Find out how the company's da Vinci surgical robots could remain the preferred option for decades.Shares of Intuitive Surgical (ISRG -3.56%) are down about 26% from a high-water mark they set earlier this year, but the healthcare stock's long-term shareholders aren't too upset. Despite the recent decline, shares of the robot-assisted surgical system provider are up by a whopping 5,490% over the past 20 years.Shares of Intuitive Surgical have been beaten down this year in response to a competitive threat fro ...

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said that President Donald Trump’s administration is working to lift shares of the Federal National Mortgage Association FNMA, or Fannie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. FMCC, or Freddie Mac, ahead of what could be “the largest IPO of all time.”Trump Likes To See ‘Stocks Soar’Ackman, who’s been an investor and prominent advocate for both housing finance companies since 2012, says that “It is abundantly clear that the administration wants Fannie and Freddie (F2) ...

LIVE S&P 500 Builds on Record High as Fed Rate Call Comes Under More Scrutiny Last Updated: 1 hour ago S&P 500 Builds on Record High as Cook, Miran Rulings Heap More Scrutiny on Fed Rate Call By George Glover Topics Memberships Subscribe to Barron's Tools Customer Service Customer Center Network Stocks looked set to climb again as investors waited for Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy decision, with the central bank all-but certain to cut interest rates for the first time this year. Futures tracking the Do ...

Tesla Inc. TSLA reported the best week of the quarter so far in the Chinese domestic market amid Elon Musk’s $1 billion stock purchase.Check out the current price of TSLA stock here.Tesla Sales Grow In ChinaThe company recorded 15.4K new insured registrations in the Chinese market, up 7.3% compared to last week and 34.4% against the previous quarter, according to data shared by influencer Roland Pircher on X on Tuesday. The data translates to Tesla's best week of the quarter so far, but sales are still down ...

ToplinePresident Donald Trump late on Monday announced he is filing a $15 billion libel lawsuit against the New York Times, alleging the newspaper was acting as a “mouthpiece” for the Democratic Party, marking the latest in a long line of legal battles the president had initiated against the news media.Trump accused the New York Times of becoming a "mouthpiece" of the Democratic party citing its endorsement of Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.Getty ImagesKey FactsIn a post on his Truth Social platform, Tr ...

Which of these AI-oriented plays has a brighter future?Navitas (NVTS -0.97%) and CoreWeave (CRWV 7.38%) represent two different ways to invest in the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) market. Navitas was recently chosen by Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) to supply more power-efficient chips for its next-gen data centers, while CoreWeave provides cloud-based access to Nvidia's GPUs through its own data centers.Both of these AI-oriented stocks generated big gains within a short time. Navitas' stock had s ...

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Early data points suggest Apple may be entering one of its healthier iPhone cycles in years -- even before the brand-new iPhone Air has proven itself.Apple (AAPL 1.06%) just refreshed its flagship product line, and the first read-through from preorder week is encouraging. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said on Monday that preorder trends for new iPhones indicate stronger initial demand for the iPhone 17 family versus last year, while also flagging uncertainty around the just-announced iPhone Air, Apple's ultra- ...

A new analysis by McKinsey & Company projects a massive 3.5-fold increase in the global demand for AI-specific data center capacity by 2030, potentially creating a multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity for chipmaker Nvidia Corp. NVDA.The report forecasts that the power demand for AI workloads will surge from 44 gigawatts (GW) in 2025 to 156 GW by the end of the decade.McKinsey Projects Data Center Capacity At 219GW In 5 YearsThe McKinsey report, titled “Scaling bigger, faster, cheaper data centers with s ...

Hedge fund titan Bill Aman is having a baffo year. His Persian Square Holdings Fund is up 33% year to date versus the S&P 500 which is up 12%. Okay.And then year to date, it's just fascinating to see over the past 5 years you've got Persian Square up 127%. Since the fund is not listed here in the states, but on the London Stock Exchange, the problem becomes the fact that the shares are difficult to obtain obtained stateside. But now, a newly hatched ETF allows you to invest like Acman.Vista Share CEO Adam P ...