The jobs market steps into the spotlight this week, while second-quarter earnings season continues apace. Here’s a closer look at what to expect in the coming days. We’ll start with the Club holdings set to report, before touching on the labor-market updates and their implications for Federal Reserve policy. 1. Earnings : The action kicks…
For decades, video games have been a go-to hobby for Alyx Green. But in recent years, Green has felt priced out. Instead of buying the biggest releases, the Illinois graduate student has opted for cheaper alternatives from smaller studios or turned to board and card games. In some cases, the 31-year-old watches videos of others…
Global stock markets have been volatile as investors continue to assess geopolitical risks in the Middle East, fundamentals and valuations of companies in the artificial intelligence (AI) market and key economic data. Top Wall Street analysts help investors look past near-term noise and pick attractive stocks with solid long-term growth potential. Here are three stocks…
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…
Artificial intelligence is turning out to be far more expensive than anyone expected, and CFOs at major U.S. companies are now facing a brutal new trade-off: tokens or humans. That was the picture two enterprise AI CEOs at the center of the buildout described to CNBC this week. Their accounts of what’s happening inside the…
Nikos Pekiaridis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Spotify shares jumped 6% after the music streaming platform laid out updated guidance for 2030 at its first investor day since 2022. The company forecasted revenue at a compounded annual growth rate in the mid-teens and gross margins between 35% and 40%. Spotify referred to plans to reach…
For many people who got their first cellphones in the late 1990s or early 2000s, flip phones were chrome and neon portals into pop culture and newfound social circles with your peers. Now, the digital world — a constantly accessible gateway to millions of other people, information on every subject and breaking news from around…
The Peloton Tread+ and Bike+ during a media preview at Peloton headquarters in New York, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Peloton posted fiscal third-quarter earnings results Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue but fell slightly short on earnings per share. The company touted better-than-expected equipment…
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. Stocks were drifting higher following an initial sluggish start to the week. Some semis and other AI infrastructure stocks were giving back some gains after their…
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square said Tuesday it is planning to buy Universal Music Group in a cash and stock deal. UMG will form a newly merged company with Pershing Square and list on the New York Stock Exchange, according to the terms of the transaction, which is expected to close by the end of the…
