My week in San Francisco, where I attended Salesforce’s annual AI conference and visited with the CEOs of Starbucks, Broadcom, and many others, was filled with fresh insights about AI, stocks, and the market at large. Below are my top 10: Consider these takeaways to inform your investing decisions in the days and months ahead….
Stocks were brutalized Friday in a way we haven’t seen in ages. Everything except some downtrodden consumer packaged goods stocks, led by the resurgent PepsiCo , was slaughtered. The headwinds were enormous and came from disparate places. Bond yields came down huge, something that equity markets normally greet with tremendous relief and price-to-earning multiple expansion….
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gestures as U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) delivers remarks during the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters Nvidia this week said it’ll invest $100 billion into OpenAI in a deal that highlights just how big the chipmaker’s investment portfolio has…
Microsoft’s first data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Microsoft RACINE, Wis. — Microsoft said Thursday that it will spend $4 billion to build a second data center in Wisconsin. The first one will come online in early 2026, with the software company spending $3.3 billion on it. The first Wisconsin data center will house hundreds…
CoreWeave Inc. signage in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, May 9, 2025. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images CoreWeave shares jumped Tuesday on news that the cloud infrastructure company, which was one of the hottest IPOs of the year, launched a venture fund to invest in artificial intelligence startups. CoreWeave, considered…
