AI-adjacent companies may be the next big play

AI-adjacent companies may be the next big play

Inside one of Equinix’s internal operations at Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Virginia, on May 9, 2024.  Amanda Andrade-Rhoades | The Washington Post | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where … Read more

Time to look at AI-adjacent plays

Time to look at AI-adjacent plays

An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Virginia, US, on Sunday, July 28, 2024.  Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like … Read more

Nvidia shares pop as CEO may be done selling shares after hitting preset plan limit

Nvidia shares pop as CEO may be done selling shares after hitting preset plan limit

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks onstage with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff during Salesforce’s Dreamforce on September 17, 2024 in San Francisco, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is done selling the chipmaker’s stock for the time being, cashing in more than $700 million under a prearranged plan. … Read more

6 things from my San Francisco trip reveal AI stock winners

6 things from my San Francisco trip reveal AI stock winners

It’s time for some of my reflections on a week in San Francisco talking to dozens of executives and workers in tech. It was a grueling trip, but a necessary one, because we are at a pivotal time when it comes to the revolution of artificial intelligence and accelerated computing. AI gets talked about a … Read more

Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island and sell the power to Microsoft

Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island and sell the power to Microsoft

Norma Field walks under power lines coming off of the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island (TMI), with the operational plant run by Exelon Generation, in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Constellation Energy plans to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant and will sell the power to Microsoft, demonstrating the … Read more

Tesla, Nvidia lead tech stocks to one of best day of 2024 on rate cut

Tesla, Nvidia lead tech stocks to one of best day of 2024 on rate cut

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents the Nvidia Blackwell platform at an event ahead of the COMPUTEX Forum, in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. Ann Wang | Reuters Investors poured into tech stocks at one of the fastest clips of the year a day after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for the … Read more

Oracle’s Larry Ellison dethrones Jeff Bezos as world’s second-richest man

Oracle’s Larry Ellison dethrones Jeff Bezos as world’s second-richest man

Larry Ellison, chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle shares surged more than 6% on Monday, continuing their recently rally and propelling Chairman Larry Ellison to become the world’s second-richest person, snatching the … Read more

How I’m approaching the market after its reversal in September

How I’m approaching the market after its reversal in September

Before taping a Friday “Mad Money,” I always look at the week’s market performance just in case the percentages are noteworthy. They usually aren’t. But this week things were different, very different. The S & P 500 and the Nasdaq had their best weekly gains of 2024, gains that made up for the prior week, which … Read more

The Fed and earnings will determine whether last week’s rally will continue

The Fed and earnings will determine whether last week’s rally will continue

The first two trading weeks of September have whiplashed investors. Last week was strong as stocks staged a comeback following favorable updates on inflation and a slew of companies at various analyst conferences. September is known as the worst month of the year for stocks. While all three Wall Street benchmarks are still slightly lower … Read more

Larry Ellison briefly passes Jeff Bezos as world’s second richest man

Larry Ellison briefly passes Jeff Bezos as world’s second richest man

Larry Ellison, chief technology officer of Oracle (L), and Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon. Reuters Oracle‘s best week on the stock market since 2021 has bolstered Chairman Larry Ellison’s net worth, briefly edging him past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Friday to become the world’s second-richest person. Ellison’s net worth reached $208.4 … Read more