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JD Gears Up to Report Q2 Earnings: What's in Store for the Stock?

JD.com JD is scheduled to release second-quarter 2026 results on Aug. 13. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for JD's second-quarter revenues is pegged at $51.55 billion, indicating an increase of 3.53% on a year-over-year basis. The consensus mark for second-quarter earnings is pegged at 86 …

Buy 3 Stocks That Recently Announced Dividend Hikes Amid Volatility

Major indexes are coming off their best weeks since April, but markets are still rattled by volatility. Oil prices have stabilized, and hopes of a deal between Iran and Oman have brightened. Yet uncertainty related to the economy's health, peace talks between the United …

Microchip Technology Aktie: Ergebnisse über Erwartungen, Prognose erhöht - und neues Kursziel!

ADP National Employment Report Preliminary Estimate for July 25, 2026

ROSELAND, N.J., Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For the four weeks ending July 25, 2026, U.S. private employers added an average of 8,250 jobs per week, according to the NER Pulse, a weekly update of the monthly ADP National Employment Report (NER). Hiring slowed …

Intel Stock Drops Again. Why It’s Raising Offering to $20 Billion.

Intel stock was down after it said it plans to issue 210.5 million shares at a price of $95 a share. Continue Reading

Cisco or Coherent: Which Stock Is Poised to Soar After Earnings?

Quick Read Cisco beats Coherent for retirement portfolios, pairing a 93% earnings beat probability and $0.42 quarterly dividend with a low beta of 1. Nvidia's $2 billion investment validates Coherent's growth story, but a P/E of 181 and a 14% single-day drop relegate it …

IBM, Together AI ink $240 million deal for Nvidia-powered AI inference cluster

Aug 11 (Reuters) - IBM and startup Together AI have signed a $240 million multi-year ‌agreement to build a large-scale artificial intelligence ‌cluster on IBM Cloud using Nvidia systems, the companies ​said on Tuesday. The cluster will provide inference for open-source AI models, which …

Exclusive: Curative Ditches $600,000 Salesforce Contract Says 'AI Changes the Economics of Building Software,' But CRM Warns of Security Risks

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Curative expanded its AI-built software strategy beyond CRM after dropping a roughly $600,000-a-year Salesforce, Inc. contract, saying internally developed systems cut administrative costs, while Salesforce warned that …

3 Stocks That Have Made Long-Term Investors Rich (and Could Do It Again)

Quick Read Apple's Services revenue hit $31 billion and Microsoft's AI business surged 123% to a $37 billion annualized run rate, both continuing to widen their competitive moats. Coca-Cola's 63-year dividend streak continues as management raised 2026 EPS guidance to 8-9% growth following a …

IBM and Together AI Sign Multi-Year Agreement to Scale Open-Source AI Inference with NVIDIA AI Infrastructure on IBM Cloud

First large-scale inference cluster with Together AI on IBM Cloud using NVIDIA HGX B300 systems to help enterprises run AI workloads, designed for fast and efficient production ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a collaboration with …

Palantir is a 'narrative play,' strategist explains

Laffer Tengler Investments CEO and CIO Nancy Tengler shares her thoughts on Palantir (PLTR) stock and why it's a buy. Video Transcript 00:00 Speaker A You want to own Palantir? 00:01 Nancy Yeah, we own it. We uh we own it in two strategies. …

Cisco’s 90K Agent Rollout: The CFO Math Behind Full-Workforce Agentic Deployment

The Economics of Scale Starting at the end of July 2026, Cisco is deploying personalized AI agents to its entire 90,000-person workforce. This is not a pilot program; it is a standardized infrastructure shift intended to change how the company produces work. To manage …

Morgan Stanley sees more upside in these stocks as 'chipflation' worsens

Rapid demand and subsequent higher prices for memory chips are unlikely to end anytime soon, Morgan Stanley warns. The call: Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring caught our attention with a new note out on Tuesday on ways to play the memory chip price increase. …

Apple’s Dip Below $310 is a Great Accumulation Opportunity

Quick Read Apple dropped 7% since Q3 earnings while the broader market climbed, making the $308 entry attractive for long-term accumulation. AAPL's Services segment generates $30 billion quarterly at a 77% gross margin, backed by a fresh $100 billion buyback authorization. The bull case …

Intel upsizes stock offering to $20 billion for AI chip manufacturing

Intel upsized its previously announced common stock offering to $20 billion on Tuesday, pricing 210,526,315 shares at $95 per share as it looks to fund expansion of its chip contract manufacturing business. The offering was increased from the $15 billion target Intel had announced …

Anthropic signs $9.1 billion data center deal with Riot Platforms

Anthropic has struck a $9.1 billion agreement with Riot Platforms, a bitcoin mining company that has been building out AI data center capacity, according to Bloomberg. Riot disclosed the deal on Monday, describing the counterparty only as a "leading frontier AI lab." Riot's Rockdale, …

This Wall Street Pro Makes a Compelling Argument for 70% Gains on NXP Semiconductors Which Cratered Last Month

Quick Read Cantor Fitzgerald's C.J. Muse maintains a $400 target on NXPI after a 20% monthly drop driven by Ambarella acquisition rumors and a UBS downgrade. NXPI's 71% upside to Cantor's Street-high target dwarfs analog peers MCHP at 37% and TXN at just 16%, …

River AI Raises $1.1B Led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC to Build Open AI Stack

Founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, River AI gives developers and enterprises the tools to train, tune, and own custom AI models PALO ALTO, Calif., August 11, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--River AI, the full-stack AI company founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, today announced $1.1 billion …

Anthropic’s $965B IPO Path Runs Through Seven Compute Corridors Across Three Continents

Anthropic's $965 billion IPO path rests on the aggressive, multi-layered industrialization of compute. The company has transformed access from a variable cost into a structural moat by diversifying hardware and energy supply across three continents through seven distinct funding mechanisms — effectively decoupling its …

With a New iPhone Coming, Here’s What $10,000 in Apple Since the First One Is Worth

Quick Read A $10,000 bet on AAPL at the first iPhone launch in 2007 has grown to $844,546, crushing the S&P 500's $51,388 return. Apple's nine consecutive earnings beats and $100 billion buyback authorization support the bull case, but a near-35 P/E resets return …

I’m Buying Nvidia Ahead of Aug. 26 Earnings Exactly For The Reason You Think

Quick Read NVDA commands over 80% of the high-end AI accelerator market as Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon collectively commit $200B to AI infrastructure. AMD's MI-series and AVGO's custom silicon both lack NVDA's full-stack advantages, including CUDA lock-in, NVLink networking, and a 71% gross …

Microchip Advances Edge AI Sensor Connectivity with Rev 2.0 PolarFire® FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge

Microchip Technology Inc. Smaller, multi-camera platform enables scalable Ethernet architectures for NVIDIA Edge AI systems while lowering power, cost and integration complexity CHANDLER, Ariz., Aug. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The shift toward compact, high‑performance edge AI systems is redefining sensor connectivity, pushing developers …

Is the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bubble About to Pop? Investors Who Make This 1 Move Will Come Out on Top, According to History.

As it gets closer to the end of 2026, it looks like the market has a fair chance of scoring another year of double-digit gains. Anything can happen over the next five months, but year to date, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is up …

Intel investors are banking on a comeback — and then some

When is a good time for a company to raise equity? When its shares are expensive, according to financial lore. Intel, which said on Monday PREMIUM Upgrade to read this Financial Times article and get so much more. A Silver or Gold subscription plan …

ORO Labs Earns Top-100 Spot on the 2026 Inc. 5000 List

Procurement orchestration company ranks No. 92 overall and No. 8 among software companies on the annual list of America's fastest-growing private companies SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ORO Labs, the leading procurement orchestration platform for global enterprises, today announced it has been …

How Nvidia’s Huang and Meta’s Zuckerberg Are Combating the AI Backlash

Intel increases stock offering to $20 billion, SpaceX stock rises after first lockup ends, Archer Aviation to absorb Boeing’s air taxi business, and more news to start your day. Continue Reading

AST SpaceMobile, Intel, On, Rocket Lab, and More Stocks That Explain Today’s Market

Stocks looked set to struggle for direction on Tuesday as investors worried about inflation, with hopes of Iran agreeing a deal to reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz shipping route fading fast. Continue Reading

‘This isn’t a socialist takeover’: White House says Trump gets final call on how long they keep Intel stake

Cheng Chia Huang and Jim Watson / Getty Images Don't expect the U.S. government to quit Intel anytime soon. White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said that it'll be up to President Donald Trump to decide the timeline for the administration to …

Is Lam Research, KLA, or Applied Materials the Best Chip Equipment Buy? Jim Cramer Weighs In

Cramer's Case for the Semiconductor Equipment "Troika" During the August 6 episode of CNBC's Mad Money, host Jim Cramer pointed to the bottleneck in data center memory production and urged investors to focus on the companies building the fabrication machinery. He highlighted Lam Research …

Sea GAAP EPS of $0.70 misses by $0.06, revenue of $7.78B beats by $690M

* Sea press release [https://seekingalpha.com/pr/20614132-sea-limited-reports-second-quarter-2026-results] (SE [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SE]): Q2 GAAP EPS of $0.70 misses by $0.06. * Revenue of $7.78B (+47.9% Y/Y) beats by $690M. * Shares +6% PM. MORE ON SEA * Sea Limited: Shopee Is The Key To Q2 [https://seekingalpha.com/article/4928515-sea-limited-shopee-is-the-key-to-q2] * Sea Limited: …

Is Berkshire Hathaway Stock a Buy as Warren Buffett Successor Greg Abel Starts to Deploy the Company's Cash Hoard?

Key Points Berkshire was a net buyer of stocks for the first time in more than three years, while it also bought back its own stock. Abel and company still have a lot of cash, and the stock is at one of its most …

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures waver as US, Iran harden stances

US stock futures trod water as the standoff between the US and Iran became more entrenched, raising doubts about progress on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F), the S&P 500 (ES=F), and the Nasdaq-100 …

Klarna Group (KLAR) Will Provide Leasing For A New US Device Upgrade Program

Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St's investing ideas for FREE. Klarna Group (NYSE:KLAR) is providing the leasing and financing backbone for Apple's new Apple Upgrade program in the United States. The partnership integrates Klarna into …

Teradyne (TER) Lands A US$1b Credit Line After A Narrative That Still Says Undervalued

Make better investment decisions with Simply Wall St's easy, visual tools that give you a competitive edge. Teradyne (TER) has arranged a new five year senior secured revolving credit facility of up to US$1.0b, giving the company additional funding flexibility for working capital and …

How To Earn $500 A Month From Cisco Stock Ahead Of Q4 Earnings

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Ahead of Cisco Systems, Inc's fourth-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, Aug. 12, investors may be eyeing potential gains from the company's dividends. Currently, Cisco has an annual …

Hiltzik: The Trump administration's investments in corporate stocks raise fears of 'crony capitalism'

It was about one year ago that the Trump administration announced a truly eye-opening transaction: In return for an $8.9-billion investment in the chipmaker already authorized under the Biden-era CHIPS Act, the government would take a roughly 10% stake in Intel shares — making …