NYSE trading floor with screens showing stocks sliding as rising U.S. Treasury yields and Walmart (WMT) earnings pressure risk assets on August 20, 2026.
September CPI climbed 3.7%, putting the Fed back in focus. Strong trading revenue, record wealth inflows and a pivotal week for AI earnings offers many a more constructive story.
Inflation delivered an unwelcome reminder Wednesday: The cost of living has not agreed…
The artificial-intelligence boom is often told through the familiar names of the computing stack—NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META). But…
SK hynix just wrote an enormous check to the future of AI memory, agreeing to spend nearly 12 trillion won (about 8 billion dollars) on EUV scanners from ASML Korea in what amounts to a bet that the AI boom is closer…