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30 Mar, 2026 @ 09:00 by Yahoo! Finance

It's an all-hands-on-deck moment for electricity. That means nuclear, long dismissed as too expensive and too slow, is back in the mix

Among Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Tesla, there are two deeply discounted bargains.

Over the past week, Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) announced a wave of AI driven security and cloud integrations with partners including Rubrik, Commvault, RSA, UiPath and XBOW. The company expanded AI powered clinical documentation at Artesia General Hospital, tying Microsoft cloud and healthcare tools into daily medical workflows. New planning and automation tools with Lumel, Expedience and Opsera, along with a forward deployed AI engineering practice with Accenture, aim to bring AI into...

Europe's leading AI provider Mistral has raised $830 million in new ‌debt to buy 13,800 Nvidia chips for a major ‌data centre near Paris, the firm told Reuters, as Europe races to scale AI ​infrastructure to compete with the U.S. and China. The deal, set to be announced on Monday, marks Mistral's first debt raising and underscores growing investor confidence in European AI firms as they seek to ‌challenge the dominance of ⁠U.S. tech giants like Microsoft, Google and Amazon in cloud computing and AI services. Mistral's debt raising was ⁠financed by a consortium of seven banks, including BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC and MUFG, it said.

Gaming is getting more expensive, and everyone is feeling the pinch. Sony (SONY) said it will raise U.S. prices for the PlayStation 5 lineup starting April 2. The standard PS5 will cost $649.99, the Digital Edition will cost $599.99, and the PS5 Pro will cost $899.99. At the same time, Microsoft ...

A trio of concerns are weighing on the company.

29 Mar, 2026 @ 23:51 by Yahoo! Finance

Microsoft just delivered another quarter of double-digit growth, yet the stock has lost more than a fourth of its value in 2026 alone.

Is TSM a good stock to buy? We came across a bullish thesis on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited on Value & Momentum Portfolio’s Substack. In this article, we will summarize the bulls’ thesis on TSM. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited’s share was trading at $326.11 as of March 26th. TSM’s trailing and forward P/E were 31.87 and 24.15 […]

These mega-cap stocks faced a downturn in 2026, but their story is far from over.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the Good Stocks to Buy Now. After a long waiting period, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s Siri is expected to get more powerful AI features and a standalone app for Mac and iPhone, as per a March 24 report by Bloomberg. ​Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reported that people familiar with the […]

29 Mar, 2026 @ 20:12 by Yahoo! Finance

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the Good Stocks to Buy Now. On March 25, UBS lowered its price target on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) from $600 to $510, while maintaining a Buy rating on the shares. ​The firm said in a research note that the reduced price target comes after analyst Karl Kierstead met Microsoft’s […]

29 Mar, 2026 @ 19:07 by Yahoo! Finance

Despite Nvidia being such a fantastic portfolio holding, investors should still understand how management allocates capital.

The AI boom isn't over. It's evolving into a more disciplined phase where durable cash flow and infrastructure dominance matter far more than hype.

Mid-cap growth stocks occupy a specific and often underappreciated position in a portfolio: large enough to have proven their business model, but still growing fast enough to reinvest aggressively rather than return cash to shareholders. Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VOT) is built around exactly that idea, and with $31.7 billion in net ... $31.7 Billion in Assets and a 0.05% Fee: Is Vanguard’s VOT Actually Worth Holding?

VistaShares Target 15 Berkshire Select Income ETF (NYSEARCA:OMAH) promises something Berkshire Hathaway itself has never offered: a monthly paycheck. By mirroring Berkshire’s top equity holdings and selling covered call options against those positions, the fund targets roughly 15% in annual income. Since its March 4, 2025 launch, it has grown to nearly $690 million in ... OMAH Promises Monthly Income From Berkshire Holdings, With One Major Catch

29 Mar, 2026 @ 10:55 by Yahoo! Finance

As the Dow enters a tailspin and the Strait of Hormuz remains a bottleneck, investors are ditching the “short-war” theory.

When did I become such a terrible iPhone typist? Apple is finally doing something about the iPhone’s notoriously frustrating autocorrect. WSJ personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen explains what it fixes, and what’s still broken.

Investing.com -- Here are the biggest analyst moves in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) for this week.

This Peoria-based business has been named to Fortune's list of the most innovative companies in the United States.

29 Mar, 2026 @ 06:00 by Yahoo! Finance

For Gemma Green*, 35, it is the boxes of unread books that keep her awake at night.

Shopify launched its Agentic Storefront feature, allowing merchants to sell directly through AI channels like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Search AI mode. The rollout extends to both existing Shopify merchants and non Shopify brands, opening a new AI driven commerce channel. The launch positions NasdaqGS:SHOP as an early mover in connecting retail product catalogs to conversational AI interfaces. NasdaqGS:SHOP is trading at a share price of $111.85, with a return of 15.7% over the...

29 Mar, 2026 @ 01:28 by Yahoo! Finance

Apple celebrates its 50th anniversary as artificial intelligence challenges the Silicon Valley legend to prove it can deliver yet another culture-changing innovation."Apple was founded on the simple notion that technology should be personal, and that belief -- radical at the time -- changed everything," chief executive Tim Cook said in an anniversary letter posted online.

Earlier this month, UiPath held its Agentic AI Summit and unveiled new agentic AI solutions spanning purchase-to-pay, retail and manufacturing workflows, financial crime and loan origination, alongside a Microsoft-backed security automation capability and an expanded Chief Product and Technology Officer role for Raghu Malpani. Together with a new US$356.70 million shelf registration for employee stock plans, these moves highlight UiPath’s push to deepen industry-specific automation while...

These "Mag 7" rivals could supplant Apple's market cap before 2035.

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