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(Bloomberg) -- The implosion of the once-hot market for cryptocurrency treasury stocks is prompting a number of firms to pivot to artificial intelligence in an attempt to win back investors. So far, it isn’t working. Most Read from BloombergDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsUS, Iran Extend Pause in Strikes as Oman Holds Hormuz TalksSpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley SaysChina Chipmaker CXMT Jumps 466% in Debut After Blockbuster IPOStocks and Bonds Rall
Still known as Google at the time, the future Alphabet Inc announced a game-changing $1.65 billion acquisition for video platform YouTube on Oct. 9, 2006. The deal has transformed Alphabet and become one of the most profitable acquisitions of all...
(Bloomberg) -- US companies that are integrating artificial intelligence capabilities are well positioned this earnings season as they’re poised for stronger profit margins, according to Morgan Stanley strategists.Most Read from BloombergDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsUS, Iran Extend Pause in Strikes as Oman Holds Hormuz TalksSpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley SaysChina Chipmaker CXMT Jumps 466% in Debut After Blockbuster IPOStocks, Bonds Rise in Re
(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram have served thousands of ads for AI “nudify” apps in breach of the company’s policies, delivered by one of its few advertising partners in China, according to the nonprofit Tech Transparency Project.Most Read from BloombergDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsSpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley SaysUS, Iran Extend Pause in Strikes as Oman Holds Hormuz TalksTrump Seethes as Iran War Spirals Anew Wi
(Bloomberg) -- Moonshot AI is poised to make its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community at a time of growing US concern about Chinese encroachment into the top echelons of AI development.Most Read from BloombergDeepSeek Suspends Fundraising After Viral US-China PostsSpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley SaysUS, Iran Extend Pause in Strikes as Oman Holds Hormuz TalksTrump Seethes as Iran War Spirals A
After a year of holding back on new hires, companies from tech and transportation to defense now say they need more people to work alongside AI.
Investors step into the busiest week of the quarter with hyperscaler earnings, the June Fed meeting, and escalations in the Middle East all in focus.
The earnings season has kicked off with a bang, though not the kind that investors have been hoping for. Two Magnificent 7 members turned in their disappointing earnings on the same day. Alphabet (GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) both reported earnings on July 22, and both stocks dropped the following day. ...
Drive past enough American commercial real estate and you start to notice the second acts. The bowling alley that became a church. The Sears that became a self-storage warehouse. Somebody put up the building for one reason, the reason expired, and the concrete found a new job. That pattern is not a ...
Google-parent Alphabet Inc. posted a blowout quarter on Wednesday, and buried in the numbers is a figure bigger than most countries’ entire economies. The YouTube owner’s second-quarter revenue rose 24% to $119.8 billion, up from $96.4 billion a year earlier,...
Are autonomous vehicles like Waymo really safer than human drivers? That's the question some of the biggest tech companies in the world are investing billions of dollars to answer. Alphabet owns Waymo, Amazon owns Zoox, and Tesla has its own Robotaxi division. The advantages robots have over human ...
It’s peak earnings season, and investors could be forgiven for wanting an escape hatch. Corporate America is delivering solid results, but it’s not helping stocks. Last night, chip maker Intel’s quarterly results blew past Wall Street estimates.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Friday, with the Dow gaining just under half a percent, the S&P 500 virtually flat and the tech-heavy Nasdaq sliding nearly two-thirds of a percent.</p><p>The S&P 500 technology index underperformed the broader market as chip stocks fell, with Intel dropping nearly 8% despite forecasting quarterly profit and revenue above Wall Street estimates.</p><p>Enthusiasm for the AI trade weakened after Alphabet's announcement earlier this week of a plan to hike capital spending even as it burns cash.</p><p>Richard Reyle, chief investment officer at Questar Capital Partners, said that as a result investors are rotating into what he called "safer parts of the market."</p><p>"Pharmaceuticals have been flying, and that's been, I think, where we see the rotation of the market right now. [FLASH] You look at the iShares, pharmaceutical fund, it's big components that are J&J and Eli Lilly, they're at all-time highs. And they're still relatively not super expensive stocks. So I think that's a place that can be bought and held. And of course, energy. Exxon's going to announce earnings next week. I bet they're going to be a blockbuster and they're going to continue to be because they make money at $60 a barrel. At $100 a barrel, forget about it. They do very well."</p><p>The S&P 500 real estate sector also outperformed during the session. Its leading gainer was Digital Realty Trust, which rallied 11% after it raised its full-year forecast for funds from operations.</p><p>Among other gainers, shares of SLB climbed 11% after the oilfield services firm beat expectations for second-quarter profit.</p><p>Investors now turn their attention to quarterly results next week from Magnificent 7 megacaps Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Apple.</p></body>
The business inventory-to-sales ratio has declined to the lowest level since 2021, suggesting inflation may be even stickier than expected. Plus, investment newsletter commentary on small-caps, AI spending, and the gold market’s nasty message for bonds.
Asking for a Trend Host Brooke DiPalma previews several of the biggest stories to come next week, including Mag 7 earnings from Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN), as well as the Fed decision and the latest Consumer confidence data.
Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com headline a massive earnings wave. The Federal Reserve meets, with a rate hike a possibility.
Investors aren’t buying the earnings story this summer, in contrast to the spring rally that powered stocks to a record high in early June, suggesting a tough climb for markets over the back half of the year. Early second-quarter earnings data suggests companies are beating Wall Street forecasts by nearly 9%, well ahead of the four-quarter average of around 7.5% and the 4.4% tallied since 1994, according to LSEG. Nearly 85% of companies are beating estimates, compared with the recent average of around 80% and the historic reading of around 68%, and LSEG figures suggest overall second-quarter profit growth of 27%.
Investing.com -- Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) shares skidded 4% on Friday, with losses accelerating in the final hour of trading following a revealing Financial Times report that Alphabet’s Waymo is eyeing the exit ramp on their alliance. According to the report, the self-driving car company is holding internal discussions about terminating its current agreements with the ride-hailing giant, which presently include joint operations in Austin and Atlanta. The Breakdown Uber has confirmed the fr
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President Trump threatened Friday to impose "a substantial tariff" on the European Union over the bloc's penalties against U.S. technology companies .
Alphabet just reported the strongest quarter in Google Cloud's history. Revenue came in at $119.8 billion, up 24% year over year. Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion and blew past analyst estimates. The Cloud backlog hit $514 billion. Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 is using Gemini Enterprise. By most ...
Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) raised its full-year 2026 outlook for mobility and broadband service revenue, adjusted earnings per share and free cash flow after reporting improved subscriber trends, lower churn and stronger operating leverage in the second quarter. Chief Executive Officer Dan Sc
Investing.com -- President Donald Trump said Friday the United States will start a Section 301 Investigation into the European Union’s practice of fining American technology companies after Google received another penalty from the bloc.