Apple took the lead. In May, US stocks announced repurchases of more than 200 billion US dollars, a record high for the same period

Apple's record buyback program has boosted repurchase activity across US stocks. According to Birinyi Associates data, US listed companies announced a $2010 billion share repurchase plan in May, up more than 41% year over year, setting a record high for that month in history, and the fifth highest since records began. At the beginning of May, Apple officially announced a stock repurchase plan of 110 billion US dollars during the first quarter earnings call, accounting for more than half of the total US stock repurchase plan. Analysts believe that large-scale stock repurchase plans may help support underperforming US stocks since the end of March. Stock repurchases

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Tesla's Humanoid Bot Optimus Guides Shareholders On Voting Process Ahead Of Key June Meeting

EV giant Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) on Friday released a step-by-step guide for shareholders to vote ahead of the company's upcoming meeting in June.What Happened: Tesla used its humanoid bot, Optimus, t

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The AI concept stock boom has cooled down, and this US power company, which is stronger than Nvidia's gains, has plummeted

On Friday, Texas power producer Vistra, the “hidden winner” of the AI boom, fell sharply by 10% in the intraday session. Although the decline narrowed at the close and closed down by nearly 6%, the performance was clearly weak compared to the NASDAQ 100, which had the same deep decline during the day but recovered almost all of its decline at the end of the session. In fact, Vistra only hit an all-time high earlier this week. The company's plans to expand natural gas production capacity have raised a certain level of concern in the market. Combined with the overall sentiment of the market, which is becoming more risky in recent days, the stock price increase has come to a standstill. Vistra has increased by more than 300% in the past 12 months, becoming

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Nvidia Is South Korea's Favorite Foreign Stock: Jensen Huang's Chip Company Can't Stop Winning

One of the top gaining S&P 500 stocks over the last year has been NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), which just reported a beat and raise in the first quarter.Investors and funds are flocking to hold s

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Wall Street Snaps Five-Week Winning Streak, Economic Growth Slows, Inflation Holds Steady In April: This Week In The Market

The U.S. stock market ended a five-week positive streak as investors feared that slowing economic momentum could impact the earnings outlook for American corporations.The U.S. economy grew at an annua

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Google continues to “slim down”: cloud business revealed widespread layoffs

Google is further “slimming down” and cutting costs. The latest impact of the layoffs is on the cloud business team. On Friday, May 31, EST, the media quoted an internal document saying that employees of several Google Cloud teams received layoff notices. According to the media, although the total number of layoffs is unknown, some employees estimate that about 100 people have been laid off in Google Cloud's “Go To Market” (Go To Market) department in the Asia Pacific region. Cloud teams focused on consulting, partner engineering, and sustainability have also been affected by layoffs, as the aforementioned documents show. The document also shows that some recently hired employees have also been fired, including at least one who has yet to complete their employment

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