No surprises on inflation and new financing developments in the artificial intelligence trade drove the record-breaking action on Wall Street last week. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq both dropped modestly Friday but managed to post their third straight winning weeks. The S & P 500 rose above 7,800 during Thursday’s session for the…
In South Korea, where a mountainous landscape makes building huge projects an incredible undertaking, the world’s leading maker of high-bandwidth computer memory is investing $720 billion on what it says will be the largest network of memory factories in the world. SK Hynix, whose market cap has jumped more than fivefold in the past year…
Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks after the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on May 14, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cerebras Systems raised its full-year guidance in the second earnings report following the chipmaker’s IPO in May. But the stock tumbled about…
Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Bitcoin miner Riot Platform has struck a $9 billion, 20-year compute deal with Anthropic, CNBC’s David Faber has confirmed. The agreement would lease 191 megawatts at Riot’s Rockdale, Texas computer campus, giving Anthropic access to scarce, grid-connected power as demand surges for computing power that can…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets are off to a mixed start to the week. The S & P 500 traded higher for most of the early afternoon, but the bulls…
AI stocks came roaring back this week as investors worked through another wave of corporate earnings and a surprisingly weak July jobs report . The major averages notched a second straight week of gains, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S & P 500 both touching record highs. The blue-chip index closed at a…
An AMD employee installs a the first Helios rack-scale AI system in a data center lab in Rockdale, Texas, on June 24, 2026. Helios comes in four customizable configurations, and this is the one Meta will deploy later this year. Andrew Evers | CNBC Advanced Micro Devices is counting on its graphics processing units to…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on July 30, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Hello, this is Anniek Bao writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open. The Dow just notched its fifth straight record close,…
Advanced Micro Devices reported second-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat expectations, but the stock slumped in extended trading. Here’s how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates for the quarter ended June 27: EPS: $1.66, adjusted, versus $1.62 expected Revenue: $11.54 billion versus $11.28 billion expected Overall, AMD revenue climbed 50% from $7.69 billion a…
The jobs market steps into the spotlight this week, while second-quarter earnings season continues apace. Here’s a closer look at what to expect in the coming days. We’ll start with the Club holdings set to report, before touching on the labor-market updates and their implications for Federal Reserve policy. 1. Earnings : The action kicks…
