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The dividend yield on the S&P 500 is the lowest since the dotcom bubble
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The dividend yield on the S&P 500 is the lowest since the dotcom bubble

There hasn’t been much for dividend investors to cheer about these days, according to Trivariate Research. The yield on the S & P 500 , currently at 1.15%, is approaching its lowest levels in 50 years, founder Adam Parker pointed out in a note this week. The only time it sank lower was when it […]

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This week in AI: Brushing off new bubble warnings, Google’s AI comeback and Nvidia’s China threat
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This week in AI: Brushing off new bubble warnings, Google’s AI comeback and Nvidia’s China threat

This week, volatility took hold of the AI trade as bubble fears continued to rise and Nvidia‘s blowout earnings failed to steady the market.  “Unless you’re the most optimistic person on the planet … you know you’re in a bubble, right?” Dan Niles, founder of Niles Investment Management, told CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa. “There is no […]

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AI Christmas: The latest devices from Amazon, Meta, Google and more
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AI Christmas: The latest devices from Amazon, Meta, Google and more

Three years since the arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, more devices featuring generative AI technology have hit the market in time for the 2025 holiday shopping season, with many offering deals for Black Friday. Shoppers can pick from more advanced smart glasses, smart speakers with genAI and a pendant AI friend that acts as a confidant. […]

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How Alibaba quietly became a leader in AI
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How Alibaba quietly became a leader in AI

From a Hangzhou startup to a global tech powerhouse, uncover the strategies that turned Alibaba into a multi-billion-dollar empire. Alibaba is transforming itself from an e-commerce giant into a global AI powerhouse.  The Chinese tech giant has pledged tens of billions of dollars in investment in AI and cloud infrastructure, fueling the development of its own Qwen language models, the Quark […]

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Here are real AI stocks to invest in and speculative ones to avoid
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Here are real AI stocks to invest in and speculative ones to avoid

Concerns about stock valuations in companies tied to artificial intelligence knocked the market around this week. Whether these worries will recede, as they did Friday, or flare up again will certainly be something to watch in the days and weeks ahead. We understand the concerns about valuations in the speculative aspects of the AI trade, […]

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Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees
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Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees

Amin Vahdat, VP of Machine Learning, Systems and Cloud AI at Google, holds up TPU Version 4 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on July 23, 2024. Marc Ganley Google ‘s AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its serving capacity every six months in order to meet demand for […]

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Tech stocks set for big losing week as AI names get rocked after Nvidia earnings
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Tech stocks set for big losing week as AI names get rocked after Nvidia earnings

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, has a Q&A session at a press conference during the APEC CEO summit on October 31, 2025 in Gyeongju, South Korea. Woohae Cho | Getty Images News | Getty Images Even Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang couldn’t save the tech and artificial intelligence trade this week. The chip giant’s talismanic […]

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Eli Lilly hits  trillion market value, a first for a health-care company
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Eli Lilly hits $1 trillion market value, a first for a health-care company

A sign with the company logo sits outside of the headquarters of Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 17, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images Eli Lilly reached a $1 trillion market capitalization on Friday, the first health-care company in the world to join the exclusive club dominated by tech firms.  Eli Lilly briefly hit […]

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Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees
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Google must double AI compute every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees

Amin Vahdat, VP of Machine Learning, Systems and Cloud AI at Google, holds up TPU Version 4 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on July 23, 2024. Marc Ganley Google ‘s AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its compute capacity every six months in order to meet demand for […]

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Nvidia is king in AI chips, but Google and Amazon want to catch up by making their own
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Nvidia is king in AI chips, but Google and Amazon want to catch up by making their own

Nvidia outperformed all expectations, reporting soaring profits Wednesday thanks to its graphics processing units that excel at AI workloads. But more categories of AI chips are gaining ground. Custom ASICs, or application-specific integrated circuits, are now being designed by all the major hyperscalers, from Google‘s TPU to Amazon‘s Trainium and OpenAI’s plans with Broadcom. These […]

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