It’s a rally. It’s a sell-off. At the end of the week, the only thing that was clear was confusion. Investors were hoping to get clarity with the U.S. midterm elections behind them. Instead, they got more volatility. The reason is uncertainty about future regulation surrounding data centers. The conventional wisdom suggests it may not

Rolls-Royce’s (BMW.DE) well-heeled clients aren’t pumping the brakes on new commissions, despite a choppy stock market and lingering economic worries, according to the automaker’s top executive in North America. “Honestly, no,” Nick Keen, president of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars North America, told Yahoo Finance at the Wynn Concours in Las Vegas when asked if clients are

Wall Street partied the day after the midterms and woke up Thursday to tech’s worst day since the 2020 COVID crash. Strip out the AI trade, though, and most stocks barely noticed. The equal-weight S&P 500 (RSP), a stand-in for the typical stock, closed at a record Wednesday and ended the week within about 1%

Over the long haul, the U.S. stock market has been one of the greatest wealth creation machines in history. And the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has recently taken things into overdrive, with the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) soaring 115% since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite

If you’re new to dividend investing, there are plenty of reasons why Realty Income (NYSE: O) should be the first stock you buy this month following Thursday’s sell-off. There are also some potential pitfalls. You didn’t think I was just going to sugarcoat it for you, did you? Let’s start with the case for Realty

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) set a cap at its investor day on Oct. 28. Through fiscal 2030, it would raise up to $20 billion of new money in the stock and bond markets, which it expected to split equally between shares and debt. Five days later, on Nov. 2, it raised it all. The cloud giant sold

AI stocks just had their worst crash in years. If your 401(k) sits in a basic index fund, you lost about a nickel on the dollar. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell more than 4% on Thursday, its worst day in more than a year and a half, as chip stocks had their worst day since

Markets are trembling amid the latest AI stock sell-off, which has sent shares of major AI players deep into the red. But CNBC’s Jim Cramer believes the downturn is not another dot-com crash. Cramer warned that AI stocks could fall further, particularly semiconductor companies whose shares surged during the AI boom. However, he argued that

Oklo (NYSE:OKLO) stock is jumping, up 21.8% as of 1:08 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 6, after the company posted better-than-expected earnings before the bell today. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) and the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) are up 0.6% and 1.1%, respectively. Missed AI’s “Act 1”? Act 2 Could Be 16x Bigger. Most investors think they

Western Digital (NYSE: WD) spun off Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK), one of the world’s largest flash memory chipmakers, in Feb. 2025. Sandisk’s stock started trading independently at $36 per share, but it eventually soared to a record high of $2,335 per share on June 25, 2026. That rally was driven by the explosive growth of the