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The S&P 500 (^GSPC) is often seen as a benchmark for strong businesses, but that doesn’t mean every stock is worth owning. Some companies face significant challenges, whether it’s stagnating growth, heavy debt, or disruptive new competitors.
Wedgewood Partners, an investment management company, released its first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Wedgewood Composite delivered a net return of 9.4% in the second quarter compared to 15.2% for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, 16.7% for the Russell 1000 Growth Index, and 13.9% for the Russell 1000 […]
Three and a half years of rate hikes, inflation scares, and recession warnings failed to stop this rally, and Goldman Sachs just revealed exactly where it stands against nearly a century of bull market history.
The biggest problems aren’t caused by what you don’t know, but what, as Mark Twain put it, “you know for sure that just ain’t so.” It’s there in the major indexes, where S&P 500 futures were down 0.9% in early Friday trading, while Nasdaq Composite futures were off 1.9%, and nearing correction territory. Chip stocks were supposed toe be unstoppable, driven by shortages and insatiable demand for artificial intelligence.
Chuck Robbins inherited a hardware dinosaur that Wall Street wrote off as dead money, then spent a decade quietly rewriting Cisco's future around software, security, and AI. Whether the payoff justifies the wait depends entirely on what happened to patient shareholders.
Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures fell sharply on Friday, pointing to a second straight day of losses on Wall Street as investors continued to reassess lofty technology valuations following a string of disappointing corporate updates tied to artificial intelligence spending.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Friday as Netflix stock plunged on earnings. SpaceX shares sold off on a canceled test flight.
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8am: Wall Street futures lower as tech rout spreads Wall Street looked set for a sharply weaker open on Friday as a global sell-off in semiconductor stocks gathered pace, with disappointing corporate earnings adding to the risk-off mood. Futures pointed to the Nasdaq opening around 1.5%...
Overseas stocks and US stock futures fell sharply Friday after technological advances announced by a Chinese artificial intelligence company intensified concerns that the AI spending spree driving this year’s market rally could be at risk.
Whether you see them or not, industrials businesses play a crucial part in our daily activities. Still, their generally high capital requirements expose them to the ups and downs of economic cycles, and the industry’s six-month return of 8.1% has fallen short of the S&P 500’s 11.4% rise.
SpaceX investors can’t catch a break. Shares of Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company were down in premarket trading on Friday after the company scrubbed the thirteenth test of Starship. Musk said some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic abort.
Whether you see them or not, industrials businesses play a crucial part in our daily activities. Still, their generally high capital requirements expose them to the ups and downs of economic cycles, and the industry’s six-month return of 8.1% has fallen short of the S&P 500’s 11.4% rise.
FEATURE Tech was getting hit again on Friday as investors carried on selling chip makers and other artificial-intelligence stocks. Futures tracking the slumped 1.8%. The and were both also on track to open lower.
Statistically, the index this exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracks has never declined over any rolling 20-year period, including dividends, since the start of the 20th century.
AI stocks may be the biggest driving force, but analysts' top picks aren't exactly tech ETFs.
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. corporate earnings season heats up in the coming week, with Alphabet and Intel set to offer updates that could sway the market-leading AI trade
Stocks looked set to fall on Friday as investors carried on ditching chip makers, putting the market on track to extend its slump from the previous session. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 1.8%. The three major indexes all closed in the red on Thursday, dragged down by a selloff in semiconductor heavyweights including Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom, and Micron.
Industrials businesses quietly power the physical things we depend on, from cars and homes to e-commerce infrastructure. Unfortunately, this role also comes with a demand profile tethered to the ebbs and flows of the broader economy, and the industry is currently lagging as its six-month return of 8.1% has trailed the S&P 500’s 11.4% gain.
U. S. stock index futures traded lower on Friday as investors remained cautious about the outlook for artificial intelligence spending while monitoring renewed military escalation between the United States and Iran.
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US stocks were on track for weekly losses, as the semiconductor sector continued to drag markets lower.
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