Strategy Inc. MSTR shares (previously known as MicroStrategy) rose 2.7% in trading on Monday after the company announced a broad capital management overhaul. The plan aims to strengthen liquidity, support its preferred securities, and maintain long-term exposure to Bitcoin. The announcement follows a period of pressure on the company’s valuation. Strategy’s market capitalisation had fallen
Top software stocks have slumped this year amid the lingering concerns that artificial intelligence tools by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will hurt their revenue growth in the long term. ServiceNow (NOW) stock is down by 35% this year, while Salesforce (CRM), Workday (WDAY), and Adobe (ADBE) have fallen by over 40%. NOW, CRM, WDAY,
South Korean stocks have soared in the past few months, with the KOSPI Index doubling this year, helped by the strong performance of Samsung and SK Hynix. It peaked at 9,388 this month and then pulled back to the current 8,410. Still, there is a risk that the index will retreat sharply once the ongoing
The S&P 500 Index has come under pressure in the past few days, moving from the year-to-date high of $7,620 to the current $7,354. This retreat continued amid the rising jitters that the AI boom is ending. This article highlights some of the top catalysts for the index and its ETFs like VOO and SPY.
The artificial intelligence boom has long been pitched as a transformative force that would boost productivity and eventually lower costs across the economy. But this week, investors were confronted with a less discussed consequence of the AI race: higher prices. Apple and Microsoft both announced product price increases on Thursday, citing soaring costs for memory
A growing chorus of China’s most influential hedge fund managers is sounding the alarm on what they describe as a dangerously overheated global AI trade. After an explosive run-up in semiconductor and model‑development stocks from Seoul to Silicon Valley, several of Beijing’s money managers now argue the rally has detached from fundamentals – and that
US stocks opened lower on Friday as investors continued to rotate out of technology stocks, with chipmakers facing renewed selling pressure despite strong recent earnings and upbeat demand forecasts. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 207 points points while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.95%. The S&P 500 declined 0.61%. The latest weakness comes after
Micron Technology’s MU shares fell sharply on Friday, giving up part of the gains recorded earlier in the week despite the memory chipmaker reporting stronger-than-expected quarterly results. The stock declined nearly 5% in premarket trading as weakness spread across the broader semiconductor sector. Other US chipmakers also traded lower, with Intel down just over 3%,
Micron Technology (MU) briefly moved ahead of Meta Platforms (META) and Tesla (TSLA) in market capitalization on Thursday, after a strong outlook from the memory chipmaker extended its rally driven by artificial intelligence demand. Micron’s shares had surged 18.4% at $1,236, giving the company a market value of $1.398 trillion. This compared with Meta’s $1.392
Apple shares fell nearly 5% on Wednesday after the company raised prices of several Mac and iPad models, becoming one of the latest consumer technology companies to pass on soaring memory and storage costs driven by the artificial intelligence boom. The stock was down about 4.89% at the time of writing. The price increases mark