Sandisk (SNDK) has gained about 762.52% year to date at the time of writing, Wednesday afternoon, July 1. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 9.54% in the same period. The third-largest enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) manufacturer has outpaced the S&P 500 by a wide margin, thanks to its position in the
Bloom Energy (BE) is trying to make power part of the artificial intelligence trade. The company is getting a larger role in AI infrastructure after Brookfield expanded its financing framework for AI power projects from $5 billion to $25 billion. The fivefold increase gives Bloom a bigger opening to sell fuel-cell power systems into a
Semiconductor stocks have been the most crowded corner of the AI trade in 2026. Memory company margins are at records, and chip ETFs have rallied sharply. The consensus view on Wall Street has been straightforward: As long as the biggest cloud platforms keep spending on AI infrastructure, demand for chips has nowhere to go but
While many North Americans mistakenly believe the answer to be Brazil, the most-visited country in South America is actually Colombia. The large country in the northwest of the continent is known for everything from its rich biodiversity and coffee exports to a long history of music and dance that gave birth to global superstars like
Five of the biggest names in American pharma just got a deadline from Washington. The House Select Committee on China sent letters this week to Merck (MRK), AbbVie (ABBV), Eli Lilly (LLY), Pfizer (PFE), and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY), Reuters reported. Lawmakers want each company to explain how it protects data and vets ethics standards
With long-time Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary long associated with his wit and fiery temper, the larger low-cost airline in Europe has also taken a “talking the shit” strategy to its social media presence over the years. After Elon Musk called O’Leary a “total idiot” to his 223 million followers, Ryanair reciprocated by holding a
The AI trade isn’t just about Nvidia anymore. That could be the true warning sign underlying Michael Burry’s current move on the markets. The investor behind “The Big Short” has revealed new bearish positions against Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia (NVDA), Caterpillar (CAT), Applied Materials (AMAT), and the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX), according to the Wall Street
The Iran war handed Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) their sharpest stock surge in years. Then the peace dividend arrived, and it had the opposite effect. West Texas Intermediate prices fell to about $69 a barrel on June 28, its lowest since late February. This happened as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz
BT Group spent more than 18 months looking for a buyer for its international business. Nobody bit. So BT did something different: It gave half of its international business to Verizon and kept the other half. BT and Verizon announced on June 29 that they signed an agreement to combine their respective international enterprise operations
Three months ago, Goldman Sachs was warning clients that the U.S. economy had a one-in-four chance of tipping into recession. The bank just cut that number by 10 percentage points, and the reason has nothing to do with anything the Federal Reserve did. Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius lowered the bank’s 12-month U.S. recession