By Mike Dolan June 24 (Reuters) - What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets An 8% plunge in the high-flying U.S. chip stock index on Tuesday
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BlackRock Managing Director Robert Mitchnick says AI investment is draining capital away from Bitcoin, with weakness evident in Bitcoin’s 20% slide over the past month. Mitchnick Says US Debt Fears Could Reignite Bitcoin Around The Midterms Mitchnick argued on Monday that Bitcoin’s weak stretch since October has little to do with crypto-specific problems and everything to do with capital flooding into AI instead. He noted gold and other traditional inflation hedges have faced the same pressure a
(Bloomberg) -- In hindsight, the beginning of the end for the debasement trade can be traced back to Jan. 30.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 RallyKorean Stocks Tumble 10% as Extreme Volatility Rattles InvestorsSpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Market ValueThat’s when US President Donald Trump nom
FedEx (FDX) shares fell early Wednesday after the company provided a calendar-year earnings outlook
(Bloomberg) -- Hedge fund manager Lee Robinson notched a 900% gain during the global financial crisis by turning a $20 million position into $200 million with timely bets against the US subprime mortgage sector. 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 RallyKorean Stocks Tumble 10% as Extreme Volatility Rattles InvestorsS
Brussels is set to approve Paramount’s $111bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery provided the company accepts certain remedies, in a move that...
Take-Two Interactive Software on Wednesday priced "Grand Theft Auto VI" at $79.99 and stuck to its previously announced November 19 release date, bringing the industry's most anticipated title closer to launch after multiple delays. The price makes "GTA VI" one of the most expensive base versions of a top-tier game, pushing it above the $69.99 ceiling that blockbusters such as Sony's "Ghost of Yōtei" and Nintendo's "Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" have held for years. The "Ultimate Edition" of the game will cost $99.99 and add exclusive vehicles, weapons and apparel woven into the story of Jason and Lucia, the protagonists of the game, Take-Two said.
NIKE is set to announce its fourth-quarter earnings this month, and Wall Street expects the company’s EPS to decrease by double digits.
FedEx touts premium revenue mix, cost savings and stronger cash flow as it resets its calendar 2026 outlook after a solid fiscal fourth quarter.
Amazon’s chief executive has said that power is the “single biggest constraint” in its cloud and artificial-intelligence business. Here, Amazon has an incumbent advantage. It is the world’s largest cloud provider and has been building a lot of data centers over the past two decades.
(Bloomberg) -- The volatility in South Korea’s benchmark equity index has become so extreme that investors and analysts are likening the market’s surging intra-day swings to the meme-stock frenzy.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 RallySpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Market ValueKorean Stocks Tumb
Every technology boom eventually gets a villain the public can picture. For the railroads, it was land grabs. For artificial intelligence (AI), it became a data center quietly drinking a town's water while a chatbot wrote someone's emails. That picture is not imaginary. Massive computing warehouses ...
By Amanda Cooper LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - Stocks staged a tentative recovery on Wednesday from a rout in technology shares on the back of caution over overstretched AI valuations, while crude oil
Micron’s results, due after market hours, would shape the view on the red-hot memory rally.
Nasdaq futures were up after the selloff halted a boom in AI-related stocks. Micron Technology earnings after the close will be closely watched.
A three-year high for inflation may force the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) into action.
Gold prices fell, extending the previous session's losses as a stronger U.S. dollar and growing expectations of interest-rate hikes this year weighed on sentiment. "Limited support came from rising Treasury bonds as lower energy prices ease concerns about inflation," analysts at Saxo Bank said.
Tokenized SpaceX shares saw strong demand, but crypto platforms lacked direct relationships with IPO underwriters. Many products marketed as tokenized equities offer only synthetic ...
(Bloomberg) -- SK Hynix Inc. is looking to raise 45.45 trillion won ($29.4 billion) by selling depositary receipts on the Nasdaq exchange.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 RallySpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Market ValueKorean Stocks Tumble 10% as Extreme Volatility Rattles InvestorsThe company
Baiju Bhatt became a billionaire building Robinhood Market with his college roommate Vlad Tenev. Cowboy Space is building solar-powered AI data centers in space, and was recently valued at around $2 billion.
Investors are looking forward to another week of chip-stock reveals. Qualcomm has its investor conference, and Micron reports earnings a day after a sharp decline in its stock. The Federal Reserve meanwhile will get another data point on the inflation picture, with the PCE (price consumption expenditures) index.
(Bloomberg) -- Micron Technology Inc.’s earnings report on Wednesday afternoon is shaping up to be one of the most important in months as investors find themselves suddenly on edge over the sustainability of the AI rally.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 RallySpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Marke
These two AI stocks are also great dividend stocks.
(Bloomberg) -- Bouts of volatility in the artificial intelligence trade are threatening to snowball into a rout as positioning and crowding levels flash red, with traders steeling themselves for a rollercoaster ride into the summer.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 RallySpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billi
FedEx Corp (FDX) reports robust revenue growth and highest operating margin in four years, despite challenges from fuel costs and global trade policies.
(Bloomberg) -- Leveraged exchange-traded funds tracking Samsung Electronics Co. or SK Hynix Inc. were likely forced to sell a combined $6 billion of the Korean chipmakers’ shares Tuesday to maintain leverage ratios, underscoring how such products can amplify market moves, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. 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
Taiwan's ASE Technology Holding, the world's largest chip packaging and testing provider, is expanding capacity to meet AI demand, Chief Operating Officer Tien Wu said on Wednesday. • Wu said the holding company is adding 15 new sites this year, including six greenfield sites for ASE, seven greenfield sites for its unit Siliconware Precision Industries, and sites acquired from Taiwan's Innolux Corporation earlier this year. • Nvidia said last year it planned to build up to $500 billion worth of AI server infrastructure in the United States with partners including ASE subsidiary Siliconware Precision Industries, but the subsidiary has yet to announce any investment plans.
Qualcomm is in talks to provide chip-design services to China's ByteDance, four people familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. company seeks to reduce dependence on the smartphone market, its biggest revenue source. If successful, the negotiations would make ByteDance, the parent of short-video platform TikTok, an early customer of Qualcomm's chip-design services operation. Qualcomm is the world's largest supplier of smartphone modem chips, which manage cellular communications.
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook South Korea's chip-heavy KOSPI made an unconvincing attempt at a bounce on Wednesday after notching the fifth-biggest selloff
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the institution that serves as a bank for the world's central banks, has delivered a pointed assessment of the booming stablecoin market in its 2026 Annual Economic Report. Crypto's most widely used dollar tokens, it argues, borrow the ...