Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images NextEra Energy will buy Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal that unites two leading players in the race to meet growing electricity demand from data centers that run artificial intelligence applications. The deal will create the largest regulated electric utility in the world, the companies said Monday. NextEra…
Here we go again: Nvidia earnings week is upon us. The world’s most valuable company and the leading maker of artificial intelligence chips will deliver first-quarter earnings on Wednesday night. Of course, it will drive a ton of the action on Wall Street this week. But it’s certainly not the only thing on our radar….
Artificial intelligence has ushered in a bull run in stocks that has taken the broader market to new heights. Companies that have tied workforce reductions to the new technology, however, haven’t always fared so well. CNBC compiled a list of 23 S&P 500 firms across multiple sectors and industries to see how their stocks fared…
Dwyane Wade, left, and Jesse Riedel speak onstage during the YouTube Brandcast event at Lincoln Center in New York, May 13, 2026. Mike Coppola | Getty Images Among the live sports and entertainment shows that carried media companies’ presentations to advertisers this week, another pitch kept popping up: creator content. The category of videos, which…
For many people who got their first cellphones in the late 1990s or early 2000s, flip phones were chrome and neon portals into pop culture and newfound social circles with your peers. Now, the digital world — a constantly accessible gateway to millions of other people, information on every subject and breaking news from around…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) ABEL OVERHAULS PORTFOLIO Notable positions cut, Alphabet more than tripled, Delta is back Berkshire Hathaway’s equity portfolio got one of its biggest renovations ever…
Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Inc., attends his company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in New York City, U.S., April 29, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square has built a position in Microsoft, as the hedge fund manager said the software giant’s recent pullback created a…
Warren Buffett and Greg Abel during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. CNBC Berkshire Hathaway added a sizeable stake in Delta Air Lines, marking the conglomerate’s return to the airline industry after exiting the sector entirely during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The Omaha-based company built a position…
Cerebras Systems‘ monster debut on Thursday didn’t just place it among tech’s biggest-ever IPOs — it was a crystal clear signal of unstoppable demand for chips to power AI, as tech giants scramble to find alternatives to the costly, sold-out graphics processing units made by Nvidia. Cerebras closed its first day trading on Wall Street…
Cerebras Systems soared in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, opening at $350 after selling shares at $185, well above the company’s expected range. That values the chipmaker at over $100 billion. The company sold 30 million shares in its offering late Wednesday, raising $5.55 billion, the largest IPO for a U.S. tech company since Uber’s…
