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The new framework, completed in recent days, is seen as most likely to affect OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

Short sellers piled into Microsoft and Amazon at historically stretched levels before earnings, and the beats that followed set off a covering scramble that has powered both stocks for weeks. Now the question is whether the rally has legs or whether the easiest gains are already gone.

Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Oracle Corp, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future payments under leases that have not yet begun, mostly for data centres ‌needed to power the artificial intelligence boom. The commitments show that a substantial part of Big Tech's ‌AI spending spree has already been locked in, without yet appearing as debt-like lease liabilities on company balance sheets. The total is nearly four times the roughly $285 billion of lease liabilities already recognised on the companies' balance sheets, according to company filings compiled by ‌Reuters.

Free cash flow is negative while the cloud build runs, and that is the whole question for anyone weighing the stock today.

Analyst upgrades are piling up ahead of earnings

(Bloomberg) -- Anthropic PBC has struck a $10 billion deal for computing capacity from a months-old infrastructure startup, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the Claude maker’s latest effort to keep pace with demand for its products. Most Read from BloombergBeer Dynasty Families Sell €731 Million Stake in AB InBevTaco Bell Met With Michigan on Parasite Weeks Before RecallApple’s New CEO Taps Retired Hardware Executive for Management TeamMamdani Dismisses Business Leaders Advi

The Meta founder is looking to have his cake and eat it too by acquiring short-term revenue from compute, while playing the long game.

(Bloomberg) -- Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., a new artificial intelligence cloud company, has raised $300 million in venture funding and secured an additional $5 billion worth of financing to help a wider mix of technology companies gain access to costly AI chips. The funding, set to be announced Tuesday, values Volta at $2.4 billion, and was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter Capital. Nvidia Corp. and Michael Dell also participated. Azora, the asset-management firm providing the financing

(Bloomberg) -- The breakdown of Uber Technologies Inc.’s robotaxi partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo is looming large over the ride-hailing giant’s quarterly results, as investors grow anxious about the stock that has lagged the broader market this year. Most Read from BloombergBeer Dynasty Families Sell €731 Million Stake in AB InBevApple’s New CEO Taps Retired Hardware Executive for Management TeamTaco Bell Met With Michigan on Parasite Weeks Before RecallMamdani Dismisses Business Leaders

Meta's ad business is on fire, but on its latest earnings call, analysts kept probing the large, open-ended bill for its AI future, and management’s answers revealed the real risk.

Here's a look at the Magnificent Seven tech stocks, which are on quite a roll. The megacap stocks have added about $800 billion in market cap today alone, adding to about $1.1 trillion over the past two trading sessions, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

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Meta missed earnings, Apple beat and still sold off, and Amazon rallied on its strongest cloud growth in years. Three very different post-earnings stories now point to three very different decisions for investors sitting on the sidelines.

Recent earnings reports by the so-called hyperscalers have driven expectations even higher for their collective AI spending plans. Goldman Sachs credit strategists estimate that approximately $400 billion in highly rated investment-grade bonds could be issued directly by hyperscalers globally in 2027. A group of investment-grade hyperscalers tracked by Barclays credit strategists includes Alphabet Amazon.com Meta Platforms Microsoft Oracle and SpaceX. The spread offered by these companies’ bonds over benchmark Treasurys has widened by almost a quarter percentage point over the past month through July 30, according to tracking by Barclays.

Reports from tech giants drove big gains and losses, while the Fed-fueled bond selloff adds to market pressures.

Wall Street just drove a harsh line through the artificial intelligence trade. Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL)added nearly $1.5 trillion in combined market value during earnings week, according to CNBC. Microsoft gained more than $600 billion, while Amazon and Alphabet each ...

Meta Platforms reported its second-quarter earnings with one issue dominating investor attention: the soaring cost of its artificial-intelligence expansion. Meta is not alone. Amazon raised its expected 2026 capital spending to approximately $220 billion, while Microsoft expects to invest around ...

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Investors are coming around to the idea that Big Tech spending on AI can make sense—as long as there is a cloud-computing business involved.

Capital Power (TSE:CPX) said its second-quarter results reflected higher generation, contributions from its expanded PJM platform and continued commercial optimization, while management raised its estimate of annual adjusted EBITDA upside embedded in its existing portfolio to approximately C$1.25 bi

For five consecutive quarters, Meta Platforms did something that very few companies at its scale manage to pull off. It beat earnings expectations every single time, while simultaneously ramping one of the most aggressive AI spending programs in corporate history. The market rewarded both things. ...

Pembina Pipeline (NYSE:PBA) reported second-quarter adjusted EBITDA of C$1.064 billion, up C$51 million, or 5%, from the same period a year earlier, as solid pipeline and facilities operations and stronger marketing results offset the impact of a revised Alliance Pipeline toll structure and revenue-

A surge in Amazon stock Friday gave the Nasdaq enough momentum to obscure Apple slump. Beneath the surface of the Nasdaq composite’s 1% gain was a tug of war between Apple stock, which fell 7.4%, and Amazon’s which surged 15%. The post-earnings slide, Apple’s largest since 2014, followed company forecasts for its September quarter that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations.

Profit growth is finally catching up with market dominance

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Let's say you're buying a new house, and you've been tracking mortgage rates before closing. And you're within your rights to be concerned that the rate on a 30-year mortgage has been rising of late. In fact, the rate has risen from just under 6% at the end of February to 6.66% as of July 30, ...

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%.”

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.

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.