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Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesThe tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 15.29% in April, its biggest monthly gain since the start of the Covid pandemic in April 2020. Earnings for big tech this week have boosted the sector, with Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft all beating expectations for revenue and cloud growth.Alphabet surged 10% after earnings, climbing 34% this month. It’s the company’s best month since October 2004, the year it went public.Meta fell 9% Thursday after announcing an increase in its capex spend, but still gained nearly 7% for the month.Shares of Amazon rose 27% in April, while Broadcom gained…

U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House on April 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Thursday said he does not worry about another attempt on his life on the heels of what prosecutors say was a third assassination effort against him by a gunman at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 24.”I don’t think about it,” Trump told a reporter when asked at the White House if he was concerned about another assassination attempt.”If I did, I wouldn’t be he,” the…

A potential pullback by Middle East sovereign wealth funds could drain hundreds of billions of dollars from the artificial intelligence boom and threaten key data center projects, according to tech investor Jack Selby.Middle East investors — including sovereign wealth funds and government entities — account for roughly a quarter of global investments committed to AI over the next five years, said Selby, managing director of Peter Thiel’s family office, Thiel Capital. If the war in Iran drags on, and the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and other countries divert their investments to rebuilding at home, the lost capital could ripple…

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Since the introduction of wings to racing cars halfway through the 1960s, airflow has been everything in racing. Until that point, the focus was on making a car as slippery as possible; less drag meant more top speed on the straights. Then designers like Jim Hall at Chaparral and Colin Chapman at Lotus realized they could use the air to push the car onto the track, increasing grip and allowing it to go faster through the corners. Things haven’t been the same since. Finding aerodynamic downforce started as something of a dark art. The use of wind tunnels to simulate…

Sir Mark Rowley says he is “disappointed” that Green Party leader Zack Polanski shared a post condemning how police subdued the suspect. Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a meeting with France’s President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026.Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty ImagesWall Street analysts estimate total AI capital expenditures could now climb above $1 trillion in 2027, following even bigger spending plans unveiled by the hyperscalers during Wednesday’s tech earnings.Both Evercore and Bank of America placed 2027 capex in excess of a $1 trillion after the earnings calls, with 2026 estimates rising to between $800 and $900 billion.”Cap-ex continues to soar as demand outpaces supply and pricing increases,”…

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks surged on the last day of April . The S & P 500 hit an all-time, intraday high and went above 7,200 for the first time ever. The Nasdaq also rallied and traded just under Monday’s record high. Both indexes were on track for their best months since 2020. Ahead of the close, the S & P 500 is up more than 10% in April, while the Nasdaq is up…

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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian speaks at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco, April 9, 2019.Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAll three top cloud infrastructure providers surpassed analyst estimates in earnings reports late Wednesday, but Google was the standout, generating its fastest growth rate on record. Google is chasing Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in the public cloud market, which is booming as demand soars for access to artificial intelligence models and services. All three vendors provide a suite of tools for building and running companies’ products, and they also offer an array of their own…