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Major U.S. technology companies are borrowing heavily as they ramp up spending on their artificial intelligence buildout, and at steadily higher yields as investors become more selective about absorbing the growing supply. Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Oracle issued about $194 ‌billion of bonds in 2026 through July 7, up 79% from roughly $108 billion in all of 2025, according to a Reuters analysis ‌of LSEG data. Goldman Sachs expects bond issuance by the five hyperscalers, including Microsoft Corp, to reach roughly $250 billion this year and $400 billion in 2027.

Wall Street faces a twin set of risks on Wednesday, tied to Big Tech earnings and a Federal Reserve interest-rate decision, as stocks undergo a rare change of leadership ahead of the summer market doldrums. “The market’s response to both should provide a clearer indication of whether the current rotation continues or begins to develop into broader weakness,” said Zaheer Anwari, co-founder and CEO of the Luxembourg-based Revacy Fund.

Meta shares have fallen for nine straight sessions.

Investing.com -- Direxion on Wednesday launched a new family of exchange-traded funds designed to generate income by writing call options on individual high-volatility stocks, expanding beyond its traditional leveraged and inverse ETF offerings.

Investors are laser focused on capex heading to Meta' earnings report.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Wednesday ahead of the Fed decision and Fed Chair Warsh's comments. SK Hynix sold off.

Wall Street faces a twin set of risks on Wednesday, tied to Big Tech earnings and a Federal Reserve interest-rate decision, as stocks undergo a rare change of leadership ahead of the summer market doldrums. “The market’s response to both should provide a clearer indication of whether the current rotation continues or begins to develop into broader weakness,” said Zaheer Anwari, co-founder and CEO of the Luxembourg-based Revacy Fund.

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The main US stock measures were mostly trending higher in Wednesday's premarket activity as traders

Amazon reported its Q2 earnings after the bell on Thursday.

Seagate’s earnings give rival Western Digital a boost, while SK Hynix’s results drag down rival Micron.

Wall Street futures were mostly higher pre-bell Wednesday as the global tech sector sell-off paused,

📣 “So far, I think that all the work around AI has net created a lot of jobs because there’s all this infrastructure that needs to get created...So that concern hasn’t exactly played out the way that people feared it might.

If stock prices are your go-to economic barometer then you could be forgiven for ignoring the original “China Shock” a quarter-century ago. Manufacturing job losses in machinery, textiles, electronics and furniture slammed parts of the U.S. after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. There’s even a strong case that China’s industrial rise was a major tailwind for stocks overall.

Visa CEO Ryan McInerney says artificial intelligence is helping ‘shape the way work gets done.’ The payments giant reports earnings after the closing bell Tuesday.

U. S. stock futures traded close to unchanged on Wednesday as investors prepared for a pivotal session featuring the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision and quarterly earnings from artificial intelligence leaders Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT).

Meta stock has declined for nine consecutive sessions, falling about 13% cumulatively.

SK Hynix reported a record operating profit of 60.54 trillion won (about $41.66 billion) in the second quarter, up 557% from the a year earlier. Its operating margin was 76%, up from 41% a year earlier. Analyst expectations for operating profit were even higher, and the miss fueled investors' concerns that SK Hynix's rival Samsung is pricing its products more aggressively, Jefferies wrote.

Retail sentiment remains ‘bearish’ on SPY and QQQ. Further weakness in QQQ will put it on track for the longest losing streak since August 2025.

By Niket Nishant and Ankur Banerjee July 29 (Reuters) - Global shares struggled to push higher on Wednesday, as modest gains in Europe and the U.S. did little to soothe investors spooked by a

Stocks were on track to open a touch higher Wednesday as investors shrugged off a rally in oil prices ahead of the Federal Reserve’s July interest-rate decision. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 41 points, or 0.1%. This could be a crucial day for the market, with the Fed set to announce its policy decision and mega-cap tech companies Meta and Microsoft due to report earnings after the closing bell.

Today Federal Reserve meeting: Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh will hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET, following the FOMC interest-rate decision at 2 p.m. Earnings (a.m): Procter & Gamble, Humana, L3Harris, Biogen, General Dynamics, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Airbus Earnings (p.

MOSCOW, July 29 () - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had charged ‌Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist ‌activities, and that it had issued an international warrant for ​his arrest. The FSB said that the charges related to Telegram's failure to remove material "used by Ukrainian special services and by terrorist and extremist organisations to ‌prepare and coordinate acts ⁠of sabotage and terrorism, mass killings, and cyber-fraud operations wit

Meta could deliver a record quarter for its core advertising business. But Wall Street will look past that for the latest on the company’s AI spending.

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, July 29 (Reuters) - Asian stocks sank on Wednesday, extending a vicious selloff as anxiety about AI valuations and whether the massive spending will deliver returns

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Meta’s chief executive said that the discourse regarding AI isn’t optimistic enough and that banning foreign open-source models wouldn’t be productive.

Jensen Huang had never posted on X before July 24. His first post on the platform wasn't about chips or Nvidia's earnings or the next GPU architecture. It was a letter. An open letter signed by more than 20 tech companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Google, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Mistral, ...

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Josh Lipton stock the market movers for Wednesday, July 29th, including the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision. After the closing bell, Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta (META) report second quarter earnings, with investors watching closely for signs that their massive AI investments are beginning to pay off.