The Small-Cap Stock Boom Is Overdue. This Fund Is Ready. -- Barrons.com
By Ian Salisbury Small-company stocks have been mired in one of their longest ruts in memory. The silver lining? For funds like Harbor Small Cap Growth, it means opportunities to find attractively
Microsoft bought billions of dollars in carbon credits from Occidental Petroleum, which is heavily favored by Buffett, in a record-breaking deal.
Occidental Petroleum, one of the largest petroleum producers in the USA and a petroleum stock favored by the stock god Buffett, will sell 0.5 million carbon credits to Microsoft within six years. The latest agreement highlights the enormous challenge faced by the technology industry in fulfilling its climate commitments, as the demand for electrical utilities surges under the impetus of the artificial intelligence boom.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management sounds the alarm: US stocks are expected to cool down in the second half of the year, and it is now necessary to stay away from popular AI stocks.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management predicts that the growth rate of the US economy will slow to around 2% in the second half of 2024, and due to the decline in corporate profit growth and increased political concerns, the US stock market will remain basically stable.
Express News | Media: The board of directors of OpenAI will not have so-called Microsoft and Apple observers.
Express News | OpenAI Board Will Not Apple as Observer - FT
Express News | According to Financial Times UK, Apple and Microsoft will not serve as observers on the board of directors of OpenAI.
Buffett smiled! Occidental Petroleum is benefiting from the AI boom: selling carbon credits to Microsoft on a large scale.
In order to fulfill its climate commitment, Microsoft is heavily buying carbon credits, while Occidental Petroleum, a petroleum giant heavily held by Buffett, is benefiting from it; Occidental Petroleum has reached a record-breaking decarbonization agreement with Microsoft, selling 0.5 million tons of credit to Microsoft.
Microsoft Teams plans to launch new features in August: participants can freely switch to different group discussion rooms.
On July 10th, according to the newly added item on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap official website, Microsoft plans to launch new features for Microsoft Teams in August this year, allowing participants to freely switch and join different group discussion rooms. Zoom has already launched a similar feature, while the Microsoft Teams application currently only supports the meeting host to switch to different group discussion rooms, and participants are not supported. After the Teams application is updated, all available group discussion rooms will be displayed to the participants, allowing them to freely choose and switch meeting rooms according to their needs during intense meetings.
The release of demand for AI PCs has resulted in record high Q2 revenue for leading manufacturers, with expected increases in shipments in the second half of the year.
ASUS and Acer have consistently ranked among the Top 5 in the PC market. Acer is optimistic, stating that it has already seen demand for AI PCs and is waiting for them in the second half of the year. The PC industry chain always mentions AI.
Argus Research Maintains Microsoft(MSFT.US) With Buy Rating, Raises Target Price to $526
Argus Research analyst Joseph Bonner maintains $Microsoft(MSFT.US)$ with a buy rating, and adjusts the target price from $475 to $526.According to TipRanks data, the analyst has a success rate of 63.8
Futu Morning Briefing | Powell: The Fed is carefully evaluating the timing of interest rate cuts; Tesla successfully achieved a 10-day consecutive increase.
Fed's "megaphone": Powell's important shift suggests rate cuts are imminent; A failed billion-dollar agreement? Oracle's stock dropped by 3%, while Musk's AI negotiation was reportedly terminated. Second-quarter shipments surged 21%! Apple leads the global PC market's recovery.
Analysts Reboot Microsoft Stock Price Target on AI Transformation
TOP 20 trading volume | Tesla has risen for ten consecutive days, with the stock price hitting a new high in almost six months and trading nearly $42 billion.
Nvidia, ranked second, closed up 2.48% with a trading volume of $36.713 billion. KeyBanc analyst John Vinh raised Nvidia's target price from $130 to $180. Apple, ranked third, rose 0.38% to a new historical high, with a trading volume of $10.987 billion and a market cap of over $3.5 trillion.
US stocks closed with the S&P hitting a new high. Tesla rose for the tenth consecutive day, while Nvidia rose nearly 2.5%.
Apple, Applied Materials, and Eli Lilly and Co's stock prices hit new highs again; China concept stocks are generally up, with Baidu up more than 8%.
Occidental Clinches Record Carbon-Removal Deal With Mega-Buyer Microsoft
Nvidia CEO Huang Sells Another $30.7M in Shares as Part of Trading Plan
Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Dips While Market Gains: Key Facts
The New Laptops Are Here, and They Don't Have Intel or AMD Inside -- Barrons.com
By Bill Alpert Beware Intel. The CoPilot+ laptops shown in May at Microsoft's artificial-intelligence rollout are now on store shelves. These AI-optimized PCs run on Qualcomm chips, and they could
Nvidia's Stock Is Soaring Largely Thanks to Microsoft, Alphabet and Tech's Other AI Giants. That Won't Last.
By Vitaliy Katsenelson Companies are spending big to develop their own AI chips so they don't have to keep paying Nvidia Within a few years, AI chips will sell at a small fraction of Nvidia's 'only
Microsoft Options Spot-On: On July 9th, 258.75K Contracts Were Traded, With 2.28 Million Open Interest
On July 9th ET, $Microsoft(MSFT.US)$ had active options trading, with a total trading volume of 258.75K options for the day, of which put options accounted for 34.54% of the total transactions, and