Wall Street’s weekly performance was near the flat line heading into Friday. Things started OK on the final trading day of the week, until President Donald Trump ‘s new China trade threats tanked the stock market. The S & P 500 lost 2.71% on Friday — the worst single-session decline since April 10, the day…
BlackRock is seeing a shift among Big Tech investors. Jay Jacobs, the firm’s U.S. head of equity ETFs, finds they’re going for targeted themes like artificial intelligence. “One of the biggest trades we’re seeing this year is simply people leaving the traditional tech sector and getting more granular into AI-specific ETFs, like BAI [the iShares…
Demonstrators hold a banner reading “Liberated Zone” during a protest at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, on Aug. 19, 2025. Microsoft Corp. employees rallied at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters in an effort to ratchet up pressure on the software maker to stop doing business with Israel over its war in Gaza. David Ryder…
Thomas Kurian CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at the Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on April 8, 2025. Candice Ward | Google Cloud | Getty Images Google is taking another shot at selling businesses on artificial intelligence agents by introducing subscriptions featuring agents that perform specific work tasks. Gemini Enterprise targets large organizations,…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined CNBC’s Jim Cramer for a special Investing Club interview on Tuesday at the New York Stock Exchange. With dozens of Club members in attendance for our October Monthly Meeting, Jensen answered questions about Nvidia’s most important partnerships, including Oracle , Intel , CoreWeave , and OpenAI. Here is a rapid-fire…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s optimistic that the United States and China can work through trade and technology disputes. It’s important to keep America at the forefront of the generative AI boom. “AI is going to be foundational and transformative to every single country. President Trump wants America to win the AI race,” Jensen…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer opined on the accelerating artificial intelligence arms race, saying OpenAI’s latest deal with chipmaker AMD makes the ChatGPT owner more competitive. “The hyperscalers are all vulnerable if OpenAI gets this computing power,” he said. “And given the number of chips it’s buying, I think this company can go after everybody’s business.” The…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday explained why he’s bullish on Take-Two Interactive, saying it’s set to dominate the video game space now that its top competitor is going private. “This was an industry with three major players, but now, with Activision gone and EA going private, Take-Two’s now the only major publicly-traded American video game…
Government shutdowns should, theoretically, matter to the stock market. A shutdown could hurt spending power for up to 900,000 people, the highest estimate I have seen for those to be furloughed. That’s a lot of people who will spend a lot less money – especially because most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Shutdowns still don’t…
Keith Heyde stands on site in Abilene, Texas, where OpenAI’s Stargate infrastructure buildout is underway. Heyde, a former head of AI compute at Meta, is now leading OpenAI’s physical expansion push. OpenAI It wasn’t how Keith Heyde envisioned celebrating the holidays. Rather than hanging out with his wife back home in Oregon, Heyde spent late…
