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Private infrastructure and real estate capital are expected to play a larger role in financing the AI-driven data-center boom, as companies move beyond traditional forms of funding, Goldman Sachs said in a note on Tuesday. Goldman increased its combined capex forecast for the four largest hyperscalers - Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet - to $5.3 trillion between fiscal years 2025 and 2030. Prior to the start of first-quarter earnings, the Wall Street brokerage forecast capex at $4.5 trillion for the same period.
Tangem is pushing its offline crypto hardware wallets into more than 200 US stores as self-custody demand keeps rising.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) ranks among the best most active stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On May 29, Wolfe Research reaffirmed its Outperform rating and $320 price target for Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), noting potential for growth in the company’s supply chain services division. On May 4, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) launched Amazon Supply Chain Services, […]
Google-parent Alphabet’s plan to raise $80 billion through equity sales signals that its AI spending intentions aren’t slowing down. Alphabet’s stock price slipped nearly 4% Tuesday, while the prospect of more capex surges in the future also weighed on the shares of cloud rivals Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle.
Country music star Garth Brooks is considering a sale of his catalog, eyeing roughly $2 billion for the rights to his songs and recordings, according to people familiar with the matter. Brooks, an album sales and touring juggernaut, is seeking a price that would be among the largest deals for an individual artist or group’s catalog. The country superstar has been entertaining a transaction for a few years and recently told some investors that he’s one of a few artists of his level of fame who hasn’t sold and is considering it, one of the people familiar with the matter said.
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$1.75 trillion That is the valuation being considered by SpaceX in its blockbuster initial public offering planned for next week. That number could change a lot in coming days, but if it holds it would make Elon Musk’s rocket maker the seventh-largest U.
Nvidia (NVDA) stock closed the June 1 trading session up 6.26% at $224.36. The stock is now up about 20.3% year to date, at the time of writing, Tuesday morning, June 2. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 Index (SPY) is up about 11.24% in the same period. While Nvidia was expected to outpace the ...
Affirm leans on U.S. retail partnerships and strong cash flow, while Klarna expands globally with nearly a million merchants but posts ongoing net losses.
Amazon is putting a spotlight on groceries this Prime Day , reflecting its broader push to become a bigger destination for shoppers' everyday spending, not just occasional big-ticket purchases.
Copper soared while Alphabet stock sank; both things were related. The Google parent’s stock sank because of an $80 billion equity raise that included preferred stock and Berkshire Hathaway No one saw it coming, part of the reason for the reaction. Alphabet needs the money to spend even more on AI and meet what it calls “unprecedented customer demand.”
Oracle's late-May surge lifted Larry Ellison's fortune to $302 billion, vaulting him past Jeff Bezos and Sergey Brin to be the world's third-richest.
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 (Reuters) - Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a new quantum computing chip that it redesigned with the help of AI, saying it now believes it will have commercially
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.
Alphabet’s latest fundraising move suggests the AI buildout is becoming so capital-intensive that even one of the world’s richest companies is looking beyond debt markets.
Amazon.com (NasdaqGS:AMZN) faces fresh regulatory pressure in Europe as stricter cloud rules are being considered that could limit AWS from securing government contracts. The company is also the target of a new class-action privacy lawsuit tied to facial recognition features in its Ring doorbell cameras. Both developments focus on data use and privacy, touching two central parts of Amazon's business, AWS and connected home devices. For investors watching NasdaqGS:AMZN, these issues land in...
Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion through equity sales to fund its 2026 and 2027 capital expenditures.
Artificial intelligence is sucking in capital at a pace never seen before. The five biggest U.S. hyperscalers, namely Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle, are expected to spend roughly $720 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026. Chip companies are booked out for years, and even ...

Amazon (AMZN) Prime Day is set for Jun. 23–26 this year, aiming to leverage the timing of events like the World Cup. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma discusses the details in the video above.
Beyond Amazon's (AMZN) familiar cloud and retail operations, a new identity is forming inside the company. Management now frames its custom silicon unit as one of the world's top three data center chip businesses. This internal capability is not just a cost-saving measure; it is a distinct and rapidly growing technology venture.
We just covered the Top 10 Stock Picks of Billionaire Paul Singer. Etsy Inc (NYSE:ETSY) ranks #7 (see Top 5 Stock Picks of Billionaire Paul Singer). Elliott’s Stake: $249,900,000 Etsy Inc (NYSE:ETSY) shares are likely to benefit from a long-term trend in consumer behavior. How? Younger generations are moving away from fast fashion and mass-produced items […]
Four-day sale will focus on deals for budget-conscious shoppers.
SHOP's Sidekick surges in Q1 2026 - weekly active shops up 4x - while higher LLM costs keep Subscription Solutions margin flat at 80%.
Morning Brief host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley and Investopedia Editor-in-Chief Caleb Silver to discuss the key question investors should be asking about upcoming IPOs from companies like SpaceX (SPAX.PVT), Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), and whether retail investors are ready to buy into the hype.