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Still healing from sticker shock after Apple's latest launch? You may want to look away. A variation on the force driving up even the price of year-old iPhones — to say nothing of $3,000-plus models — is chomping away at budget phones. While high-end iPhones run atop bestseller lists, they're still outnumbered by a vast array of alternatives — from...
U.S. markets were keyed into inflationary concerns on Wednesday as the 10-year Treasury yield soared to close at 5.11%, notching its highest level since July 2007.
President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping are seeking stability as investors watch for progress on tariffs, trade deals, AI and Taiwan.
Google stock edged up after the federal judge unsealed a detailed remedies decision in an advertising antitrust case.
Judge Brinkema filed a full remedies opinion in U.S. v. Google's ad-tech monopoly suit. The court publicly released the unredacted document. Both sides were given 14 days to propose redactions for confidential business information, but neither side did so.
Three CEOs with hundreds of billions already committed to AI infrastructure made separate calls to the White House last week, and a proposed federal oversight body quietly disappeared. Here is what each of them said on their earnings calls that explains why.
A federal judge's 106-page opinion, made public Wednesday, orders interoperability, data sharing, and an internal compliance monitor
A federal judge has reportedly ordered Alphabet Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google to overhaul its online advertising technology practices and appoint an internal antitrust compliance monitor, while declining to force a breakup of its ad tech business. How Ad Practices Must Change In a 106-page decision, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found that Google must relax rules governing its online ad auctions, according to Reuters. The judge rejected the Department
Sept 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge said Google should appoint an internal antitrust compliance officer and make other changes to its advertising technology business, even though the Alphabet unit
Federal regulators have given Tesla less than two weeks to answer sworn questions about its Cybercab program, and the stakes go far beyond one automaker's ambitions.
Washington is drafting legislation that could give federal regulators the power to block Google's most powerful AI models before they ever reach customers, and the financial consequences for Alphabet's $460 billion Cloud backlog are anything but theoretical.
Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube have established a unified policy coalition to safeguard their growing live sports investments amid mounting federal regulatory pressure.
Apple (AAPL) is selling iPhones and Macs faster than it can build them, but the number a holder should fear most is the gross margin underneath those sales. Leaving out tariff refunds, that margin fell in the June quarter and is guided lower again for the September quarter. Management puts both steps down to rising memory prices, while the stock's price-to-earnings multiple sits near the top of its 10-year range.
Oil prices extended their run higher Thursday, lifting Treasury yields ahead of Friday's critical inflation update and next week's Fed meeting.
Azure and Google Cloud are posting jaw-dropping growth numbers just as Treasury yields hit levels that have historically crushed high-multiple tech stocks. Whether Microsoft's fortress balance sheet or Alphabet's cheaper valuation wins this rate-scare showdown could determine which mega-cap compounds your portfolio through the turbulence.
From an economic standpoint, the nation’s fiscal status has been turned upside down—from a federal budget swimming in surpluses to one deeply in deficit, despite the U.S. not being in recession or officially at war. Since then, the world has become even more dangerous, with the Iran war, Russia’s war on Ukraine, and China’s adventures in the Pacific. The Up & Down Wall Street written directly after the 9/11 attacks predicted a marked increase in spending for national security.
Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly pushed back against a proposed national artificial-intelligence regulator during an August phone call with President Donald Trump, as the White House weighs a FINRA-style watchdog for frontier models. Zuckerberg Pushes Back On AI Watchdog According to a Politico report on Thursday, Trump called Zuckerberg during the week of Aug. 17. Zuckerberg said he opposed the proposal but did not ask Trump to change his position. Instead, he sa
Instead, according to a federal judge, the tech giant will be required to implement less severe behavioral remedies.
A federal judge confirmed Google runs an illegal monopoly in ad tech, then refused to break it up anyway. What that contradiction means for Alphabet investors depends entirely on what comes next.
Amazon.com (AMZN) trades at $255, down 10% over the past month and about 10% below its 52-week high. The second quarter of 2026, reported in July, was a strong one: revenue rose 20% year over year to $200.6 billion and operating income rose 43%, though about $1.2 billion of that income came from tariff refunds and an energy-contract accounting gain. That makes the drop worth sizing, because this is a stock with a long habit of falling further than the market.
A federal judge rejected the DOJ's push to force Google to sell AdX, the same day Alphabet unveiled its third Flash AI model in six weeks
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