Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes are back in focus this week, thanks to rising inflation concerns following another surge in crude-oil prices. The U.S. and Iran traded fresh strikes over the weekend, and continued to dispute control of oil and energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz, after the breakdown of peace talks aimed at ending a conflict that has simmered for more than 4½ months. U.S. Central Command said around 140 Iranian targets were hit, while military officials from Tehran launched strikes on U.S. bases in the Gulf region, as well as a Kuwait-owned drilling installation.
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Ultra-fast fashion retailer Shein is reportedly preparing for a long-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) now set to take place in Hong Kong as early as September or October.
July 13 (Reuters) - More than 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, have called for governments and technology leaders to
Earnings season kicks into gear this week with banks and tech stocks taking center stage. This week we have Bank of America, Taiwan Semiconductor, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Netflix all reporting in what shapes as a busy and pivotal week for stocks.
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Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were mixed on Monday as investors monitored a sharp selloff across the global memory-chip sector and assessed developments in the biotechnology space.
The company scaled up the size of its massive data-center project in Northeast Louisiana to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity and said it would now cost more than $50 billion.
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<body><p>STORY: SK Hynix shares fell more than 15% in trading on Monday - just days after its U.S. listing.</p><p>It was the South Korean chip giant's biggest one-day decline on record.</p><p>Investors in Seoul cashed out of a massive share price rally following its Nasdaq debut last week.</p><p>The fall in SK Hynix and rival Samsung Electronics stock led to a 9% plunge in South Korea's Kospi and triggered a 20-minute trading halt.</p><p>That was despite President Lee Jae Myung announcing government support for three major projects in chips, AI data centers and physical AI.</p><p>SK Hynix is the world's leading AI memory chipmaker.</p><p>It raised over $26 billion last week selling American Depositary Receipts priced at $149 each.</p><p>Its Korean shares have more than tripled this year.</p><p>It has become a target of global investors betting on a sustained boost to profits.</p><p>They think a shortage of high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI data centers could boost its numbers.</p><p>One leading analyst said investors were profit-taking following the U.S. listing.</p><p>And further said sentiment grew cautious over SK Hynix's second-quarter earnings.</p><p>They said investors had expected shipments of the firm's HBM4 chips to rise from the second quarter.</p><p>But the increase didn't appear to have happened at scale.</p></body>
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported a 35.6% increase in revenue during the first-half of 2026, and of 68% in June, highlighting continued strong demand for AI chips ahead of the firm's full second-quarter earnings report later this week.View on euronews
Financial markets started the week on an uncertain note as renewed military tensions between the United States and Iran pushed oil prices sharply higher, pressured equity futures and shifted investor attention toward a crucial week of corporate earnings. At the same time, weakness across Asian semiconductor stocks has prompted questions about near-term sentiment toward artificial intelligence investments, despite continued strong demand for advanced chips.
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Meta said on Monday its data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will expand to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, with investment in the project increasing to more than $50 billion. The planned data center, known as Hyperion, was earlier projected to deliver more than 2 gigawatts of compute capacity to support training of large language models, the technology behind tools such as ChatGPT. • U.S. environmental law group Earthjustice's request to investigate the financing of Meta's Louisiana data center project was denied earlier this year.
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This consumer-facing company has increased its net sales annually for more than three decades.
Investing.com - Renewed fighting between the United States and Iran rattled markets at the start of the week, sending oil prices sharply higher and weighing on stock futures.
Investing.com -- Global chip stocks fell sharply Monday, led by a record one-day plunge in SK Hynix shares, as investors weighed a fresh escalation in Middle East tensions alongside mounting concerns over valuations in AI-related shares.
Investing.com -- Global chip stocks fell sharply Monday, led by a record one-day plunge in SK Hynix shares, as investors weighed a fresh escalation in Middle East tensions alongside mounting concerns over valuations in AI-related shares.