Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., August 14, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters With the desire to have private market exposure alongside publicly traded stocks gaining traction among investors, Morningstar has developed a benchmark to reflect the trend. The Morningstar PitchBook US Modern Market…
Oracle Corp. shares surged to a record after the company gave an aggressive outlook for its cloud business, stunning Wall Street and galvanizing hopes that the post-ChatGPT global AI infrastructure build-out is accelerating. The company is on track to add about $200 billion to its market value if the stock’s 30% premarket gain holds through…
Oracle Chair and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2019. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images John DiFucci from Guggenheim Securities said he was “blown away.” TD Cowen’s Derrick Wood called it a “momentous quarter.” And Brad Zelnick of Deutsche Bank…
My top 10 things to watch Monday, Sept. 8 1. Wall Street was looking to open slightly higher this morning after a rocky start to September. The S & P 500 declined on Friday but still managed to eke out weekly gains. This week, we get consumer and wholesale inflation data. 2. The market expects…
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai meets with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at Google for Startups in Warsaw, Poland, on February 13, 2025. Klaudia Radecka | Nurphoto | Getty Images From the courtroom to the boardroom, it was a big week for tech investors. The resolution of Google’s antitrust case led to sharp rallies…
JPMorgan has a few key price levels it’s watching on the biggest artificial intelligence stocks in the market. The transition to early fall is a seasonally weak period for U.S. equities that could weigh on technology and growth names. With any swing against bellwether stocks such as Nvidia and Microsoft likely to dampen broad market…
Wall Street is seeing a big revenue opportunity ahead for Amazon after this week’s mega-funding round for Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup backed by the e-commerce giant. Shares of Amazon jumped more than 3% on Thursday, making it one of the S & P 500’s best-performing stocks of the day. The stock is up more…
Thursday’s stock market followed this week’s pattern: an early selloff followed by a recovery. Nvidia’s latest results helped the send major indexes to about a 0.25% loss early Thursday before the S & P 500 rallied to end the day above 6,500 for the first time. On Monday, stocks sold off but have spent the…
European stock markets fell on Thursday, as investors assessed an above-consensus quarterly earnings report from tech giant Nvidia. The U.S.-listed firm, which makes products for tech giants including Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon, said sales growth this quarter will remain above 50% in a sign of the continued resilience of the artificial intelligence boom. Fiscal…
European markets are heading for a higher open Wednesday as traders gear up for a quarterly earnings report from chipmaker Nvidia. The Nasdaq-listed stock has become a bellwether for the global technology sector, particularly regarding the progress of the artificial intelligence boom, as its major corporate customers include Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon. Its value…