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Microsoft Corp (MSFT) delivered a record fiscal year with Azure revenue surpassing $100 billion, while AI-driven demand continues to outpace capacity.

After listening to this top executive, it's hard for investors not to get excited about the ongoing AI spending boom.

Shares in Chinese data centre supplier Zhongji InnoLight tumbled more than nine percent in its Hong Kong debut on Thursday, after raising at least US$6.8 billion in the city's biggest IPO for seven years, driven by a demand for AI components.The Shenzhen-listed firm priced its shares at HK$980 on Thursday, raising about HK$53.4 billion (US$6.8 billion), the most since Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba listed in the city in 2019.

Copilot, which includes AI features supported by cloud services in its Office suite, grew 20 million paid users last quarter, showing the time spent convincing users to give it a try has paid off.

Alphabet's Google DeepMind has disbanded its dedicated AlphaFold team and reassigned researchers to work on the Gemini large language model and other scientific projects. AlphaFold development will continue within wider scientific programs that span areas such as enzyme design, nuclear fusion, genomics, and drug discovery. This move reshapes how some of DeepMind's most recognized researchers are deployed and indicates a broader push to embed foundational AI across multiple fields. Alphabet,...

The stock market sold off as oil prices surged on Trump's Iran threats. Microsoft, Meta and Fortinet were key earnings movers late.

South Korea’s SK Hynix shares fell nearly 10% despite record results powered by the AI boom.

Microsoft beat fourth-quarter sales and profit expectations, with its Azure cloud posting 43% growth.

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Every few years Apple does something that sounds like a minor product tweak but is actually a meaningful change to how it makes money. The shift from selling music to streaming it. The move from hardware warranties to AppleCare subscriptions. The build-out of Services into a business that now ...

The Federal Reserve held benchmark interest rates steady for a fifth consecutive session.

The hyperscaler impressed Wall Street by holding firm on AI spending.

The Australian shopping journey has been rewritten. Social media is now driving purchase decisions at scale, fundamentally reshaping how consumers discover, evaluate and buy products and forcing brands to rethink how they go to market.

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.

Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $9.9 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $2.21, with revenue reaching the high end of the company’s guidance range. The company said record automotive sales and growth in Internet of Things products helped offset pressure in its

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) closed fiscal 2026 with record revenue and continued growth in cloud and artificial intelligence services, while outlining plans for further infrastructure investment and forecasting double-digit revenue and operating-income growth in fiscal 2027. For the fiscal fourth quart

REalloys is establishing a comprehensive, non-Chinese rare earth supply chain in North America by integrating feedstock sourcing, proprietary metallization technology, and permanent magnet manufacturing

While the Waymo Driver handles autonomous navigation, Gemini empowers riders with voice or touch controls for cabin settings, journey details, local recommendations, and general knowledge, the company said.

Microsoft Azure cloud-computing revenue increased 43% during the fiscal fourth quarter, above expectations of 40%.

ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) reported record first-quarter fiscal 2027 results, with revenue rising 22% year over year to $1.29 billion as demand for its computing platform expanded across cloud AI infrastructure, edge devices and physical AI applications. Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas said the company del

U.S. equity futures were little changed on Wednesday as investors digested Microsoft, Meta and Qualcomm earnings and the Federal Reserve’s decision.

While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Microsoft (MSFT) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended June 2026, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.

Semiconductors and megacap tech have rolled over, yet the broader market and equal-weight strategies are holding firm.

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.

The chipmaker topped revenue estimates, but cautious guidance, supply constraints, and Apple headwinds weighed on investor sentiment.

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Microsoft stock, down earlier this year, is up 5.5% in the past month. The answers to three AI-related questions could determine whether shares continue to gain.

Microsoft crushed Wall Street's targets for its fiscal fourth quarter thanks to cloud computing and AI strength. Microsoft stock rose late.

The $3 trillion market cap club will be crowded in 2027.

Online retail liquidation company, MAC.BID, announced today the opening of its 30th retail location in St. Peters, Missouri, part of the St. Louis metro area. The new facility, located at 16060 Spencer Road St. Peters, MO 63376, will open later this fall and is expected to create more than 70 new local jobs.

Facebook-parent Meta reported profits on Wednesday that fell short of Wall Street expectations, as the cost of staying in the race to deploy artificial intelligence -- along with hefty legal and severance charges -- hurt its bottom line.At Meta, the profit decline was driven largely by one-time items, including $2.4 billion in charges tied to legal proceedings and $1.2 billion in severance from a round of layoffs in May.

Microsoft’s fiscal Q4 revenue of $90 billion topped Wall Street targets, while Copilot reached 30 million paid seats, and an investment in Anthropic delivered a $3.2 billion windfall.

Amazon.com Inc. is taking its satellite connectivity strategy straight to smartphones, intensifying competition with Elon Musk-led Space Exploration Technologies Corp.‘s satellite internet service Starlink. Expanding The Space Network The e-commerce giant, in a statement on Monday, said it sought the...

Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton previews the biggest market catalysts for Thursday, July 30, including highly anticipated earnings from Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) as well as the expected IPO debuts of Jersey Mike's and Reformation.

Passenger experience could become the next competitive battleground.

Microsoft Azure cloud-computing revenue increased 43% during the fiscal fourth quarter, above expectations of 40%.

D.A. Davidson head of technology research Gil Luria joins the Market Domination Overtime team in reacting to Meta Platforms' (META) second quarter earnings results.

Klarna Group (NYSE:KLAR) has been selected as the leasing provider for Apple Upgrade, Apple's new hardware leasing program in the United States. The program supports financing for Apple hardware across in-store and online checkout channels. Klarna Group now sits inside a high-profile consumer hardware program with Apple Upgrade in the US. The stock closed at $18.71 and is down 1.7% over the past week, 7.8% over the past month, and 34.5% year to date. Those moves frame the Apple partnership...

Apple came close but couldn’t get there, failing to close at the level it needed to reach to make the milestone for the first time.

If the AI trade fails to deliver, foreign investors will exit U.S. equities, Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Sløk said in an interview.

With investors growing more selective about AI stocks, AMD's August 4 earnings could be a big catalyst for the chip stock.

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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh reassured markets about a resilient economy, but geopolitical uncertainty remains the major factor for most interested parties right now.

Vertiv stock drops sharply after the data-center infrastructure company’s second-quarter sales came in below Wall Street’s expectations.

Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre tracks options trading activity around Apple (AAPL) shares, specifically explaining how a covered call works. Apple will be reporting its fiscal third quarter earnings results after the closing bell on Thursday, July 30.

Meta Platforms reported a 91% drop in second-quarter free cash flow on Wednesday, underscoring the financial strain of the social media giant's costly AI buildout amid an uncertain payoff. The Facebook and Instagram parent company reported free cash flow of $784 million in the second quarter ended June 30, down from $8.55 ‌billion a year earlier, sending its shares down 10% in extended trading. Meta's cash flow wipeout echoed Alphabet's, which last week reported its first-ever cash-flow-negative quarter, stunning even the most bullish of ‌Wall Street investors who sold off the Google owner's stock.

Arm Holdings signaled strong demand from AI on Wednesday, yet shares slid nearly 7% after hours in choppy trade even though the intellectual property and chip designer forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street ‌estimates. The boom around AI and more recently the demand ‌for agents - programs that can act with little or no human direction - has boosted demand for Arm's chip architecture, which powers an increasing number of data center central processing units (CPUs). Cloud ​giants such as Alphabet and Amazon.com build custom AI chips, which have boosted the company's licensing revenue and royalties as more complex chips are shipped to data centers.

Qualcomm forecast fourth-quarter profit below estimates and said revenue from Apple products would decline faster than expected, but signaled that growth in data-center and other non-handset businesses would more than make ‌up for the lost revenue by fiscal 2027. Shares of the company were down more than 4% in extended trading on Wednesday, ‌while Apple shares were flat. Qualcomm said supply constraints would reduce its share of components used in the next iPhone launch to well below its earlier estimate of 20%.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK.A) shares are trading at an 8% discount to intrinsic value, UBS said, raising its price target on the conglomerate ahead of its second-quarter earnings release. UBS lifted its target to $877,848 for Class A shares from $854,596, and to $585 for Class B shares....

Amazon's second-quarter results should reflect robust growth across its businesses. But investors will likely look beyond headline revenue and earnings.

DoorDash stock pops as FAA grants the firm Part 135 air carrier certification. Here’s what it means for DASH shares heading into the company’s Q2 earnings.

Apple stock has had a strong five year run, yet Simply Wall St's valuation checks flag it as leaning expensive, with the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) estimate indicating the shares trade at a premium to intrinsic value while market based multiples look closer to fair. Apple has returned 136.8% over the past five years, which sets a high bar for any further gains to be justified by future cash flows. Expectations around Apple Intelligence and wider AI deployment can support confidence in long...

Credit markets are pricing in more risk for the software company than for its hyperscaler peers.

Phillip Securities upgraded Alphabet after its earnings selloff but lowered forecasts to account for enormous AI spending.

UBS highlighted Berkshire's equity portfolio and possible buybacks after the shares substantially underperformed the S&P 500.

Amazon, Apple set to follow tomorrow with their own quarterly numbers; Nvidia’s due next month

Amazon stock is on a losing streak coming into its Q2 earnings report but could highlight AI enterprise momentum.

Amazon's latest borrowing attracted substantially weaker demand as technology companies issued $194 billion to finance AI investment.

Wall Street expects Apple's strongest June-quarter revenue growth since 2021 after the company held iPhone prices steady.

The world's largest package carrier is handing back more cash than the typical blue chip, yet the market seems unimpressed.

Nvidia holds a slight edge in this battle of tech titans, but both represent premier AI opportunities.

The stock's price has risen nearly 50% this year.

Bernstein managing director & senior analyst Stacy Rasgon and Lopez Research founder Maribel Lopez comment on Qualcomm's (QCOM) position in the AI data center landscape.

Blue chips outperformed Tuesday on solid results from Coca-Cola and Boeing, while slumping chip stocks held the Nasdaq back.

Markets Weigh Peace Hope Against AI Fear: Stock Market Today

Earnings are the most important thing, and expectations are high. But interest rates are rising, and energy tensions aren't easing.

All three main equity indexes were in the green to start the trading week, but questions about war overtook optimism about earnings.

Every sector but healthcare was up on Friday, as investors, traders and speculators priced in broad optimism about the future.

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Communication services stocks represent a diverse segment of the market that includes media companies, internet giants and telecoms. Here's how to find the best ones.

The best Nasdaq stocks to buy include familiar tech-related names, as well as companies with strong long-term upside potential operating in other sectors.

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As of May 2026, Asian markets have shown resilience with Chinese equities advancing and Japan's indices reaching record highs, driven by strong domestic demand and optimism in technology sectors. In this environment, identifying undervalued stocks can be an attractive strategy for investors seeking opportunities where market prices may not fully reflect a company's intrinsic value.

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) has expanded its partnership with Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO, XETRA:1YD) in a multi-year agreement that will run through 2029 and include an initial commitment to deploy more than 1 gigawatt of custom silicon capacity, as the social media giant...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) is training a photorealistic digital version of its chief executive to interact with the company's 79,000 staff. Meta is developing an AI-powered replica of Mark Zuckerberg designed to interact with employees on his behalf, according to a...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) is expected to overtake Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)'s Google as the largest digital advertising company by net revenue, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing eMarketer projections. Meta is projected at about $243.46 billion versus...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) has earned a repeat ‘Buy’ rating from Bank of America following the unexpected early launch of the company’s newest large language model, Muse Spark. Bank of America also kept its price target on Meta unchanged at $885, with shares up 3.4%...

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) on Thursday announced an expanded agreement with Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) to provide AI cloud capacity through December 2032. The deal, valued at approximately $21 billion, continues the companies’ existing relationship and supports Meta’s...

Trump announced that a two-week ceasefire deal had been agreed between the US and Iran

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) saw its shares rise nearly 9% following the announcement of Muse Spark, the first model from its newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. In a blog post, the company described the model is a natively multimodal reasoning system with...

Analysts at Jefferies say that while regulatory scrutiny may affect Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB), the company could still present attractive long-term investment opportunities. In a note to clients, Jefferies highlighted that concerns around regulatory and...

Energy prices are reignited by a seeming lack of diplomatic progress ahead of President Trump's five-day deadline on military strikes against Iran's energy infrastructure