The JD Power 2026 U.S. Initial Quality Study was just released. Deeply troubled, Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) ranks last among all brands, a place usually occupied by Chrysler and Dodge. The rankings are based on overall new-vehicle quality, as measured by the total number of problems per 100 vehicles. The study covers answers about the first ... Rivian Posts Worst Scores On Quality Study (Maybe)
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The restaurant stock cut its payout a year ago.
The utility sector sell-off narrative pivots on a “cost of capital lag,” with critics warning that rising expenses will outpace rate adjustments and squeeze payouts. American States Water (NYSE:AWR), a CPUC-regulated California water monopoly that also runs 50-year contract service agreements on military bases, has quietly defied that thesis. Shares are up 15.46% YTD versus ... Forget the Utility Sector Sell-Off: 1 Legally Protected Water Monopoly Is an Absolute Sanctuary for Retirees Seeking Bu
The average enterprise is spending $11.5 million on AI this year, and most cannot point to a dollar of return. That is the uncomfortable framing from a recent segment of The AI Daily Brief, which called the gap between AI investment and provable business outcomes the defining challenge of enterprise AI adoption. For retail investors ... Companies Are Spending $11.5 Million a Year on AI and Can’t Prove a Single Dollar Came Back
NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) and Enbridge (NYSE: ENB) both just reported, and the contrast matters. Big Tech wants uninterrupted power for AI training, and these two answer that demand from opposite ends of the energy system. NextEra builds the plants. Enbridge moves the fuel. The quarter shows why investors leaning on a pure renewables story ... Why Big Tech’s Demand for Uninterrupted AI Power Is a Major Reality Check for NextEra Energy Investors

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The company hopes to obtain approval for its air taxi soon, and that would certainly be a game changer for the stock.
U.S. telecom and media giants are moving in opposite directions in midday trading. Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) stock is up 7% to $24.76, while AT&T (NYSE:T) stock is down 5% to $21.52, and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) stock is down 7% to $43.29. The split reflects three distinct catalysts hitting the sector at once. Comcast is rallying on a ... Telecom Turmoil: Comcast Rises 7% on Media Spinoff, AT&T Falls 5% on CFO Exit and Starlink Threat, Verizon Sinks 7% on Dow Exit
A blockbuster deal positions the company to compete more directly with SpaceX.
Chevron reached the market before ExxonMobil.
The two companies will combine Nvidia's Nemotron open models with Palantir's software to let agencies train and deploy AI in secure, air-gapped environments
Cerebras Systems stock has pulled back significantly since its stock market debut, but it could deliver big gains over the long run.
Investing.com -- Palantir Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:PLTR) is trading up 4.6% at $118.09 on Monday, extending a rebound that began Friday when the stock snapped a seven-session losing streak, after the company announced a strategic initiative with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) to deploy open AI models inside classified and air-gapped government environments. The partnership pertains to a jointly developed intelligent engine pairing Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs and Nemotron open models with Pal
A CNBC segment reported that Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) plans to separate its media and cable/technology operations into two publicly traded companies, with Mike Cavanaugh leading NBCUniversal and Michael Angelakis returning as CEO of the cable business. The hosts framed the announcement against Comcast’s multi-year stock slide and questioned whether earlier moves, including the Sky acquisition, justified ... Comcast to Split Into Two Public Companies as NBCUniversal and Cable Go Separate Ways

Samsung (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (000660.KS) are investing $880 billion in South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) build-out. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley outlines the details.
Due to the attention given to their trillion dollar market caps and preoccupation with A.I., the Magnificent 7 stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet/Google, Meta Platforms/Facebook, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Tesla) often make people forget that there are 493 other stocks in the S&P 500 worth investors’ consideration. Case in point: investors seeking a combination of income ... Invesco’s SPHD Pays 4.57% While the S&P 500 Pays 0.98%, And It Is Up This Year Without the Tech Bubble Risk
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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, now chairman of the Alpha Institute, told CNBC on June 29, 2026 that artificial intelligence is on track to become the rare issue both parties run against in the next presidential cycle. That is a strange thing to predict about a technology currently powering the most expensive capital-expenditure boom in ... Kevin McCarthy Says Both 2028 Nominees Could End Up Running Against AI
At 66 with $1.3 million, the math is straightforward. A 5% blended yield throws off roughly $65,000 a year before Social Security. The cash flow underneath these three blue chips is what matters most for a retiree. I dug into each dividend to see which ones a 66-year-old can actually rely on. Bristol Myers Squibb: ... 66 With $1.3 Million. Here Are 3 Hidden Gems to Target
The endless bull market might slow down a bit more than most investors are expecting.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has quietly become a cash-generating utility for corporate AI orchestration, sitting on a $255.3 billion market cap with a $12.5 billion generative AI book of business. For income investors who dismiss enterprise tech as too volatile for a retirement portfolio, the question is simple. Is the dividend safe? Dividend Snapshot Metric Value Annual ... Ignore the Big Tech Valuation Premium—This Under-the-Radar AI Leader Is a Cash-Rich Sanctuary for Retirees
I keep buying Amazon every time the bears hand me a headline like the falling $47.66 average Prime Day order, and I am not stopping now. The narrative writes itself: smaller baskets, dead consumer, end of e-commerce dominance. Then I look at the actual receipt. Total digital spending across the four-day event rose 9.3% to ... Bears Scream That a Falling $47.66 Average Prime Day Order Proves the Consumer Is Dead: This Is Why I Keep Buying The Stock

US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) are showing its first signs of recovery since last week's tech-wide sell-off. Great Hill Capital chairman Thomas Hayes explains to Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi why he is calling AI as being part of the "Back to the Future" trade as investors begin to shrug off more geopolitical headlines centered around oil price and Iran.
After a jaw-dropping 249% trailing-three-year return, this business has grabbed the attention of investors craving artificial intelligence exposure.
Monetary Matters Network Co-Founder Jack Farley and AInvest Managing Editor Adam Shapiro join Julie Hyman on Morning Brief to discuss where the next investment opportunities may lie. They break down the outlook for the tech sector and explain why investors may want to look beyond mega-cap names to mid-cap and small-cap stocks.
The arrival of Nvidia's Vera Rubin processors could give the stock a much-needed boost in the second half of 2026.
Artificial intelligence has no shortage of obstacles. The industry is scrambling to secure enough electricity to power new data centers, enough land to build them, and enough high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to keep next-generation chips fed with data. Yet another constraint is emerging that could prove just as important: moving information between those chips fast enough ... These 7 Stocks Will Solve AI’s Most Important Bottleneck
Our Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) price prediction sits well above where the sell side has landed, and that gap is the entire story. Wall Street’s consensus target of $186.50 implies downside from today’s quote. Our model sees the opposite. The 24/7 Wall St. price target for Qualcomm is $257.53, pointing to roughly 25.69% upside over the next ... Qualcomm Price Prediction: The Forecast Is Far More Bullish Than Analysts