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Microsoft earnings are coming up. Aim to profit from the software maker's report by selling an options spread with maximum risk of $415.
AMD has broken a chip monopoly before. In the 2000s, it took server market share away from Intel’s dominant x86 processors, forcing years of price and performance competition that reshaped enterprise computing. Two decades later, AMD is attempting a similar disruption, this time against Nvidia’s ...
CEO Michael Intrator says the global AI build-out requires capital on a scale rarely seen, but that he is on the “right side” of a generational change.
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it is adding the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Meta Horizon+ subscription service, expanding its gaming offering on Quest virtual reality headsets. The move deepens Meta's partnership with Microsoft's Xbox and will give Horizon+ subscribers access to more than 50 Game Pass titles alongside the existing catalog of more than 100 virtual reality games available through the service.
Investors have long priced in oil shocks and inflation from Middle East conflicts, but the Iran war is targeting something far more unfamiliar: the physical data centers powering the global cloud economy, and Big Tech is already absorbing the damage.

3M stock jumped on Tuesday after the industrial conglomerate beat Wall Street's earnings expectations and raised its full-year guidance.
The deal gives Microsoft more computing capacity in Europe and brings Mistral's AI models into Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio
Microsoft has agreed to spend billions of dollars on Mistral's computing infrastructure in Europe under a deal that will also expand distribution of the French AI startup's technology through the U.S. cloud and software giant, the companies said on Tuesday. As part of the agreement, Microsoft Azure customers will be able to develop software using Mistral's data centers in France, giving Microsoft more capacity in Europe and regulated industries an alternative to U.S.-controlled infrastructure. Mistral, meanwhile, has added its AI models called Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 to Microsoft's app builder known as Foundry.
TSLA has also dropped 8% over the past month and 6% over three months, while Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia and Amazon remain positive for the year.
Some contract announcements move stocks. And then there are the ones that reframe an entire investment thesis. We saw the latter on a Monday, July 20. IREN Limited (IREN) was trading up more than 21% to $40.57 as of July 20 midday, according to Yahoo Finance. That’s after the Australia-based ...
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Microsoft has been one of the worst large-cap tech stocks of 2026. While Nvidia kept climbing and the broader market recovered from its early-year lows, Microsoft went the other direction. The stock has shed roughly a fifth of its value this year, even as Azure kept growing and the AI business kept ...
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Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s fiscal fourth quarter results will be a key test of the company's AI execution, with Azure growth, AI infrastructure spending and Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption expected to be the main focus when the software giant reports, according to Bank of America...
The Magnificent Seven will again reign supreme over S&P 500 earnings, but their dominance is fading. As second-quarter earnings reports start to flow in, analysts expect the Magnificent Seven companies to grow earnings by a combined 31.1%. The other 493 S&P 500 companies are expected to increase earnings 22.8%, FactSet Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters wrote in a report.
The parabolic AI trade has sent many chip stocks to the moon, as investors have bet that hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta will continue to aggressively expand AI capital expenditures. However, the rally now faces significant headwinds, with valuation and revenue sustainability concerns resurfacing amid rising competition from cheaper Chinese models. The […]
AMD stock rose more than 3% on Monday.
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ:AMD, XETRA:AMD) have announced an expanded strategic partnership focused on deploying AMD’s next-generation AI infrastructure across Microsoft Azure, including the rollout of AMD’s Helios rack-scale systems to support...
AMD stock rallied Monday after the chip giant announced an expanded AI partnership with technology giant Microsoft.
Investing.com -- Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) shares jumped 5% on Monday following a high-stakes expansion of its strategic partnership with Microsoft, placing AMD’s next-gen silicon at the heart of Azure’s cloud infrastructure. The centerpiece of the deal is Microsoft’s wide-scale deployment of the AMD Helios Rackscale Solution to drive frontier model AI inference across Azure services and enterprise customer workloads. Helios—an integrated power-rack combining AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs,
Plus, Jordan becomes a flashpoint in the U.S.-Iran war as troop deaths rise, and London faces a deepening housing crisis.
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The first, a subscription-based furniture rental company he started in 2017, employed around 150 staff at its peak before he sold it in 2022. The newest generation of companies, infused with AI from the start, offer a vision of how work could soon be structured elsewhere in American corporations: Fewer co-workers; more on-staff engineers; and a flatter structure in which nearly everyone is a player-coach instead of strictly overseeing teams. A new working paper examining thousands of recent Y Combinator and other U.S. venture-backed startups indicates as much.
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