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The market might be all-in on the AI trade, but a growing chorus of traders and analysts is changing strategies. Mega-cap tech companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon have been hit particularly hard in recent weeks as their plans to spend billions on AI infrastructure have attracted growing ...

Ives said he expects the Magnificent Seven stocks to significantly outperform in the second half of the year.

(Bloomberg) -- Retail investors’ activity in the technology stocks known as the “Magnificent Seven” hit a four-year low in recent days after having been muted for months, according to Citigroup Inc. equity strategists.Most Read from BloombergSpaceX IPO Left Mirae With No Shares on MisunderstandingYen Hits Four-Decade Low in Historic Slide That’s Rattled JapanWhatsApp Opens Username Reservations to 3 Billion UsersTrump’s U-Turn on Iran Sanctions Would Unravel Decades of CurbsIran Ratchets Up Talk

Investing.com -- The "Magnificent 7" group of technology companies lost approximately $2.3 trillion in market value this month as investors increased scrutiny of large infrastructure spending by these firms.

This year's second quarter was a blockbuster period for tech stocks. The PHLX Semiconductor Index—which houses chip stocks like Nvidia and Broadcom—has climbed 81% through yesterday, putting it on track for its best quarter in history. Once darlings of the industry, some of the biggest names in tech have fallen out of favor with investors as they fret about these companies' big AI spending commitments.

(Bloomberg) -- Chip stocks are heading for their best quarter ever, extending an extraordinary start to the year driven by insatiable demand for artificial intelligence equipment. But after recent jitters sent the stocks tumbling, investors are wondering how much further the rally can go. Most Read from BloombergYen Hits Four-Decade Low in Historic Slide That’s Rattled JapanTrump’s U-Turn on Iran Sanctions Would Unravel Decades of CurbsWhatsApp Opens Username Reservations to 3 Billion UsersUS St

The Magnificent Seven group of megacap tech stocks has shed more than $2.3tn of value this month, in a violent rotation away from companies spending...

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Henry Schwartz, Cboe VP of Derivatives Market Intelligence joins Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton to discuss how SpaceX (SPCX) options volume exploded on day one, shattering Meta’s (META) previous record with 1.8 million contracts traded.

It was a good day for the Magnificent Seven—at least some of them. Tesla stock ended Monday's session up 8.5%, perhaps riding the coat tails of SpaceX, which was up 7.1%. The two Elon Musk companies are tightly linked, jointly developing a chip fabrication complex in Texas.

Investors are entering the second-quarter earnings season focused on whether heavy artificial intelligence spending by major technology companies will begin translating into stronger revenue growth, according to Wedbush Securities analysts. Wedbush wrote that recent weakness in large-cap...

It's been a horrid year so far for the Magnificent Seven.

Amazon stock climbed Monday after a rough week for shares of the e-commerce and cloud-computing behemoth.

June 28 (Reuters) - Google has put limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models after the social media company sought more computing capacity than the rival tech group could provide, the Financial

(Bloomberg) -- Tech companies are selling stock like it’s the dot-com boom, and some investors fear that’s a bad sign for bondholders.Most Read from BloombergLutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll RevenueOman Tells Allies Ships Going Through Hormuz May Have to PayIndonesia Opens Door to Dirty Money to Fund Prabowo’s PlansAn Analyst’s Missed Remark Surfaced in Deadly Iran School Strike ProbeApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsThis month alone, there’s bee

(Bloomberg) -- The artificial intelligence boom has a power problem, and Wall Street is betting billions on companies that promise to solve it — even if some of the technology hasn’t been fully developed yet. Most Read from BloombergLutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll RevenueIndonesia Opens Door to Dirty Money to Fund Prabowo’s PlansOman Tells Allies Ships Going Through Hormuz May Have to PayApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsAn Analyst’s Missed Rema

Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities has a specific name for what is happening to tech stocks right now. In a note published June 26, he called it a "Twilight Zone market," Seeking Alpha reported, and the phrase is more specific than it sounds. Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), and ...

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has urged his lieutenants to explore partnerships with the popular prediction markets ‌Polymarket and Kalshi as his company builds a similar ‌app, the New York Times said on Friday, citing three employees with knowledge ​of the matter. Meta and Kalshi did not immediately respond to requests for comment, while Polymarket declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. The social media company's executives ‌have said Arena, Meta's ⁠new prediction market app under development, will differ from Polymarket and Kalshi, which accept real-money wagers, because ⁠it will instead rely on video-game-like "points", the report said.

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.’s top executive in charge of the Vision Pro headset and the company’s smart glasses efforts is leaving for OpenAI, continuing a streak of high-profile defections to rivals in the artificial intelligence and hardware sectors.Most Read from BloombergLutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll RevenueIndonesia Opens Door to Dirty Money to Fund Prabowo’s PlansApple Shares Sink After Price Hikes Hit iPads and MacsOman Tells Allies Ships Going Through Hormu

President Trump on Friday threatened to greatly increase tariffs on European nations if they follow through on plans to impose new taxes on U.S. tech companies. “Numerous European Countries have been discussing the imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America.”

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There's been a lot of focus on the recent selloff in tech stocks. As Dan Ives at Wedbush Securities sees it, investors are growing frustrated that big spending by some companies on AI infrastructure has yet to produce a clearer growth payoff. "Microsoft and Meta are being treated by investors like they are wearing winter jackets to the beach in the summer," he wrote.

<body><p>STORY: From Micron's mega market cap to Apple's price hikes...</p><p>...this is the Week in Numbers.</p><p>:: The Week in Numbers</p><p>:: $1.4 trillion.</p><p>About $1.4 trillion was Micron's market cap after it briefly blew past the value of Meta and Tesla for the first time.</p><p>It came after the firm forecast quarterly profit and revenue well above expectations.</p><p>Micron is a major memory-chip maker and a key supplier to AI titan Nvidia.</p><p>The company's shares have more than tripled in value so far this year, and soared close to a fifth following its results.</p><p>:: 5%</p><p>Almost 5% is how far Apple shares fell after it announced price hikes.</p><p>The tech giant said its cheapest laptop will jump from $599 to $699, with iPad prices also rising - although the iPhone won't jump for now.</p><p>Apple says it can no longer avoid passing on rising costs to consumers.</p><p>The price of memory chips jumped by around 98% in the first quarter, and has kept soaring due to the AI boom.</p><p>:: 42%&nbsp;</p><p>42% was how much shares of Wendy's soared as retail traders bought up the beaten-down stock in the latest meme-like rally.</p><p>Trading on the heavily shorted stock was paused multiple times due to volatility..</p><p>Shares briefly hit a more than seven-month high.</p><p>The fast food chain is battling weak sales and pressure from an activist investor, with its stock down more than 78% from record highs five years ago.</p><p>:: $648 billion</p><p>Almost $648 billion is how much Samsung plans to invest in South Korea over 10 years.</p><p>That's according to the Maeil Business Newspaper, which said the firm will announce its intentions on Monday.</p><p>The investment includes a potential $194 billion to build chip factories in the country's southwest, as well as plans for AI data centers, batteries and displays.</p><p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Samsung.</p><p>:: $606.5 million</p><p>And $606.5 million was H&M's operating profit during its fiscal second quarter.</p><p>That was smaller than expected for the Swedish fashion retailer.</p><p>H&M blamed weaker consumer demand and inflation made worse by the Iran war.</p><p>CEO Daniel Erver said Europe, particularly the western part of it, had gone through a difficult quarter.</p></body>

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister vowed on Friday to bullet-proof laws supporting a social media ban for under-16s as the government prepares legal action against

On June 14, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a 1,200-word essay on X titled "A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable." It got 28 million views. The essay drew a direct line between AI concentration and globalization and argued that the AI industry is heading toward the same kind of ...

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister said on Friday he was keen to make sure the country's social media ban for children was as strong as possible, as a new study found

Netflix stock sank to its lowest level in 20 months as the subscription streaming video leader deals with negative sentiment.

Meta has hired the founding team of security startup Virtue AI to protect its upcoming autonomous software agents amid growing federal oversight.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook policy executive, is suing Meta over its attempts to stop her from talking about her book, “Careless People,” a New York Times bestseller.