A state-backed Shanghai company broke ASML's lithography monopoly by producing advanced chip-making machines, spooking AI stocks and dragging the S&P 500 lower on Monday. Bitcoin slipped below $64,600…
Apple Inc. is outperforming the NASDAQ by its widest margin in 20 years, with year-to-date returns of roughly 22% compared to the S&P 500's 8% gain, according to market data. The iPhone maker reclaime…
SanDisk, the S&P 500's best-performing stock in 2026, plunged nearly 11% on July 24 after reporting revenue of $5.95 billion, up 251% year-over-year, as the memory chip sector entered a bear market am…
Nvidia has posted a 15,333% total return over the past decade, the highest in the S&P 500, driven by its dominance in AI infrastructure with GPUs for training and inference. In 2025 alone, Nvidia acco…
Semiconductors now drive nearly half of S&P 500 earnings growth, according to a16z, with chip stocks accounting for 44-48% of overall EPS growth in Q2 2026 and earnings surging 133% year-over-year. Th…
The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 0.6% on Friday as investors sold chip stocks on worries about massive AI spending ahead of megacap earnings reports from Microsoft, Amazon.com, Meta and Apple. The Philadelp…
Short interest in the S&P 500 has reached its highest level since S3 Partners began tracking the data in 2010, with 3.7% of the index's free float now tied up in short bets, nearly double the level fr…
Semiconductor stocks are trading near their 10-year average forward P/E of around 19.5x despite nearly 50% of S&P 500 earnings growth coming from the sector, according to a16z. Analysts expect earning…
Asian stocks fell on a technology-led sell-off as investors questioned returns from AI spending, with the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index declining 0.8% after gauges in Japan, South Korea and Australia slippe…
Wall Street fell sharply on Thursday, with the Nasdaq sinking more than 2%, as earnings from Alphabet and Tesla revived concerns about heavy AI spending, while Brent crude oil futures settled above US…
Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Thursday (Jul 23) as Big Tech earnings reignited concerns over heavy AI spending, with the Dow falling 463.0 points (0.89%), the S&P 500 dropping 80.7 points…
Tesla shares fell roughly 6% in premarket trading on July 23, dragging S&P 500 futures down about 0.3% ahead of the company's Q2 earnings report. The sell-off came despite Tesla delivering 480,126 veh…
The AI trade is broadening beyond chipmakers as the equal-weighted S&P 500 outperforms its market-cap-weighted counterpart since June, signaling a healthier market rally, according to Business Insider…
US stock futures slipped on Thursday as investors weighed Alphabet and Tesla's capital expenditure outlooks for AI and widening Middle East attacks that pushed oil prices higher. Dow and S&P 500 futur…
Researchers propose STN-TGAT, a model integrating a temporal Transformer with a Graph Attention Network for stock ranking and portfolio construction, which outperforms benchmarks in predictive accurac…
Seven out of eight AIs unanimously recommended investing $2,000 per month for 20 years in the S&P 500 index fund, the most unanimous result in the AI Experiments series. The lone dissenter, Kimi, chos…
The PHLX Semiconductor Index (SOXX) lost roughly 10% in a single day in June and July 2026, with implied volatility on the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) surging above 46%—more than double the S&P 500…
Apple stock has gained 20.3% this year, far outpacing the S&P 500's 9.7% advance, but AlphaSpace valuation metrics show the stock trading at premium multiples well above its 10-year averages, includin…
Six out of eight AI systems independently chose the S&P 500 as the best single asset class for a $10,000, 10-year no-sell investment, citing productive asset growth and historical returns. DeepSeek an…
The S&P 500 fell 11.7 points (0.16%) to 7,497.47 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 143.5 points (0.56%) to 25,693.719 at the open on Wednesday, pressured by weakness in chip stocks as investors remaine…