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Alphabet just posted record earnings and the market punished it anyway. Here is the contrarian case for why that sell-off is the exact moment to load up on shares.
Meta reported its Q2 earnings after the bell on Wednesday.
Microsoft reported its Q4 earnings on Wednesday.
Microsoft will report its Q4 earnings after the bell on Wednesday.
PayPal doubled down on its turnaround plan on Tuesday, raising its 2026 profit forecast and outlining cost-saving steps, as it looks to convince investors that it is worth more than the $53 billion takeover offer that analysts described as "low-ball". The payments company, once the crown jewel of American financial technology, received a $60.50-per-share bid from Stripe and private equity firm Advent International, Reuters reported earlier this month, citing sources. The offer is a fraction of the roughly $360 billion valuation PayPal commanded as a pandemic-era darling in 2021.
Wall Street’s forecasts for Big Tech require a major leap of faith: that the biggest AI hyperscalers can boost revenue much faster than the costs of running their businesses. Investors are already on edge about these companies’ soaring capital expenditures related to artificial intelligence. The bullish earnings narrative requires these companies to achieve newfound operating efficiency even as they spend trillions of dollars in capex over the next few years.
Meta’s data-center project priced a $12.5 billion offering with a higher interest rate than a similar deal last year, as AI companies flood the market with new debt.
July 28 (Reuters) - Nasdaq futures fell on Tuesday, mirroring a cautious mood across global markets toward AI chip stocks on concerns about hefty corporate spending and rising Chinese competition,
A decades-long crackdown on Google's business practices in Europe is entering a costly new phase, as the loss of the first case brought against it under new EU legislation opens the door to a wave of private lawsuits demanding up to $10 billion in damages. That has been precipitated by a $1 billion fine, the first under the Digital Markets Act, imposed on the company for favouring its own services and preventing app developers from steering users to cheaper options outside its app store Google Play. "I think this will trigger a new wave of litigation," said Thomas Hoppner, a partner at Geradin Partners, which advised German price comparison platform Idealo for market abuse.
SINGAPORE, July 28 (Reuters) - Asian markets fell on Tuesday led by chipmakers on unease about the massive funding demands of the AI boom, while a slide in oil prices did relatively little to lift
(Bloomberg) -- Silicon Valley leaders, including Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang, are warning against a broad government crackdown on open-weight artificial intelligence systems as a response to a breakthrough Chinese AI model that’s challenged US leadership in the technology.Most Read from BloombergNvidia’s $750 Billion in Deals Reignite Circular AI FearsDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsS&P 500 Wobbles as AI Angst Offse
Chip stocks declined, with a big week of tech earnings looming. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%, while the Dow industrials rose 0.5%.
The Street enters its busiest week of the quarter. Carson Group chief macro strategist Sonu Varghese joins Josh Lipton on Market Domination Overtime to break down the recent chip sell-off and how investors should approach the AI trade amid shifting market dynamics
Alphabet (GOOGL) has spent billions of dollars preparing for a future that could disrupt its most profitable business. Generative AI helps people get thorough answers without the need to navigate through a standard list of search results. This raised a thorny question for Alphabet investors: Would ...
The social media company may also become a cloud computing provider.
U.S. chip stocks are taking a beating Monday after a stratospheric stock market debut by Chinese memory-chip maker CXMT. But that's only the latest development to rattle jittery investors. Also: Apple has been lobbying the Trump administration on a plan to use memory chips from China in some Apple products.
It's a big week for tech earnings, with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Meta (META), and Microsoft (MSFT) all set to report quarterly results. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma and Argent Capital Management portfolio manager Jed Ellerbroek discuss their expectations for the upcoming reports. Yahoo Finance's AlphaSpace is a premium investment platform that combines data, charting, news, analysis, and more to help retail investors understand markets.
Four of the Magnificent Seven are set to report earnings this week. Neuberger senior research analyst Dan Flax joins Julie Hyman on Market Catalysts to discuss whether investors should be concerned about soaring AI spending as tech giants ramp up capital expenditures (capex).
NBCUniversal and Google's YouTube have reached a deal that will bring the Peacock streaming service to YouTube Premium subscribers in the U.S., and also extend its distribution agreement with YouTube TV. YouTube Premium, a paid-for service, has more than 125 million global subscribers, dwarfing Peacock's 48 million in the U.S. Peacock just became profitable and is playing catchup with Netflix and Hulu and Disney+.
Alphabet and Tesla both missed expectations on the same day and both got sold off, but the fundamentals behind those two drops could not be more different. One company is bleeding. The other is spending by choice.
The AI selloff that crushed Meta shares this week sent one investor straight to the buy button, and the reasoning behind that move cuts against everything the market currently believes about Big Tech spending.
Earnings season kicks into high gear this week.
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