Investing.com -- The pickup in U.S. business investment and manufacturing is more dependent on the artificial intelligence boom than many investors realize, according to UBS in a note on Thursday.
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Hut 8 (NASDAQ: $HUT) has won a bid for bankrupt crypto miner Poolin's two Texas data centre facilities.

Sept 24 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main stock indexes opened lower on Thursday as simmering Middle East tensions lifted oil prices and Treasury yields, while investors also exercised caution ahead of a

A federal disclosure quietly buried inside a batch of monthly trades reveals the president holds a stake in one of his administration's most powerful contractors, raising a question investors cannot yet price.

Palantir trades at a much richer valuation than Salesforce, but only one pays you to hold it. Here's how growth, margins, and payouts stack up.

AI has created an opportunity to rethink the way that companies are structured, according to Microsoft President Brad Smith. One of the most important potential changes is the return of the generalist, according to Smith.
Investing.com -- HSBC upgraded Dollar General (NYSE: DG) to Buy from Hold on Thursday, saying the discount retailer's turnaround is firmly underway and its shares look too cheap.

While the S&P 500 is up 18.4% since March 2026, Eastern Bank (currently trading at $21.15 per share) has lagged behind, posting a return of 10.5%. This might have investors contemplating their next move.

In his first interview since being ousted as CEO, Chapek speaks about his rocky tenure and blames Bob Iger.

Scott Sheffield, one of the earliest architects of the US shale oil boom, said he was “betrayed” by ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. after Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods failed to support him in a dispute with the Federal Trade Commission despite a promise to do so.
The company could raise up to $5.5 billion, with another $500 million available through a greenshoe option.

The regulator rejected motions to dismiss the $85 billion merger application, but new board member Richard Kloster said the railroads still have “a long way to go” to prove the deal serves the public interest.

JPMorgan on Thursday upgraded stock to overweight on views that the provider of AI computing infrastructure has leverage to increase prices.

Oracle Corp. is moving to shield itself from racking up expenses on a massive data center being built in New Mexico, adding a fresh wrinkle to a project beset by opposition and regulatory setbacks.

If you thought the Federal Reserve was about to usher in an era of easy money and send the S&P 500 (SPY) on a smooth victory lap, think again. The market is walking straight into an uncomfortable reality check. Geopolitical headlines gave investors brief relief over the summer, but underlying price metrics did not follow the script. Instead of preparing for rate cuts, Wall Street must now confront persistent price pressures, climbing yields, and a Fed forced back into an active tightening stance

Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week. It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Europe and laid off 900 non-retail employees.

Tesla will have product demos for the Cybercab, Semi and new Roadster planned within the span of a month. The stock edged lower Thursday.

Three model portfolios developed by the money manager will hold baskets of ETFs and be tokenized by Ondo Finance.

Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton takes a closer look at the top stories for investors to watch on Thursday, Sept. 24, including Costco's (COST) quarterly earnings results, August new home sales, weekly mortgage rates, and weekly initial jobless claims.

The bond market awoke from its early autumn slumber this week amid a maelstrom of headlines tied to growth, inflation, and fiscal concerns that dragged Treasury yields to the highest levels in decades and stoked bets on a series of interest-rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. The broader fixed income slump, which was extending into Thursday’s trading session on Wall Street, was largely powered by the renewed surge in global crude prices. “This is ‘hit the wall stuff’ if we continue anything resembling the current pace,” said John Hardy, Saxo’s global head of macro strategy.
Investing.com -- JPMorgan upgraded CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) to Overweight from Neutral in a note Thursday, telling investors that stronger pricing for computing power and the company's push into short-term contracts at premium rates should lift revenue and margins.

The odds of a Fed rate hike in October climbed above 75%, up from roughly 49% just a week ago

BlackBerry reports fiscal second-quarter earnings per share of 7 cents from sales of $163.3 million. Wall Street was looking for 4 cents and $142.5 million, respectively.

Starbucks plans to close hundreds of cafés across North America this week, the latest move under Chief Executive Brian Niccol to streamline and boost the profitability of its operations. The closures mark the second round of café cuts under Niccol, who joined the coffee giant in September 2024. The company’s fiscal year concludes later this month, which is around the same time when Niccol announced hundreds of store closures last year.

Microsoft has lagged its AI peers all year. Goldman Sachs told investors that’s exactly the point.
Investing.com -- BCA Research told clients in a note that the Federal Reserve’s return to rate hikes is unlikely to derail U.S. stocks. It pointed to history showing the S&P 500 has gained over every full Fed tightening cycle since 1980.

The billionaire Peugeot family’s investment firm got a boost from its exposure to SpaceX, partially offsetting a deep slump in the value of its stake in automaker Stellantis NV.

The Fed's new approach will probably make markets a bit more turbulent if it's sustained.

It’s reasonable to expect another rate hike by the end of the year, New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said early Thursday. Inflation is the “big challenge” for policymakers, Williams said at the London Macro Policy Forum in London. It may be as close as investors get to forward guidance, something which Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh has moved to scrap.

Ahead of Penguin Solutions' Oct. 6 earnings report, its stock has started to rally back from its late-summer slump.