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Image source: Getty Images It would be easy to think a stock market crash looks a million miles away. Only two days ago (11 February), the FTSE 100 broke past the 10,450 mark to set another all-time high. The S&P 500 climbed to within a hair of its own record high around the 7,000 mark.

The S&P 500 Shiller CAPE ratio is hovering near its highest levels since the dot-com bubble. The last three years have been quite pleasant for growth investors. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI), the technology sector has witnessed a once-in-a-generation boom that’s spread to other industries across energy, industrials, utilities, and more. As such,

These fast-growing companies are trading at attractive valuations and have the potential to deliver significant upside for investors. Buying fast-growing companies and holding their shares for the long run can help investors achieve market-beating returns. That’s because growth stocks represent those companies capable of increasing their revenue and earnings at a faster pace than the

S&P 500 futures are flat this morning prior to the opening of markets in New York after the index fell 1.57% yesterday as traders fled from stocks exposed to AI. The market is now in negative territory for the year. Tech stocks led the decline yesterday, with the Nasdaq Composite down 2%. The S&P 500’s

Pfizer’s long-acting GLP-1 weight loss candidate could set the stage for a stock rally. Pfizer (PFE +0.38%) has a well-above-market dividend yield of 6.3%. Despite a payout ratio that is over 100%, the drugmaker states that it plans to maintain the dividend. But the real catalyst for a stock rally could come in June, when

Ed Yardeni thinks the US is in the midst of the “Roaring 20s,” which will carry the economy through the rest of the decade without a recession. In a video update on Friday, the founder of Yardeni Research re-upped his bullish thesis, noting that he sees no reason for the US to tumble into a

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On Feb. 12, 2026, investors weighed massive AI capex against surging cloud momentum and the associated risks. Today’s Change (-0.34%) $-0.67 Current Price $198.93 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.1T Day’s Range $197.28 – $199.56 52wk Range $161.38 – $258.60 Volume 1.3M Avg Vol 47M Gross Margin 50.29% Amazon (AMZN 0.34%), global e-commerce and cloud

FILE PHOTO: Bull and bear symbols for successful and bad trading are seen in front of the German stock exchange (Deutsche Boerse) in Frankfurt, Germany, February 12, 2019. Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters European shares edged lower on Friday, after AI fears triggered another sell-off on Wall Street overnight. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was trading 0.2%

Key Points Valuation trends suggest the stock market could be topping out. While parallels between the AI revolution and dot-com boom can make some sense, there are notable differences between these two periods. Smart investors are ditching volatile growth stocks and choosing durable blue chips for the long haul. 10 stocks we like better than

Tech stocks are getting slammed right now. Although the stock market has sold off a bit, it’s really not as bad as some people think. A few negative days in a row may be worrisome, but the S&P 500 is only down a couple of percentage points from its all-time high, so to call this

The market is unhappy with the company’s AI spend, but is Wall Street getting it all wrong? Amazon (AMZN 2.21%) can rarely catch a break from market negativity these days. The company, which is now the largest company in the world by sales on a trailing 12-month basis, should be receiving accolades based on its

For the second day in a row, Micron (MU +0.89%) stock moved higher on Thursday, up 3.7% through 10:30 a.m. ET. For the second day in a row, the reason is DRAM high-bandwidth memory (HBM). And more precisely, how the laws of supply and demand link Micron’s profits to HBM supply. Image source: Getty Images.

One Wall Street prognosticator said the stock could be worth much less. Not everyone agrees. After defying gravity for much of the past few years, Palantir Technologies (PLTR 4.93%) is finally coming back to earth, with the stock falling as much as 6.7% on Thursday. As of 2:00 p.m. ET, the stock was still down

Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Gold steadied after a sharp decline sparked by a wider selloff across financial markets that may have been amplified by algorithmic trading. Bullion was near $4,920 an ounce in early trading, after plunging 3.2% in the previous session — the biggest one-day drop in a week. The sudden decline accompanied jitters on

VXUS is an easy way to gain exposure to overseas markets. The S&P 500 has gotten off to a shaky start this year, but it’s still up 75% over the past five years and looks historically expensive at 30 times earnings. Moreover, most of that rally was driven by a handful of mega-cap tech stocks,

Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Gold declined in a sudden selloff across financial markets, with some traders dumping metals to cover losses in equities. Silver and copper also plunged. US technology stocks fell amid renewed concerns over whether massive investments in artificial intelligence will materialize in a big way. Some investors had to exit positions in commodities

Key Points Although the stock market has sold off a bit, it’s really not as bad as some people think. A few negative days in a row may be worrisome, but the S&P 500 is only down a couple of percentage points from its all-time high, so to call this a full-blown market sell-off isn’t

Faster sales growth may not be enough to save Cisco stock. Cisco Systems (CSCO 11.98%) stock tumbled 9.7% through 10:10 a.m. ET Thursday despite beating on both top and bottom lines in its fiscal Q2 2026 earnings report last night. Analysts expected Cisco to earn $1.02 per share on $15.1 billion in sales, but Cisco

Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Artificial intelligence has made a lot of noise in the stock market lately, with bots from Alphabet Inc. and startups Anthropic and Altruist disrupting businesses from software to financial services. But one name has been conspicuously absent from the chatter: OpenAI. The erstwhile AI kingmaker has been passed by its