India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, center, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Tech companies’ venture capital portfolios are making corporate profits look a lot stronger than they really are. Microsoft, Amazon…
My top 10 things to watch Monday, Aug. 3 1. Peace talks between the U.S. and Iran are back on the menu, so oil prices are falling. WTI crude is off more than 5%, trading below $80 a barrel this morning. Stock futures are higher across the board, led by the Dow . Within our…
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…
After a whipsaw two days of price action, bulls and bears are facing off again at a key technical level in the S&P 500. At the same time, an increasingly popular volatility-based measure of market breadth leans bearish. Options traders and market makers in Chicago were quick to buy dips below 7,500 in the benchmark…
Amazon reported better-than-expected revenue and cloud growth for the second quarter. The stock shot up more than 9% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share: $5.75 a share. That may not compare with the $1.82 per share expected by LSEG Revenue: $200.61 billion…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday afternoon after the conclusion of its July meeting . Unlike recent meetings when markets had a strong…
Amazon , Meta Platforms , Microsoft and Apple headline the busiest week of this summer earnings season. Plus, the Federal Reserve holds its July policy meeting, which adds intrigue following rekindled Middle East tensions. 1. Earnings: We’ve got 10 Club names reporting this week, including the other three hyperscalers on the heels of Alphabet earnings…
A man looks over the plunging stock market indices at the Nasdaq MarketSite, December 20, 2000, in New York City’s Times Square. Chris Hondros | Hulton Archive | Getty Images While baby boomers hog most of the attention in conversations about retirement, Gen Xers are marching toward the same destination, and in many cases, without…
It was a tough week for stocks, as investors navigated everything from escalating tensions in the Middle East to key tech earnings reports to healthcare developments. Logging their second straight weekly losses, the S & P 500 slipped 0.6%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2.1%. Here’s a closer look at what drove the trading action….
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Friday’s key moments. 1. Stocks were mostly higher Friday on optimism that stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks would restart. That sent recently rising oil prices and bond yields lower, which supported the S &…
