US stock futures rose on Wednesday, with the Dow eyeing a fresh record as upbeat earnings boosted AI optimism and chances grew that the record-long US shutdown will end soon. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) moved up 0.3%, coming off the blue-chip benchmark’s record-high close on Tuesday in a split session for stocks. S&P…
(Reuters) -AMD shares rose nearly 5% in premarket trading on Wednesday, a day after it laid out ambitious plans to reach $100 billion in annual data center revenue in five years by taking a bigger slice of the AI market from Nvidia. CEO Lisa Su said on Tuesday the market for the company’s data center…
Good morning. I had the pleasure of hosting more than a dozen executives yesterday in a Fortune CEO roundtable discussion about how their strategies are shifting amid economic uncertainty and global complexity. We kicked things off with former Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart, who outlined the state of the economy and memorably said that it…
Tech investment titan SoftBank plunged as much as 10 percent on news of its Nvidia stock sale (Philip FONG) Equities rose in Asia on Wednesday as the US shutdown nears an end and after fresh jobs data boosted the chances of a third successive Federal Reserve interest rate cut. However, a mixed day on Wall…
Japanese multinational investment company SoftBank said it had sold its remaining stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion (€5bn) as it pivots towards AI investments. SoftBank also reported stronger-than-expected earnings for the three months to 30 September, posting a net profit of ¥2.5 trillion (€14bn), more than double the ¥1.18 trillion (€6.6bn) recorded a year earlier….
The FTSE 100 (^FTSE) and European stocks finished higher for a second day on Tuesday, while Wall Street wavered as anxiety about inflated AI valuations overshadowed signals that the US government shutdown is set to end soon. SoftBank Group (SFTBY) said on Tuesday it had sold its entire stake in chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) to fund…
Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an open-source model that “set new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities”. The new reasoning model, Kimi K2 Thinking, was the most…
The decision to suspend new port fees on Chinese-built, owned, or operated vessels starting on Monday has drawn sharp criticism from Democrats, who say it undercuts US President Donald Trump’s claims of being tough on China. They are not alone in pushing back. While shippers see the move easing costs and boosting trade, labour unions…
China mandates all state-funded data centres to use domestic AI chips, escalating its tech rivalry with the US. China Tightens Rules on Data Centres, Mandates Use of Domestic AI Chips. The Chinese government has introduced new regulations requiring all data centre projects that receive state funding to use only domestically manufactured artificial intelligence (AI) chips,…
Conservative commentator Scott Jennings recently joked on X that “President Trump should hire Nancy Pelosi in retirement to manage Americans’ stock market portfolios. She beat the S&P 500 by 559%. We could all be retired in 6 months!” (1) The sarcasm aside, the numbers Pelosi leaves behind heading into retirement tell a startling truth. Over…