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…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters It’s been two years since the explosion of generative artificial intelligence started to transform Nvidia’s business. Since then, the chipmaker’s revenue has more than tripled and profits have quadrupled. Nvidia‘s fiscal second-quarter earnings…
The conundrum of the stock market going down ahead of Jackson Hole confounded me. With a market that had been headed down every day, except for deep cyclicals and housing-related stocks, the setup seemed extreme. By the end of the week, the bet was one way: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell , perhaps because he…
For going on three years now, a once-scrappy company based in Santa Clara, California, has been the center of the Wall Street universe. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon — most certainly not in the week ahead, when its earnings report is the market’s biggest event. On Wednesday night, Nvidia is set to release its…
It was a topsy-turvy week for Wall Street, saved by a big Friday rally. The market was looking at a weekly loss at Thursday’s close. But a day later, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell came through, hinting at possible interest rate cuts ahead. His speech on Friday at the central bank’s economic symposium in Jackson…
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The Club’s 10 things to watch Friday, Aug. 22 — Today’s newsletter was written by Portfolio Analyst Zev Fima and Director of Portfolio Analysis Jeff Marks. 1. It’s Fed day. Wall Street will be hyper-focused on what Fed Chair Jerome Powell has to say today during his speech at the central bank’s annual economic symposium…
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk Manuel Orbegozo | Chip Somodevilla | Reuters Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance a $97.4 billion takeover of OpenAI in early 2025, court filings on Thursday revealed. The filing is part of a legal case…