Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rebounds Friday and hit a milestone. Small caps lead the rally with a more than 3% gain.

The acquisition could mark the beginning of consolidation in the carbon removal market since removal costs remain higher than buyers would like to pay.

The broader market passed a significant milestone thanks to big gains for stocks outside of tech. Goldman Sachs and Caterpillar are examples.

Too many investors may be making investing in artificial intelligence stocks too risky, too difficult, or both.

In 2001, Pixar was preparing to release the film "Finding Nemo." Given Pixar's track record of blockbusters, everyone expected the movie to be another hit.

The top contributors to the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s ascent from 40000 nearly two years ago to 50000 on Friday came from stocks that benefited from a strong economy and interest rates coming down with inflation. Since the Dow gives more weight to higher priced stocks, the moves of Goldman Sachs (recently trading near $930 a share) have a lot more weight than those of Apple ($275 a share). Here are the top contributors to the Dow’s rise over the past 431 trading days, since it crossed 40000 in May 2024.

US benchmark equity indexes rallied intraday as Nvidia (NVDA) helped lift the technology sector, whi

Investing.com -- Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang defended the current level of AI infrastructure spending, calling it appropriate and sustainable amid investor concerns about tech companies' capital expenditures.

Spot silver was up more than 9% to above $77 an ounce by mid-afternoon in New York on Friday, having earlier tumbled toward $64. Gold also advanced after an earlier retreat. Silver has always been subject to more violent price swings than gold, due to its smaller market and lower liquidity.

On Friday, the original digital currency surged the most in almost three years to recoup almost all of the losses registered during Thursday’s crypto market meltdown that had dragged the token down more than 50% from its October peak. The dizzying swings of around 13% have helped to reignite a jump in the volatility that traders traditionally relish because of the potential profit opportunities. Bitcoin rose as much as 13% to $71,469 on Friday.

Nearly $240bn has been wiped off the value of Amazon in a sign that investors have become anxious at the eye watering sums being spent by Wall Street on AI.

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Corning shares are on pace for a record closing high. The stock was up 6.3% on Friday to $119.93, putting it in position to beat the record of $113.10, reached on Sept. 1, 2000, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The company, which makes glass products for tech companies includng Apple announced a multiyear deal with Meta Platforms on Jan. 27.

Shares of the chipmaker rose as much as 7.7%, the biggest intraday jump since April 9, adding more than $300 billion in market value. Amazon.com Inc. sparked the rebound after the technology giant said during an earnings call that it plans to spend $200 billion on data centers, chips and other equipment this year. All told, Amazon, along with Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., are expected to shell out roughly $650 billion for AI tools in 2026, about 60% more than the prior year.

Microsoft stock has been laid low by concerns about the potential negative impact of artificial intelligence on the software sector.

The current Bitcoin crash has pushed BTC below $65,000, marking its worst week since FTX collapsed. More than 190 publicly traded companies currently hold Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) on their balance sheets, collectively controlling roughly 974,000 BTC—nearly 5% of the circulating supply—and that number keeps climbing even as Bitcoin suffers this historic drawdown. Since November 2025, ... Bitcoin’s Worst Week Since FTX Crashed It Below $65K: These 190 Companies Are Still Holding

The spending planned by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all in pursuit of dominance in the still-nascent market for AI tools, is a boom without a parallel this century. The search for a comparison to the spending projections — which came as the four reported earnings in the past two weeks — requires going back at least as far as the telecommunications bubble of the 1990s, and perhaps to the build-out of the US railroad networks in the 19th century, the postwar federal investments in interstate highways or New Deal-era relief programs.

It could more than double your money along the way.