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Amazon ramps up AI spending as investors weigh the long-term payoff
Amazon spent roughly $83 billion on capital expenditures in fiscal 2025, according to its annual report filed with the SEC. That is more than the...
Nvidia trades at about half AMD’s P/E as investors debate growth outlook
Nvidia Corp. earned more than $70 billion in data center revenue last fiscal year and posted GAAP net income north of $55 billion, yet the...
U.S. companies post broad profit surge beyond tech and Wall Street
The companies that built America’s profit recovery were supposed to be familiar names: chipmakers riding the artificial-intelligence wave, megabanks harvesting trading fees, a handful of...
Morgan Stanley cuts Oracle target to $207, keeps equal-weight rating
Morgan Stanley lowered its price target on Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) to $207 from $215 in May 2026, keeping its equal-weight rating on the stock....
Intel jumps 23% to a record after upbeat sales forecast lifts shares
Intel shares surged 23% in a single trading session on April 24, 2026, closing at a record high after the chipmaker delivered quarterly results and...
Buffett explains Berkshire’s cash pile and warns on trend chasing
Warren Buffett spent six decades teaching investors that the hardest thing in markets is doing nothing. In his final shareholder letter before handing the CEO...
U.S. chip stocks hit records as Intel forecast supercharges AI rally
Intel delivered the jolt that semiconductor investors had been waiting for. On Friday, April 25, 2026, the chipmaker’s better-than-expected earnings forecast sent its shares sharply...
Anthropic hits $1T in secondary trading after a 3-month surge
Anthropic, the AI safety startup behind the Claude family of large language models, has crossed a striking threshold: secondary-market trades now price the company at...
Intel jumps 24% to a record after earnings beat; AI is next test
Intel closed at an all-time high on Friday, April 25, 2026, after a blowout quarterly report sent shares surging roughly 24% in a single session....
TSMC shares climb after Taiwan loosens fund limits on holdings
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shares rose in Taipei on Monday after Taiwan’s financial regulator more than doubled the cap on how much of a single...
Texas Instruments surged 19% — its biggest single-day gain since 2000 — after data center revenue jumped 90% year over year
Texas Instruments hadn’t moved like this in a generation. On April 23, shares of the Dallas-based chipmaker rocketed roughly 19%, their largest single-day gain since...
Is the stock market ignoring the Iran war? The S&P 500 is near record highs while oil is at $105 — here’s why that gap can’t last
By late April 2026, Wall Street and the oil market are telling two completely different stories. The S&P 500 is trading near record highs, hovering...
Software stocks plunged after IBM and ServiceNow earnings reignited AI spending fears — Salesforce -9%, Adobe -7%, ServiceNow -18%
Enterprise software stocks suffered their worst single-session rout in months this week after ServiceNow and IBM both reported earnings that forced Wall Street to confront...
S&P 500 drops 0.63% to 7,064 as Iran ceasefire anxiety grips Wall Street — Dow sheds 293 points
Wall Street sold off on Tuesday as traders confronted a simple, uncomfortable question: what happens when a ceasefire expires and nobody has scheduled the next...
UnitedHealth’s stock jumped 8% after it beat earnings — by raising prices and dropping its sickest Medicare patients
UnitedHealth Group’s stock surged roughly 8% on April 21, 2026, after the company posted first-quarter earnings that cleared Wall Street expectations. Adjusted earnings per share...
GE Aerospace’s earnings beat every estimate on the board — and the stock still fell. Here’s why “beating expectations” doesn’t always mean what you think
GE Aerospace reported Q1 2026 results on April 21 that cleared every major Wall Street hurdle. Revenue, adjusted earnings per share (EPS), and free cash...
Nasdaq’s historic 13-day winning streak snaps as U.S.-Iran tensions drag markets lower
The Nasdaq Composite’s 13-session winning streak ended on April 20, 2026, after U.S. naval forces seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz...
Tesla reports Q1 earnings Wednesday with deliveries down 14% — but the robotaxi just expanded to Dallas and Houston
Tesla will report first-quarter 2026 earnings on Wednesday, April 23, walking into the call with a 14% year-over-year drop in vehicle deliveries and a weekend...
Why the stock market’s record week might actually be bad news for your wallet
Maria Gonzalez, a home health aide in Phoenix, spent the week of April 14, 2026, picking up an extra weekend shift to cover a $287...
No, the Nasdaq’s 13-day win streak doesn’t mean it’s time to buy — here’s what history actually shows
The Nasdaq Composite rose for 13 consecutive trading sessions ending April 29, 2026, its longest winning streak since January 1992. Within hours of the milestone,...