Taiwan raised its 2026 economic growth outlook as the island continues to benefit from booming AI-driven exports. AI-Driven Exports Taiwan's exports surged about 70% in January, the fastest pace in 16 years, as global demand for AI-related hardware continues to accelerate. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:TSM) remains central to that strength, serving as the world's dominant contract chipmaker and a critical supplier of advanced semiconductors. The company plays an outsized role in T

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Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre, who also hosts Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation podcast, takes a look at bitcoin's (BTC-USD) historical seasonality in order to shed some light on the cryptocurrency's latest sell-off. Catch more Stocks in Translation, with new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcast. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination.

US Federal Trade Commission launches expanded antitrust scrutiny of Microsoft’s cloud and AI bundling practices. NasdaqGS:MSFT moves to reduce reliance on OpenAI, increasing focus on in house AI models and partnerships with Anthropic and Mistral. Company announces new data sovereignty agreements, including work with Capgemini, and leads a global alliance on ethical and secure tech standards. For investors watching NasdaqGS:MSFT, this cluster of regulatory and AI updates goes straight to...

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As software stocks crater on AI disruption fears, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives is taking a contrarian stance on the selloff. Ives says the current selloff is “the worst he’s witnessed in 25 years” but believes investors are making a critical mistake by treating enterprise software as obsolete in the AI era. The numbers tell a ... Famous Investor Dan Ives Calls Software Apocalypse a ‘Generational Buy’: Is He Right?

Two of tech’s most dominant companies just hit a milestone investors hoped to avoid. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) have both officially entered bear market territory, down more than 20% from their recent peaks. When the giants stumble, the entire market feels it. The Damage Report Amazon closed at $199.60 on February 12th, down 13.5% ... Amazon and Microsoft Enter Bear Markets: What’s Breaking the Magnificent 7?

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the AI stocks currently on Wall Street’s radar. Apple’s AI roadmap is drawing in renewed scrutiny from Evercore ISI, with the research firm anticipating a delay in its Apple Intelligence 2.0 launch. On February 11, analyst Amit Daryanani reiterated an Outperform rating on the stock with a $330.00 price […]

Nextech3D.AI (CSE:NTAR, OTCQX:NEXCF, FRA:1SS) earlier this week announced the launch of a corporate gifting offering through its Kraftylab platform, marking a strategic expansion of its enterprise engagement services. Speaking to Proactive, CEO Evan Gappelberg said the initiative aims to tap...

Billionaire George Soros has long been a controversial investor. In 1992, he shorted the British pound in a bet that earned him $1 billion and contributed to the Bank of England’s withdrawal from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, an event dubbed Black Wednesday. More recently, through his Open Society Foundations, Soros has funded progressive political ... Billionaire George Soros Just Made Big, Bold Bets on 2 AI Stocks

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Shares of Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) surged 14% in the past week, rebounding from a sharp 20% decline. Despite volatility, retail investor sentiment on platforms such as Reddit and X remains bullish, with an average sentiment score of 88. The AI cloud infrastructure company has captured attention following its Q4 2025 earnings report, which revealed revenue ... Why Nebius Group Is Drawing Both Bulls and Bears After Earnings

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) Investor Week 2026 was last week in New York City, gathering together many of the coin's major investors. Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, sits down with Yahoo Finance anchor Julie Hyman at Bitcoin Investor Week to discuss bitcoin's recent price action and how the cryptocurrency could rebound this year. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Catalysts.

Once synonymous with construction sites, the industrial giant is now digging into AI-fueled data center demand.

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Investing.com -- Bank of America said Germany’s long-awaited fiscal stimulus is beginning to support growth, but warned that the recent rally in European equities may already reflect much of the upside and could set markets up for disappointment.

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Key data releases focused on the US and UK economies kept traders on their toes this week

Prominent investor Chamath Palihapitiya, known as the “SPAC King,” took to X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday to highlight Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) underperformance relative to other major technology companies since the launch of ChatGPT. Microsoft Trails Tech Peers Since ChatGPT Debut “Microsoft has been the worst-performing stock of the hyperscalers since the November 30, 2022, launch of ChatGPT and has significantly underperformed the Nasdaq during that period,” Palihapitiya wrote. He ad

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STORY: :: Lisa Bernhard, Reuters:: Nancy Tengler, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Laffer Tengler InvestmentsFinancial markets, juiced for months with investor enthusiasm about the AI trade, got a rude awakening recently when software stocks around the globe sank on worries that fast-advancing AI tools could upend the industry.ServiceNow's stock, which Tengler's firm owns, has plunged roughly 30% year-to-date, "and it was down 27% last year," she notes, calling the drop "one of the most befuddling sell-offs that I've seen in my career." "ServiceNow is the conductor of AI on the cloud and is vertically integrating to agentic security," Tengler said. "And many other areas of the vertical integration are important and I think are a moat for the company. But the market doesn't agree with me."Speaking with Reuters' Lisa Bernhard, Tengler also described why her firm recently bought more shares of Microsoft, Palantir and Apple, among other tech stocks.And, she addressed the Friday release of the Consumer Price Index for January, noting how the cost of services "has been a problem all the way through this inflationary regime."

US equity benchmarks ended mixed on Friday as traders evaluated inflation data, capping Wall Street'

Coinbase missed estimates for Q4 results late Thursday as the crypto exchange contends with a digital asset bear market.

World stock indexes struggled for inspiration Friday as investors remained cautious after heavy selling of companies seen vulnerable to AI deployment and concerns about tech sector valuations more broadly.Amid growing concerns over the massive investments by AI heavyweights, investors also worry that software, logistics and even real estate companies will see their operations upended by artificial intelligence advances.

Yahoo Finance Senior Autos Reporter Pras Subramanian and Market Domination host Josh Lipton take a closer look at some of Friday's trending tickers and stories. Rivian (RIVN) stock continues to gain after the company posted strong fourth quarter results and forecast impressive delivery numbers. Applied Materials (AMAT) stock is surging after the company beat Wall Street's first quarter estimates. Apple (AAPL) had its worst trading day since April on news that the updated Siri will be delayed and that the company is facing scrutiny from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination.

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US benchmark equity indexes were higher intraday as investors assessed the latest consumer inflation

Cisco Systems is on track to double in price and could rise by a modest triple-digit amount in time, tracking with other DotCom-era names driven by AI.

A move to simplify tariffs on metals would be the latest of about half a dozen changes in Trump's tariff policy in recent months.

After losing nearly $700 million in the fourth quarter as bitcoin's valuation tanked, Brian Armstrong stressed product diversification will help the company navigate the downturn.

After IREN (NASDAQ:IREN) plunged 13.9% on February 4, 2026, retail sentiment soured as Reddit’s sentiment score dropped to 39 this week from a quarterly average of 42, with discussions emerging on r/wallstreetbets and r/options analyzing and dissecting Q2 results. The catalyst? The conversation has shifted to Q2 FY26 earnings, which reported $184.7 million in revenue, ... IREN Drops 14% as Bitcoin Mining Revenue Falls to $167 Million

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has declined roughly 50% from its October 2025 peak of $126,000, and the mood has shifted from euphoria to fear in just four months. Sharp pullbacks feel brutal in real time, but they’ve been part of every major cycle. The question investors are asking now is how long Bitcoin recovery typically takes ... How Long Until Bitcoin Recovers from Its 50% Crash? The Last 3 Major Drops Offer Clues

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XRP’s (CRYPTO: XRP) funding rate on Binance dropped to -0.028%, a 10-month low. A funding this negative means the selling side is crowded—almost everyone is already short, and there’s no one left to sell. The last time funding hit these levels was April 2025, and the XRP price rallied from $1.60 to $3.65 by mid-July, ... XRP’s Funding Rate Just Hit a 10-Month Low—The Last Time This Happened XRP Price Rallied

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Cryptocurrencies are losing their narrative lure to gold, Marcello Estevão writes in a guest commentary.

Bitcoin, the highly volatile leader of the cryptocurrency asset class, experienced another in a long series of corrections, taking the price over 52% lower from the record high in October 2025 to the low in February 2026.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $410M in outflows Thursday as institutional profit-taking and macro hedging create a "liquidity mirage."

Bitcoin price did not just dip. It reacted to something way bigger.The U.S. government revised last year’s job numbers down by nearly 900,000 positions.Markets hate one thing more than bad news. They hate unreliable data and uncertainty. This update from the Bureau of Labor Statistics just shook confidence hard. January ...

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Bitcoin was falling again early Friday, having failed to maintain a sustained bounce from last week’s steep drop. Elsewhere, the crypto exchange Coinbase was up 6.5% in premarket trading, despite releasing disappointing fourth-quarter results Thursday. Geoff Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, recently lowered his Bitcoin price forecast for this year from $150,000 to $100,000.

The figures signal resilience for the economic bloc, which has been rocked by threats from US president Donald Trump of ever escalating tariffs.

Bitcoin is below $70,000, trading around $65,000 on Feb. 6, 2026. Liquidations spiked above $1 billion during the selloff window. Mining economics tightened as hashprice ...

Investing.com -- European Central Bank policymaker Peter Kazimir said on Monday that a significant shift in economic and inflation trends would be necessary for the ECB to consider altering its monetary policy stance.

Investing.com -- The pound fell against the euro and dollar on Monday as traders responded to the political crisis facing UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and anticipated further interest rate cuts.

As geopolitical turmoil has emanated from the US, world currencies have rallied while the dollar has flatlined.

Officials consider the exchange rate as one element “to project inflation dynamics,” the Italian policymaker said, according to a transcript posted on the ECB’s website on Sunday. At the same time, Cipollone highlighted that the ECB doesn’t have a specific target for the common currency, and that it’s been bunching around $1.17-$1.18 for almost a year now. ECB officials last week kept borrowing costs unchanged for a fifth meeting, with President Christine Lagarde repeating that they see themselves in a “good place,” and playing down the euro’s rise.

European assets look like a haven from President Donald Trump’s mercurial U.S. policy and a possible implosion of U.S. tech stocks.

The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged Thursday as the economy in the 21 countries that use the euro chugs past the disruption from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs with modest yet resilient growth. “The economy remains resilient in a challenging global environment,” bank President Christine Lagarde said, opening her post-meeting news conference. “At the same time, the external environment remains challenging owing to higher tariffs and a stronger euro," she said.

European Central Bank is expected to keep interest rate unchanged as Lagarde guidance shapes euro outlook, influencing EUR/USD trading.

While the market anticipates a “wait-and-see” hold, any guidance from President Lagarde on the Euro’s recent breakout will be the primary driver for the pair’s next leg.

1354 GMT – The euro could turn lower against the dollar in the second half of 2026 as its recent appreciation has outpaced rate differentials, Societe Generale’s Kit Juckes says in a note. The euro has consistently risen faster than two-year rate differentials suggest it should over the past year or so and this move has extended at the start of 2026, he says. Rate differentials are consistent with the euro falling to $1.14 by year-end, from $1.1820 currently, he says.

The EU’s latest surveys indicate early stabilisation in retail, with confidence edging higher after prolonged weakness.

1530 ET – The dollar weakens as markets face another U.S. data gap. Meanwhile, many analysts expect Kevin Warsh to drive a hawkish, leaner Fed focused on inflation. The WSJ Dollar Index slips 0.1%, as the greenback weakens 0.2% against the euro and 0.5% versus the Swiss franc, while strengthening 0.1% against the yen.

Sartorius Aktiengesellschaft (ETR:SRT) reported preliminary full-year 2025 results showing a return to “normal” demand behavior for consumables, while customer investment in equipment and instruments remained cautious. Management said improved demand trends—particularly in recurring revenue—combined

Exporters will more readily find buyers, multinational companies will benefit from stronger overseas revenues. American assets become less attractive, slowing the flow of funds into US companies and driving money to international markets. The president insists he’s not worried about the dollar, no matter its latest slide — a comment that spooked forex traders and, eventually, led Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to reiterate the long-standing policy that Washington favors a strong currency.

The figures signal resilience for the economic bloc, where 350 million people live, which has been rocked by threats from US president Donald Trump of ever escalating tariffs.

Investing.com - The extra return investors demand for holding assets denominated in U.S. dollars is building and could grow further, according to analysts at Barclays.

June Euro currency futures present a buying opportunity on more price strength.

Trump insists dollar ‘doing great’ as it falls to four-year low.

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