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Too many investors may be making investing in artificial intelligence stocks too risky, too difficult, or both.
In 2001, Pixar was preparing to release the film "Finding Nemo." Given Pixar's track record of blockbusters, everyone expected the movie to be another hit.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rebounds Friday and hit a new milestone. Small caps lead the rally with a more than 3% gain.
The top contributors to the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s ascent from 40000 nearly two years ago to 50000 on Friday came from stocks that benefited from a strong economy and interest rates coming down with inflation. Since the Dow gives more weight to higher priced stocks, the moves of Goldman Sachs (recently trading near $930 a share) have a lot more weight than those of Apple ($275 a share). Here are the top contributors to the Dow’s rise over the past 431 trading days, since it crossed 40000 in May 2024.
US benchmark equity indexes rallied intraday as Nvidia (NVDA) helped lift the technology sector, whi
Investing.com -- Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang defended the current level of AI infrastructure spending, calling it appropriate and sustainable amid investor concerns about tech companies' capital expenditures.
Nearly $240bn has been wiped off the value of Amazon in a sign that investors have become anxious at the eye watering sums being spent by Wall Street on AI.
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Corning shares are on pace for a record closing high. The stock was up 6.3% on Friday to $119.93, putting it in position to beat the record of $113.10, reached on Sept. 1, 2000, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The company, which makes glass products for tech companies includng Apple announced a multiyear deal with Meta Platforms on Jan. 27.
Shares of the chipmaker rose as much as 7.7%, the biggest intraday jump since April 9, adding more than $300 billion in market value. Amazon.com Inc. sparked the rebound after the technology giant said during an earnings call that it plans to spend $200 billion on data centers, chips and other equipment this year. All told, Amazon, along with Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., are expected to shell out roughly $650 billion for AI tools in 2026, about 60% more than the prior year.
Microsoft stock has been laid low by concerns about the potential negative impact of artificial intelligence on the software sector.
The spending planned by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all in pursuit of dominance in the still-nascent market for AI tools, is a boom without a parallel this century. The search for a comparison to the spending projections — which came as the four reported earnings in the past two weeks — requires going back at least as far as the telecommunications bubble of the 1990s, and perhaps to the build-out of the US railroad networks in the 19th century, the postwar federal investments in interstate highways or New Deal-era relief programs.
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S&P 500 Climbs 1% While Nasdaq Recovers From Weekly Losses
By Harshita Mary Varghese and Anhata Rooprai Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. tech giants have predicted their spending would surge this year as they double down on artificial intelligence, sharpening investor
Gather round while we look at the reality of markets. They correct, and sometimes, corrections are brutal. Feb. 5 proved to be a really brutal day, especially for the Magnificent 7 stocks. The Mag 7 group, which includes Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla, has ...
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Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares fell more than 7% to about $205 on Friday following the company’s fourth quarter earnings report, as investors digested the $200 billion capital expenditure plan and disappointing first quarter margin guidance. While AWS and retail results impressed,...
Amazon shares weakened after the tech giant laid out aggressive AI spending
Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are on track to spend between $635 billion and $665 billion in their respective 2026 fiscal years.
AI focused infrastructure firm targets $3.4B annual revenue run rate by 2026 amid strong demand and expansion.
Earnings season has been a dud for Magnificent Seven stocks, but the rotation away from Big Tech has barely dented the group’s hold over the S&P 500. Microsoft, Tesla, Amazon.com, Nvidia, Alphabet, Apple, and Meta Platforms entered the year making up 36.9% of the index's total market cap.
Amazon has never spent anything close to $200 billion a year before. Amazon’s capital spending forecast for this year—given during its fourth-quarter report on Thursday—is well above even the substantially raised projections at Google and Meta Platforms. Analysts now expect Amazon to burn nearly $7 billion in cash this year, according to consensus estimates from Visible Alpha.
A fifth of Britons would consider ending a friendship or romantic relationship over a difference in salary, a survey found.
The global AI trade is starting to fracture as soaring capex, rising debt loads and doubts over who will profit from the technology force investors to draw sharper lines. When ChatGPT launched in November 2022, anything linked to the artificial intelligence theme surged - from chipmakers and software firms to raw-materials suppliers and even companies most exposed to AI disruption. That lifted equity and debt markets to levels that have drawn bubble warnings from regulators and investors, even as the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta mapped out hundreds of billions of dollars in spending.