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US equity investors will remain focused on President Donald Trump's attempts to force Iran to reopen

May 18 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged lower on Monday as rising Treasury yields and oil prices weighed on equity markets, while investors awaited key earnings from Nvidia and Walmart later

With AI cloud competition heating up, this company that used to own Russia’s biggest search engine is making its case.

In a nondescript building on Kirtland Air Force Base on the high desert of New Mexico, liquid-cooled supercomputers gurgle and hum their way through some of the most complex math problems the U.S. government seeks to solve: simulating how hypersonic nuclear weapons would ‌move through the earth's atmosphere, or what would happen if one nuclear warhead detonated near another. For more than a decade, the chips handling this secretive and demanding work ‌came from mainstream semiconductor firms like Nvidia or Advanced Micro Devices. But with those companies increasingly designing their chips for artificial intelligence and facing supply shortages, the managers in charge of the systems at Sandia National Laboratories, which operates ​the machines at Kirtland and is one of three U.S. labs tasked with developing and maintaining the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal, are increasingly unsure how they will find computing power for high-precision scientific work like theirs.

Buying Nvidia stock just before quarterly results has historically produced modest short-term gains, but the longer-term picture has been much stronger.

Unprecedented fireworks at the Fed could be coming soon.

Nvidia, the most valuable public company by market capitalization, will report earnings this week, the last of the Magnificent Seven tech companies to do so. Big retailers including Walmart and Home Depot will also report.

Stanley Druckenmiller is one of the most-watched money managers on Wall Street, and his Duquesne Family Office Q1 2026 13F filing just landed. The headline number is brutal for Alphabet bulls. Duquesne sold all 385,000 shares of Alphabet (GOOGL) Class A stock during the quarter. That same stake had ...

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By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, May 18 (Reuters) - Asia share markets slipped on Monday as fresh drone attacks in the Gulf pushed up oil prices and bond yields, while the AI boom is set to be tested by earnings

Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR) CEO Marc Bitzer is making one of the bluntest recession comparisons of this earnings cycle. According to the Morning Brew Daily podcast segment covering the company’s Q1 results, CEO Bitzer told investors: “This level of industry decline is similar to what we have observed during the global financial crisis and even higher than ... Whirlpool’s CEO Warns Consumer Spending Today Looks Like the 2008 Financial Crisis

Stock futures pulled back from record closes as commodities markets were shook by the ongoing war in Iran. M

New federal filings show the president executed thousands of stock transactions in the first three months of 2026 — including purchases whose timing critics say coincided with his administration's regulatory decisions.

The stock market is near highs but oil prices and yields are headwinds with Trump issuing new Iran threats. Nvidia and Walmart earnings loom.

A 58-year-old engineer in Palo Alto, married filing jointly, earns $750,000 a year, has already stuffed $4 million into 401(k)s and IRAs, and parks another $1.2 million in a brokerage account that holds a single S&P 500 fund. The 401(k) is maxed. The mega backdoor Roth is maxed. The next tax dollar saved has to ... The $40,000 Tax Move That Comes After Your 401(k) Hits Its Limit

Revenue growth isn't explosive, but it's steady because of BWX's nuclear moat.

Cash is suddenly king again on Wall Street. With recession fears lingering, interest rates still elevated, and consumers showing signs of fatigue, corporate America has been preparing for rougher weather ahead. Few companies have prepared more aggressively than Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A)(NYSE:BRK-B). The conglomerate ended the first quarter sitting on a staggering $397.6 billion cash pile, ... Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Just More Than Tripled Its Stake in Alphabet

If SpaceX builds a second Starbase in Louisiana, Cheniere Energy and ExxonMobil could be big winners.

Here are four things to consider if Elon Musk decides to merge his space empire with Tesla.

Jerome Powell's successor and the Chicago Fed president foresee wildly different interest rate outcomes from the evolution of AI.

Investors step into the week after a Friday in the red, spurred by a stable of geopolitical uncertainties post Trump-Xi summit, rising bond yields, and sticky inflation.

The chipmaker has touted 'off the charts' demand and its shares have been climbing in recent weeks.

Is the end of the "Fed put" at hand?

The short-term risks of SoundHound's acquisition of LivePerson are weighing on the stock price.

Nvidia (NVDA) stock closed the May 15 trading session 4.42% down at $225.32, according to Yahoo Finance. Micron closed 6.62% lower at $724.66Intel closed 6.18% lower at $108.77AMD closed 5.69% lower at $424.1Broadcom closed 3.32% lower at $425.19Marvell closed 3.12% lower at $176.89 Intel gained ...

For years, investors have watched private companies stay private longer while Wall Street’s biggest gains increasingly went to venture capital firms and institutional money managers. That’s part of why the upcoming IPO of SpaceX has generated so much excitement. Retail investors finally get a shot at owning one of the world’s most influential companies. And ... The SpaceX IPO Is Coming June 12. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Rush In to Buy

Quarterly revenue may get most of the attention, but there's a better metric to look at this time around.

It's incredibly rare when a sitting Fed chair interjects their opinion on stock valuations -- and when this happens, it shouldn't be ignored.

Stock market investors await Nvidia earnings and the Google I/O Conference, as well as a key conference from the Atlanta Federal Reserve.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) at $235.74 screens attractively under $250. President Trump’s China visit and growing signals that potential Fed Chair candidate Kevin Warsh will take a dovish stance toward AI investment reframe the two biggest overhangs on this stock: export controls and rate policy. Nvidia sits at the center of the AI buildout. Data Center revenue ... Buy Nvidia Under $250 on Trump’s China Visit and Warsh’s Dovish AI Signals