Monday brings the first trading day of March on Wall Street, after the S & P 500 lost roughly 1% in February and remained only modestly positive year to date. The U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran over the weekend figures to ripple through financial markets in the week ahead. It was already going to be a…
The giddy days of free cloud storage enticed many to upload photos, documents, and other virtual mementos without a thought about all the space it was taking up. Those days, however, are now in the past for many Americans as people find themselves having to shell out increasing monthly amounts to maintain access to their virtual valuables….
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – SEPTEMBER 19: Customers line up outside an Apple store ahead of the launch of the iPhone 17 series at Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) on September 19, 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The iPhone 17 line represents the next generation of iPhones and accessories set to hit international markets. (Photo by Annice…
All hail Anthropic, the destroyer of everything. What an amazing service. It can wipe out Adobe by allowing you to design something better that has a much simpler commerce system, designed personally for you. That one is child’s play. ServiceNow may call itself the “AI Control Tower” to signify who is in charge, but the…
I like the setup this week, especially for Big Tech, barring another intrusion by our intrusive president. Apologies to people who wish I would call his fits of pique more offensive. These injudicious, blunt-force tariffs do get undone almost as quickly as they are slapped on, thank heavens. How is it possible, ahead of a…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday he’s not bailing on the tech giants known as the Magnificent Seven despite most of those stocks getting off to a sluggish start in 2026. “I think that the money will ultimately flow back to most of the [Mag 7] … because these companies just have too many levers, too…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday that investors shouldn’t read too much into uneventful unemployment data, arguing that a lack of surprises on the labor front is actually giving the market room to reveal the real story: a broad-based rally spreading well beyond last year’s winners. “When you get an employment report that’s basically uneventful, it…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday that early January trading shows how quickly emotion can take over markets at the start of the year, warning investors not to confuse momentum with durability. Cramer said the market is being driven by three groups: momentum traders chasing last year’s winners, “hope springs eternal” investors buying beaten-down stocks and…
Wires and cables in a server room. Thomas Northcut | Digitalvision | Getty Images Nvidia has been the biggest infrastructure winner in the artificial intelligence boom, soaring in value by almost thirteenfold since the end of 2022 to a market cap of $4.6 trillion. While Nvidia’s rally continued in 2025, investors betting on other AI…
My top 10 things to watch Friday, Oct. 24 1. The long-awaited September consumer inflation report, delayed because of the ongoing government shutdown, came in slightly cooler than expected at an 3% annual rate. While still above the Fed’s 2% target rate, the stock market liked the number. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said he has…
