The phrase sounds almost impossible: a short squeeze involving index funds. After all, index funds are designed to be passive, rules-based buyers, not active traders caught on the wrong side of a…
Utility deals rarely make investors lean forward. This one should. Xcel Energy (NASDAQ:XEL | XEL Price Prediction) just struck an electric service agreement with Google that rewrites who pays for the AI…
Goldman Sachs models $765 billion in annual AI capital spending for 2026, climbing toward $1.6 trillion by 2031. That kind of multi-year buildout is the backdrop for three actively managed (or active-leaning)…
Ten years ago, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL | ORCL Price Prediction) was the database company everyone respected but few investors loved. It had missed the first wave of cloud, ceded ground to Amazon…
The pitch for Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VUG) sits at the cheap end of a long-running debate about whether active stock pickers can beat an index dominated by mega-cap growth names. VUG charges…
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday, and according to Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins, speaking on CNBC, AI will dominate the agenda. After years of being labeled a laggard…
Scott Galloway has made his most aggressive call yet on the AI trade. On the Prof G Markets segment titled AI May Not Be Worth The Cost: Here’s Why, he argued that…
For retirement-focused investors weighing the two ad giants, the question is direct: Should you own Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL | GOOGL Price Prediction) or Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) right now? Both print cash, both dominate…
On CNBC’s Squawk Box on June 4, 2026, Andrew Yang, CEO of Noble Mobile and founder of the Forward Party, made a candid admission about how AI is reshaping his own company…
Two megacap pullbacks, one decision: should a retirement-focused investor add Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL | GOOGL Price Prediction) or Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) on this dip? Both have slipped over the past month, both…
Broadcom held the line on its AI guidance for its upcoming third quarter on Wednesday night, but the stock still fell 15% on Thursday morning. That counterintuitive outcome sits at the center…
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD | AMD Price Prediction) are pulling back slightly midday Thursday, but the stock’s run over the past month has been historic. AMD stock is up 55%…
President Trump privately signed an artificial intelligence executive order that landed considerably softer than what Big Tech and its lobbyists had been bracing for. CNBC’s Megan Cassella, reporting on the development June…
The pitch behind the largest U.S. stock market debut in history rests on one number, and it asks investors to suspend a lot of disbelief. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS | GS Price Prediction),…
Four days. That is the gap between Anthropic closing a $65 billion Series H round at a $960 billion post-money valuation and the company confidentially submitting draft IPO paperwork to the SEC,…
