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Asking for a Trend Host Brooke DiPalma previews several of the biggest stories to come next week, including Mag 7 earnings from Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN), as well as the Fed decision and the latest Consumer confidence data.
Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com headline a massive earnings wave. The Federal Reserve meets, with a rate hike a possibility.
Every quarter, Wall Street fixates on whether hyperscalers will blink and cut their AI budgets, and every quarter the order books tell a completely different story. Here is the basic economic principle that keeps one investor hitting buy on NVDA ahead of August earnings.
Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech heavyweights made a public case to lawmakers on Friday in favor of open-source AI models, wading into a debate roiling the business and policy worlds over who controls the powerful technology. In a letter posted on X and also signed by two dozen companies and groups including Meta Platforms and IBM, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that lawmakers should avoid "premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." The letter adds to the growing debate about open-source models that are harder to regulate, such as Nvidia's own and those released in recent weeks by Chinese labs, and the closed-source models controlled by specific companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Alphabet just reported the strongest quarter in Google Cloud's history. Revenue came in at $119.8 billion, up 24% year over year. Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion and blew past analyst estimates. The Cloud backlog hit $514 billion. Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 is using Gemini Enterprise. By most ...
It makes sense for tech companies to work together in the age of AI, no?
7.4 % That is the expected swing, higher or lower, expected by options traders in Meta Platforms' stock for the session after the company reports earnings next week, according to data from Option Research & Technology Services.
Intel's stock is surging while the rest of the chip sector sits flat, and the reasons behind that split tell a much bigger story about where the semiconductor race is actually headed.
UiPath's stock has been left for dead, yet several of enterprise software's biggest players have compelling reasons to want it. Five names stand out as potential acquirers, and the logic behind one of them is almost impossible to argue against.
July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. equity funds recorded outflows for a second consecutive week as caution ahead of earnings reports from major technology companies and a renewed rise in oil prices weighed on
(Bloomberg) -- Corporate earnings strong enough to beat the highest expectations in years have failed to impress investors fretting about AI spending and economic growth.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandTrump Rebuilds Tariffs With New Levies on 60 EconomiesAlphabet Falls as $205 Billion Spending Plan Fuels AI Cost FearAbo
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July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Friday after a tech-led selloff in the previous session, as investors weighed fresh earnings, escalating Middle East tensions and a new
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - A wobbly U.S. stock market will take its cues in the coming week from a Federal Reserve meeting set to shed light on the path for interest rates, and
AMDsigned a multibillion-dollar chip and investment deal with Anthropic on Wednesday, July 22, its second major AI infrastructure agreement in three days. Two days earlier, AMD’s Azure deal with Microsoft sent shares up as much as 5%. This time, AMD shares fell 2.5% in premarket trading, according ...
WASHINGTON, July 23 () - The Pentagon announced on Thursday a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle to consolidate the department's on-premises software licenses into a single contract, the latest move by the Pentagon's technology chief to cut costs by eliminating fragmented purchasing. The Enterprise Software Agreement, negotiated by the Department of the Navy, is between the Pentagon and Oracle for its on-premises compute usage.
(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. launched products this week allowing investors to quickly cut — or ramp up — exposure to tech industry debt, as concerns mount over hyperscalers’ huge future bond sales for artificial intelligence investments.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandAlphabet Falls a
(Bloomberg) -- The Magnificent Seven group of megacap technology stocks is on track for its biggest one-day drop since the tariff tantrum in April 2025 as results from Alphabet Inc. and Tesla Inc. are casting doubt on the durability of the artificial intelligence trade that has powered the stock market for more than three years.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of
$888.2 billion That's how much the Mag Seven tech stocks have collectively lost in market value today, as of midday trading. It's the biggest one-day market cap decline for those names since the tariff turmoil of April 2025.
Investing.com -- Alphabet burned $5.9 billion in free cash flow in the second quarter of 2026—its first cash burn on record. Tesla burned another $1.1 billion. Together, the two reports have crystallized a fear that has been building all year: Big Tech's AI infrastructure build-out is consuming capital faster than it can generate returns.
Databricks said on Thursday it would expand its partnership with Microsoft through the 2030s, a deal under which it will increase its use of the Azure platform and Microsoft's custom chips. Databricks offers a platform that helps users ingest, analyze and build AI applications using complex data from various sources. One of the most valuable private companies, the San Francisco-based firm's move marks a sizeable win for Microsoft's Azure cloud business and comes as enterprise AI adoption accelerates.
Oppenheimer Backs Microsoft Stock Ahead of Earnings Despite AI Capex Overhang
IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, a private quantum computing research lab jointly owned by Boeing Co and General Motors, the company said on Thursday, adding a second pillar to IBM's quantum computing efforts. IBM has been racing against Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and others to create practical quantum machines that can crack problems that would take conventional computers thousands of years to solve. In May, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it would award $1 billion to IBM to set up a new company called Anderon in New Albany, New York, to serve as a chip factory for U.S. quantum computing firms.
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