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Wall Street is set for a packed week defined by jobs and inflation reports.

Prediction market volume on Kalshi hit an all-time high on Sunday as NFL's Super Bowl drove a surge

US equity indexes traded mixed, as gains in technology and communication services helped push the S

Bank of America thinks that the stock market’s “easy” leadership era is buckling, and it’s not because the economy is suddenly falling apart. In a Friday note reported by Business Insider, Michael Hartnett’s team argued that the early-2020s era, when Big Tech (and the Magnificent 7) could do no ...

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose as Nvidia and Microsoft shined. An energy stock tested an entry. IBM stock lagged.

09 Feb, 2026 @ 18:01 by Yahoo! Finance

Altman says monthly gains exceed 10%

09 Feb, 2026 @ 17:56 by Yahoo! Finance

Microsoft Shares Climb on Reports of PC-Style Next-Gen Xbox

09 Feb, 2026 @ 17:54 by Yahoo! Finance

Claude draws more searches than ChatGPT

The recent drop in software sector stock prices is creating buying opportunities, according to Jefferies.

09 Feb, 2026 @ 17:45 by Yahoo! Finance

Oracle Stock Surges After Analyst Upgrade. Why Wall Street Is Turning Bullish

09 Feb, 2026 @ 17:37 by Yahoo! Finance

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.

09 Feb, 2026 @ 17:35 by Yahoo! Finance

Massive RPO surge reflects robust enterprise demand and AI adoption across services.

Software stocks may not have seen the end of their turmoil, but many industry analysts say the sell-off is overdone.

US equity indexes rose as mega-caps from the software-infrastructure and semiconductor industries he

To many people, videogames are a frivolous waste of time. Read on to see what really came first, and how videogames have since evolved into today’s massive global industry. A handful of basic electronic games—think checkers and tic-tac-toe—were designed in laboratories going back to at least the 1950s.

Developments from Tokyo to Beijing to London and Washington have the potential to send yields higher. Wall Street is watching.

Elon Musk has revealed that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) aggressively targeted Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) engineers with nonstop recruiting calls and lucrative pay offers during the iPhone maker's now-abandoned push to build an electric vehicle. Apple's EV Push Triggered A Talent War With Tesla, Musk Says Earlier this week, speaking during a wide-ranging, more than two-and-a-half-hour conversation with Stripe co-founder John Collison and podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, Musk said Tesla became a prime recruit

09 Feb, 2026 @ 15:54 by Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma keeps track of several Wall Street analyst calls on top trending stocks, including calls around shares of Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Medtronic (MDT), and Microsoft (MSFT). To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Catalysts.

Big tech companies have huge AI spending plans this year, and this ETF may benefit most from them.

09 Feb, 2026 @ 15:43 by Yahoo! Finance

The Dow's early struggles didn't last long. The blue-chip index roared to a fresh intraday record at 50,219.18 after opening lower. It was up 83 points, or 0.2%. The S&P 500 was up 0.4%, while the Nasdaq Composite was up 0.

Learn how to invest in stocks with technical analysis using case studies on past big winners Apple, Walmart, Cisco and more.

Kansas City Chiefs, a perennial NFL powerhouse, today announced they have deployed Yavrio's open banking solution within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to streamline bank reconciliation and achieve real-time visibility into their financial operations.

It's a new week, and software stocks (IGV) are still under pressure. Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré, Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma, and Crossmark Global Investments chief market strategist Victoria Fernandez join Opening Bid host Brian Sozzi to discuss the software space. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Opening Bid.

Apple plans a wave of 2026 launches, keeping the iPhone 17e at $599 while refreshing iPads, Macs, and select software features.

How Ring's founder Jamie Simonoff plans to reinvent his industry, again.

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