declines have largely vanished.Most Read from BloombergStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some Roles‘FOMO Really Got Me’: Taiwanese Go Deep Into Debt to Amp 100% Stock

China's Lingyi iTech priced its Hong Kong initial public offering at HK$10.18 per share, setting the stage to raise about ‌HK$8.3 billion ($1.06 billion), part of which it plans to use for ‌expanding its AI capacity. The Apple supplier seeks to capitalise on rising demand linked to AI computing and ​advanced hardware. It wrote in its prospectus that about 37.6% of the IPO proceeds, or roughly HK$3.07 billion, would be marked for enhancing production capacity and upgrading core manufacturing processes.

Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures were mixed on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq edging higher after a bruising two-day selloff in technology and semiconductor shares. Investors were also looking ahead to earnings from memory chipmaker Micron for fresh clues on the outlook for artificial intelligence-related demand.

Wall Street stocks are expected to make a steadier start on Wednesday after a sharp technology-led sell-off in the previous two sessions, with investors now focused on Micron's earnings for clues about the health of the artificial intelligence boom. Nasdaq and S&P 500 futures were...

Elon Musk-led Space Exploration Technologies Corp surged past $200 per share following its blockbuster IPO earlier this month, but investor Gary Black of The Future Fund LLC remained unconvinced by the commercial space flight giant’s valuation. SpaceX’s Valuation Concerns In a post on X on Tuesday, Black outlined that investors were overpaying for the company’s shares following the IPO. “Investors shouldn’t be paying 150x 2026 EV/EBITDA” for SpaceX. He then drew comparisons with chipmaker NVIDIA

As tech and software stocks take a hit on Tuesday, memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU) has dropped by as much as 12% in the session. Shares are still maintaining gains of over 270% in 2026 ahead of the company's latest earnings this Wednesday, June 24. Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré and Mariner Wealth Advisors chief investment strategist Jeff Krumpelman take a closer look at what Wall Street is expecting from Micron's fiscal third quarter earnings results.

Don't assume some rising S&P 500 stock have gotten away from you. Analysts are unanimously supporting a few of them.

The spotlight is on chipmaker Micron Technology as it prepares to report earnings, with investors bracing for further volatility following sharp market swings fueled by large flows tied to SpaceX and a two-day boom-bust in semiconductor stocks. Last ‌June, Micron was a well-known if somewhat obscure company with a market value of $136 billion and a long history, but not ‌necessarily one whose quarterly earnings reports caught investors' fancy. Fast forward a year, and Micron is one of the stars of the technology rally that has sent chipmakers around the world ​soaring, igniting a fresh trading frenzy even after a dozen or more months of AI excitement.

U.S. stock futures were mostly higher after AI-bubble fears prompted a two-day slide in tech shares.

Cerebras shares tumbled about 14% before the bell on Wednesday after the chip designer warned that annual profit margins ‌would undershoot first-quarter figures in its debut earnings following a ‌blockbuster initial public offering. Cerebras forecast adjusted gross margins of 38% to 41% for 2026, compared with the 47% it reported ‌for the first quarter. The ⁠projection is far below those of rivals such as Nvidia's mid-70% range and Advanced Micro Devices' mid-50%, even as it ⁠came above analysts' estimates of 29.58%.

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The war in Iran has had a trickle-down effect on inflation and interest rates.

Consumer group Which? permitted to lead class action on behalf of UK users over alleged anti-competitive iCloud practices.

The chip maker is seeking to tap foreign investors to fund its expansion plans as the AI boom fuels a rush for advanced chips.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has filed a federal lawsuit against the Defense Department for designating it a military-linked firm.