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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shareholders woke up Thursday to find that the most valuable company in the world had been undone by something the size of a Tic Tac. A memory chip. Specifically, the DRAM and NAND modules tucked inside every Mac, iPad, and Vision Pro on the shelf. Shares fell as much as 6.6% after Apple ... Apple Stock Just Dropped 6.6%, and One Tiny, Boring Chip Is to Blame
'Magnificent 7' Stocks Are Under Pressure. Wedbush Sees Upside
President Trump on Friday threatened to greatly increase tariffs on European nations if they follow through on plans to impose new taxes on U.S. tech companies. “Numerous European Countries have been discussing the imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America.”
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CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open with two hot topics: Coinbase's SEC-registered AI agentic trading launch and tribal gaming operators' letter to Senators Thune and Schumer demanding that the CLARITY Act include a prohibition on prediction markets. Then Katie Boller Gosewisch, Executive Director of the Alliance to End Human Trafficking, joins to challenge CLARITY's Section 604, arguing that shielding DeFi developers from money-transmitter liability creates a "duty of care" gap that traffickers can exploit. Plus, Rebecca and Renato close by naming Meta as their Person of the Week for its reported move into points-based prediction markets.
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) has slid hard in 2026, and that selloff has opened up a setup the model rates as one of the most attractive in mega-cap tech. Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for Meta is $801.42 over the next 12 months, implying 47.63% upside from $542.87. The recommendation is a buy with high ... Meta Stock Price Prediction: The Case for Nearly 50% Upside
A sharp sell-off in leading technology stocks reflects short-term impatience rather than any breakdown in the artificial intelligence trade, according to Wedbush. The broker said core names driving what it calls the fourth industrial revolution, including Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT),...
The AI boom promised to create a new generation of market winners. Instead, it has also exposed just how quickly expectations can outrun reality. After years of paying premium valuations for anything tied to artificial intelligence, investors are now demanding stronger earnings, disciplined spending, and proof that massive AI investments will generate real returns. The ... The AI Selloff Is Getting Brutal: 10 Tech Giants Already Deep in Bear Market Territory
There's been a lot of focus on the recent selloff in tech stocks. As Dan Ives at Wedbush Securities sees it, investors are growing frustrated that big spending by some companies on AI infrastructure has yet to produce a clearer growth payoff. "Microsoft and Meta are being treated by investors like they are wearing winter jackets to the beach in the summer," he wrote.
Companies in The News Are: BB, MKC, META, TECH, MKKGY
In the last five years, Meta Platforms (META) stock has returned an impressive $156 Bil back to its shareholders through cold, hard cash via dividends and buybacks. This massive windfall is driven by Meta's stranglehold on digital consumer attention across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. By pairing an active audience of over three billion daily users with hyper-targeted, AI-driven ad engines, the company has turned casual scrolling into an elite monetization machine. Because digital advertisi
Platforms face tougher scrutiny over under-16 users.
<body><p>STORY: From Micron's mega market cap to Apple's price hikes...</p><p>...this is the Week in Numbers.</p><p>:: The Week in Numbers</p><p>:: $1.4 trillion.</p><p>About $1.4 trillion was Micron's market cap after it briefly blew past the value of Meta and Tesla for the first time.</p><p>It came after the firm forecast quarterly profit and revenue well above expectations.</p><p>Micron is a major memory-chip maker and a key supplier to AI titan Nvidia.</p><p>The company's shares have more than tripled in value so far this year, and soared close to a fifth following its results.</p><p>:: 5%</p><p>Almost 5% is how far Apple shares fell after it announced price hikes.</p><p>The tech giant said its cheapest laptop will jump from $599 to $699, with iPad prices also rising - although the iPhone won't jump for now.</p><p>Apple says it can no longer avoid passing on rising costs to consumers.</p><p>The price of memory chips jumped by around 98% in the first quarter, and has kept soaring due to the AI boom.</p><p>:: 42% </p><p>42% was how much shares of Wendy's soared as retail traders bought up the beaten-down stock in the latest meme-like rally.</p><p>Trading on the heavily shorted stock was paused multiple times due to volatility..</p><p>Shares briefly hit a more than seven-month high.</p><p>The fast food chain is battling weak sales and pressure from an activist investor, with its stock down more than 78% from record highs five years ago.</p><p>:: $648 billion</p><p>Almost $648 billion is how much Samsung plans to invest in South Korea over 10 years.</p><p>That's according to the Maeil Business Newspaper, which said the firm will announce its intentions on Monday.</p><p>The investment includes a potential $194 billion to build chip factories in the country's southwest, as well as plans for AI data centers, batteries and displays.</p><p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Samsung.</p><p>:: $606.5 million</p><p>And $606.5 million was H&M's operating profit during its fiscal second quarter.</p><p>That was smaller than expected for the Swedish fashion retailer.</p><p>H&M blamed weaker consumer demand and inflation made worse by the Iran war.</p><p>CEO Daniel Erver said Europe, particularly the western part of it, had gone through a difficult quarter.</p></body>
Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) ranks among the best tech stocks to buy now for the “Vera Rubin” chip cycle. On June 9, Bank of America analyst Tal Liani boosted Nebius Group’s price target to $280 from $240, noting strong compute needs and a growing strategic technology stack. The upgrade came after Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) […]
Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) has appointed CRED founder Kunal Shah as global head of WhatsApp. The move follows Meta's US$900 million investment in Indian fintech firm CRED. The appointment signals a push to expand WhatsApp beyond messaging into digital payments and commerce, with a focus on emerging markets such as India. For investors watching Meta Platforms, this shift highlights how critical WhatsApp has become to the company’s broader product mix. WhatsApp already sits at the center...
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister vowed on Friday to bullet-proof laws supporting a social media ban for under-16s as the government prepares legal action against
Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the best stocks for beginners to buy now. On June 23, EssilorLuxottica and Meta launched Meta Glasses, a new collection of AI-powered smart eyewear designed to make wearable technology more accessible to a broader consumer base. Starting at $299, this company-branded collection builds upon the success of their […]
Micron topped Meta in market cap after a 346% revenue jump. With AI memory demand surging, can it catch Nvidia next?
On June 14, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a 1,200-word essay on X titled "A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable." It got 28 million views. The essay drew a direct line between AI concentration and globalization and argued that the AI industry is heading toward the same kind of ...
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister said on Friday he was keen to make sure the country's social media ban for children was as strong as possible, as a new study found
For years, since its inception 40 years ago, Qualcomm (QCOM) has been the dominant name in smartphone chips, and little else, at least in the minds of investors who had grown comfortable with that narrative. I have seen the stock trade at a discount to its semiconductor peers precisely ...
Constellation leads in carbon-free generation, while GE Vernova powers global grids with turbines and automation, see how their financials and risks stack up.
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Shares of wireless chipmaker Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) jumped 4.3% in the morning session after the company announced an aggressive expansion into the AI data center market with ambitious long-term revenue targets during its 2026 Investor Day.
Heading into Thursday’s session, Microsoft stock had fallen more than 24% in 2026, putting it on track for its steepest first-half decline since a nearly 32% drop in 2000, according to Dow Jones Market Data. For much of its history, Microsoft was best known as the pioneer behind the Windows operating system and wildly popular Office software. Microsoft seemed like an obvious early winner in AI: The company became OpenAI’s first major corporate backer through a $1 billion investment in 2019, aligning itself early on with one of the industry’s juggernauts.
When the company selling AI shovels suggests you grab a different shovel, it is worth a look. On a Fox Business segment June 25, 2026, blue-collar advocate Ken Rusk relayed NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang’s claim that “the next generation of millionaires will be carpenters, plumbers and electricians”. Rusk’s framing was blunter. “If I was ... Nvidia’s CEO Says the Next Millionaires Will Be Plumbers and Electricians, Not Coders
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