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Brent crude briefly topped $95 a barrel Wednesday after an 11th consecutive night of U.S. strikes against Iran, with Fed rate hike odds climbing

The newspaper publisher said page views on its platforms dived by 40% for the past half-year.

Host Kenny Polcari, Hennion & Walsh CIO Kevin Mahn, and Neostellar Capital Corp Principal Willy Lee break down Apple's intellectual property lawsuit against OpenAI, how it exposes Apple's AI vulnerabilities, and why the legal battle could push the highly anticipated IPO to 2027.

Alphabet just made a move that no shareholder-friendly tech giant has attempted in a decade, and the company is betting its entire AI future on the gamble paying off before investors lose patience.

Investing.com -- Alphabet reports its second-quarter 2026 results after the bell on Wednesday, and for this cycle, Wall Street has made clear that the numbers themselves are almost beside the point.

SK hynix (SKHY) is considering acquiring Intel's (INTC) semiconductor campus in New Albany, Ohio, as

This is a big day for the market, with Google owner Alphabet and electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla both set to report after the closing bell to kick off earnings season for Big Tech. Alphabet's earnings could be a make-or-break moment for the artificial-intelligence trade, which has faltered in recent weeks amid concerns about the rise of cheaper Chinese chatbots.

The Congressional Budget Office in January 2001 predicted such large future budget surpluses that it said all redeemable U.S. government debt could be paid off within five years. Treasury reversed course five years later as deficits instead widened, yet those bonds remain an afterthought. The long bond isn’t as closely followed as the 10-year note, the benchmark shown daily in this newsletter and important for things like mortgage rates.

LONDON, July 22 - What matters in U. and global markets today , Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets Oil prices, bond yields and chip stocks were rising in sync again overnight, as this renewed round of fighting between the U.

July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures dipped on Wednesday, pressured by weakness in chip stocks, as investors remained cautious ahead of the first batch of Big Tech earnings that could decide

↗️ Super Micro Computer (SMCI): Shares surged in premarket trading after the AI server maker projected fourth-quarter gross margins roughly double those it had originally targeted. Rivals Dell Technologies (DELL) and Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) also rallied.

The "Oracle of the Omaha" isn't slowing down much, if at all.

Reach (LON:RCH) said first-half revenue fell as lower referral traffic, particularly from Google, continued to weigh on digital audiences, but the publisher maintained that it remains on track to deliver full-year profit in line with market expectations. Chief Executive Piers North told investors t

Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment declined to ‘extremely bearish’ on SPY and ‘neutral’ on QQQ.

Today Earnings: AT&T, GE Vernova, PulteGroup, CME Group, Moody’s, Philip Morris International Earnings (p.m.): Alphabet, Tesla, IBM, Southwest Airlines, Texas Instruments, CSX, ServiceNow, Raymond James Economic data: The Energy Information Administration will release its weekly petroleum status report.

U.S. stock futures fell as a rally in tech stocks lost steam ahead of earnings that will help shape investors’ prognosis for AI companies.

AI does not appear to be boosting productivity, analysts at Barclays have said.

Garmin has jumped into the category popularized by Whoop with its Cirqa Smart Band.

More than 550 million viewers watched on television screens, with the Spain-Argentina final averaging 21 million viewers per minute.

If Big Tech scales back its spending, it would have a cascading impact on semiconductor stocks as well as the global tech trade.

Moonshot AI’s July 17 release of Kimi K3 has confronted Washington with an awkward fact: a Chinese open-weight model can approach leading American systems in coding and agentic tasks while charging less, though we challenge the simplicity of that premise here. On July 20, the White House was considering options to block or sharply restrict […]

Alphabet will report second quarter earnings after the stock market closes Wednesday. Analysts expect capex for the quarter to be $45.1 billion, a 101% increase from a year earlier.

U.S. futures declined amid rising oil prices as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies ahead of the peak earnings season.

Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.

Google reports Q2 earnings today. Here's what Wall Street expects from Alphabet's cloud growth, AI spending, and ad business.

Google, part of Alphabet (NasdaqGS:GOOGL), joined BlackRock, Carhartt, and Ford to launch the Alliance for America's Skilled Trades. The alliance aims to expand access to skilled trades training and scale apprenticeships and partnerships across 30 U.S. states. The initiative seeks to address workforce shortages in critical trades across the country. Alphabet, trading at around $347.15 per share, is adding a new dimension to its presence in the U.S. economy by backing this skilled trades...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.7% while the S&P 500 rose 0.9% and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.3%. Semiconductor stocks logged their best day in a month. Overall, traders “shrugged off the news from the War in favor of buying the chip makers again, presumably on the hope that the AI hyperscalers, when they report second-quarter earnings over the next few days, will also report large capital spending plans,” wrote Macquarie Strategist Thierry Wizman.

The billionaire investor has typically been hesitant when it comes to buying tech stocks.

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index jumped over 5%, its best single-day gain in a month, as bargain buyers piled onto semiconductor stocks.

Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton takes a closer look at the top stories for investors to watch on Wednesday, Jul. 22, including Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) quarterly earnings results.