Alphabet’s shares fell 5% on Thursday after the company beat Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue, with artificial intelligence spending projected to increase hugely this year. The Google parent closed nearly 2% lower on Wednesday. After the bell, Alphabet reported fourth-quarter revenue of $113.83 billion, above the $111.43 billion estimate from analysts polled by…
Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images UBS announced plans for a $3 billion buyback Wednesday and posted fourth-quarter profits that beat analysts’ forecasts. The Swiss banking giant said it aims to buyback at least $3 billion of shares in 2026, adding that it aims to do more. Net profit attributable to shareholders rose 56%…
Diminishing perspective of downtown London skyscrapers Chunyip Wong | E+ | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks opened broadly higher on Tuesday, as investors reacted to the European Union’s landmark trade deal with India and braced for a flurry of corporate earnings. Twenty minutes into the trading session, the pan-European Stoxx 600 was 0.3% higher,…
Passengers are seen amid heavy crowds and chaotic scenes at Indira Gandhi International Airport after stringent new crew-rostering rules triggered widespread delays and cancellations in New Delhi, India, on Dec. 5, 2025. Amarjeet Kumar Singh | Anadolu | Getty Images India’s largest airline, Indigo, that cancelled more than 2,500 flights within days last month causing…
A man walks past a TSMC logo at Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan April 15, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters Thursday offered markets a rare respite from nonstop geopolitical upheaval. Yet the week’s headlines still reflected larger global dynamics. Case in point: Taiwan’s $250 billion investment in chip production in the U.S. is not…
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-332(ER). Joan Valls | Nurphoto | Getty Images Delta Air Lines‘ earnings could jump more than 20% this year from 2025 thanks to robust travel demand, particularly at the high end of the market, and potentially reach a record, CEO Ed Bastian said. Delta on Tuesday forecast adjusted earnings per…
The Micron logo is seen displayed at the 8th China International Import Expo. Sheldon Cooper | Lightrocket | Getty Images Micron Technology‘s stock jumped 10% after the company signaled robust demand for its memory chips and blew away fiscal first-quarter estimates. During an earnings call with analysts, Micron, which makes memory storage used for computers…
An Oracle office in Silicon Valley, California. Image: ykanazawa1999 Oracle forecast sales and profit that missed analyst estimates on Wednesday, while saying that spending would rise by US$15-billion compared with earlier estimates – a sign that big capital outlays to chase AI cloud-computing customers is not turning into profit as fast as Wall Street had…
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder and chief technology officer, appears at the Formula One British Grand Prix in Towcester, U.K., on July 6, 2025. Jay Hirano | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Oracle shares fell 7% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker reported lower quarterly revenue than expected despite booming…
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, has a Q&A session at a press conference during the APEC CEO summit on October 31, 2025 in Gyeongju, South Korea. Woohae Cho | Getty Images News | Getty Images Even Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang couldn’t save the tech and artificial intelligence trade this week. The chip giant’s talismanic…
