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Record revenue growth and strong guidance failed to offset concerns about volatile search referrals and weaker domestic audience expansion.

Meta Platforms (META) generated the kind of sales growth most firms would be thrilled to see. Wall Street retaliated by cutting about 9% off the stock early Thursday, July 30. Facebook's and Instagram's parent company earned $60.8 billion in sales in the second quarter, up 28% from a year ago. ...

As the age of artificial intelligence takes the world by storm, Fortinet's cybersecurity solutions are in high demand.

Corning's AI data-center deals are accelerating optical demand, while a $10 billion photonics goal and U.S. expansion raise the execution stakes.

Police registered a case against Meta India's head.

In Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, the narrator compares the childhood experience of discovering that his father was “not only deluded and ignorant, but incompetent in every way” to “walking into the cockpit of an airplane and finding the pilot and co-pilot passed out drunk in their seats.” Investors got a taste of that horror on Wednesday, when Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh explained his decision to keep rates steady with a series of contradictory, confounding, and supremely confident answers to reporters’ questions. Warsh kicked things off by saying, “For some households, businesses, and market professionals, five years of high inflation have left a mistaken impression…that the Fed’s implicit inflation target was somehow above 2%,” but in fact, “there’s only a target, and it’s 2%.”

Apple earnings growth is picking up while largely avoiding the AI spending spree by other tech giants.

Amazon.com’s strong earnings are providing a boost to battered AI hyperscaler bonds. Amazon shares jumped 15% Friday after the company reported accelerating cloud-computing sales. The momentum carried over to its bonds: the extra yield, or spread, investors demand to hold its 6.

The major indexes fell and AI stocks dived through midweek, partly on soaring oil and yields, but Microsoft and Amazon provided support.

Over the past two days, four of the trillion-dollar tech giants have reported earnings. Each day, there's been one clear winner and one clear loser. Today, Amazon stock is winning while Apple is down.

Social media stocks are pulling in opposite directions midday Friday, with Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) shares down 23% to $136.32, marking the stock’s worst intraday drop since its 2024 IPO. At the same time, Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) stock is up 6% to $352.45. The split is jarring because both names sit inside the same sector proxy. Meta Platforms ... Alphabet Jumps 6%, Reddit Craters 23% in Social Media Stock Divergence?

Meta sold off hard after a Q2 print that spooked investors, but a closer look at what actually drove the earnings gap raises a question the market may have answered too quickly.

Oracle has cratered nearly 50% while its cloud rivals held steady, yet three Wall Street desks are calling for a price that would more than triple your money from here, and a blockbuster new partnership just gave that thesis a serious jolt.

Amazon (AMZN) may have posted negative free cash flow in its second quarter earnings released on Thursday, but the stock is ripping up to 15% higher in Friday's session. Maxim Group managing director and senior consumer internet analyst Tom Forte dives into this phenomenon.

Alliant Energy (NASDAQ:LNT) said it delivered second-quarter 2026 GAAP earnings of $0.65 per share and reaffirmed its full-year earnings guidance, with management saying results are trending in the upper half of the company’s range despite milder weather during the first half of the year. President

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) fell 20% since July 15th, even though FQ2 2026 revenue beat estimates. Sales rose 28% year over year to $60.8 billion, ahead of the $60.3 billion Wall Street wanted, and ad impressions climbed 14%. Investors aren’t punishing Meta’s ad business, they’re punishing what it costs to run. Why Did it Tank? What […]

Its cloud arm widened margins while the capital plan grew, and that pairing is what a re-rating would rest on.

Revenue accelerated and the ad engine kept compounding, yet free cash flow came in at well under a billion dollars and the spending floor moved up again.

AMD has surged over 100% this year, then gave back 22% in a single week, leaving investors wondering whether the selloff is a warning or an opportunity. The answer hinges on a handful of AI commitments that Wall Street may not be pricing correctly.

Apple (AAPL) stock continues to drop on Friday while shares of Amazon (AMZN) surge since the two tech giants posted earnings results yesterday. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Breaking News Reporter Jake Conley and Trustless Media Founder Zack Guzman take a closer look at the key figures that Apple reported in its earnings release.

At $585.61, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) sits at a crossroads. The stock just snapped a six-quarter EPS beat streak and reset investor expectations around AI spending, making conviction in either direction premature at this price. Meta owns the largest social advertising network on the planet, monetizing 3.60 billion daily active users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and ... What Meta Now Has to Prove Following Its Earnings Release

Meta just dropped 18% while spending at a scale that dwarfs most industries, and over 50 analysts think that gap between price and potential closes by 2027. The question is whether three very specific things break right in time.

QQQ built its reputation as the go-to ticker for tech exposure, but the way the Nasdaq-100 is constructed means you are getting far less pure technology than you probably think, and a quieter Vanguard fund has been exploiting that gap for years.

Memory chip supply constraints remain a problem for Apple.

AI-driven power demand puts Bloom Energy's commercial scale against OKLO's advanced nuclear ambitions in a high-stakes clean energy comparison.

The Federal Reserve held rates steady Wednesday, but the bond market pushed borrowing costs sharply higher, sending the 30-year Treasury yield to its highest level since 2007. Peter Schiff says the selloff exposed the gap between Kevin Warsh’s words and...

The benchmark US stock measures were tracking in the green before the open Friday as Amazon's (AMZN)

Amazon.com (AMZN) shares were soaring early Friday after the e-commerce giant's second-quarter resul

Cook, who steps down as CEO on Sept. 1, said Apple's hybrid AI approach is an advantage as rivals rely on massive cloud infrastructure

IDACORP (NYSE:IDA) raised the lower end of its 2026 earnings guidance after reporting higher second-quarter profit, supported by January rate changes, customer growth and an early ramp in revenue from large industrial customers. The utility holding company reported second-quarter diluted earnings p