U.S. equities finished modestly lower on Monday as a sharp move higher in crude oil renewed inflation concerns ahead of this week’s key U.S. inflation data. The session reflected measured risk reduction rather than broad capitulation: volatility rose, technology lagged, and energy…
Week ending Friday, August 7, 2026 — U.S. equities finished the week decisively higher, led by technology and smaller-capitalization shares. The market’s message was nuanced: economic activity indicators remained firm, but July’s unexpected payroll decline reinforced the view that the labor market…
All major U.S. stock indexes finished lower Thursday as investors weighed fresh geopolitical risks in the Middle East, firmer Treasury yields and a murky Federal Reserve outlook against strong but increasingly priced-in enthusiasm around artificial intelligence and corporate earnings. The S&P 500…
Silicon photonics spent decades as the clever lab demo in search of a board‑level use case. Now, as AI data centers strain grids and mint new optics billionaires in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, that “solution in search of a problem” has finally…
Meta’s decision to plant a more-than-1-gigawatt data center in Lebanon, Indiana, reads like a statement that the future of AI won’t be confined to Silicon Valley ZIP codes. The planned campus, with over $10 billion in investment, is set to become one…
Telecom is suddenly the belle of the AI ball, and Nokia (NOK) has found itself back in Wall Street’s good graces by selling the one thing every model, agent and chatbot secretly craves: bandwidth and low latency, not brand awareness. As the…
