Stocks moved lower since our last CNBC Investing Club Monthly Meeting as renewed inflation concerns, sparked by rising oil prices, sent Treasury yields higher — a toxic mix for the market. In early Thursday trading, it was much of the same, with Iran war uncertainty pushing U.S. oil prices above $100 per barrel, joining international…
Private equity fund Silver Lake plans to merge two of its software firms, as the sector grapples with AI disruption. French firms Cegid, which sells business management software, and Silae, a payroll and HR platform, would combine in a deal that would bring together payroll, accounting, e-invoicing, digital finance and payments data, and create a…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that August was a comeback month for stocks that had been battered by some of Wall Street’s most powerful bearish narratives. His comments came on the final trading day of August. Several of the S&P 500‘s biggest winners in August spent months under pressure from concerns ranging from artificial intelligence…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, speaks as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during the OpenAI DevDay event in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Longtime partners OpenAI and Microsoft both indicated they were suffering from outages for key products on Monday, though there were no reports that the outages…
This week’s impressive earnings results showed that the AI buildout is not a zero-sum game: both hardware and software stocks can win. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the S & P 500 gained 0.9% and 0.5%, respectively, while the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.5%, marking its first winning week in three. Much of…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday said strong earnings results from Nvidia and Salesforce shattered two of Wall Street’s biggest tech bear narratives, sending both stocks soaring. “We were in the grip of some lies and damn lies, backed by chimerical statistics, and now both bear stories backfired,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Today was a…
Shares of Salesforce jumped more than 20% Thursday after the company reported a beat on second-quarter earnings and announced an expanded partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. The stock is on pace for its second-best day ever, trailing only August 2020, when shares jumped roughly 26%. CEO Mark Benioff and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined…
Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce, speaks during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024. Halil Sagirkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images Salesforce shares soared 14% in extended trading on Wednesday after the cloud software vendor reported results and issued guidance that surpassed Wall Street projections. Here’s how the company did…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during an interview at Anthropic’s headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic is poised to hit the public market at a time when an increasing number of Americans are worried about artificial intelligence and…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July, CNBC confirmed on Monday, a sevenfold increase from a year ago. The Claude…
