Wall Street got back to its winning ways last week after navigating a hawkish Federal Reserve meeting, volatile swings in chip stocks, and a critical round of Big Tech earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1% for the week, snapping a three-week losing streak. The S & P 500 gained 1% last week, while…
CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman walks through the Hart Senate Office Building, following meetings on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 3, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters OpenAI said it appointed longtime financial executives David Vélez and Robin Vince to its nonprofit and for-profit boards of directors, as the company marches closer to a…
The AI trade dominated the market once again this week, upstaging an impressive start to the second-quarter earnings season. Cooler-than-expected June reports on consumer and producer prices offered encouraging signs that inflation continued to ease, while earnings from the nation’s largest banks reinforced the strength of capital markets. At the same time, investors kept one…
People pass by The Spheres in downtown Seattle, Washington, on June 25, 2025. Juan Mabromata | AFP | Getty Images On an early morning in January, Jake Linsley woke up to a text from Amazon that was lighting up his phone. “I thought it was saying, ‘Your package is delayed,’” Linsley said in an interview….
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said investors who feel they’ve missed this year’s biggest winners should be thankful for Wednesday’s market rotation. “You are getting a chance to sell the losers at a premium and switch to winners at a discount,” the “Mad Money” host said Wednesday. “So often in this market, you look back and kick…
Alphabet shares rose 4% Monday as the company officially joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Verizon and adding a symbolic blue-chip designation. The move comes despite continued pressure on the stock. Even with Monday’s gain, Alphabet is still tracking for its worst month since February of last year, with six of the past seven…
Zhipu‘s GLM 5.2 artificial intelligence model landed last week with the kind of Silicon Valley buzz that followed DeepSeek‘s launch last year. The Chinese AI startup‘s new open source model has blown past every other open release and now sits within a percentage point of Anthropic‘s Opus 4.8 on one closely watched agentic benchmark, at…
On Semiconductor has agreed to buy Synaptics in a nearly $7 billion all-stock deal to bolster its push into physical artificial intelligence technology. The Arizona-based company said the deal will give its total addressable market a $30 billion boost to $243 billion by 2030 and strengthen its intelligence systems portfolio. It’s also the company’s largest…
The logo of the software and hardware manufacturer Oracle can be seen at the German headquarters. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Oracle shed 21,000 jobs, almost 13% of its workforce, in the past year, as tech giants carry out sweeping layoffs as a result of AI. The company’s total workforce stands at…
Crowds walk through midtown Manhattan on Oct. 16, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The annual global deal value of mergers and acquisitions is on track to reach $4 trillion in 2026, making it the strongest year since 2021, thanks to bigger megadeals fueled by the ongoing AI demand surge, according…
