Micron‘s (NASDAQ: MU) positioning in the AI build-out and recent results have put it on course for a benchmark that would have been inconceivable last year. The maker of memory chips has a real shot at surpassing a $1 trillion market cap this year. A 150% year-to-date rally has helped, but the stock’s gains are

LITTLE APPETITE: Weak demand and rising unsold inventory has caused developers to step back from large-scale projects with amplified risk, an expert said By Crystal Hsu / Staff reporter Taiwan’s cooling housing market is diverging sharply from the buoyant stock market, as tighter mortgage restrictions and government measures aimed at curbing speculation weigh on buyer

Bloom Energy (BE +5.79%) is a clean energy company making large, box-shaped power generators that let businesses generate their own electricity instead of buying it from the grid. It essentially gives companies their own mini power plant that keeps the lights on even if the larger grid goes out. Bloom’s technology is gaining momentum right

US President Donald Trump at a welcome ceremony with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (Brendan SMIALOWSKI) · Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP/AFP European and US stock markets climbed Thursday as a tech-fuelled rally rolled on even as the United States and China were locked in talks in Beijing, accompanied by

Nvidia (NVDA +4.14%) is heading to China this week, with CEO Jensen Huang accompanying President Trump on his visit to meet with President Xi Jinping, and announcing a deal that will permit it to ship H200 artificial intelligence chips to the Middle Kingdom. Nvidia stock is up more than 2% on the news, while Intel

Investing in the stock market is your ticket to building long-term wealth, and dividend stocks are the ingredient to generating effortless passive income. Companies that pay dividends consistently outshine their non-dividend counterparts over time. That’s because dividend payers tend to have sound business models and disciplined management that reward their investors steadily over time. The

The big day is nearly here. Tomorrow, May 15, will mark the final day of Jerome Powell’s tenure as Fed chair and the expected beginning of Kevin Warsh’s first term as head of the Fed. Warsh’s five years on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (Feb. 24, 2006 – March 31, 2011) bring

The S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.58%) has advanced 8% year to date, and the benchmark index currently trades near its record high. However, investors recently got some bad news about President Trump’s economy. Consumer sentiment hit a record low in May, after inflation accelerated to a three-year high in April. In particular, history says the resurgence

The right investment can be life-changing, generating long-term wealth and helping build financial security. And according to Warren Buffett, it’s simpler than many people think to create a robust portfolio. In Berkshire Hathaway‘s 2020 shareholder meeting, the investing legend offered some advice for everyday investors looking to earn more from the stock market. Will AI

Few companies are doing as well as Palantir Technologies (PLTR 4.38%). It just announced another impressive quarter, with revenue growth coming in at an outstanding 85% year over year. With a growth rate like that, it may seem like the sky is the limit for Palantir, but growth isn’t everything with a stock. There are

The artificial intelligence (AI) supercycle has produced no shortage of stock market winners. But two worth calling out are Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). AMD is firing on all cylinders, with accelerating revenue growth and multi-year customer commitments worth tens of billions of dollars. Meanwhile, Intel is finally showing signs of

US stock market today: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is falling hard today — and yet the broader stock market is actually moving higher. That apparent contradiction is not a glitch in the financial matrix. It is a precise, almost clinical signal about which corner of the economy investors fear most right now. On Wednesday

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange reported a sharp jump in first-quarter results for 2026, helped by stronger activity across its business lines and a major boost in trading volumes following the move to a Monday-Friday trading week. Revenue totaled 183.3 million shekels, about $63.2 million, in the quarter, up about 40% from the same period

What happened: Alibaba (BABA) stock climbed more than 8% on Wednesday. What’s behind the move: The Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant reported a 3% increase in fourth quarter revenue on Wednesday. Alibaba’s earnings were weighed down by higher spending on AI initiatives, cloud infrastructure expansion, and continued investment in its rapid-delivery business, which aims to

Shares of Nokia (NOK +11.69%) were up by 12.1% at 2:30 p.m. ET today. The Finnish telecom equipment and services veteran reached a fresh multi-year high, revisiting prices last seen in the spring of 2009. The jump was powered by (yep, you guessed it) a new Nokia service that puts AI agents in charge of

Marc Rowan, the billionaire founder of one of the largest asset management firms in the world, is worried about what he’s seeing in the market. At a time when the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite are hitting one record high after another, Rowan said he now sees as much as a 35% chance of

President Donald Trump and a cavalcade of American business leaders landed in Beijing Wednesday for talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and market bulls are following. Chinese stocks, ETFs and related themes posted some of the biggest rallies in months. Shares of e-commerce giant Alibaba surged 8% despite reporting earnings in the morning that missed

Lucid (NASDAQ: LCID) stock posted big gains in Wednesday’s trading. The company’s share price rose 6.3% in a session that saw the S&P 500 gain 0.5% and the Nasdaq Composite rise 1.2%. Lucid stock had been up as much as 11.8% earlier in the day. After yesterday’s big stock market sell-off driven by a hotter-than-expected