Yahoo Finance Senior Producer John Hyland tracks today's top moving stocks and biggest market stories in this Market Minute. US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) advance for the second day in a row. Oil prices (CL=F, BZ=F)are trading above $100 per barrel following further attacks in the Middle East. Apple (AAPL) stock is up after CEO Tim Cook dispelled rumors that he plans to depart the company.
GOOGL faces valuation concerns despite AI-driven growth in Search and Cloud, as rising capex and margin pressure cloud near-term upside.
Nvidia and Apple are two very different companies with one problem in common: Both have a hard time springing any surprises. Nvidia is hosting its annual GTC conference in San Jose, Calif., this week. The opening keynote by CEO Jensen Huang on Monday devoted most of its time to Vera Rubin, the next generation of the company’s AI computing platforms.
Apple caught the tech world off guard on Monday with a surprise announcement: the AirPods Max 2 are here. There were no leaks. No rumors. No pre-event whispers. The company simply dropped its long-awaited over-ear headphone upgrade without a word of warning. The headline upgrade is a new H2 chip, ...
Trip signals ongoing focus on supply chain operations
"You get what you pay for" often applies to expensive stocks with best-in-class business models and execution. While their quality can sometimes justify the premium, they typically experience elevated volatility during market downturns when expectations change.
Apple (AAPL) has just reshaped its hardware lineup with the low priced MacBook Neo, upgraded MacBook Pro chips, and the new AirPods Max 2, while simultaneously cutting App Store commissions in China under regulatory pressure. See our latest analysis for Apple. Despite a 1 day share price return of 1.08% to US$252.82, Apple’s recent 90 day share price return of 7.93% and year to date share price return of 6.71% signal cooling momentum, even as 1 year total shareholder return of 18.66% and 5...
19 Consecutive Quarters of Growth Underscore OOH’s Expanding Role in the Modern Media Mix as Apple, Morgan & Morgan, and Vivint top the list of OOH advertisersWASHINGTON, March 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Out of home (OOH) advertising revenue reached a record $9.46 billion in 2025, marking 3.6% year-over-year growth and extending the industry’s growth to 19 consecutive quarters, according to newly released data from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). Momentum accelerated
PALO ALTO, March 17, 2026--Today, IDA Ireland, the foreign direct investment (FDI) arm of the Irish government, announced that more than 270 companies headquartered in the Western U.S. are partnering with IDA Ireland to grow their European footprint. These partnerships, which include leading innovation brands like Apple, Workday, Anthropic, and Proofpoint, contribute to the 1,000+ operations and 218,000 jobs provided by U.S. businesses in Ireland.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) ranks among the best FAANG+ stocks to invest in right now. Evercore ISI reaffirmed an Outperform rating and $330 price target for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) on March 5 in response to the company’s revamped MacBook product range, which includes the $599 MacBook Neo. The new lineup comes with the latest M5 chips, […]
MINNEAPOLIS, March 17, 2026--Jamf, the standard in managing and securing Apple at work, today announced it has been named on G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards, ranking #23 on the Best Software for Enterprise Businesses list.
Remember when Jack Welch brought good things to life? During their 1960s heyday, conglomerates were even hotter and they took advantage by using their lofty stock prices to buy hundreds of often unrelated businesses. “It’s the smart thing to do,” says Que Nguyen, chief investment officer for equity strategies at Research Affiliates.
The ban is the latest legal setback for prediction markets, which are facing regulatory pushback around the world.
America’s advanced weapons systems and multi-trillion-dollar civilian technology sectors depend on rare-earth magnet supply chains long dominated by China, prompting a strategic push to restore domestic metallization capacity.
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) stock has surged more than 460% over the past five years, making it one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The global leader in breakthrough AI software has had a stellar run. However, this run has pushed the company’s valuation into expensive territory, with the stock now trading at roughly 114x forward earnings. At the same time, co-founder Peter Thiel recently filed to sell about $280 million worth of shares, adding to insider selling
Wondering whether Apple at a recent price of US$252.82 is giving you a fair deal or asking too much for its future? This article walks through what the current market price might be implying. Over the past week Apple saw a 2.7% decline, while the 30-day return is a 1.2% decline. The year-to-date return is a 6.7% decline, but the 1-year, 3-year and 5-year returns stand at 18.7%, 62.9% and 110.4% respectively, which can change how you think about timing and risk. Recent headlines have focused...
An exclusive analysis of 50 companies found CEOs in the lowest-performing tier still collected 87% of their target bonuses last year—and boards may start adding more comp safety nets to protect from Iran economic impact.
Over the past few years, the AI boom has been driven largely by spending by a handful of hyperscalers - Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms. Together these companies are expected to spend over $500 billion in capex this year, with a significant portion flowing to Nvidia.
Shares of Samsung Electronics rose as much as 5% on Tuesday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the South Korean company was producing Nvidia's new artificial intelligence chips. The news fuelled expectations that Samsung's foundry division, which makes logic chips for customers including Tesla , Apple and Samsung's phone division, may be able to turn around as early as next year after posting billions of dollars in annual losses in recent years, analysts said. At Nvidia's GTC developer conference in California on Monday, Huang unveiled Nvidia's new AI inference processor based on technology from chip startup Groq.
Last year at GTC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted that Nvidia’s data center hardware would earn the company a half-trillion dollars in 2025 and 2026. In the last 12 months, the data center segment has had sales of $192 billion, up 66% from the previous period. Huang’s 140-minute presentation began with a discussion of CUDA, free software that comes with Nvidia’s expensive hardware.