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Big Tech earnings are on deck this week. The Opening Bid panel breaks down what to expect from Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) and Tesla (TSLA). Truist CIO and chief market strategist, Keith Lerner, and Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporters Ines Ferré discuss the key themes and risks heading into earnings.
STOCKS Investors are kicking off the trading week with AI bubble anxieties seemingly in the rearview mirror, pushing chip stocks higher and powering a nearly 1% advance in the Nasdaq composite. The gains come despite Alibaba previewing its new artificial-intelligence model-the second time in a week that China has flexed its advances in AI.
SpaceX is in talks to sell AI computing capacity to the Defense Department, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) shares rose 1.15% Monday morning following a report that the company is taking an audacious new approach to custom hardware: etching its flagship AI model directly onto its next-generation chips. According to The Information, Google’s experimental project—dubbed "Frozen v2"—is designed to bypass the traditional processing overhead of general-purpose GPUs and TPUs. By burning Gemini’s blueprint into the silicon itself, the chip slashes processing steps and data movem

US stock futures (ES=F, NQ=F, YM=F) got a lift in Monday's pre-market trading, coming off of last week's chip sell-off as investors await to hear earnings results from Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Tesla (TSLA), Intel (INTC), and IBM (IBM) this week. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Breaking News Reporter Jake Conley and Bullseye American Ingenuity Fund portfolio manager Adam Johnson to discuss what investors will be paying close attention to when it comes to Big Tech's investments and returns on AI.
The Dow opened up 0.3% or 145 points. Chip stocks led the declines, with the same names leading the market year-to-date seeing the most dramatic losses. The Big Tech results could further catalyze the rotation out of tech or jump start a rebound from a rout that’s run too far.
U.S. stocks started off a key week of trading with a Monday morning rise. Treasury yields are holding steady, oil prices are climbing but not spiraling out of control, and tech stocks are looking to stanch a notable week of declines ahead of a crucial set of earnings. The heaviest slate of second-quarter earnings and big tech updates are on tap, as well as a Federal Reserve policy meeting, and continued attacks between the U.S. and Iran are putting the focus back on energy markets. Tech stocks, meanwhile, are in retreat, with the trading in bear market territory and the now more than halfway toward correction after making an all-time high on June 2.
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Apple's management has quietly swapped a known, managed risk for an unquantified new one, a subtle shift that puts the company's record-high profitability directly in the crosshairs.
FEATURE Nvidia stock was gaining early on Monday. The chip maker has steadied above $200 a share but could do with Big Tech companies reaffirming their commitments to spending big on its artificial-intelligence processors to spark a rally.
Everyone already owns NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Alphabet, but the real AI infrastructure buildout is quietly funneling billions into a different layer of the stack. Three under-the-radar names are converting that spending into hard revenue growth right now.
US stock futures pointed higher on Monday as attention turned to a bumper week of Big Tech earnings, even with the US-Iran conflict grinding into its tenth day. Dow futures edged up 0.2%, S&P 500 contracts added 0.3%, and the Nasdaq-100 popped 0.7%, a welcome bounce after a bruising week...
Duquesne Family Office's billionaire boss piled into an S&P 500 stock that's soared 3,200% over the trailing year.
Mutual-fund managers can’t catch a break, and maybe they never will. Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn caused a stir two years ago when he called markets “fundamentally broken.” Money regularly comes out of paychecks and pours into index funds tracking the S&P 500, buying stocks with no regard to value—only their weighting.
Investors face another busy week as major technology companies prepare to report earnings, central banks weigh inflation risks and geopolitical tensions continue to influence global markets. Developments surrounding artificial intelligence, the conflict in the Middle East and key economic data releases are all expected to shape investor sentiment in the days ahead.
July 20 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose slightly on Monday, following last week's chip-stocks-led pullback, as investors awaited a key slate of earnings that could test Wall Street's AI-
The launch of the K3 AI model marks progress in core technology, and the investment case for U.S. cloud companies changes little, Morningstar said in an investor note.