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Investors face a busy week of diplomatic developments, technology announcements and economic releases, with talks between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping among the main events on the calendar. Artificial intelligence will also attract attention as Meta Platforms prepares for its Connect conference and world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

AI Boom Is Supercharging S&P 500 Profits. Goldman Sachs Warns the Boost Won't Last

Elon Musk recently praised a specific GPU stock during SpaceX's earnings call.

Barclays Raises S&P 500 Forecast Despite Warning Signs From Utilities and Valuations

Arista Networks is rebounding from its 50-day moving average, offering a buying opportunity after an earnings beat in August.

Score one to Nvidia The chip company emerged as the clear winner over rival Broadcom when it comes to the market reaction to their latest earnings report. It’s not that there was much wrong with Broadcom’s earnings. Nvidia’s projections were well ahead of what Wall Street analysts had penciled in.

Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) reported record third-quarter fiscal 2026 revenue, operating income and free cash flow, driven by sharply higher demand for artificial intelligence semiconductors and custom AI accelerators. Revenue rose 86% year over year to $29.6 billion, while operating income increased 92

Broadcom is scheduled to report results for its fiscal third quarter after-market hours on Wednesday, September 2, with Wall Street looking for another quarter of exceptional growth.

Goldman Sachs' Eric Sheridan joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to break down the market's reaction to Alphabet’s (GOOG) latest earnings report, Google’s brain drain, and why the launch of Gemini 4 could completely flip the narrative.

CNBC host Jim Cramer said Meta Platforms Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:META) $17 billion child safety settlement will likely have a smaller financial impact than many investors expect, calling it “barely material” to the company’s earnings once spread over a decade. ‘It Could Have Been Disastrous’ Cramer said the settlement could end up being far smaller once spread over its full ten-year term, saying it is “not impactful” compared to what he originally feared. “It could have been disastrous,” he said in a pos

SpaceX. tock rose early Thursday, helped, like much of the market, by Nvidia’s earnings. Shares of Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company rose 0.6% to $140.47 in premarket trading, while futures were up 0.4% and futures were down 0.1%. futures were the strongest, up 1%, thanks in part to Nvidia’s strong quarterly results.

The company nearly doubled its long-term non-handset target in June, while a faster Apple exit and a cost squeeze went straight into the near-term numbers.

Wall Street is focused on Nvidia's GPUs, but the faster-growing story is sitting beside them.

D.A. Davidson Head of Technology Research Gil Luria talks with Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma about how traders should approach Nvidia (NVDA) ahead of its latest earnings report after enduring its longest losing streak since 2022.

Investors are cutting accelerator exposure before the report that could reset the entire AI-chip trade.

Strong results from the GPU leader could reignite Micron's momentum.

Nvidia enters earnings week with its stock priced for perfection, but a single crack in its numbers could send investors scrambling for the exits. The question is whether any weakness even exists, and what happens if the market finds out the hard way.

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Nvidia will report its Q2 earnings after the bell on Aug. 26.

Nvidia will report its Q2 earnings after the bell on Aug. 26.

Nvidia will report its Q2 earnings after the bell on Aug. 26.

Here’s what could be next for Nvidia stock.

All three major US stock indexes were down in late-morning trading Thursday, as yields on Treasury b

On Aug. 17, 2026, bond yields climbed while major indices drifted near record levels ahead of pivotal retail earnings reports.

Tech stock coverage for the week of Aug. 17.

Tech stock coverage for the week of Aug. 17.

Tech stock coverage for the week of Aug. 17.

Asking for a Trend Host, Josh Lipton breaks down what investors should be on the lookout for the week of Monday, August 17, including opening arguments in the Meta (META) social media addiction trial, earnings from Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), Lowe's (LOW), and Home Depot (HD).

Just be sure to look more than a year down the road.

Wall Street sees booming cloud growth as a sign that AI spending is giving a return on investment.