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Microsoft and Nvidia haven't been this cheap in a long time.

21 Feb, 2026 @ 19:12 by Yahoo! Finance

Legendary investor Ray Dalio has repeatedly expressed concerns about the U.S. economy. He’s discussed the unsustainable debt and geopolitical conflicts and is concerned about the long-term economic growth. In the fourth quarter, Bridgewater Associates reduced holdings in the major tech stocks, raising concerns about the future of artificial intelligence and increased capital spending. Dalio sold ... Ray Dalio Sours On America And Sold These Tech Stocks

21 Feb, 2026 @ 17:43 by Yahoo! Finance

Looking at what's next for the worst-performing Magnificent Seven stock in 2026.

Growth stock ETFs offer a catch-all way to buy the dip in top stocks.

Nadella said despite the risk, “it was not that hard to convince anyone.”

While the Street is stacked against retail traders, certain indicators can help even the odds against the pros.

The stock market will wrestle with the impact of Friday's SCOTUS tariffs ruling. Nvidia, Apple, Strategy and Iran will all be in focus.

Buffett's Berkshire picked up five million shares of the newspaper company.

21 Feb, 2026 @ 14:00 by Yahoo! Finance

Nextech3D.AI (CSE:NTAR, OTCQX:NEXCF, FRA:1SS) earlier this week reported Q3 2026 financial results that CEO Evan Gappelberg described as a corporate “inflection point,” highlighting 59% revenue growth, 20% sequential quarterly growth and record gross margins of 95%. Speaking to Proactive,...

The daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates acknowledges her privilege, but says she’s building her own thing without their help.

21 Feb, 2026 @ 10:31 by Yahoo! Finance

Will Oracle's AI bet pay off?

Taiwan Semiconductor will be a huge winner as long as AI spending continues.

21 Feb, 2026 @ 01:37 by Yahoo! Finance

Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), and SoftBank (SFTBY) are close to throwing a lot of money into a furnace, that is, OpenAI. The first phase of the company’s latest funding round is almost complete, and if the companies invest near the highest ranges of what has been hashed out, the ...

21 Feb, 2026 @ 01:15 by Yahoo! Finance

Chinese companies like Unitree are pushing out robots that resemble and act like humans. Progress has been swift, fueled by AI, but manufacturing costs are high.

Investing.com – UBS has aggressively raised its Corning Inc (NYSE: GLW) price target to $160 from $125 and maintained a buy rating on the stock. The aggressive move was driven by the massive wave of capital expenditure (capex) revision from leading data center hyperscalers. The analysts noted that Corning glass was set to benefit from the AI infrastructure buildout due to rising demand for fiber optic cables.

TransAlta delivers electricity from hydro, wind, solar, and gas assets to wholesale and utility markets in North America and Australia.

Impressively, Nvidia is on track to bring in almost four times as much in revenue in a single quarter as it did in all of 2021. But are things as good for the other Magnificent 7 members?

BlackLine provides cloud-based software that automates accounting and finance workflows for enterprise and mid-market clients.

20 Feb, 2026 @ 23:50 by Yahoo! Finance

The software bear market has bled into other pockets of the technology realm, and some stocks now trade at a rare discount.

Microsoft on Friday put out word that Xbox stalwart Phil Spencer is retiring, in a shakeup of leadership at the tech titan's video game unit.Spencer headed the Xbox unit for 12 of his 38 years at Microsoft, nearly tripling the size of the business as video games evolved from packaged software for consoles to subscription services and digital downloads on an array of devices.

20 Feb, 2026 @ 23:19 by Yahoo! Finance

Spencer, who has run the Xbox business since 2014 and was named gaming CEO in 2022 is retiring, the company said. Xbox games studios chief Matt Booty will become chief content officer, reporting to Sharma.

Phil Spencer oversaw the acquisitions of Minecraft and Activision Blizzard, but has struggled to keep Xbox competitive with rivals.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI expects more than $280 billion in total revenue by 2030, divided nearly equally across its consumer and enterprise units, according to CNBC, which had reported the development earlier. Altman had said last year that OpenAI is committed to ‌spending $1.4 trillion to develop 30 ​gigawatts of computing resources — enough to ​power roughly 25 ​million U.S. homes.

Any trader that wants large gains must take some risk. The risk is worth taking in software right now.

20 Feb, 2026 @ 22:33 by Yahoo! Finance

The Mag 7 is over, but these five stocks look like worthy replacements.

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