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It's been a big earnings season so far!
Apple, Sandisk and Roku were key movers after the stock market hit new highs amid huge earnings and lower oil prices.
The Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (NASDAQ:NANC) exists to solve a peculiar information asymmetry: members of Congress and their families file STOCK Act trade disclosures within 45 days, and historically, those filings have been a footnote read by no one. NANC turns those disclosures into a portfolio, tracking equities bought by Democratic lawmakers and ... The One Number That Could Break NANC’s AI Rally in 2026
On the latest Reuters Morning Bid podcast segment Powell era ends, hawks rise, the host flagged a milestone that sums up the entire 2026 market story: “the total spend now for 2026 from these big hyperscalers has now topped $700 billion.” The number, the host added, “is rising all the time” and “does mean more ... Hyperscalers Hit $700 Billion in 2026 AI Spending Plans
Investing.com -- Apple CEO Tim Cook said Thursday that memory constraints are worsening and will have a growing impact on the company's business.
» Social Buzz: Wallstreetbets Stocks Mostly Advancing Premarket Friday; Reddit, Apple to Open Higher
The most talked-about stocks in the Reddit subforum Wallstreetbets were broadly higher in the hours
Microsoft’s earnings beat meets cautious market reaction Microsoft (MSFT) just reported quarterly revenue of US$82.9b, with Azure up 40% and AI revenue at a US$37b annual run rate. However, the stock fell after management outlined a US$190b AI focused capex plan for 2026. See our latest analysis for Microsoft. Despite strong cloud and AI results, Microsoft’s recent earnings sparked a 3.9% one day share price decline and contributed to a year to date share price return of a 13.78% decline...
Apple shares jumped 3% in premarket trading on Friday after the iPhone maker posted its strongest quarterly sales growth in more than four years, a show of momentum as it prepares to hand over the reins to a new CEO. Its latest iPhone 17 Pro series and the newly launched low-cost MacBook Neo laptop are both drawing buyers at a time of low overall demand in the consumer electronics industry due to price hikes forced by the memory chip shortage. Even though Apple's margins for the January-March quarter and its fiscal third-quarter forecast were above Wall Street estimates, outgoing CEO Tim Cook warned that higher memory costs would increasingly weigh on the business from June.
The grid was built for a slower world. Tema Electrification ETF (NASDAQ:VOLT) exists because hyperscalers are now signing power contracts the size of mid-sized utilities, and the equipment makers serving them cannot keep up. The fund targets the picks-and-shovels of that buildout: turbine manufacturers, transformer suppliers, switchgear, AI compute, and the cloud platforms generating the ... VOLT Investors: Here’s the One Signal That Predicts Your Returns This Year
Jigar Shah, the former head of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office and co-founder of Generate Capital, used his recent Prof G Markets appearance with Ed Elson to throw cold water on one of the loudest narratives in tech investing. The claim under attack is that hyperscalers can actually build the data center capacity ... Big Tech Is Making ‘Empty Promises’ on 500 Gigawatts of Data Centers It Can’t Deliver
Jackson Square Capital managing partner Andrew Graham takes a magnifying glass to the state of the AI trade — as the latest batch of Magnificent Seven earnings came out this week — and the factors that are creating "downstream winners" like Dell Technologies (DELL).
Tim Baker, a macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, said he is not convinced the pair "will keep falling or even stay here for long," he argued.
Stocks looked set to extend their record-breaking rally on Friday after iPhone maker Apple became the latest company to beat Wall Street’s first-quarter earnings and revenue targets. S&P 500 futures gained 0.1%, while contracts tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 slipped 0.1%. The market is set for a good start to May after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes posted their best months since 2020 in April.
U. S. equity futures ticked higher following record closes on Wall Street, as investors weighed upbeat corporate earnings signals against mounting geopolitical risks and currency volatility.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported record-breaking revenue and earnings per share on Thursday, supported by a second consecutive quarter of more than 20% growth in iPhone sales. The update marks the company’s first earnings release since its unexpected CEO transition announcement.
Rezolve AI PLC (NASDAQ:RZLV) is one of the fastest-growing AI stocks to buy now. On April 13, 2026, Rezolve AI PLC (NASDAQ:RZLV) launched its brainpowa commerce-tuned model suite in Microsoft Foundry, allowing brands to build and deploy commerce copilots on Microsoft Azure. The company said the models are designed for commerce-specific tasks such as identifying […]
SanDisk reports earnings after a massive run fueled by AI data-center demand, tight supply, and rising storage prices.
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares rose 2.75% in after-hours trading after the iPhone maker group reported quarterly results ahead of market expectations. Revenue came in at $111.18 billion for the March quarter, up 17%, beating forecasts of $109.46 billion. Earnings per share of $2.01 also came...
Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship continues to evolve.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is up 96.1% over the past year and just crossed a $5.26 trillion market cap on the same agentic AI thesis Evercore and Wedbush keep recycling around Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s 50-day moving average. But here’s what you should actually be watching. The case against chasing NVIDIA at this level is straightforward. The stock ... Everyone’s Talking About NVIDIA’s Moving Averages. Smart Money Is Watching CrowdStrike Instead
Apple Inc (AAPL) reports a record $111.2 billion in revenue, while navigating supply constraints and evolving its capital allocation strategy.
This key segment could reshape the tech giant's profit profile in ways the iPhone can't.
Investors increasingly want clear signs that AI is paying off. In the latest quarter, only one Big Tech firm truly made the case.
Pearson Q1 2026 Trading Update (Unaudited)
Earnings for State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR members are expected to be up 43% this year from last and rise another 24% in 2027.