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Applied Materials Report Seen as Bellwether for AI Capital Spending

Applied Materials is set to report fiscal third-quarter earnings Thursday after the market closes, with investors looking for signs that booming investment in artificial intelligence continues to drive demand for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The company reports Thursday, Aug. 13, and Wall Street is expecting another strong quarter. Analysts expect Applied Materials to report revenue of Read More…

CoreWeave Set to Report Second-Quarter Results Tuesday

CoreWeave is set to report second-quarter earnings Tuesday after the market closes, giving investors another look at whether massive spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure is translating into sustainable growth. The AI-focused cloud computing company will report results Aug. 11, followed by an earnings call at 5 p.m. Eastern time, according to CoreWeave. Wall Street is Read More…

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Applied Materials Report Seen as Bellwether for AI Capital Spending

Applied Materials is set to report fiscal third-quarter earnings Thursday after the market closes, with investors looking for signs that booming investment in artificial intelligence continues to drive demand for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The company reports Thursday, Aug. 13, and Wall Street is expecting another strong quarter. Analysts expect Applied Materials to report revenue of Read More…

Friedberg Says Starlink Could Become a $1 Trillion Business

Elon Musk said this week that Starlink’s long-term revenue potential could be far larger than a bullish estimate offered by former Alphabet executive and venture capitalist David Friedberg, as the satellite internet business continues rapid subscriber and revenue growth. Speaking on the All-In podcast, Friedberg cited Starlink’s performance in making a bullish case for the Read More…

July CPI Report Wednesday Could Be a Major Test for Markets and the Fed

Investors will get one of the most important economic reports of the month Wednesday morning when the government releases its July Consumer Price Index, providing the latest look at inflation and potentially reshaping expectations for the Federal Reserve. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release July CPI at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday, Aug. 12. Read More…

CoreWeave Set to Report Second-Quarter Results Tuesday

CoreWeave is set to report second-quarter earnings Tuesday after the market closes, giving investors another look at whether massive spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure is translating into sustainable growth. The AI-focused cloud computing company will report results Aug. 11, followed by an earnings call at 5 p.m. Eastern time, according to CoreWeave. Wall Street is Read More…

American Express Q2 Beat Fails to Impress Investors

American Express reported second-quarter profits rose 8% from a year earlier, beating Wall Street’s expectations, but shares fell roughly 6% Friday as investors focused on unchanged full-year earnings guidance and rising expenses rather than the headline beat. The New York-based card issuer earned $3.11 billion, or $4.53 a share, in the quarter, topping the analyst Read More…

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Microsoft cuts over 600 Washington jobs, 4,800 globally amid corporate restructuring

Microsoft announced layoffs Monday impacting 605 workers based out of Washington, part of a planned broader corporate restructuring that will eliminate 4,800 employees globally. According to the Washington Employment Security Department WARN database, the permanent job cuts were formally logged on Monday and are scheduled to take effect on Sept. 4. The 605-person filing represents the Read More…

SpaceX Becomes World’s Fifth Most Valuable Company

Stock’s blistering post-IPO run has investors betting on Musk’s broader ambitions in AI, even as some analysts call the valuation overheated Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the Elon Musk-led rocket and satellite company known as SpaceX, vaulted past Amazon.com in market value this week, becoming the world’s fifth most valuable public company in just three trading Read More…

Snap Spins Off Gen-AI Video Team to Form Dotmo, a New Independent Firm

Social-media company sheds in-house AI video unit as it looks to rein in the rising costs of developing generative-AI models and immersive gaming products Snap Inc. is carving out its generative-AI video team into a new, independent company called Dotmo, the latest move by the social-media giant to manage the soaring costs of building artificial-intelligence Read More…

Justice Department Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has approved Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing the largest regulatory hurdle facing one of the most closely watched media mergers of the Trump era. The decision, announced Friday, paves the way for a combination of two of Hollywood’s most storied studios, merging the company behind Read More…

SpaceX Makes History With Record-Breaking $75 Billion IPO — Shares Surge Nearly 20% on Debut

Elon Musk’s SpaceX priced its initial public offering Thursday, raising $75 billion and cementing the rocket maker’s place among the world’s most valuable companies in what stands as the largest IPO in U.S. history. On Friday, Wall Street delivered its verdict: investors wanted in. The offering valued SpaceX at approximately $1.77 trillion at its IPO Read More…

MGM, Caesars Takeover Bids Signal New Era for Las Vegas

The Las Vegas Strip is facing a wave of consolidation unlike anything seen in a generation, with two major casino takeover deals announced in the span of days that could fundamentally reshape the American gaming industry. Media mogul Barry Diller’s holding company People Incorporated — formerly known as IAC — submitted a non-binding proposal Monday Read More…

Markets Whipsaw Through a Week of Records, Inflation Fears, and Geopolitical Uncertainty

Wall Street closed out a turbulent week on a sour note Friday, with all three major indexes posting sharp declines that erased much of the gains built up through a historic midweek rally, leaving investors to weigh record stock prices against rising inflation, elevated oil prices, and unresolved geopolitical tensions. For the week, the S&P Read More…

Stocks Close Out Strong Week

Wall Street capped a strong week with fresh all-time highs on Friday, as upbeat earnings from Apple and hopes for a resolution to the U.S.-Iran conflict helped push major indexes higher for a fifth consecutive week. The Nasdaq led the way, surpassing the 25,000 level and closing at 25,114.44, a new record. The S&P 500 Read More…

Intel Earnings Signal CPU Demand Is Outrunning Supply

Intel Corporation delivered a quarterly report that suggests one of the most important markets in technology is tightening again: central processing units are in short supply just as demand rebounds. Shares of Intel surged nearly 30% after the company’s fiscal first-quarter results topped expectations and management outlined stronger trends in servers, improved product mix, and Read More…

U.S. Manufacturing Roars Back

American manufacturing is showing fresh momentum, with factory activity climbing to its strongest level in four years as companies expand domestic production and investors warm to an industrial rebound. Recent data point to a broad pickup across the sector. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index rose for a third straight month, reaching its highest Read More…

Tesla Bulls Say Heavy Spending Is the Price of Becoming an AI Powerhouse

Tesla, Inc. investors are again confronting the company’s defining question: Is it an automaker with an expensive valuation, or an artificial-intelligence company still early in its growth story? The debate intensified after Tesla reported first-quarter results that showed rising revenue, improving profits and sharply higher capital expenditures. The company spent $2.49 billion in the quarter, Read More…

U.S. LNG exports up again in March on global panic buying

(The Center Square) – U.S. LNG exports hit record-high 11.7 million metric tons in March as new plants in Texas ramped up production while supply disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East drove global gas prices sharply higher, according to preliminary LSEG data. Asian benchmark LNG prices spiked above $22 per million Btu Read More…

U.S. adds 178,000 jobs in March, unemployment falls to 4.3%

The U.S. economy added 178,000 jobs in March, the Labor Department reported Friday, a figure that surpassed expectations and came in roughly triple some earlier forecasts, signaling continued resilience in the nation’s labor market as geopolitical tensions mount abroad. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%, while wage growth moderated slightly from previous months — a Read More…