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Tech stock coverage for the week of Aug. 17.

Tech stock coverage for the week of Aug. 17.

Groq has raised $350 million in funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, roughly half what it was worth nearly a year ago before Nvidia Corp. struck a licensing deal with the startup and hired away much of its talent.The financing, set to be announced Monday, was led by Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive. Nvidia is also set to invest in the round, according to a representative for Groq. Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment. Founded in 2016, Groq was among the companies developing the

Asking for a Trend Host, Josh Lipton breaks down what investors should be on the lookout for the week of Monday, August 17, including opening arguments in the Meta (META) social media addiction trial, earnings from Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), Lowe's (LOW), and Home Depot (HD).

A new Texas data centre campus owned by Meta and BlackRock is on the hook for huge losses in the event of catastrophic events, creating credit...

An age-old economics tenet posits that excessive government borrowing can leave little room for companies to tap financial markets and drive up their interest rates to punishing levels. It’s called the “crowding out” theory.

Wall Street sees booming cloud growth as a sign that AI spending is giving a return on investment.

A lawsuit filed by 29 attorneys general related to Meta's impact on teens will go to trial Tuesday.

Enthusiasm for Big Tech and its huge investments in artificial intelligence is powering the stock market to record highs again. With a resilient economy and scorching demand, there’s seemingly only one obstacle that can derail this ride: higher interest rates.

Alibaba Group Holding’s open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months, eclipsing Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc. and domestic peers to become the world’s No. 1 artificial-intelligence model.

CEO Bill Ackman outlines plans for investment-grade debt, a new venture vehicle, and potential upside from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to drive long-term shareholder value.

Gold recent rally is mostly due to five big buyers: four central banks and Tether, a company that deals in cryptocurrency. Tether is buying for the very reasons that central banks are—to diversify its holdings and hedge against inflation and significant dollar weakness, which Tether’s crypto stablecoin USDT is pegged to. In the first half, Tether bought more than 27 metric tons of gold—matching Kazakhstan.

Institutional investors pulled back slightly from key stock market segments such as semiconductors, AI infrastructure and megacap technology companies during the second quarter, with few big bets in either direction, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings show. A Reuters analysis of quarterly 13F filings from 6,371 pension ‌funds, hedge funds, wealth managers and other institutional investors reveals a narrow gap between the number of investors increasing their positions and those reducing them, but in many cases the gap ‌swung slightly negative. Nearly 44% of filers reviewed trimmed their holdings of the Magnificent Seven group of megacap tech firms such as Microsoft and Meta Platforms, while 42% initiated or expanded their holdings of this group.

Tiger Global Management trimmed several of its Big Tech stakes, exited Netflix, and took positions in Advanced ‌Micro Devices and SpaceX during the second quarter, according to ‌regulatory disclosures filed Friday. • The hedge fund cut its Alphabet holdings by 45.4% to 5.81 million shares as of June 30 from the end of March, and its Nvidia stake by 6.8% to 11.20 million shares. • ‌It trimmed its Microsoft ⁠stake by 9.3% to 2.27 million shares and its Amazon position by 3.2% to 9.68 million shares.

Anthropic's investors are penciling in a $2 trillion October IPO that would shatter every record in stock market history, and the revenue growth backing that number is genuinely jaw-dropping. But one overlooked pattern in mega-cap listings suggests the opening bell could be the worst time to buy.

Aug 14 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were subdued on Friday, a day after the S&P 500 closed at a record high, as rising crude prices after the latest developments in the Middle East kept

Pershing Square (NYSE:PS) held its first earnings call as a public company, with Chairman and CEO Bill Ackman emphasizing the firm’s strategy of generating growth through the compounding value of its existing investment portfolios while selectively launching new vehicles. Ackman said the firm’s per

Newsmax Inc (NMAX) reports record Q2 revenue of $54.1 million and net income of $2.9 million, driven by surging affiliate fees and international licensing growth.

S&P 500 Pushes to Record as Inflation Data Eases Fed Fears

By Avinash P and Purvi Agarwal Aug 13 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 climbed to an intraday record high on Thursday, powered by advances in semiconductor and other heavyweight technology stocks, as a retreat

As a flood of debt sales by US tech companies ripples through the credit market, it seems to be triggering an inadvertent rise in risk metrics for some of the world’s safest firms.

By Gopika Gopakumar MUMBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - India's financial sector has seen several major deals since last year, including rare transactions involving foreign banks and financial institutions

Revenue grows 5% but PAT margin slumps to 1.8% amid heavy marketing spend and soft discretionary demand.

Meta Platforms (META) is set to go to trial in California federal court over claims that it made Fac

(Bloomberg) -- One of the stock market’s favorite momentum plays from earlier this year is re-emerging as rising confidence in artificial intelligence spending sends the shares of optical component makers soaring again.Most Read from BloombergPhoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn’t DriveFive Takeaways From Zuckerberg’s 6,500-Word Manifesto on AITata Sons Chairman to Step Down, Deepening Leadership TurmoilTrump Weighs Call for Capital Gains Tax Cuts as Midterm BoostPak

By Diana Novak Jones Aug 12 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered Facebook

Aug 12 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms, Google's YouTube, TikTok parent ByteDance and Snap Inc are facing thousands of lawsuits brought by states, school districts and individuals alleging they

Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages and force it to make sweeping changes to its platforms. The trial in Oakland, expected to last seven weeks, ‌will test Colorado, Kentucky, California and New Jersey's allegations that Meta designed its platforms to keep young users hooked and misled consumers about their safety. It will also address claims by 29 states that the ‌company illegally collected and used children's data in violation of federal law.

The company is giving its most powerful AI models away while spending as much as $145 billion this year. How does that add up for shareholders?

Investors aim for an agreement with Fenway Sports Group at an $8 billion valuation, with an option to acquire the rest of the team.