The stock market continues to be extraordinary in the face of distressing headlines, but the growing concentration risk has more investors on edge. The S & P 500 is back at all-time highs as the bull case on Wall Street plays out. The artificial intelligence buildout is ramping up. Corporate earnings are topping expectations. Interest…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Miami International Holdings — The parent of Miami-based exchange operator MIAX surged more than 43% in its public market debut at the New York Stock Exchange. The company priced its initial public offering at $23 per share. It last traded above $31. Paramount Skydance — The…
My top 10 things to watch Monday, Aug. 11 1. Melius Research’s Ben Reitzes downgraded Adobe to sell from hold, arguing that an AI-driven multiple contraction phase is in the early innings for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. That includes the likes of Atlassian and Club stock Salesforce . It can still get worse for these names,…
Disney shares are under pressure Wednesday after the entertainment giant reported mixed quarterly results. We think it’s an opportunity. Revenue in the three months ended June 28 increased 2% year over year to $23.65 billion, missing expectations of $23.73 billion, according to LSEG. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) in the fiscal 2025 third quarter totaled…
Donald Trump celebrated CBS‘s decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and attacked the two remaining broadcast network late night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. Trump posted on Truth Social, “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once revealed that it took years of asking—and a very specific demand—to land his dream cameo in the Star Trek universe. Speaking during a 2020 fireside chat in Mumbai with bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, Bezos explained how his brief role in the 2016 film Star Trek…
Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of the entertainment giant Paramount, delivered a crucial message to her board a few weeks ago. For months, Paramount’s lawyers had been jousting with representatives for President Trump, who had sued the company’s CBS News network over its segment on former Vice President Kamala Harris. Mr. Trump accused the network…
Wall Street finished last week with big back-to-back declines, moving the S & P 500 away from Wednesday’s record-high close. Chip giant Nvidia had a rough week ahead of this week’s earnings. The S & P 500 flipped negative for all of last week, down 1.7%, after Friday trading extended the weakness of the prior session….
In This Story After a brief and relatively quiet week for earnings, this week promises to bring a wave of significant reports, offering valuable insights into the future trajectory of key sectors such as AI, technology, and finance. Amazon takes creative control of the James Bond movie franchise Let’s see what this week has in…
A stock market in search of direction could very well get one next week. Investors are about to react to two potentially major market-moving events in the week ahead. Nvidia is set to come out with its first earnings report since China’s DeepSeek in January rattled the outlook for artificial intelligence companies. And last month’s…