In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Walt Disney Co. signage on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disney's streaming and traditional TV business will once again be in focus when the company reports earnings on Monday. In recent quarters Disney's streaming business, anch...
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Walt Disney Co. signage on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disney's streaming and traditional TV business will once again be in focus when the company reports earnings on Monday. In recent quarters Disney's streaming business, anchored by its flagship platform Disney+, has been profitable . However, the company's overall performance — and stock price — have been weighed down by the decline in traditional TV bundle subscribers, which has led to declines in its portfolio of networks. Disney has also made various changes on the streaming front recently. Last year, ESPN launched its direct-to-consumer streaming platform, and Disney began its integration of Hulu into Disney+. Investors will be keen for updates on ESPN's streaming service and any effects of price hikes and changes on Disney+. Here is what Wall Street expects for Disney's first fiscal quarter, according to LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.57 adjusted expected Revenue: $25.74 billion expected Disney's experiences unit, which includes its theme parks, resorts and cruise ships, is the profit driver at Disney, but it can also show signs of pressure on consumer spending. Last quarter the unit appeared unaffected by the economy, and its cruise ships were a highlight. The division is in the midst of developing an upcoming theme park and resort in Abu Dhabi. Disney earlier made a commitment to invest $60 billion in its theme parks over the next decade. On the theatrical front, Disney is coming off a strong year at the box office. In 2025 Disney films including the live-action remake of "Lilo & Stitch" and a third "Avatar" installment topped the box office and helped Disney return to dominance. The earnings report also comes against the backdrop of a succession race to select the company's next CEO for when Bob Iger retires. The company is expected to s...
While Tesla romances AI investors with promises of a robotic future, the carmaker is saying “sayonara” to two ground-breaking EVs. CEO Elon Musk told investors on an earnings call last week that the time has come for its revolutionary Model S sedan and Model X sport-utility vehicle to receive an “honorable discharge.” It’s enough to make investors wonder whether Tesla, once the face of electric ve...
While Tesla romances AI investors with promises of a robotic future, the carmaker is saying “sayonara” to two ground-breaking EVs. CEO Elon Musk told investors on an earnings call last week that the time has come for its revolutionary Model S sedan and Model X sport-utility vehicle to receive an “honorable discharge.” It’s enough to make investors wonder whether Tesla, once the face of electric vehicles, will next attempt a Facebook-to-Meta style rebrand, awarding side-hustle status to the car business that made Musk the world’s wealthiest man. ‘No Room for Retreat’ There are other signs supporting that theory. Earlier this month, Tesla lost its title as the world’s best-selling EV maker to Chinese company BYD; Tesla said it delivered 1.64 million EVs last year, while BYD sold 2.26 million. (Volkswagen had already beaten Tesla’s EV sales in Europe.) The replacement for Tesla’s retiring EV models? Robots, of course. The company’s Fremont, California, factory that was home to Model S and X production will now be where it builds Optimus humanoid robots that Tesla says will be “capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks.” Tesla is “really moving into a future that is based on autonomy,” Musk said on the company’s earnings call. And it plans to spend more than $20 billion this year to do it, which is more than double the $8.5 billion it spent in 2025. Tesla can afford it. Its balance sheet (with a whopping $44 billion in cash) and operating cash flow provide significant flexibility as the company continues to pivot from a hardware-centric automaker to a diversified technology firm, Garrett Nelson, an analyst at CFRA Research, told The Daily Upside. “Forget the Tesla you knew,” Canaccord Genuity analysts wrote in a recent note. “The Tesla of yesterday is gone. We believe Elon Musk has reached a definitive ‘burn the ships’ inflection point — a total commitment to a vision that leaves no room for retreat.” The company is also increasing ties to Musk’s other bu...
CEO turnover has reached a record high, according to a report Friday from leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates. Apparently, the only safe job in Corporate America is being Bob Iger. The Walt Disney Company’s never-can-say-goodbye boss is slated to walk away from the top spot (again) at the end of the year, with a successor supposedly to be named in the near future. While no one is ...
CEO turnover has reached a record high, according to a report Friday from leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates. Apparently, the only safe job in Corporate America is being Bob Iger. The Walt Disney Company’s never-can-say-goodbye boss is slated to walk away from the top spot (again) at the end of the year, with a successor supposedly to be named in the near future. While no one is necessarily expecting the heir apparent to be named on the company’s earnings call today, analysts began to note last week that the drawn-out replacement process is starting to weigh on Disney’s share price. We know moving on is hard, but we would think, of all people, Bob understood The Circle of Life. Magic Kingdom Monarch We do have some clues as to when a new CEO will be named. “Disney’s board has confirmed plans to announce the next CEO in ‘early 2026’ — we expect prior to the Annual Shareholder Meeting on March 18,” JPMorgan analyst David Karnovsky wrote in a note last week seen by Yahoo, though added he isn’t expecting any white smoke to rise from Cinderella’s castle today. And despite Iger’s previous replacement — former parks chairman Bob Chapek — getting thrown to the proverbial hyenas, plenty of Disney higher-ups are still throwing their mouse-eared hats into the ring amid a succession race overseen by current chairman and former Morgan Stanley executive James Gorman. Those names include TV head Dana Walden, films chief Alan Bergman, ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro, and head of parks Josh D’Amaro. Each has a case for and against: D’Amaro is the current odds-on favorite, according to contracts on predictions market Kalshi; Parks and Resorts is the biggest revenue driver in the Magic Kingdom. But as Chapek’s brief stint proved, talent relations is the core of the CEO gig. “You’ve got to be able to manage creative people and the egos around Hollywood,” Kevin Mayer — Candle Media CEO, former Iger lieutenant and one-time heir apparent — told Yahoo last year. Walden, meanw...
An authoritative survey of 23 armed conflicts over the last 18 months has concluded that international law seeking to limit the effects of war is at breaking point, with more than 100,000 civilians killed, while torture and rape are committed with near impunity. The extensive study by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights describes the deaths of 18,592 children in G...
An authoritative survey of 23 armed conflicts over the last 18 months has concluded that international law seeking to limit the effects of war is at breaking point, with more than 100,000 civilians killed, while torture and rape are committed with near impunity. The extensive study by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights describes the deaths of 18,592 children in Gaza, growing civilian casualties in Ukraine and an “epidemic” of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Such is the scale of violations, and the lack of consistent international efforts to prevent them, that the study, entitled War Watch, concludes that international humanitarian law is at “a critical breaking point”. Stuart Casey-Maslen, the lead author, said: “Atrocity crimes are being repeated because past ones were tolerated. Our actions – or inaction – will determine whether international humanitarian law vanishes altogether.” The laws of armed conflict were developed extensively after the end of the second world war, including through the 1949 Geneva conventions. A key aim was to protect civilians from the consequences of civil wars and conflicts between states. War Watch surveyed 23 armed conflicts around the world between July 2024 and the end of 2025, and is a counterpoint to claims by Donald Trump to have ended eight wars during his year in office. The research concludes: “We do not know how many civilians have been killed in the conduct of hostilities during armed conflicts in 2024 and 2025, but we do know that the number is well over 100,000 in each of the two years.” The result is that “serious violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) were wrought”, the report continues, “on a huge scale and with rampant impunity” – while efforts to seek war crimes prosecutions have been limited in response. One of the most deadly conflicts was in Gaza. Israel relentlessly attacked the Palestinian territory with airstrikes and ground incursions durin...
A group of families have called for an urgent inquiry into a charity caring for their highly vulnerable disabled relatives which is under threat of closure after running up debts of £1.6m in unpaid taxes and paying £1m to one of its own trustees. Earlier this month, a judge gave the charity, William Blake House, just weeks to pay off its debts to HMRC or face a winding up order. The charity’s acco...
A group of families have called for an urgent inquiry into a charity caring for their highly vulnerable disabled relatives which is under threat of closure after running up debts of £1.6m in unpaid taxes and paying £1m to one of its own trustees. Earlier this month, a judge gave the charity, William Blake House, just weeks to pay off its debts to HMRC or face a winding up order. The charity’s accounts show auditors have routinely questioned whether it is a viable business. The families say the wellbeing of residents is in jeopardy and public money is at risk. They have questioned why the charity has paid more than £800,000 in strategy fees and £240,000 in consultancy fees to a company owned by the charity’s chair, despite its deteriorating finances. It now faces an investigation by the Charity Commission, which told the Guardian it had opened a regulatory compliance case into potential governance concerns. West Northamptonshire council said it was in ongoing discussions with the charity over what it called “serious governance and financial issues”. William Blake House is a specialist residential care facility in Northamptonshire providing a therapeutic “person-centred” approach guided by the philosophical and spiritual teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Councils and the NHS spend about £3m a year on places at the charity. The charity’s 22 adult residents have learning disabilities, autism and complex care needs requiring round-the-clock support. The families have no criticism of the quality of care provided but fear the future care of their relatives has been put at risk. A statement by 17 of the families said: “Our relatives are some of the most vulnerable adults in society and entirely dependent on stable, continuous care. As parents we placed our trust in the charity to protect the welfare of our loved ones. “This trust has been shattered and serious mismanagement and lack of governance revealed. Our children’s wellbeing has been placed in jeopardy.” The charity has bl...
It must have been an eerie sight when 35-year-old Diudonné Muka looked over his shoulder and saw a trail of people stretching as far as the eye could see. The line ebbed and flowed deep into the surrounding forest, a river of multicoloured clothing cutting through the green. He saw countless women balancing trays of goods on their heads, babies on their backs, tightly wrapped in kikwembe cloth. Me...
It must have been an eerie sight when 35-year-old Diudonné Muka looked over his shoulder and saw a trail of people stretching as far as the eye could see. The line ebbed and flowed deep into the surrounding forest, a river of multicoloured clothing cutting through the green. He saw countless women balancing trays of goods on their heads, babies on their backs, tightly wrapped in kikwembe cloth. Men and children carried whatever they could: chairs, rugs, blankets and sacks of food; anything that might still be useful. “When war begins, you take what you can in your hands and run,” Muka says over the phone. Over the two-day, 21-mile (34km) trek, he heard a mix of languages, from Kiswahili to Kirundi Lingala and French. Livestock such as cows, goats and chickens were plentiful at first. Then, slowly, they disappeared. View image in fullscreen A military vehicle destroyed during clashes between the M23 rebel group and the DRC military in Luvungi, South Kivu, in December. Photograph: Reuters There was only one sound that halted the family’s progress: bombing. The shelling was relentless, each side trying to outdo the other. “They bomb, and the others bomb back. Over and over again,” Muka recalls. “You would pass a house that had been hit and see dead bodies, and you thought: ‘I don’t want that to happen to me.’” Some of the thousands walking alongside him in December were neighbours; others were complete strangers. All were fleeing the town of Luvungi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s South Kivu province, searching for whatever safety they could find. Both North and South Kivu have been engulfed by renewed conflict over the past three years, since the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group re-emerged. The group had captured Goma, the capital of North Kivu, on 27 January 2025, before advancing south to seize Bukavu, South Kivu’s capital on 17 February. In a new offensive that began in December 2025 – just days after a US-brokered peace deal between Rwanda and the DRC was s...
It’s believed that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day: big, small, urgent, banal – “Did I leave the oven on?”. And those are just the ones that register. Subconsciously, we’re constantly sifting through a barrage of stimuli: background noise, clutter on our desks, the mere presence of our phones. Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains. Just 0.0004% is perceived by our conscious mi...
It’s believed that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day: big, small, urgent, banal – “Did I leave the oven on?”. And those are just the ones that register. Subconsciously, we’re constantly sifting through a barrage of stimuli: background noise, clutter on our desks, the mere presence of our phones. Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains. Just 0.0004% is perceived by our conscious minds, showing just how hard our brains are working to parse what’s sufficiently relevant to bring to our attention. It’s no wonder you feel distracted. Formidable though they may be, our brains’ processing powers are a poor match for the fast-paced modern world, the constant pings of our devices and sources of distraction. Many of us routinely feel overwhelmed, and struggle to focus on what we need to get done. But a new book suggests doing so may be easier than we think. In Focus On-Off, Dutch experts Mark Tigchelaar and Oscar de Bos argue that we can better harness our attention by better understanding our brains, and learning how to manage common “leaks” of our concentration. “We like to play the blame game with focus,” says De Bos, head of the training company Focus Company, over Zoom from Amsterdam. But many of the most common difficulties, “you can solve for yourself.” Here’s what we commonly get wrong about focusing, and how we can better manage our minds. Myth: concentrating is hard View image in fullscreen Even a mention of your name, for example at a party, can cause subconscious distraction. Photograph: Posed by models. Compassionate Eye Foundation/Natasha Alipour Faridani/Getty Images Most of us don’t find it hard to focus on something we’re interested in, De Bos points out. What we condemn as “distractions” are just the brain prioritising what it perceives as most important at that moment. Yes, you might conclude that checking Instagram wasn’t the best use of your time – but your brain didn’t struggle to act on the urge to open the app and enjoy some pictures of...
If Lisa Bloom had been advising Peter Mandelson or the then Prince Andrew before their calamitous attempts at reputation-salvaging television interviews, she would have encouraged them to listen beforehand to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims – or, at the very least, to their lawyers – to understand something of what the women endured. “Or even just watch some of the powerful documentaries that have been ...
If Lisa Bloom had been advising Peter Mandelson or the then Prince Andrew before their calamitous attempts at reputation-salvaging television interviews, she would have encouraged them to listen beforehand to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims – or, at the very least, to their lawyers – to understand something of what the women endured. “Or even just watch some of the powerful documentaries that have been made, centering the victims, telling their stories,” Bloom says, pausing for a moment, closing her eyes and shaking her head to convey silent incredulity. “I’d have wanted them to become really enlightened about it. But you really can’t instil compassion in someone if they don’t have compassion. It’s hard to implant it in there.” Bloom, the California-based lawyer who has specialised in representing victims of sexual misconduct cases for 40 years, is acting for 11 of Epstein’s victims. In December, she launched new proceedings against the FBI on behalf of eight of her clients, which argue that the organisation failed to investigate credible reports of Epstein’s sexual misconduct involving minors going back as far as 1996. Had the FBI acted with due diligence, the complaint argues, hundreds more women could have been protected from abuse. Instead, the lawsuit claims, an FBI official hung up the telephone on one of the first women to try to report Epstein. “Despite being the most elite and prestigious law enforcement agency in the United States and perhaps the world … the FBI never called back or followed up … in any manner,” the legal argument notes. The readiness of powerful men to ignore the victims’ voices is a running theme in the Epstein scandal. When Mandelson appeared on breakfast television at the start of January, re-emerging from several months of isolation in the wake of being sacked as Britain’s ambassador to Washington, he made no apology to the victims for continuing his friendship with Epstein, after the financier was convicted of soliciting sex from minors in...
He shot 100 kitschly decorated homes rented out for porn shoots – and spent nine years on a project about his mum and dad. Has any photographer better captured everyday America? A psychiatric review of Larry Sultan, carried out by the military in 1969, described the American as an anxiety-prone individual who felt like a “left-out observer looking inside”. Sultan may not have been fit for service ...
He shot 100 kitschly decorated homes rented out for porn shoots – and spent nine years on a project about his mum and dad. Has any photographer better captured everyday America? A psychiatric review of Larry Sultan, carried out by the military in 1969, described the American as an anxiety-prone individual who felt like a “left-out observer looking inside”. Sultan may not have been fit for service but, with that short phrase, the report identified the essential quality that would make him a great photographer of American domestic life. The report is included in a new book, Water Over Thunder, published in collaboration with Sultan’s widow Kerry and son Max. In a career that began in the 1970s and lasted until his death in 2009 at the age of 63, Sultan was never confined to a single genre, but rather moved between documentary, fiction and appropriation. He photographed the ordinary middle-class homes of the San Fernando Valley in California rented out for porn shoots, made a portrait of Paris Hilton in his parents’ bedroom, and took underwater pictures of people learning to swim in San Francisco. Continue reading...
Surrounded by more than a century of automotive history at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, tennis legend Roger Federer edged a jet black S-Class sedan on to the stage amid flashing cameras and pulsating music, lending star power to the German carmaker’s latest attempt to defend its luxury crown. Alongside Federer’s appearance, the unveiling featured a cameo by Nvidia Corp. ’s Jensen Huang ....
Surrounded by more than a century of automotive history at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, tennis legend Roger Federer edged a jet black S-Class sedan on to the stage amid flashing cameras and pulsating music, lending star power to the German carmaker’s latest attempt to defend its luxury crown. Alongside Federer’s appearance, the unveiling featured a cameo by Nvidia Corp. ’s Jensen Huang . The head of the world’s most valuable company added Silicon Valley cachet via a video link projected above a full orchestra. Such theatrics are unusual for a modest facelift and underscore how much is riding on this moment for Mercedes-Benz Group AG . The stakes are high because the S-Class sits at the center of Chief Executive Officer Ola Källenius ’s luxury-first strategy. Intended to lift returns, help fund the complex shift to electric vehicles and insulate Mercedes from its heavy fixed costs, the bet looks increasingly shaky. Since the strategy’s introduction in 2022 — in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic when car prices rose sharply and volumes tumbled — demand has cooled further and competition has intensified. Internally, labor unions have grown restive as production slips, creating headwinds for potential cost-cutting. The combination leaves little room for more missteps. “It’s a last shot” for Källenius, said Ingo Speich , head of corporate governance for Deka Investment in Frankfurt, one of Mercedes’ largest German shareholders. While the CEO still has the support of the board for now, “he has to bring proof that the strategy works in the right way.” The 56-year-old CEO vowed to stay the course, but cautioned that 2026 will be a ramp-up year as the carmaker rolls out a range of new models. Despite concerns, he noted that luxury vehicles now account for 15% of the sales mix, compared to 11% previously. “As the world’s leading top-end manufacturer, this is our home turf,” he said in response to a question from Bloomberg. “This is where our greatest earnings pote...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Today’s Points: Kevin Warsh has the presidential nod for the Federal Reserve; It SHOULD mean that the worst uncertainty is over; gold sold off; The next battle — can Warsh reduce the Fed’s balance sheet ? Emerging markets should survive the dollar’s rebound; AND: Some different ways to sing Happy Birthday . Kevin, the...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Today’s Points: Kevin Warsh has the presidential nod for the Federal Reserve; It SHOULD mean that the worst uncertainty is over; gold sold off; The next battle — can Warsh reduce the Fed’s balance sheet ? Emerging markets should survive the dollar’s rebound; AND: Some different ways to sing Happy Birthday . Kevin, the Inverse Midas On Friday, Kevin Warsh received the presidential nomination to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. If confirmed, he will be only the sixth leader of the world’s most powerful central bank in almost half a century. Also on Friday, silver suffered its biggest fall in history as precious metals tanked and the dollar rallied. These things are related. By setting the price of money, the Fed has a big impact on the price of gold and the dollar. There is a narrative that ties them together, too. When he was last on the board of the Fed, Warsh staked out a relatively hawkish position, meaning he was more willing to raise rates than others. He is not as obviously committed to lower rates as other candidates for the job have been. So the Warsh nomination might have reversed markets, because gold had been rising, and the dollar falling, on fears the new Fed chair would be determined to cut rates even if it meant debasing the currency. But there’s much more to the extraordinary goings on in the dollar, and indeed much more to Kevin Warsh. Did Warsh prompt the dollar rally? Prediction markets give us a clear steer as to when traders moved to price in a Warsh nomination as a certainty. His odds on Polymarket shot to 90% after Bloomberg News reported that he had the nod on Thursday evening. That overlapped with a dollar rally. But Warsh’s chances had barely moved while the dollar sold off earlier in the week, capped by President Donald Trump’s comments Tuesday afternoon that the greenback was like a yo-yo and he didn’t mind if it went up or down. In trading parlanc...
Gold bars and a gold coin and US dollar banknotes at a Goldenmark bullion dealer arranged in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. Gold surged to a record above $5,500 an ounce, extending a breakneck rally fueled by a weaker dollar and investor flight from sovereign bonds and currencies to a ninth day.
Gold bars and a gold coin and US dollar banknotes at a Goldenmark bullion dealer arranged in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. Gold surged to a record above $5,500 an ounce, extending a breakneck rally fueled by a weaker dollar and investor flight from sovereign bonds and currencies to a ninth day.
Key Points Taiwan Semiconductor is the primary chip supplier. Nvidia is the go-to computing unit provider. Broadcom's custom AI chips are an emerging alternative. 10 stocks we like better than Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing › Although there are fears of an AI bubble forming, one area where that isn't happening is in the computing space. The reality is, AI hyperscalers are spending as much mone...
Key Points Taiwan Semiconductor is the primary chip supplier. Nvidia is the go-to computing unit provider. Broadcom's custom AI chips are an emerging alternative. 10 stocks we like better than Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing › Although there are fears of an AI bubble forming, one area where that isn't happening is in the computing space. The reality is, AI hyperscalers are spending as much money as they can get their hands on to build out their computing footprint. After that's accomplished, we'll see what the true return on investment for AI spending is. It may or may not pan out. Yet there's one thing for sure: The companies that are selling the computing equipment are bound to thrive. I think that's the best place to look for investments in the AI sector, and I've got three stocks that will lead the way. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » Taiwan Semiconductor No matter where you start analyzing AI spending, nearly all roads circle back to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(NYSE: TSM). Taiwan Semiconductor is the world's largest chip foundry, and makes logic chips that power essentially every computing device used in artificial intelligence. While there are some other foundry options, none are as large or technologically advanced as TSMC (as the company is known). With each company involved in the AI buildout pushing the limits of what's possible, it makes little sense to explore an alternative supplier, so most go with the best regardless of cost, which is why Taiwan Semiconductor has excelled as of late. TSMC's management foresees massive AI chip demand and announced its expectation to spend between $52 billion and $56 billion on increased production capacities. CEO C.C. Wei noted that he was "nervous" about spending that much money on increasing production capacities, but after meeting with several of his clients over the pas...
Investors have flocked to gold in the past year, prompting the precious metal to notch a series of price records and eclipse its inflation-adjusted peak from 1980. Friday’s Fed-announcement drama notwithstanding, the price of gold is up 13% so far this year. It even smashed through $5,000 per troy ounce last week—a first. What’s fueling the record-breaking run and where could the price go from her...
Investors have flocked to gold in the past year, prompting the precious metal to notch a series of price records and eclipse its inflation-adjusted peak from 1980. Friday’s Fed-announcement drama notwithstanding, the price of gold is up 13% so far this year. It even smashed through $5,000 per troy ounce last week—a first. What’s fueling the record-breaking run and where could the price go from here? On this week’s episode of Merryn Talks Money, John Reade, market strategist for Asia and Europe at the World Gold Council, joins host Merryn Somerset Webb to offer some answers. This conversation was recorded on Wednesday, January 28. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Worried about an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble? CrowdStrike can allow you to hedge your portfolio while still allowing you to profit from AI's changes to the cybersecurity industry. Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, and generative AI has been likely the biggest stock market story since ChatGPT debuted in 2022. Despite fears of a bubble forming, the market seems as bullish as ever o...
Worried about an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble? CrowdStrike can allow you to hedge your portfolio while still allowing you to profit from AI's changes to the cybersecurity industry. Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, and generative AI has been likely the biggest stock market story since ChatGPT debuted in 2022. Despite fears of a bubble forming, the market seems as bullish as ever on AI going into 2026. But if you want to hedge your bets on AI, the way to do it is by investing in companies that will profit from it indirectly, but don't have the core of their business tied up in AI. CrowdStrike (CRWD 0.72%) is a perfect example. The crowd favorite Put simply, CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company, although there's much more to it than meets the eye. The company's flagship product is Falcon, which makes cybersecurity measures both easier to use and more effective than ever. Most cybersecurity programs or hardware only focus on one aspect of keeping your network safe, like cloud security, data protection, or threat intelligence. Falcon protects all three of those nodes in a network and several more at once. By putting all those functions in one program, Falcon is both easier to use and more cost-effective than running a dozen smaller programs. What's more, because Falcon is cloud native, all the Falcon Sensors deployed by CrowdStrike's customers work together. If one node on that network is breached, Falcon can learn how to counter it and protect the rest of the network from the same attack. It's like self-repairing, self-hardening armor. That also means that the more clients that are part of CrowdStrike's network, the more effective Falcon's capabilities become, because it has more data from more cyberattacks to analyze. Expand NASDAQ : CRWD CrowdStrike Today's Change ( -0.72 %) $ -3.21 Current Price $ 441.40 Key Data Points Market Cap $111B Day's Range $ 438.25 - $ 448.74 52wk Range $ 298.00 - $ 566.90 Volume 2.6M Avg Vol 2.4M Gross Margin 74.10 % Mos...
As embedded systems grow in complexity, embedded development is no longer just about writing software/firmware, it’s about orchestrating hardware-software ecosystems. Hardware-software interdependence and system complexity can actually slow down product adoption and delay time to revenue, hence, there is a real need for the unified path from discovery to development to deployment. The AMD Embedded...
As embedded systems grow in complexity, embedded development is no longer just about writing software/firmware, it’s about orchestrating hardware-software ecosystems. Hardware-software interdependence and system complexity can actually slow down product adoption and delay time to revenue, hence, there is a real need for the unified path from discovery to development to deployment. The AMD Embedded Development Framework (EDF) is designed to simplify this journey by offering a modular, scalable, and open-source system-level development environment that streamlines and accelerates the path to deployment. What is AMD Embedded Development Framework? EDF is not just a toolkit, it’s a complete methodology that provides a fast path to develop and distribute embedded software components. EDF offers:
bandit2523/iStock via Getty Images Originally published on January 30, 2026 By Zain Vawda A blockbuster week for global markets with wild price swings, geopolitical risk, central bank meetings and a new Fed Chair nominated. The starting point, though, has to be the stark reversal in commodity markets on Thursday and Friday, which sent markets into a tailspin. At the time of writing, spot silver is...
bandit2523/iStock via Getty Images Originally published on January 30, 2026 By Zain Vawda A blockbuster week for global markets with wild price swings, geopolitical risk, central bank meetings and a new Fed Chair nominated. The starting point, though, has to be the stark reversal in commodity markets on Thursday and Friday, which sent markets into a tailspin. At the time of writing, spot silver is down around 27% on the day, on track for their biggest daily drop on record, based on LSEG data available through 1982. Source: LSEG Gold, on the other hand, was down as much as 12%. The selloff in commodities was driven largely by profit-taking as well as a late renaissance for the US dollar following the announcement by President Trump that Kevin Warsh has been tapped as the next chair of the US Federal Reserve. Donald Trump mentioned he won’t ask Kevin Warsh (a candidate to lead the central bank) directly if he plans to cut interest rates. However, Trump believes Warsh naturally favors making it cheaper for people and businesses to borrow money. Adding to markets' late-week malaise was a strong US PPI print, which came in above the 0.2% estimate of economists polled by Reuters, after an unrevised 0.2% gain in November. Businesses appeared to be passing on higher costs from import tariffs. Source: LSEG The stock market saw some mixed results today. Apple’s stock price dropped by nearly 1% after the company shared its latest financial report, which put some downward pressure on the US market. Despite this drop, the S&P 500 index is still heading toward its first winning week in nearly a month. On a global scale, MSCI's gauge of stocks that tracks stocks worldwide fell slightly today, but it is still on track to finish the week in the green and have its best month since September. In Europe, stocks actually performed well, with the pan-European STOXX 600 index closing up 0.64%. Strong earnings have helped propel the index to its biggest monthly gain since May. The index re...