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BE Semiconductor Industries (Besi) on Thursday reported quarterly orders significantly above last year's level, fuelled by strong ‌demand for AI, hybrid bonding, photonics and data centres. Investors are ‌betting on rising demand for Besi's hybrid bonding solutions, a chip-packaging technology that ​enables two chips to be directly bonded together, citing the company's first-mover advantage as AI-driven demand accelerates. The number of customers using Besi's hybrid bonding technology increased ⁠to 21 in the quarter from 15 at the end of last year, as the technology gained traction in logic, memory, co-packaged ​optics and ​consumer applications and drove capacity expansions ​among customers, it said.

Intel is scheduled to report second-quarter financial results after the stock market closes on Thursday.

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Northrop Grumman (NOC) has drawn fresh attention after reporting better-than-expected quarterly earnings and revenue, lifting full-year sales guidance and highlighting a record backlog following substantial contract awards across key defense programs. See our latest analysis for Northrop Grumman. The stronger second quarter and raised sales guidance come after a mixed stretch for Northrop Grumman’s stock, with the share price down about 10% year to date and the 1 year total shareholder return...

Red Cat faces pressure from executive turmoil, lawsuit, insider selling, and weak performance and investor concerns ahead of Q2 earnings.

Kinder Morgan Inc (KMI) reports robust earnings growth and strategic advancements, driven by increased natural gas demand and disciplined capital management.

Tesla Inc (TSLA) reports record Q2 deliveries and significant investments in AI and infrastructure, despite facing margin declines and supply chain challenges.

Despite challenges in consumer demand and regional deflation, Wal - Mart de Mexico SAB de CV (WMMVF) reports strong eCommerce and new business growth in Q2 2026.

Alphabet Inc (GOOG) reports a 24% revenue surge, driven by robust cloud growth and new AI model launches, despite challenges in free cash flow and operating expenses.

IBM reports modest growth amid shifting client priorities, while focusing on AI and quantum computing investments to drive future success.

ServiceNow Inc (NOW) reports a strong Q2 with 23% subscription revenue growth and AI ACV surpassing $1 billion, despite facing market uncertainties.

QuantumScape Corp (QS) advances in automotive and data center markets despite financial hurdles, with key partnerships and production milestones.

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Oilfield services provider SLB (NYSE:SLB) will be reporting earnings this Friday before market hours. Here’s what investors should know.

Executives said the firm’s 21% year-over-year revenue growth in the second quarter was partly due to RIAs’ continued interest in long-short strategies.

I have covered each of the following four stocks separately over the past few weeks:Micron's historic earnings. Intel's painful turnaround. AMD's server CPU advantage heading into August 4. Applied Materials' wafer equipment supercycle. On July 21, Jim Cramer put them all in the same basket with a ...

Generic drugmakers have much thinner margins, and are less interested in “reshoring” to the US where the costs are higher.

GE Vernova (GEV) raised its 2026 revenue and free-cash-flow forecasts on July 22, but a widening loss in its Wind business sent shares lower. The stock fell about 6.3% to $1,011 in midday trading July 22 after dropping as low as $964.16 earlier in the session. Its second-quarter revenue rose ...

Global payments company American Express (NYSE:AXP) will be reporting earnings this Friday before market hours. Here’s what to expect.

U.S. chipmaking giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are signing longer-term purchase commitments with Chinese server customers for data-centre processors as prices ‌surge, two people familiar with the talks said. The move highlights a broader consequence of the ‌AI boom: demand has spread beyond AI accelerators to memory, networking gear and server processors, giving suppliers greater leverage to seek long-term purchase ​deals. AI data centres require not only Nvidia-style graphics processors (GPUs) but also large numbers of central processing units (CPUs) to support servers, storage, networking and inference workloads.

QuantumScape’s second-quarter net loss narrowed, but adjusted EBITDA was nearly flat, indicating limited improvement in profit.

Earnings dominated the narrative in the U.S. markets on Wednesday, with Alphabet, Tesla, and IBM reporting Q2 results.

A clip from an old Lex Fridman podcast interview with Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds on X (the former Twitter), and the timing of its revival is the most interesting part of the story. The clip shows Zuckerberg praising Elon Musk's overhaul of Twitter at a moment when the two men were in the ...

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai used Wednesday's earnings call to mount a robust defence of Google's AI strategy, pushing back on concerns that the company has fallen behind rivals after ‌delaying a flagship model and ceding ground in AI coding. Investors have become increasingly uneasy over Google delaying the release of ‌Gemini 3.5 Pro, a model originally slated for June that was expected to bolster the company's standing in AI coding and autonomous "agent" tasks, two of the industry's most ​fiercely contested areas. The latest setback has fueled worries that Google was losing momentum just as OpenAI and Anthropic and a host of Chinese rivals have accelerated the pace of model releases.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday left the door open to the EV maker merging with his other trillion-dollar-plus-valued firm SpaceX, declining to ‌dismiss the possibility and citing growing overlap between the companies. “As you can tell from the many ‌collaborations on so many fronts with SpaceX, there’s more and more overlap,” Musk said on Tesla's earnings call. “We can't talk about, you know, ​combining companies and that kind of thing on an earnings call," he added.

Record orders and sales driven by defense demand and space-based imaging growth.

Tempus AI (TEM) spent three years selling someone else's cancer test. On Monday, July 20, it decided to just buy the whole thing. The AI diagnostics company agreed to acquire Personalis (PSNL) in a deal valued at $1.5 billion. The move hands Tempus full control of a test that spots cancer ...

Japanese stocks were higher in early trade, driven by hopes for growing demand related to artificial intelligence, despite continued uncertainty over the Iran conflict.

Arvind Krishna says the enterprise tech giant’s mindset still has ties to massive licensing deals of the past.

An archipelago composed of over 7,600 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, the Philippines has gone from being largely overlooked to a travel destination that has skyrocketed in popularity among tourists from Western countries in the last five years. The number of international travelers to the ...