Investing.com -- JPMorgan analyst Rajat Gupta said Tuesday a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla appears strategically sound but faces substantial regulatory and governance obstacles.
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Bank stocks have enjoyed a nice run overall, and valuations are now fairly elevated.
Tesla has spent months pushing employees to use artificial intelligence as aggressively as possible. The company was tracking which engineers consumed the most compute, running internal promotions, and encouraging staff to experiment freely with AI tools. Leadership sent company-wide emails urging ...
Starlink has been a gem for SpaceX, but it could face an influx of competition in the near future.
Shares of the veteran handset maker have surged roughly 90% this year as it pivots to become a heavyweight infrastructure supplier.
“Gradually and then suddenly” is the way in which Mike Campbell, the wealthy but aimless character from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, describes his bankruptcy. The market is changing, quietly and efficiently, heading into the start of a crucial second quarter earnings season that could either underscore the bull case for tech stocks over the back half of the year or test investor patience for long-awaited profits from the artificial intelligence boom. The which hit its latest all time high in early June, slipped into negative territory for the past month on Tuesday, led to the downside by the ongoing slump in tech stocks that have led the market for much of the past four years.
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Walmart (WMT) looked unstoppable this spring. But by early July, its performance had significantly declined. The retail giant's shares have fallen from a 52-week highnear $135toabout $112. The stock is now down for the year, even as the broader market keeps climbing. A drop like that usually ...
Eli Lilly shares hit a record high Tuesday after IPO stock Kailera Therapeutics posted lackluster test results for its weight-loss pill.
Shares of American Bitcoin, a bitcoin mining and treasury company backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., dropped more than 15% Tuesday after implementing a reverse stock split. Bitcoin recently traded around $63,900 after bouncing off recent lows. Bitcoin treasury firms have faced mounting pressures as the slow-motion crash of cryptocurrencies stretches into its ninth month.
Micron Technology (MU) just issued a different kind of artificial intelligence caution to investors. The dismal earnings picture isn't the problem. It is not because demand is collapsing. It does not even arise from an obvious shift in the memory-chip cycle. Instead, the warning comes from the ...
Analysts at Wells Fargo and Bank of America issued bullish predictions for bank stocks and earnings, which will kick off second-quarter earnings season next week.
(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc.’s massive bond sale dragged down outstanding hyperscaler debt on Tuesday as investors sold existing securities to fund the new issue, signaling growing fatigue over the barrage of artificial intelligence financings.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Slide on Worries Rally Has Run Too Far: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthMicrosoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Dive
S&P 500 companies are expected to report 23.3% earnings growth for Q2, the second straight quarter above 20% and far above the average growth rate of 16.4% over the past five years, according to FactSet. The key question for markets, according to famed investment strategist Ed Yardeni, is whether analysts got carried away after Q1 earnings and set the bar too high. "The big risk up ahead is that technology companies, especially the hyperscalers, won't beat analysts' overly optimistic earnings growth estimates for the quarter," Yardeni wrote in Monday note.
On June 1, Michael Saylor-led Strategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), formerly MicroStrategy, announced that it sold 32 Bitcoin (BTC) for roughly $2.5 million between May 26 and May 31. It was the leading Bitcoin treasury company's first sale since 2022 and sparked a lot of volatility in ...
Walmart shares gained Tuesday after the retailer announced plans to lower prices on thousands of items across its namesake stores and its warehouse retailer Sam’s Club.
Apple has underappreciated price elasticity of demand that should allow it to weather recent hardware price increases.
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A high-rise building in Manhattan was at risk of collapse after columns buckled and floors sagged, officials said Tuesday, prompting an emergency response during the rush-hour commute. Fire officials said they received a report that bricks were falling from the 38-story building, in the city’s midtown district just before 8 a.m. Officials determined that two columns had buckled on the building’s 21st and 22nd floors and that several floors near the columns were sagging. No injuries were reported, fire officials said.
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The S 500’s consumer discretionary sector is the only one of 11 sectors to decline so far this year.
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Chinese robotaxi firm Momenta Global said on Tuesday it had priced its Hong Kong listing at the top end of its marketed range, aiming to raise HK$5.89 billion ($751.02 million), joining a wave of tech listings reviving the city's capital markets. Here are more details: • The self-driving technology firm is offering 19.9 million shares at an issue price of HK$295.60 per share, an exchange filing showed. It plans to use about 60% of the net proceeds from the offering to boost research and development, including upgrading its artificial intelligence computing power, expanding data storage, and scaling up its engineering team, the firm said in its prospectus.
Chubb (CB) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

Morgan Stanley initiated coverage of SpaceX (SPCX) on Tuesday with an Overweight rating and a $300 price target.
This is the sixth and final piece in a series examining "boring" large-cap stocks that have outperformed the Nasdaq-100 over the past five years. The first piece introduced the methodology and the companies. Over the subsequent few weeks, the series has looked at Curtiss-Wright, Williams Companies, ...
July 7 (Reuters) - The weight-loss drug market is booming, with biotech firms racing to capture a slice of a fast-growing sector dominated by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.