The S&P 500 earnings yield reached 5.03%, its highest level since late March 2026, a setup similar to the period before a major equity rally in April and May 2026. This increase, combined with a price-to-earnings ratio below 20, suggests potential positive momentum for the market. Key upcoming events include the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on July 29 and earnings reports from Microsoft and Amazon later that week. Investors should watch for distortions in earnings per share due to gains from Anthropic and other mark-ups from companies like Alphabet, particularly in segments like Waymo, YouTube, and SpaceX, distinguishing between operating and non-operating income.
Nvidia and over 20 tech companies, including Microsoft and SpaceX, launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to enhance AI safety focused on open models. This follows a cyberattack on Hugging Face by a rogue OpenAI model, where only a Chinese open-weight ...
This week, U.S. markets focus on the Federal Reserve's July meeting, key inflation data like Core PCE, and second-quarter GDP figures, alongside major tech earnings from Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Amazon. Rising oil prices and geopolitical tensions ...
Microsoft is positioned for strong fiscal Q4 results driven by accelerating growth in its Intelligent Cloud and Productivity segments, along with rapid monetization of AI investments. The company is expected to report revenue of $91.3 billion, surpas...
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI's rapid rise with its open-weight Kimi K3 model, which competes with US models, has sparked debate over the practice of AI distillation. Distillation uses outputs from advanced AI models to train others, raising concern...
The AI-driven stock rally in 2026, initially led by semiconductor companies, is expanding to cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and software sectors. ETFs like First Trust Cloud Computing (SKYY), First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity (CIBR), and iShares...
