Tag: technology stocks

The IMF Warns the AI Boom Could Become a Global Financial Risk
AI Industry • October 18, 2026

The IMF Warns the AI Boom Could Become a Global Financial Risk

Nvidia can lose billions in market value during a bad trading session. Investors may panic, analysts may revise their forecasts, and the financial press will spend the afternoon debating whether the AI bubble has finally burst. But the International Monetary Fund is now worried about something considerably more serious than a semiconductor stock correction. In […]

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Blue Origin Wants to Go Public. Its Real Challenge Is Proving It Can Scale.
Future Tech • October 12, 2026

Blue Origin Wants to Go Public. Its Real Challenge Is Proving It Can Scale.

Jeff Bezos has spent 26 years building a space company with the financial patience of a billionaire and the ambitions of a national space program. Now Blue Origin is preparing for something that could fundamentally change how the business operates: outside shareholders. On October 8, Bezos confirmed that Blue Origin had completed its first external […]

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The US 10-Year Yield Just Hit 5.35%. Tech Stocks Have a Problem.
Finance • October 9, 2026

The US 10-Year Yield Just Hit 5.35%. Tech Stocks Have a Problem.

The US 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.35% on October 7, 2026, reaching territory investors had not seen since 2002. It was an extraordinary number for the world’s most important government bond market, but the implications extend well beyond Treasury traders. For investors holding Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, growth stocks or Nasdaq ETFs, the problem is not […]

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September Was Basically Two Stock Markets Wearing One Trench Coat
Investing • October 1, 2026

September Was Basically Two Stock Markets Wearing One Trench Coat

September was a good month for the stock market. September was also a terrible month for the stock market. Both statements can be defended with perfectly respectable numbers. The Nasdaq Composite gained about 1.9% during the month, extending the extraordinary run of technology and AI-linked stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went in the opposite […]

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The Dot-Com Bubble: Who Died, Who Won, and Could It Happen Again?
Finance • September 5, 2026

The Dot-Com Bubble: Who Died, Who Won, and Could It Happen Again?

The dot-com bubble is usually remembered as a story about stupidity. Investors throwing money at companies with no profits. Startups adding “.com” to their names. Twenty-somethings becoming paper millionaires. Pets.com spending heavily to sell pet food online. Venture capital chasing almost anything connected to the internet. Then, in 2000, gravity returned. But that version of […]

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When AI Starts Financing AI, Should Investors Get Nervous?
AI Industry • July 31, 2026

When AI Starts Financing AI, Should Investors Get Nervous?

Nvidia already sells the chips powering the artificial intelligence boom. Now, it may also help provide the financial scaffolding needed for one of its biggest customers to keep buying them. That possibility moved circular AI financing from an obscure concern into a serious Wall Street debate. Nvidia is reportedly discussing guarantees connected to a vast […]

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The Magnificent Seven’s New Final Boss Is Capex
AI Industry • July 27, 2026

The Magnificent Seven’s New Final Boss Is Capex

Alphabet, Tesla and Intel all gave investors something to celebrate during the latest earnings cycle. Each company beat at least one major Wall Street expectation. Each also watched its market value fall. That sounds irrational until you look at the statistic Wall Street has promoted above almost everything else: AI capex. Alphabet reported stronger-than-expected revenue, […]

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Magnificent Seven Earnings Have Entered the Perfection Trap
Big Tech • July 20, 2026

Magnificent Seven Earnings Have Entered the Perfection Trap

Netflix delivered the kind of quarterly report that once would have kept the market calm. Earnings per share came in ahead of expectations, revenue continued to grow, and the streaming giant remained highly profitable. Then the stock dropped by more than 10%. The problem was not the quarter Netflix had just completed. Wall Street was […]

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