Crypto catches M&A frenzy as bitcoin miners chase AI boom

Crypto catches M&A frenzy as bitcoin miners chase AI boom

Whinstone CEO Chad Harris takes CNBC on a tour of the largest bitcoin mine in North America. Crypto companies are suddenly at the center of deal-making. The catalyst is artificial intelligence. Bitcoin mining companies have expansive data centers, with access to fiber lines and large amounts of power across the U.S. They’re exactly the types … Read more

Nvidia slides 13% in three days after becoming most valuable company

Nvidia slides 13% in three days after becoming most valuable company

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes a speech at an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters Since briefly becoming the world’s most valuable company last week, Nvidia has dropped for three consecutive trading days and is now down 13% from its peak. Monday’s slide was the chipmaker’s second-steepest … Read more

Apple, Microsoft valuations get a pass. Nvidia does not but should

Apple, Microsoft valuations get a pass. Nvidia does not but should

We don’t care at which price Apple trades. When it was at $165 per share not that long ago, we thought the Club’s original “own it, don’t trade it” stock was momentarily expensive. Then nothing happened, and we had an ascent based on a momentary belief that the iPhone 16 would have some good artificial … Read more

Nvidia is little known despite topping $3 trillion in market cap

Nvidia slides 13% in three days after becoming most valuable company

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes a speech at an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google were the four leading global brands at the end of 2023, according to consulting firm Interbrand. They’re are also four of the world’s five most valuable companies. … Read more

Super Micro, Dell shares jump as Elon Musk calls them suppliers to xAI supercomputer project

Super Micro, Dell shares jump as Elon Musk calls them suppliers to xAI supercomputer project

Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.  Apu Gomes | Getty Images Shares of Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer jumped Thursday after Elon Musk revealed that the two hardware … Read more

How Nvidia’s gains can lift other stocks: Jim Cramer explains

How Nvidia’s gains can lift other stocks: Jim Cramer explains

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday explained to investors how Nvidia can sometimes boost other stocks when it soars. “Take a look at today’s biggest gainers,” he said. “They’re just spinning pins, scattered this way and that because Nvidia speed ball went right down the middle.” Nvidia led the pack on Wednesday as the S&P 500 … Read more

Why Dell is a buy on the dip: Jim Cramer explains

Why Dell is a buy on the dip: Jim Cramer explains

After shares of Dell took a hit last week and continued to sink during Monday’s session, CNBC’s Jim Cramer told investors why he thinks the stock is a good buy at its current price level. “The main problem is that Dell failed to live up to irrationally high expectations, the expectations that fueled the stock’s … Read more

Software stocks got pummeled this week on troubling earnings reports

Software stocks got pummeled this week on troubling earnings reports

Salesforce executives told investors that deals are shrinking or getting delayed. Dell said its margin is getting smaller. Okta highlighted macroeconomic challenges. And Veeva’s CEO said on his company’s earnings call that generative artificial intelligence has been “a competing priority” for customers. Add it all up and it was a brutal week for software and … Read more

Dell shares tumble after first quarter earnings report

Dell shares tumble after first quarter earnings report

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell speaks during the MWC session ‘New strategies for a new era’ on the first day of the 18th edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) at Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Via venue in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat on February 26, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Kike Rincon | Europa Press | … Read more

CEO explains how Best Buy is preparing to sell AI-enabled computers

CEO explains how Best Buy is preparing to sell AI-enabled computers

Best Buy CEO Corie Barry told CNBC’s Jim Cramer the electronics retailer is getting ready to sell a slew of new artificial intelligence-enabled personal computers. “We are, as you can imagine, arming ourselves on every angle to be the single best place to come experience this,” Barry said. “So, you’re going to see physical demos of … Read more