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Elon Musk's private space venture, SpaceX (SPAX.PVT), is valued at over $1.5 trillion as investors await its mega-IPO in 2026. ER Shares COO and chief investment strategist Eva Ados explains why her firm is calling SpaceX a "three-engine empire," identifying its space infrastructure development, Starlink satellite, and possible space-based AI data centers as the company's core components and biggest drivers.

A rebound for technology stocks led Wall Street to records, even though the majority of U.S. stocks fell following another discouraging update on inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1.2% to its own record. Nvidia and other tech stocks led the way, a day after stumbling in an industrywide swoon.

Trump Mobile said on Wednesday it has begun shipping its long-delayed $499 T1 smartphones to customers, several months after the gold-colored ‌device was originally slated for release in August. The mobile venture, launched in June ‌last year by the Trump Organization under a trademark licensing arrangement, had pushed back the T1 phone's release ​first to October and later to this week, amid questions over the feasibility of manufacturing a low-cost smartphone in the United States. "Phones that were pre-ordered are starting to be delivered to customers this week," Trump Mobile CEO Pat O'Brien said in a statement to Reuters.

Microsoft is shopping for artificial-intelligence startups as the software company prepares for a future independent of its once-vital partner OpenAI, five people familiar with the matter said. This spring, ‌Microsoft weighed acquiring code-generation startup Cursor, four people said. Microsoft is in discussions with Inception, a small startup built by a Stanford University team focused on a different method of developing large language models, three people familiar with the matter said.

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) said its stepped-up investments in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and consumption businesses are beginning to translate into faster revenue growth, even as those investments weighed heavily on adjusted earnings and free cash flow in the March quarter. On the comp

(Bloomberg) -- An upcoming meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping could be the next test for stocks that are clocking one record after the next. Most Read from BloombergAmbani’s Cola War With Coke, Pepsi Spurs Fridge Bonanza in IndiaNvidia’s CEO Joins Trump in China With AI in the SpotlightMamdani Scraps Property Tax Hike, Counts Second-Home RevenueTrump Lands in China for Xi Trade Summit With Iran War in LimboSome of the chief executives who are attendi

Morgan Stanley raised its annual target for the S&P 500 on Wednesday, citing a strong earnings environment and advances in artificial intelligence. The bank now expects the S&P 500 to reach 8000 at the end of the year, up from 7800 previously.

Bullseye American Ingenuity Fund Portfolio Manager Adam Johnson joins Josh Lipton on Market Domination to discuss the key drivers behind the market’s record highs and continued growth momentum.

For the first time since the dot-com bubble, Intel is back at the top. The chipmaker's stock just hit a fresh all-time high of $133. That milestone capped a run that few on Wall Street would have predicted even a year ago, allowing Intel's stock to finally push above its August 2000 peak. Intel ...

Glinting investment opportunities abound, private-equity firms say—but the industry also faces an exit bottleneck of over $3 trillion.

(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s xAI has recruited multiple Wall Street firms with ties to the billionaire’s business empire to test its Grok chatbot, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a push to bolster revenue ahead of parent company SpaceX’s initial public offering.Most Read from BloombergAmbani’s Cola War With Coke, Pepsi Spurs Fridge Bonanza in IndiaNvidia’s CEO Joins Trump in China With AI in the SpotlightMamdani Scraps Property Tax Hike, Counts Second-Home RevenueTrump Lands

(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s xAI has recruited multiple Wall Street firms with ties to the billionaire’s business empire to test its Grok chatbot, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a push to bolster revenue ahead of parent company SpaceX’s initial public offering.Most Read from BloombergAmbani’s Cola War With Coke, Pepsi Spurs Fridge Bonanza in IndiaNvidia’s CEO Joins Trump in China With AI in the SpotlightMamdani Scraps Property Tax Hike, Counts Second-Home RevenueInside a Yea

Will the AI chip leader beat Wall Street expectations again?

The question surrounding Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) heading into its next earnings report is not whether the company belongs among the AI trade’s biggest winners. That debate ended a long time ago. The more pressing question is whether a business already generating tens of billions in AI-related revenue can keep growing fast enough to justify a valuation that has briefly crossed $2 trillion. Citi’s answer, for now, is yes. Analyst Atif Malik raised his price target on the stock from $475 to $500 on

Wix.com's Q1 report did not deliver the results investors were looking for.

US business leaders including Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook and Tesla Inc.'s Elon Musk on Trump's first overseas trip since waging war in the Middle East a 36-hour visit with Xi Jinping that's expected to encompass the war, tariffs and the self-ruled island of Taiwan. The list of attendees until Tuesday had not included Huang, whose company makes the chips at the heart of the AI boom and has been pushing for greater leeway in a market he's identified as a $50 billion opportunity. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss.

AI heavyweight Nvidia will report its first quarter results on May 20, in what is easily one of the most anticipated announcements of the earnings season.

Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) executives said the company delivered solid first-quarter 2026 growth while accelerating investments in artificial intelligence products, including Wix Harmony and Base44, during the company’s earnings call. President and Co-founder Nir Zohar said the company is focused on usin

WeRide (NASDAQ:WRD) reported first-quarter 2026 revenue growth of 58% year over year, as management pointed to expanding Robotaxi deployments, broader autonomous driving commercialization and traction for its L2++ advanced driver assistance system. Founder, Chairman and CEO Dr. Tony Han said total

Valneva (NASDAQ:VALN) reported lower first-quarter revenue and a wider loss for 2026, while management said the company is focused on conserving cash as it awaits the next regulatory steps for its Lyme disease vaccine candidate being developed with Pfizer. Chief Executive Officer Thomas Lingelbach

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The developments are roiling restaurants as they also deal with rising costs and try to hold on to any customer they can. Many restaurant executives said they were still determining how the drugs are affecting sales and how much to change their offerings in response. Natalie Green, a fertility nurse in Manhattan, used to regularly hop a train to Jersey City, N.J., to get her fix of comfort food at Cheesecake Factory a chain known for big portions.

The first is capacity and scale; second, product and functionality; third dimension is customers and demand; and finally, capital, our fourth dimension. And we have made significant progress on that front.

Elf Beauty (ELF) is expected to post fiscal fourth-quarter earnings in line with Wall Street's estim

The National Football League’s four-year deal with Netflix licenses three additional games to the streaming platform, and agreements with Fox and NBC bring them more games as well.

EchoStar Corp (NASDAQ:SATS) shares are gaining Wednesday. Federal regulators cleared two large transactions that allow the company to transfer a significant block of its spectrum holdings to SpaceX and AT&T. Here’s what you should know. EchoStar shares are powering higher. Why is SATS stock surging? The approval removes the final regulatory barrier and confirms that EchoStar can now complete both sales, which together represent more than $40 billion in deal value according to the FCC. FCC Approv

Goldman Sachs has a new call on Aevex, and the firm sees the recently public defense-technology company as a way for investors to get exposure to one of the military’s fastest-growing priorities. In a Goldman Sachs note given to TheStreet, analyst Noah Poponak initiated coverage of Aevex (AVEX) ...

Investing.com -- SAP shares are down 4.7% on Wednesday to their lowest level in over two years, even as the German software giant used its annual Sapphire conference to lay out an ambitious artificial intelligence roadmap, with investors apparently wanting more immediate evidence of monetization.

Crypto wallet provider Ledger has paused its plans to go public in the U.S., citing difficult market conditions.&nb...

Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ:TSEM) reported a sharp year-over-year increase in first-quarter 2026 profit and issued guidance for what it said would be the highest quarterly revenue in the company’s history, driven by accelerating demand in silicon photonics and related technologies for AI data center