There's no shortage of uncertainties surrounding productivity gains to be had from the AI boom. Will embracing next-generation large language models (LLMs) actually lead to an earnings boost? And when will such a boost be on the horizon?

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), a prominent player in the Semiconductors industry with a market capitalization of $947 billion and impressive 75.2% gross profit margin, has launched a new line of Emulex Secure Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) designed to encrypt data on the move between servers and storage arrays.

Shares of Oracle ( ORCL 6.75%) are flying higher on Wednesday. The company's stock is up 6.4% as of 11:20 a.m. ET, but gained as much as 11.3% earlier in the day. The sharp move came as the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.7% and 1.3%, respectively.

The enthusiasm surrounding AI has already been driving the broader market rally since 2024. The S&P 500 gained 23.3% in 2024 after climbing 24.2% in 2023. The index jumped 53% in the last two years, recording its best performance since the 66% gain in 1997-98.

The Wall Street rally appears to have returned after Donald Trump took over as the President to begin a new term. Major indexes have resumed their northbound journey since the beginning of the ...

This triggered massive selloffs in megacap stocks. Nvidia (NVDA) fell 17%, losing over $500 billion in market capitalization -- a record-breaking decline, larger than the entire market cap of companies like Mastercard (MA), Netflix (NFLX), Costco (COST), and Bank of America (BAC).

Discover how the $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX is creating investment opportunities in multiple sectors.

U.S. stocks dropped sharply Monday after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America's technology industry.

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