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Chip stocks have taken it on the chin lately, but worries about the AI trade don’t have to bring down the entire market. The S&P 500’s information technology and communications sectors fell 15% from June 1 through July 29, when the Federal Reserve announced it was holding the fed-funds rate steady, strategist Jim Paulsen wrote Monday on Substack. The overall S&P 500 ended up down less than 4%.
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.
Meta's quarterly results were much better than some reports would have you believe.
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 ...
Microsoft Q4 showed that its multibillion-dollar AI strategy is already paying off, and the best days may still be ahead.
CoreWeave partnered with Leidos to provide AI cloud services for federal agencies.
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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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
(Bloomberg) -- The four largest players in the data center race have committed nearly $2.4 trillion in spending over the coming years, pointing to massive ongoing investment in AI infrastructure.Most Read from BloombergSingapore's Gated Island for the Rich Is Marred by Decayed HomesAnthropic AI Models Hacked Three Organizations During TestsMoonshot’s Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From AlibabaMicrosoft’s $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest in Stock Market HistoryChip Stocks Post Biggest Advance S
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, ...
Record revenue growth and strong guidance failed to offset concerns about volatile search referrals and weaker domestic audience expansion.
Meta Platforms (META) generated the kind of sales growth most firms would be thrilled to see. Wall Street retaliated by cutting about 9% off the stock early Thursday, July 30. Facebook's and Instagram's parent company earned $60.8 billion in sales in the second quarter, up 28% from a year ago. ...
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.
The major indexes fell and AI stocks dived through midweek, partly on soaring oil and yields, but Microsoft and Amazon provided support.
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.
Meta sold off hard after a Q2 print that spooked investors, but a closer look at what actually drove the earnings gap raises a question the market may have answered too quickly.
Alliant Energy (NASDAQ:LNT) said it delivered second-quarter 2026 GAAP earnings of $0.65 per share and reaffirmed its full-year earnings guidance, with management saying results are trending in the upper half of the company’s range despite milder weather during the first half of the year. President
Apple (AAPL) stock continues to drop on Friday while shares of Amazon (AMZN) surge since the two tech giants posted earnings results yesterday. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Breaking News Reporter Jake Conley and Trustless Media Founder Zack Guzman take a closer look at the key figures that Apple reported in its earnings release.