Earnings from Nvidia, Dell and Home Depot

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday walked investors through next week on Wall Street and highlighted earnings reports from Home Depot as well as tech giants Nvidia and Dell. He also discussed the market’s decline over the past few sessions — especially the poor performance of formerly-hot growth stocks — predicting investors haven’t seen the end … Read more

Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok 3 model amid tight AI competition

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI on Tuesday unveiled its latest artificial intelligence model, Grok 3, claiming it can outperform offerings from OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek based on early testing, which included standardized tests on math, science and coding.  “We’re very excited to present Grok 3, which is, we think, an … Read more

Deepseek’s AI model ‘the best work’ out of China: Google Deepmind CEO

Google DeepMind co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis gives a conference during the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 26, 2024. Pau Barrena | Afp | Getty Images PARIS — Deepseek’s AI model “is probably the best work” out of China, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of … Read more

Tech megacaps to spend more than $300 billion in 2025 to win in AI

Megacap technology companies funneled billions of dollars into artificial intelligence last year to try and keep up with unfettered demand. The hype isn’t dying down in 2025. Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft intend to spend as much as $320 billion combined on AI technologies and datacenter buildouts in 2025, based on comments from their CEOs … Read more

Global central banks are cutting rates — the Fed might not be as inclined

The Bank of England on 6 Feb. 2025, in London, England. Richard Baker | In Pictures | Getty Images The Bank of England lowered interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday, following the European Central Bank’s cut of the same amount on Jan. 30. The Reserve Bank of India is also widely expectedly to … Read more

Stock gains signal calm, but listen to Fed officials

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, U.S., on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025.  Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images If investors were to judge the stability of the economy by looking at the stock market, its two-day winning streak might lead investors to think that it’s business as usual. The market’s … Read more

AMD closes at lowest since 2023 on disappointing data center revenue

Lisa Su, chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., during the AMD Advancing AI event in San Jose, California, on Dec. 6, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Advanced Micro Devices shares slumped 6.3% on Wednesday after the chipmaker under-delivered on Wall Street’s estimates for its important data center business. Shares … Read more

DeepSeek Nvidia chip questions: Singapore responds

Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said in a statement Saturday that it expects U.S. companies to comply with U.S. export controls and local laws, following questions over the chips used by China’s DeepSeek to produce its AI model. Markets were rocked this week after DeepSeek claimed its large language model outperforms OpenAI’s but … Read more

Australia and Japan markets rise

Cityscape image of Sydney, Australia with Harbor Bridge and Sydney skyline during sunset. Vacation and travel in Australia. Prasit Photo | Moment | Getty Images Japan and Australian stocks rose Wednesday as Wall Street rebounded overnight, while several Asia-Pacific markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday. Japan benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.76%, while the … Read more

Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest drop ever

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU (L) and a RTX 5000 laptop as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025.  Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia lost close to $600 billion in market cap … Read more