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Bitcoin whale Strategy is in a race to raise cash before its diving MSTR stock and the falling bitcoin price make it untenable to raise anything approaching the $7.9 billion it may have to pay out in the next two years. The other $300.6 million, nearly 90%, went to shore up its depleted cash reserve. Given Strategy's heavy potential obligations due, and the lack in market confidence signaled by plunging shares of its primary preferred stock, the race for cash has likely accelerated this week.

Memory stocks just went from cyclical chip plays to AI-era essentials, and Bank of America’s Vivek Arya thinks the market is still pricing them like the old version. Speaking on CNBC the morning after Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) reported, BofA’s senior semiconductor analyst argued that “what we are witnessing is what I would call a structural ... BofA Says Micron Is Trading Under 10x Earnings and Wall Street Is Completely Missing the Story

A flurry of huge IPOs was the ‘canary in the coal mine’ before the 2000 dot-com crash and the stock market crisis of 1929, one expert says.

Ford (NYSE: F) recalls this year have topped 1.2 million vehicles. While its poor 2006 track record is not nearly as bad as last year’s, the company’s quality promise has fallen apart again. And, while moves into battery technology have lifted the stock, there is reason for investors to be worried. Ford can’t get its ... Ford Recalls Continue to Cripple Brand

Apple is increasing prices on some of its MacBooks and iPads to offset the impact of the global memory crisis.

Alphabet shares fell further premarket following a report that two researchers key to Google’s artificial-intelligence model left the group, extending an exodus in top talent from the search company’s AI team. Shares in the Google owner slid 1.3% to $340.82 in premarket trade even as the broader tech complex rallied. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are planning to leave Google for Anthropic, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources.

The Federal Reserve's primary inflation gauge, the core PCE price index, showed the 12-month inflation rate hitting its highest level since October 2023, as Wall Street expected. S&P 500 futures are solidly higher early Thursday after a three-session losing streak sparked in part by the prospect for tighter monetary policy under new Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh. Rate-hike expectations have sent the U.S. dollar surging to its highest level in more than a year, even as prospects for rate hikes by other global central banks have faded with tumbling oil prices.

Bond yields dropped and stocks kept rising after the Federal Reserve’s benchmark inflation gauge matched expectations. The core personal expenditures price index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices and is watched closely by the central bank, rose at a 0.

Eimear Bonner told CNBC that crude price declines take time to reach the pump, as Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate Big Oil

Artificial intelligence has created a handful of corporate winners, but one company has towered above the rest. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) became the face of the AI revolution as demand for its chips exploded, pushing its market value to roughly $4.8 trillion. Even after a pullback of nearly 16% from its all-time high, most investors still view ... Micron’s Jaw-Dropping Earnings Show It Is Leaving Nvidia Behind in the AI Boom

Banks could be negatively impacted as rates stay high.

FedEx's structural improvements and divestitures have it on track to reduce debt and buyback shares, boost shareholder value, and drive its stock price upward.

Under the Digital Markets Act, the companies would be treated as gatekeepers for their cloud computing services and required to take extra steps to ensure they don’t stifle competition.

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) is facing fresh legal and regulatory challenges following the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announcement that it will examine the fatal Texas crash that took place last week involving a Model 3 sedan. NTSB Announces Probe According to a report by Reuters on Wednesday, the agency said it will investigate the incident, which is already under scrutiny of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The collision occurred in Katy, Texas and resul

Inflation is rising — but U.S. consumers seem to be shrugging it off. A key measure of price growth accelerated in May as surging oil prices pushed costs higher

Lockheed Martin's latest contract award from the U.S. Government adds to sales growth in the defense group's missiles division, Jefferies' Sheila Kahyaoglu wrote. The company signed a seven-year contract worth up to $35 billion for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptor missiles. The contract follows another government award for a significant ramp up in Patriot missile production, the analyst noted.

Shares were mostly higher Thursday in Asia, led by tech-driven gains in Japan and South Korea as major computer chipmakers’ stocks surged following upbeat earnings reports from U.S. giants like Qualcomm and Micron Technology. Oil prices fell more than $1, bringing them closer to where they were before the war with Iran started. Qualcomm’s share price surged 12% in afterhours trading after the company announced it had raised its forecast for revenue this year to $40 billion from $22 billion.

A new S&P Global report just flashed a 2008-era warning inside arguably the most important parts of the U.S. economy. For perspective, factory activity expanded in June, and the manufacturing PMI came in stronger than expected by economists. However, underneath that better-than-expected ...

Less than two weeks ago, SpaceX became the most valuable company ever to go public, raising $75 billion at a valuation north of $1.7 trillion and closing its debut session up 19%, according to CNBC. On June 22, SpaceX posted its worst single-day loss as a public company, plunging 16% to close at ...

When you think about memory chips, you might think of South Korea. That’s because semiconductor companies Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix dominate that market. But Micron Technology, Inc. (MU) has been gaining momentum. The Idaho-based company is the only US manufacturer of cutting-edge DRAM ...

In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring investors.

The Pentagon’s order of Thaad interceptors follows the company’s pledge to expand production over seven years.

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining just over a third of a percent, while the S&P 500 edged slightly lower and the Nasdaq lost more than four-tenths of a percent.</p><p>Investors were intensely focused on chip maker Micron Technology's results after the closing bell. The stock, which has surged more than 200% this year, climbed in extended trading on Wednesday, after Micron forecast quarterly earnings above Wall Street estimates, signaling that heavy investments in AI-related infrastructure will drive strong demand for its memory chips.</p><p>Michael Landsberg is chief investment officer at Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management.</p><p>"What's happened now is with AI, a lot of these chips are needed to make AI work faster and better. So the demand has really been strong across the entire sector. We think it continues. And that's really, I think, why this rally in that space has got some legs. And we think it could continue for a while."</p><p>Several tech stocks, however, slid during Wednesday's session, including chip designer Cerebras, which tumbled more than 19%. In its first report since going public, Cerebras forecast full-year profit margins would drop below first-quarter figures.&nbsp;</p><p>Concerns around debt-backed AI spending by hyperscalers and mounting fears of a more hawkish Federal Reserve have fueled a market downturn this week that has erased more than $1 trillion in market value from the Nasdaq 100.</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, homebuilders soared after President Donald Trump canceled a planned signing of bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up availability of affordable housing. Shares of Hovnanian Enterprises, PulteGroup and Toll Brothers all ended higher.</p><p>And shares of Hertz tumbled more than 40% after the car-rental firm said it expects second-quarter adjusted core earnings near the lower end of its forecast range and announced a proposed offering of $100 million of common stock.</p></body>

Tesla’s (TSLA) latest federal safety probe isn't a routine crash investigation. It’s a test of one of the greatest assumptions still baked into Tesla’s stock: that the company can turn driver-assistance software into a business considerably more valuable than regular car sales. For years, Tesla has ...

The tech sell-off was nerve-wracking for investors, but Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Slimmon feels the market might be getting exactly what it needed. In a recent CNBC interview, Slimmon made the case that AI winners weren’t collapsing due to fundamentals being broken. They fell because the trade became ...

Investing.com -- President Trump announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice is investigating ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil companies over elevated natural gas prices.

TODAY'S MARKETS Oil prices on Wednesday fell toward prewar levels, while tech stocks struggled to shake off AI-bubble fears. Brent crude dropped 4.3% to $73.74 a barrel, only slightly above its last closing price just before the Iran war started.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock closed at $519.85 on June 23, down 5.76%. The stock was caught in the tech sector sell-off, as reported by Yahoo Finance. This drop is probably just a small hiccup, given how the stock has performed over the longer time frame and the bullish analyst consensus. The ...

Higher interest rates will generate tailwinds and headwinds for the financial data giant.

(Updates with Pfizer's response in the last two paragraphs.) Pfizer (PFE) has been dismissed as a