An Nvidia chip is seen through a magnifying glass in Beijing, China, on August 1, 2025. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Nvidia on Wednesday became the first company to surpass the $5 trillion market cap milestone, meaning it looms even larger over other stocks and markets. The stock jumped as much as…
Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites. Many sites came back online within a few hours, although Downdetector showed another spike in user reports around noon ET of outages at Amazon, AWS and Alexa. The company’s latest update at 6:53…
The Club’s 10 things to watch Wednesday, Aug. 20 — Today’s newsletter was written by Investing Club editor Kevin Stankiewicz. 1. Wall Street was set to open slightly lower today after the S & P 500 closed lower yesterday for the third session in a row. Investors were parsing the latest retail earnings this morning….
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — World shares mostly advanced and financial markets appeared to show scant if any reaction to President Donald Trump’s higher tariffs on exports to the United States that took effect early Thursday. In early European trading, Germany’s DAX rose 0.9% to 24,137.51. In Paris, the CAC 40 added 0.8% to 7,693.36, while…
(These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator. See today’s video update from Mike above.) Another day of mild churn in the market under the surface of a headline S & P 500 rally that was largely propelled by Apple shares. The S & P 500 has spent…
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. McDonald’s — Shares of the fast food giant gained more than 4% after second-quarter results surpassed analyst estimates. McDonald’s earned $3.19 per share after adjustments on revenue of $6.84 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG were looking for a profit of $3.15 per share and revenue of…
My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, Aug. 6 1. Wall Street was heading for a higher open this morning as earnings from two Dow stocks, Disney and McDonalds , went in opposite directions. Weaker economic data as well as pharma and semiconductor tariff comments from President Donald Trump on CNBC yesterday knocked the market…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on August 1, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Stock futures are near flat Tuesday night as investors analyzed the latest batch of corporate earnings. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 19 points, or 0.1%. S&P…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at the White House in Washington DC, United States, on August 1, 2025. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu | Getty Images Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Everything, everywhere, all at once A lot happened on Friday. Here’s a…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer walked investors through another week of earnings season, honing in on reports from Palantir, Berkshire Hathaway, Disney and Eli Lilly. “We’re still in earnings Hades, but at least it’s getting a little cooler out there,” he said. “That’s right, we’ve now gotten over the hump of the big-time growth stocks, the hyperscalers,…