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The stock market shrugged off AI fears with a broad rally Wednesday. Tesla made a bullish move. Snowflake, Salesforce reported late.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that some competitors are taking overspending risks too far.

Apple (AAPL), Nvidia (NVDA), Amazon (AMZN), and Microsoft (MSFT) are just some of the stocks in focus as Yahoo Finance Data and Markets Editor Jared Blikre and Trader Talk host Kenny Polcari take a closer look at the standout names of 2025. Watch the video above to hear more top stock picks and key investment themes. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination Overtime.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index was up Wednesday following surprise jobs data. Microsoft stock sells off on AI news.

US equity benchmarks rose on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average notching its highest c

Microsoft stock fell on a report that it is cutting AI software sales quotas because customers are resisting new products.

↗️ CrowdStrike (CRWD): The cybersecurity company posted a bigger quarterly loss than last year, but raised the lower end of its full year revenue guidance. Shares recovered early losses and finished the day 1.

2025 has been a wild year for Apple (AAPL) investors. The stock was out of favor earlier in the year, with investors believing it was lagging in AI. The stock has turned around, though, and is now up about 40% over the last six months, starting to hit new all-time highs at the end of November. StockBrokers.com Director of Investor Research Jessica Inskip explains the trade and why it's a good one for a first-time options investor. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination.

Marvell jumps after the chip maker beats Wall Street’s earnings targets and announces the acquisition of an AI start-up.

03 Dec, 2025 @ 21:19 by Yahoo! Finance

Salesforce stock reported mixed third-quarter earnings results Wednesday afternoon. Adjusted earnings-per-share were $3.25, well ahead of Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $2.86 cents, up from $2.41 last year. Profitability soared in the third quarter as seen in the earnings beat and in the company’s adjusted operating profit margin of 35.5%, ahead of expectations of 34.1%, and up from 33.1% last year.

03 Dec, 2025 @ 21:10 by Yahoo! Finance

NEW YORK, December 03, 2025--UiPath, Inc. (NYSE: PATH), a global leader in agentic automation, today announced financial results for its third quarter fiscal 2026 ended October 31, 2025.

The company is hiring Alan Dye, who has served as the head of Apple’s user interface design team since 2015, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Apple is replacing Dye with longtime designer Stephen Lemay, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the personnel changes haven’t been announced.

03 Dec, 2025 @ 21:05 by Yahoo! Finance

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., December 03, 2025--C3.ai, Inc. ("C3 AI," "C3," or the "Company") (NYSE: AI), the Enterprise AI application software company, today announced financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended October 31, 2025.

Doubts over AI demand put pressure on tech and a surprise fall in private-sector employment revealed cracks in the job market.

Alphabet may have pulled ahead of OpenAI in the battle for artificial-intelligence supremacy. Jordi Visser, a senior managing director for 22V Research, said in a report last week that the rise of so-called Vision Language Models, which can process and learn from images and video as well as text, should be great news for Tesla thanks to its focus on robotics. “The next phase of AI isn’t about more datacenters, it’s about power infrastructure, flexible demand, and physical-world automation,” Visser wrote.

Wall Street has gone back and forth over whether the market (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) is in an AI bubble or not. Laffer Tengler Investments CEO and CIO Nancy Tengler just doesn't see the market being in a bubble yet. Tengler speaks with Josh Lipton on Market Domination about the difference between the current AI boom and the dot-com crash of the 1990s, and how she expects to invest in the AI trade amid shifting sentiments on the ecosystem's top contenders. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination.

03 Dec, 2025 @ 20:40 by Yahoo! Finance

Tech stocks were increasing late Wednesday afternoon, with the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (X

Sales of the iPhone will hit a record high in 2025 thanks in large part to huge demand from Chinese consumers, according to a new research report.

Walmart is poised to close above a $900 billion market value for the first time. The retailer’s stock is up about 2% today, a gain that would push it above the market-cap milestone and make it the 12th U.S. company to surpass it, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Last month, as the holiday shopping season approached, Walmart executives said that it is winning over more people in all income groups, with the biggest gains coming from higher-income shoppers.

03 Dec, 2025 @ 20:09 by Yahoo! Finance

While skeptics call for an AI bubble, the data suggests the opposite: we are only in the early innings. With supportive macro conditions, expanding real-world adoption, and valuations far from dot-com extremes, the AI trade still offers meaningful upside.

What began as unfamiliar territory for Haley Bryant has become her mission — to democratize access to venture capital through her work at Hustle Fund.

03 Dec, 2025 @ 19:41 by Yahoo! Finance

Is it time to panic on the "safest" tech giant?

Convertible deals, share sale, and a Microsoft megadeal collide in a high-stakes capital play.

03 Dec, 2025 @ 19:28 by Yahoo! Finance

Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Falls Amid Slow Corporate Adoption of AI Solutions

CoreWeave, Nebius, and IREN are battling for dominance in the growing business of AI chip rental. Their stocks have suffered of late.

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