If you hold a tokenized share of Amazon through Ondo Finance, you can now vote in Amazon's shareholder meetings directly from your crypto wallet. That was not possible six months ago. It is the kind of parity with traditional markets that the tokenized equity space has been promising for years, and ...
If you hold a tokenized share of Amazon through Ondo Finance, you can now vote in Amazon's shareholder meetings directly from your crypto wallet. That was not possible six months ago. It is the kind of parity with traditional markets that the tokenized equity space has been promising for years, and ...
In mid-May 2026, a proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Seattle alleging Amazon unlawfully passed on later-invalidated IEEPA tariffs to customers on imported goods bought between February 2025 and February 2026, while separate investor advocates urged votes against four Amazon directors over the exclusion of shareholder proposals on issues including AI governance. At the sam...
In mid-May 2026, a proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Seattle alleging Amazon unlawfully passed on later-invalidated IEEPA tariffs to customers on imported goods bought between February 2025 and February 2026, while separate investor advocates urged votes against four Amazon directors over the exclusion of shareholder proposals on issues including AI governance. At the same time, Amazon is pushing deeper into AI-enabled cloud and logistics with rapid expansion of its Amazon Now 30‑minute delivery service and new AWS partnerships, sharpening the contrast between its growth initiatives and mounting legal and governance scrutiny. With this context, we’ll examine how the tariff lawsuit and ultra-fast Amazon Now rollout could reshape Amazon’s cloud-and-retail investment narrative. AI is about to change healthcare. These 30 stocks are working on everything from early diagnostics to drug discovery. The best part - they are all under $10b in market cap - there's still time to get in early. Amazon.com Investment Narrative Recap To own Amazon today, you need to believe its cloud and AI engine can keep compounding profits while ultra fast logistics deepen its retail moat. The new tariff class action and governance pushback around AI oversight highlight legal and reputational overhangs, but do not currently alter the core near term catalyst, which is AWS’s AI driven growth, or the primary risk, which is the capital intensive, highly competitive cloud build out. Against that backdrop, the rapid rollout of Amazon Now 30 minute delivery across major US cities is especially relevant, because it ties the legal scrutiny over pricing and consumer treatment directly to Amazon’s most visible fulfillment upgrade. For investors, Amazon Now sits at the intersection of the logistics efficiency catalyst and the key risk that rising labor, infrastructure and automation costs could compress margins if efficiency gains and higher quality revenue do not keep pace. Yet ev...
In mid-May 2026, a proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Seattle alleging Amazon unlawfully passed on later-invalidated IEEPA tariffs to customers on imported goods bought between February 2025 and February 2026, while separate investor advocates urged votes against four Amazon directors over the exclusion of shareholder proposals on issues including AI governance. At the sam...
In mid-May 2026, a proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Seattle alleging Amazon unlawfully passed on later-invalidated IEEPA tariffs to customers on imported goods bought between February 2025 and February 2026, while separate investor advocates urged votes against four Amazon directors over the exclusion of shareholder proposals on issues including AI governance. At the same time, Amazon is pushing deeper into AI-enabled cloud and logistics with rapid expansion of its Amazon Now 30‑minute delivery service and new AWS partnerships, sharpening the contrast between its growth initiatives and mounting legal and governance scrutiny. With this context, we’ll examine how the tariff lawsuit and ultra-fast Amazon Now rollout could reshape Amazon’s cloud-and-retail investment narrative. AI is about to change healthcare. These 30 stocks are working on everything from early diagnostics to drug discovery. The best part - they are all under $10b in market cap - there's still time to get in early. Amazon.com Investment Narrative Recap To own Amazon today, you need to believe its cloud and AI engine can keep compounding profits while ultra fast logistics deepen its retail moat. The new tariff class action and governance pushback around AI oversight highlight legal and reputational overhangs, but do not currently alter the core near term catalyst, which is AWS’s AI driven growth, or the primary risk, which is the capital intensive, highly competitive cloud build out. Against that backdrop, the rapid rollout of Amazon Now 30 minute delivery across major US cities is especially relevant, because it ties the legal scrutiny over pricing and consumer treatment directly to Amazon’s most visible fulfillment upgrade. For investors, Amazon Now sits at the intersection of the logistics efficiency catalyst and the key risk that rising labor, infrastructure and automation costs could compress margins if efficiency gains and higher quality revenue do not keep pace. Yet ev...
While the majority of children are either fostered, adopted or placed in legal children's homes, local authorities have struggled to find homes for children with the most complex needs - who are often the most expensive to care for. And in around 800 cases in England, councils have turned to unregistered homes, despite the ban on them, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
While the majority of children are either fostered, adopted or placed in legal children's homes, local authorities have struggled to find homes for children with the most complex needs - who are often the most expensive to care for. And in around 800 cases in England, councils have turned to unregistered homes, despite the ban on them, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
Following recent sell-offs, Micron (MU +4.60%) stock saw a day of strong rebound trading on Wednesday. The company's share closed out the day up 4.8% and had been up as much as 5.3% earlier in the session. The S&P 500 index's level ended the day up 1%, and the Nasdaq Composite closed out the day up 1.5%. On the heels of bearish pressures for the broader market, stocks saw a strong rebound in today...
Following recent sell-offs, Micron (MU +4.60%) stock saw a day of strong rebound trading on Wednesday. The company's share closed out the day up 4.8% and had been up as much as 5.3% earlier in the session. The S&P 500 index's level ended the day up 1%, and the Nasdaq Composite closed out the day up 1.5%. On the heels of bearish pressures for the broader market, stocks saw a strong rebound in today's trading. Bullish momentum for the semiconductor trade resumed today, and Micron's share price climbed in conjunction with general market trends. Micron regains ground Semiconductor stocks have been at the center of the broader market's bullish momentum over the last couple of months. While bullish momentum for chip stocks has wavered in recent sessions, investors bought back into top chip stocks in today's session. To put things in perspective, Micron is up roughly 156% year to date -- but it's still down 9% from its lifetime high. Expand NASDAQ : MU Micron Technology Today's Change ( 4.60 %) $ 32.12 Current Price $ 730.86 Key Data Points Market Cap $788B Day's Range $ 700.70 - $ 735.40 52wk Range $ 90.93 - $ 818.67 Volume 1.5M Avg Vol 45M Gross Margin 58.54 % Dividend Yield 0.07 % What's next for Micron? As the strongest player in the high-performance memory chip market, Micron has become one of the most important tech stocks when it comes to shaping momentum for the broader market. The demand outlook for the company's high-bandwidth-memory (HBM) chips for use in conjunction with AI processors remains very promising, but investors should understand that the chip specialist's valuation could face pressures if bullish momentum in the broader chip space falters.
StepStone Group (NASDAQ:STEP) reported record fee-related earnings and fundraising in its fiscal fourth quarter 2026, even as GAAP results were weighed down by accounting related to its StepStone Private Wealth profits interests. The private markets investment firm reported a GAAP net loss attributable to StepStone Group Inc. of $7.8 million, or $0.10 per share. Seth Weiss, head of investor relati...
StepStone Group (NASDAQ:STEP) reported record fee-related earnings and fundraising in its fiscal fourth quarter 2026, even as GAAP results were weighed down by accounting related to its StepStone Private Wealth profits interests. The private markets investment firm reported a GAAP net loss attributable to StepStone Group Inc. of $7.8 million, or $0.10 per share. Seth Weiss, head of investor relations, said GAAP accounting required the company to factor the change in fair value of the buy-in of StepStone Private Wealth profits interests through the income statement, which drove the negative GAAP result. On an adjusted basis, StepStone generated $69 million in adjusted net income, or $0.57 per share, down from $81 million, or $0.68 per share, in the prior-year quarter. Weiss attributed the decline primarily to lower performance-related earnings, partially offset by higher fee-related earnings. Fee-Related Earnings Cross $100 Million StepStone generated fee-related earnings of $105 million in the quarter, up 12% from the prior-year period, with an FRE margin of 40%. Excluding retroactive fees, core fee-related earnings were $101 million, up 28% year over year, with the core FRE margin also at 40%. Chief Executive Officer Scott Hart said the quarter marked StepStone’s “best quarter ever of fee-related earnings,” supported by growth in fee-earning assets across the platform. Hart said the firm expects top-line growth and operating leverage to continue supporting FRE growth in fiscal 2027. Chief Financial Officer David Park said fee revenues were $260 million, up 21% from the prior-year quarter. Excluding retroactive fees, fee revenues rose 29%, reflecting growth in fee-earning assets across commercial structures. Park said StepStone generated a full-year core FRE margin of 38%, up slightly from the prior year and more than 600 basis points higher than two years earlier. Fundraising Reaches Record Levels StepStone reported nearly $14 billion in capital formation during th...
NVIDIA NASDAQ: NVDA reported record first-quarter fiscal 2027 results, with revenue, operating income and free cash flow all surpassing prior company highs, as executives said demand for AI infrastructure continued to accelerate across hyperscale cloud providers, AI cloud companies, sovereign customers and enterprise users. Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s executive vice president and chief financial offic...
NVIDIA NASDAQ: NVDA reported record first-quarter fiscal 2027 results, with revenue, operating income and free cash flow all surpassing prior company highs, as executives said demand for AI infrastructure continued to accelerate across hyperscale cloud providers, AI cloud companies, sovereign customers and enterprise users. Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, said total revenue reached $82 billion, up 85% from a year earlier and 20% sequentially. The quarter marked NVIDIA’s third straight period of year-over-year acceleration and its 14th consecutive quarter of sequential growth. Kress said the $13.5 billion sequential revenue increase was also a company record. Get NVIDIA alerts: Sign Up “We capitalized on the inflection in inference demand by ramping Blackwell systems across our diverse end customer base, from hyperscalers to model makers to AI cloud providers and sovereign customers,” Kress said. Data Center Revenue Drives Results Data center revenue was $75 billion, up 92% year-over-year and 21% sequentially. Kress said the increase was driven by continued strength in NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture, with demand for GB300 and NVL72 systems described as “particularly strong.” For modeling purposes, Kress said data center computing revenue was $60 billion, up 77% year-over-year, while data center networking revenue was $15 billion, nearly tripling from the year-ago period. She also said Spectrum-X, NVIDIA’s Ethernet platform built for AI, is now “larger than all Ethernet network peers combined,” while InfiniBand grew more than fourfold year-over-year, helped by deployments of next-generation XDR technology. NVIDIA introduced a new reporting framework that divides the business into two market platforms: Data Center and Edge Computing. Within Data Center, the company will report two sub-markets: Hyperscale and ACIE, which includes AI clouds, industrial and enterprise customers. Kress said hyperscale revenue was $38 billion, ...
For modeling purposes, Kress said data center computing revenue was $60 billion, up 77% year-over-year, while data center networking revenue was $15 billion, nearly tripling from the year-ago period. She also said Spectrum-X, NVIDIA’s Ethernet platform built for AI, is now “larger than all Ethernet network peers combined,” while InfiniBand grew more than fourfold year-over-year, helped by deployme...
For modeling purposes, Kress said data center computing revenue was $60 billion, up 77% year-over-year, while data center networking revenue was $15 billion, nearly tripling from the year-ago period. She also said Spectrum-X, NVIDIA’s Ethernet platform built for AI, is now “larger than all Ethernet network peers combined,” while InfiniBand grew more than fourfold year-over-year, helped by deployments of next-generation XDR technology. Data center revenue was $75 billion, up 92% year-over-year and 21% sequentially. Kress said the increase was driven by continued strength in NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture, with demand for GB300 and NVL72 systems described as “particularly strong.” “We capitalized on the inflection in inference demand by ramping Blackwell systems across our diverse end customer base, from hyperscalers to model makers to AI cloud providers and sovereign customers,” Kress said. Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, said total revenue reached $82 billion, up 85% from a year earlier and 20% sequentially. The quarter marked NVIDIA’s third straight period of year-over-year acceleration and its 14th consecutive quarter of sequential growth. Kress said the $13.5 billion sequential revenue increase was also a company record. NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) reported record first-quarter fiscal 2027 results, with revenue, operating income and free cash flow all surpassing prior company highs, as executives said demand for AI infrastructure continued to accelerate across hyperscale cloud providers, AI cloud companies, sovereign customers and enterprise users. The company issued a bullish outlook and expanded shareholder returns , guiding second-quarter revenue to $91 billion, plus or minus 2%, and reaffirming mid-70s gross margins. NVIDIA also announced a higher dividend, an $80 billion share repurchase authorization, and said it plans to return roughly 50% of free cash flow to shareholders this year. Blackwell demand and AI infrastru...
(RTTNews) - The South Korea stock market has finished lower in two straight sessions, tumbling more than 300 points or 4 percent along the way. The KOSPI now sits just above the 7,200-point plateau although it's likely to halt its slide on Thursday. The global forecast for the Asian markets is broadly positive, thanks to sinking crude oil prices and support from the technology sectors. The Europea...
(RTTNews) - The South Korea stock market has finished lower in two straight sessions, tumbling more than 300 points or 4 percent along the way. The KOSPI now sits just above the 7,200-point plateau although it's likely to halt its slide on Thursday. The global forecast for the Asian markets is broadly positive, thanks to sinking crude oil prices and support from the technology sectors. The European and U.S. markets were sharply higher on Wednesday and the Asian bourses are expected to follow that lead. The KOSPI finished modestly lower on Wednesday following losses from the technology, chemical and automobile sectors, while the financial shares were mixed. For the day, the index sank 62.71 points or 0.86 percent to finish at 7,208.95. Volume was 485.9 million shares worth 39.5 trillion won. There were 811 decliners and 90 gainers. Among the actives, Shinhan Financial collected 0.11 percent, while KB Financial sank 0.72 percent, Hana Financial rose 0.26 percent, Samsung Electronics perked 0.18 percent, Samsung SDI stumbled 2.90 percent, LG Electronics plummeted 5.58 percent, Naver crashed 3.33 percent, LG Chem plunged 5.28 percent, Lotte Chemical surrendered 3.66 percent, SK Innovation contracted 3.43 percent, POSCO Holdings cratered 5.33 percent, SK Telecom added 0.41 percent, KEPCO dropped 5.75 percent, Hyundai Mobis jumped 1.90 percent, Hyundai Motor tumbled 1.99 percent, Kia Motors tanked 3.55 percent and SK Hynix was unchanged. The lead from Wall Street is strong as the major averages opened slightly higher on Wednesday but accelerated throughout the day, ending at session highs. The Dow spiked 645.47 points or 1.31 percent to finish at 50,009.35, while the NASDAQ jumped 399.65 points or 1.54 percent to end at 26,270.36 and the S&P 500 climbed79.36 points or 7,432.97. The rally on Wall Street came on a steep drop by treasuries yields, which pulled back sharply, with the yield on the benchmark ten-year note plunging from its highest levels in well over a year. Th...