AMC just had the best weekend in a long time. The 106-year old cinema chain theater chain says ticket and concession sales hit an all time high from last Wednesday through Sunday (July 29th-Aug 2nd), thanks to the blockbuster debut of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.” For a company that has spent years fighting off bankruptcy
The ‘Magnificent Seven’ stocks spent years convincing investors that their tremendous AI spending would translate into sustainable growth, powerful cash flows, and fatter valuations. That assumption is now up against a major test. Wall Street has largely treated hyperscaler spending as a powerful long-term growth engine, but Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett just flagged
Picking individual stocks is hard, and it gets even harder when the market keeps setting records. The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high of 7,737 on August 4, and the Dow topped 54,000 points for the first time ever. That kind of run makes it tough to know what still has room to move
Every high-end NvidiaAI chip that ships this year comes bundled with someone else’s manufacturing bet. The stacked memory wrapped around each processor, the component that lets a GPU actually move data fast enough to be useful, comes almost entirely from one supplier. SK Hynix Inc. (SKHY) is that supplier, and on Friday it committed $38
Wall Street’s been debating a rather unusual possibility since the Federal Reserve’s July 29 meeting. Was the bond market doing the Fed’s tightening for it? Fed Chair Kevin Warsh stressed that Treasury yields had already moved sharply higher even though policymakers held the federal funds rate steady at 3.50%-3.75%. However, at the center of things
Soccer purists spent June and July complaining that World Cup hydration breaks turned fast-moving matches into stop-start slogs padded with extra commercial time. Broadcasters cashed in on those minutes. So did Coca-Cola, the tournament’s longtime beverage sponsor, whose in-stadium marketing during those very breaks helped power one of the more unusual quarters in the company’s
Datadog Inc. (DDOG) spent last summer defending itself against one accusation: that its biggest customer was quietly building its way out the door. In July 2025, Guggenheim downgraded the stock to sell, warning that OpenAI was developing in-house monitoring tools that could carve a $150 million hole in Datadog’s revenue. The stock brushed it off
Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on $397.4 billion in cash. That number is larger than the market value of ExxonMobil. It exceeds the GDP of South Africa. It is the largest liquid reserve in the company’s history. Berkshire has been a net seller of stocks for more than three years and has not found a major
Starting Aug. 13, you can buy into 80 seed-stage startups on the New York Stock Exchange for $25 a share, with no accreditation required. Robinhood Ventures Fund II, trading under the ticker RVII, plans to raise $200 million through an initial public offering of 8 million shares. Goldman Sachs is the lead underwriter, with Citigroup,
SpaceX fell 13.61% on Aug. 5, the day after the company’s first quarterly earnings report as a public company landed, unnerving investors with capital expenditures running more than $5 billion above Wall Street estimates. The stock has now declined for five consecutive weeks. The conversation on Wall Street has shifted from when to buy to