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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Oracle, Figma, Trilogy Metals, Ford and more

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Oracle, Figma, Trilogy Metals, Ford and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Oracle — The software giant fell more than 5%, leading a reversal in tech stocks, after The Information reported its margins on its cloud business are weaker than analysts currently estimate and that it is losing money on some of its Nvidia chip deals. Figma — […]

Ray Dalio says today is like the early 1970s and investors should hold more gold than usual

Ray Dalio says today is like the early 1970s and investors should hold more gold than usual

Key Points Ray Dalio, founder of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, believes investors should allocate as much as 15% of their portfolios to gold. The precious metal surged to an all-time high above $4,000 an ounce on Tuesday. Dalio said gold stands apart as a hedge in times of monetary debasement and geopolitical […]

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Trilogy Metals, Aehr Test Systems, Dollar Tree and more

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Trilogy Metals, Aehr Test Systems, Dollar Tree and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Trilogy Metals — U.S.-listed shares of the Canadian minerals explorer soared more than 222% after the White House said it would take a stake in the company . The Trump administration will invest $35.6 million in Trilogy as part of a new partnership, making the U.S. […]

NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange rises on report of  billion Polymarket stake

NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange rises on report of $2 billion Polymarket stake

Key Points The deal is expected to value prediction Polymarket between $8 billion and $10 billion, the report said. The report comes as prediction markets become more mainstream. Source

World Bank raises China growth forecast to 4.8% despite U.S. trade tensions

World Bank raises China growth forecast to 4.8% despite U.S. trade tensions

Key Points The World Bank predicts China’s economy will grow by 4.8% this year. It had forecast 4% growth in April, when the U.S. briefly ramped up tariffs on Chinese imports to more than 100%. The bank projects China’s GDP growth to ease to 4.2% in 2026, partly due to a slowdown in exports growth. […]

Technology
SoftBank to buy ABB robotics unit for .4 billion as it boosts its AI play

SoftBank to buy ABB robotics unit for $5.4 billion as it boosts its AI play

An ABB robot on a production line at the Sony UK Technology Centre in Pencoed, UK. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images SoftBank Group on Monday said it had agreed to buy the robotics division of Swiss engineering firm ABB for $5.4 billion, as the Japanese giant looks to bolster its artificial intelligence plays. The […]

Michael Dell says ‘at some point there’ll be too many’ AI data centers, but not yet

Michael Dell says ‘at some point there’ll be too many’ AI data centers, but not yet

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said Tuesday that while demand for computing power is “tremendous,” the production of artificial intelligence data centers will eventually top out. “I’m sure at some point there’ll be too many of these things built, but we don’t see any signs of that,” Dell said on “Closing Bell: Overtime.” The hardware […]

OpenAI’s Sora 2 must stop allowing copyright infringement, Motion Picture Association says

OpenAI’s Sora 2 must stop allowing copyright infringement, Motion Picture Association says

Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images The Motion Picture Association on Monday urged OpenAI to “take immediate and decisive action” against its new video creation model Sora 2, which is being used to produce content that it says is infringing on copyrighted media. Following the Sora app’s rollout last week, users have been swarming […]

Billionaire tech investor Orlando Bravo says ‘valuations in AI are at a bubble’

Billionaire tech investor Orlando Bravo says ‘valuations in AI are at a bubble’

Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo said that valuations for artificial intelligence companies are “at a bubble,” comparing it to the dotcom era. But one key difference in the market now, he said, is that large companies with “healthy balance sheets” are financing AI businesses. Bravo’s private equity firm boasts more than $181 billion in assets […]

Tesla releases driver assist tech update ahead of expected major announcement

Tesla releases driver assist tech update ahead of expected major announcement

Tesla announced a new version of its full self-driving supervised technology Tuesday morning, but investors are looking for something bigger. Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s company shared a teaser clip featuring a logo-emblazoned, spinning component that could be anything from a wheel cover to a fan or turbine. The clip ended with the numbers “10/7,” […]