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A remarkable two-month sprint higher for major stock-market indexes encountered its first major hiccup on Friday as the Nasdaq Composite plummeted more than 1,121 points — the biggest one day point drop on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
In the latest trading session, Meta Platforms (META) closed at $593, marking a -5.51% move from the previous day.
Meta launched its business-facing AI agents across its three biggest platforms Wednesday, laying the groundwork for a revenue model that could go well beyond ads.
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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Friday closed down -2.64%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -1.35%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -4.77%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) fell -2.97%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley joins Josh Lipton on Market Domination to discuss Meta's (META) push to equity raise.
Meta stock falls with company executives reportedly considering a stock sale to raise tens of billions of dollars for AI spending.
Tech stocks were lower late Friday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ET
A report says Meta is exploring a potential equity raise as AI infrastructure spending ramps up and capital needs grow.
Meta stock fell more than 6% Friday following a report that it will sell new stock to raise cash for its AI buildout.
Meta Platforms (META) is mulling raising tens of billions of dollars through a share sale to fund su
Investing.com -- Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) shares fell 7% on Friday after the Financial Times reported the company is considering a major equity raise to fund its artificial intelligence infrastructure.
A $10,000 stake in Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF (NASDAQ:GTEK) on the last trading day of 2025 was worth about $15,200 at Monday’s close, with the fund up 52% year to date through June 1, 2026. The same $10,000 dropped into the S&P 500 via the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) over ... Goldman’s Future Tech ETF Turned $10k Into $15.2k While the S&P 500 Made $1.1k
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters that his team is looking into the idea of AI companies giving the American public a stake in their firms, adding that he planned to host a meeting with AI executives as soon as next week. "There's something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public," he told reporters.
Meta is considering raising tens of billions of dollars in a stock offering as it seeks new sources of capital to fund the company's AI ambitions, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The report comes after Alphabet moved to raise $84.75 billion in upsized equity offerings, as Big Tech competes to build data centers and capitalize on growing demand for AI. Meta executives have been exploring "creative" ways to raise cash as it prepares to sharply boost its AI-related expenses, the FT report said, citing three people familiar with the plans.
Meta is considering raising tens of billions of dollars in a stock offering as it seeks new sources of capital to fund Mark Zuckerberg’s vast...
Investing.com -- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily stop processing applications for tax breaks offered to data centers seeking to build in the state, according to a report by NBC News on Friday. The pause will begin July 1 and is part of an effort to develop new rules for how these facilities should operate.
Here are three companies with deep AI runways and the cash flow to keep investing through whatever the next decade brings.
If you put $10,000 into Invesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXQ) on the last trading day of 2025, you are sitting on about $19,400 this morning. The same $10,000 in the S&P 500 (via SPY) is worth roughly $11,140. SOXQ is up 94% year to date through June 2, 2026, against 11% for SPY. The headline ... The Chip ETF That Turned a $10k Bet Into Nearly $20k This Year
The four largest technology companies in the world are collectively making approximately $725 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, the overwhelming majority on AI infrastructure. In the same period, those same companies have laid off tens of thousands of workers. Meta's CEO told staff directly ...
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday, and according to Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins, speaking on CNBC, AI will dominate the agenda. After years of being labeled a laggard in the generative-AI race, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is using its biggest developer stage of the year to argue that the iPhone, already in billions ... Apple Is About to Make Its Biggest Bet on AI Yet on Monday
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square has laid out one of the more provocative big-cap calls of this AI cycle. On the All-In Podcast, he argued that today’s mega-cap incumbents are being treated the way the market treated Warren Buffett’s empire, Berkshire Hathaway, at the peak of the dot-com bubble: as yesterday’s story while ... Billionaire Investor Bill Ackman: Buying Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon Today Could Be Like Adding Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway 25 Years Ago
Ten years ago, Facebook was still Facebook. The company hadn’t yet bought into the metaverse, the Cambridge Analytica scandal hadn’t hit, and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t talking about superintelligence. Since then, Meta (NASDAQ:META) has rebranded, weathered a near-death stock collapse, and pivoted into one of the biggest AI infrastructure bets in corporate history. The 2021 rename ... Meta Stock Turns $1,000 Into $5,300 in 10 Years But Did It Beat The S&P 500?
Not all of the market is near all-time highs.