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The memory stock cycle of boom-bust-repeat is over, executives say
The artificial intelligence spending blitz has the memory industry dancing to a new tune. Shares of Micron are up more than 370% over the past year, while Sandisk, which only listed in February of last year, is up more than 1100%. For decades, memory stocks were stuck in a trader’s game, a boom-bust-repeat pattern, but […]
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Dow slides 300 points as oil prices move higher again amid Iran conflict: Live updates
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on March 10, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell on Wednesday as investors continued to eye developments in the U.S.-Iran war and oil prices. The 30-stock index shed 328 points, […]
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Microsoft plans to ship prototype of next Xbox console to developers in 2027
Fairgoers play at the Xbox booth at the Cologne Trade Fair Center during the opening day of Gamescom 2025 in Cologne, Germany, on August 20, 2025. Ying Tang | Nurphoto | Getty Images Microsoft said Wednesday that it will send video game developers prototypes of its next-generation Xbox console in 2027, as the company tries […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Oracle, Nebius, Campbell’s, Serve Robotics, Cadre and more
Check out some of the companies making the biggest moves midday: Oracle — Oracle jumped 10% after the cloud infrastructure company gave strong fiscal third-quarter results and lifted its revenue guidance for fiscal 2027. Management lifted its fiscal 2027 revenue outlook by $1 billion to $90 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG had estimated $86.6 billion. […]
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Nebius stock pops 10% on Nvidia $2 billion investment announcement
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the 2026 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. Siemens and Nvidia announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to develop industrial and physical AI solutions to bring AI-driven innovation to industrial workflow. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg […]
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Oil’s wild ride, Oracle earnings, Kevin Warsh’s ‘perfect storm’ and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. If you’re a fan of commercial real estate, or Netflix’s “Owning Manhattan” (or both), check out Ryan Serhant’s sitdown with CNBC’s Diana Olick. Stock futures are around flat this morning. The three major indexes finished yesterday’s session little changed. Here […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Oil jitters persist as U.S. targets Iranian ships near Strait of Hormuz
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE What you need to know today Oil was slightly higher after plunging more than 11% Tuesday, as traders expect a group of countries to tap emergency crude reserves to mitigate disruption caused by the war in the Middle East. The sharp drop came […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Traders on edge despite reserve hopes
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 9, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters What you need to know today Oil continued its wild ride Tuesday, closing more than 11% lower, as traders believed a group of countries would tap emergency crude reserves to mitigate […]
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AI chipmaker Cerebras namedropped by Oracle, alongside Nvidia and AMD
As AI chipmaker Cerebras angles for an eventual IPO, the company appears to have landed a significant cloud-computing customer: Oracle. On a conference call with analysts on Tuesday following Oracle’s quarterly earnings, Clay Magouyrk, one of the software vendor’s two CEOs, indicated that his company’s infrastructure includes Cerebras chips, alongside graphics processing units (GPUs) from […]
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Nvidia makes ‘significant investment’ in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati, then-chief technology officer of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California, Oct. 17, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia has made a “significant investment” in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab as part of a new multiyear strategic partnership, the companies announced […]
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