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Will AI continue to exacerbate tech's SaaS-pocalypse woes? Warner Bros. restarts Paramount talks
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-17 16:29
Welcome to Yahoo Finances Morning Brief. I'm Julie Hyman. On this Tuesday, February 17th, we of course are coming off of a holiday weekend and also some turmoil in the markets, especially in tech, even as stocks move towards record highs.So, let's take a look at what's going on in the futures this morning on the back of all of that in the wake of all that with that as the backdrop. And we still have some stocks under pressure this morning. The Dow futures indicating a drop of about 72 points at the open. S& ...
Kevin Warsh is a young Jerome Powell
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-16 16:49
I have a tremendous amount of respect for Kevin Worsh. He was at the Fed when I was at the Fed and I I happen to agree with him that the Federal Reserve needs a much smaller footprint in the US Treasury market which would advocate for quantitative tightening. My only concern is that Jay Powell was just as resolute as Worsh when he first started in 2008 and 18 and he was forced to back down in the face of great market turbulence in late 2018.So, it remains to be seen whether or not we can truly get a next ge ...
The importance of financial literacy
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-15 16:37
It's sort of like having a GPS, right. If you want to get from one place to another, I could say to you to go from Atlanta to Chicago, go north. [music] Okay, that's right directionally.But having a GPS, right, is different. The the GPS, it tells you what lanes to be in to position yourself for the next move. It helps you look out for when conditions are changing, but you know how you're going towards your destination.And so I think the same is true for our financial lives and making sure that you have a pl ...
Big Tech's taxes got way lower in 2025. Here's why. 💰
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-14 15:30
The year so far has already seen a few big tech deck giants disclose their tax bills with a clear trend in evidence which is lower taxes. This is thanks to two big factors. One is the buildout of artificial intelligence.These data centers cost a lot of money to build. But on the other side, you've got one big beautiful bill offering new business world deductions for these taxes, factory expenses, product depreciation, things like that. The bottom line here is this is adding up to billions of dollars.Amazon ...
Is Elon Musk's robotics vision too far-fetched? Plus, the advantages of industrial robots
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-13 23:00
Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton covers everything robotics in Yahoo Finance's Bot & Sold: Investing in Robotics special on February 13, 2026. Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management CEO Ross Gerber shares his perspective on Elon Musk's vision for humanoid robots. RobCo co-founder and CEO Roman Hölzl also joins the program to discuss the use cases and advantages of deploying industrial manufacturing robots. About Yahoo Finance: Yahoo Finance provides free stock ticker data, up-to-date news, portfo ...
Yahoo Finance: Market Coverage, Stocks, & Business News
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-13 22:15
Hello and welcome to Market Domination Overtime. Stocks closing mostly lower here after initially rising on that January inflation print. Our very own Jared Blickery has all the headlines.Jared, thank you Josh. Uh pretty low volatility today and we are looking at some losses for the week. I'll show you the five-day totals here.Here's the Dow. Actually closed up almost 50 points today. Not a huge amount.Uh but for the week, we are down 1.23%. Here's NASDAQ down fractionally on the day, down 2% for all the he ...
Fed's Austan Goolsbee discusses interest rate outlook, how AI fears are spreading beyond software
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-13 22:00
Hello and welcome to market domination. I'm Josh Lipton live from our New York headquarters. There's just an hour to go now.So the closing bell and stocks are higher on that back of that cooler than expected inflation print. Our very own Enz Fay standing by with all the headlines. Enz.>> Hey Josh. Yeah, we are seeing across the board uh stocks that are higher, although we are off the highs of the session. We can see a little bit of a sell-off that we've seen here over the last half hour or so.Taking a look ...
Is buying Bitcoin after a crash smart?
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-13 20:00
All right, guys. The biggest buzzword of the year is Bitcoin. And look, guys, if you liked Bitcoin at 120,000, then you probably should love it at 60,000.And that's what this episode is about. We're talking to the Mark Newton, the global head of technical strategy at Funstrat Global Advisors, and he's breaking it down. We're going to get a price target when it comes to Bitcoin and Ethereum. We're talking about options trading, and more importantly, we're talking about how to make you a better trader.Financi ...
How consumers are dealing with rising food prices, American Superconductor CEO on the US energy grid
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-13 17:00
Welcome to Market Catalyst. I'm Julie Hyman. We are 30 minutes into the US trading day. So, let's get to the three market catalysts we're watching this hour. First off, we'll have more on the latest inflation report as traders increase bets on rate cuts this year. Plus, the price is tight. We'll hone in on the state of the consumer as shoppers seek value as they navigate inflation. and we'll bring you the latest from Washington as President Trump looks to narrow the scope of his steel and aluminum tariffs. ...
Hasbro CEO: AI is "pretty magical."
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-13 16:57
I think it's pretty magical and pretty transformative. It's just been an absolute productivity boon for us. We think we're going to be able to save about a million people hours worth of work over the next 12 months.That's not going to be eliminated jobs. That's going to be taking a couple hours each week from everyone who works here and reapplying it from kind of lower value work like order management or processes and reapplying it to innovation and delivering for our customers and partners. We're already s ...