Business headlines from the Apex backend, organized by sectors and major public companies for faster market scanning.
The neocloud infrastructure provider says it reached an agreement to deliver NVIDIA Blackwell GPU compute capacity to an agentic hedge fund, positioning the deal around “market-rate” pricing for AI workloads.
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In a recent discussion on Oracle, Epistrophy Capital Research strategist Cory Johnson said the path to re-earning shareholder confidence depends on what management emphasizes and delivers, even as investors weigh competing narratives around enterprise software growth.
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A market report on Exxon Mobil’s latest quarter says earnings came in below expectations, while the company’s dividend continued to rise.
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The Wall Street firm lifted its price target to $175 and framed Atlassian’s enterprise software suite as a driver of AI-related demand rather than a technology being displaced by AI.
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Advanced Micro Devices said it has entered a definitive agreement to buy Taalas, a supplier of AI inference silicon, as it tries to expand capabilities in the fast-growing market for running AI models on devices and data centers.
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A Yahoo Finance style-box roundup spotlighted the iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF, a BlackRock product designed to track U.S. small-cap companies screened for “value” characteristics. The post frames the fund as a way to add a specific factor exposure rather than a broad market substitute.
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The defense contractor says its new facility, Building 250, includes 17 secure laboratories intended to support advanced aircraft design, reinforcing the company’s engineering footprint near Melbourne Orlando International Airport.
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The Yahoo Finance-linked Zacks Investment Ideas column included Caterpillar among the stocks highlighted in its latest installment, according to the published post on Aug. 7.
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The newly reported standalone results for Honeywell’s aerospace unit triggered a sharp negative reaction, with traders pointing to operational hiccups tied to the supply chain. But market participants say the bigger narrative has not necessarily broken.
