JOBS REPORT US economy adds just 12,000 jobs in October as hurricanes, strikes weigh HKSE - Delayed Quote ? HKD Cosmo Lady (China) Holdings Company Limited (2298.HK) Follow Compare 0.275 0.000 (0.00%) At close: October 31 at 4:08 PM GMT+8 Related News Why Amazon must 'keep spending' on AI Amazon (AMZN) topped third quarter earnings estimates on both revenue and profit. One key metric investors were closely watching is the company's capital expenditures, particularly those related to AI investments. Citizens JMP Equity Research Analyst Nick Jones breaks down the significance of Amazon's massive tech spending on Morning Brief. Jones emphasizes that Amazon's AI investments are critical to maintaining its competitive edge. "AI is this massive, massive opportunity. We're only a year or so into the opportunity, so we're probably looking at a very long runway of spend," he tells Yahoo Finance. The company plans to invest $75 billion in capital expenditures for 2024, and in 2025 "they'll likely spend more." Despite these substantial investments, Jones notes Amazon maintains strong operating income margins, which he sees as a key stock performance indicator. "Amazon's a dominant cloud player. They're going to want to be dominant in AI. They need to keep spending," Jones adds, highlighting what he sees as a "multi-decade runway" for the company's artificial intelligence strategy. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. This post was written by Angel Smith Yahoo Finance Video ? 3 minutes ago AMZN Apple stock under pressure after earnings: What you need to know Apple (AAPL) shares are trading lower after the iPhone maker reported quarterly results with revenue beating expectations as earnings fell short due to European Union tax costs. The company's sales outlook came in weaker than expected, contributing to investors' disappointment. Morning Brief Hosts Seana Smith and Brad Smith break down what investors need to know. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan. Yahoo Finance Video ? 35 minutes ago AAPL Amazon stock pops after Q3 earnings beat Amazon reported third quarter earnings on Thursday amid a volatile week for Big Tech stocks. Yahoo Finance ? 55 minutes ago NVDA GOOG AMZN Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hints at an 'agentic' Alexa Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday hinted at an improved, "agentic" version of the company's Alexa assistant — one that could take actions on a user's behalf. "I think that the next generation of these assistants and generative AI applications will be better at not just answering questions and summarizing, indexing, and aggregating data, but also taking actions," he said during Amazon's Q3 2024 earnings call. "And you can imagine us being pretty good at that with Alexa." Jassy added that Amazon c TechCrunch ? 12 hours ago AMZN 2025, 2026 will be a 'proving ground' for Intel: Analyst Intel (INTC) posted third quarter results showing an adjusted loss per share of $0.43, while revenue reached $13.28 billion, exceeding estimates of $13.02 billion. Moor Insights & Strategy CEO, founder, and chief analyst Patrick Moorhead joins Market Domination Overtime to analyze the results. "I think any good news was good news for this stock that is trading well below book value," he states. While noting that Intel continues to make substantial investments, Moorhead points out the company is working to "reduce overlaps." Despite current challenges, he sees a long-term opportunity, stating, "the best is really yet to come for this company and requires some patience and belief." Looking ahead, Moorhead identifies 2025-2026 as "the ultimate proving ground for Intel," highlighting that the company will introduce the latest nodes and devices offering improved performance at lower costs. "To me, you're truly going to see the capabilities on the CPU side," he tells Yahoo Finance. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination Overtime here. This post was written by Angel Smith Yahoo Finance Video ? 15 hours ago INTC Why Amazon stock gains on earnings, unlike Meta and Microsoft Amazon (AMZN) reported better-than-expected third quarter results and delivered strong guidance. CFRA Research senior equity research analyst Arun Sundaram joins Market Domination Overtime Hosts Alexandra Canal and Josh Lipton to discuss the results and break down why the market is less concerned with Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI) spending compared to its peers. “Really, you got the you got the ingredients you needed for the stock to go up,” Sundaram says. The analyst explains that while all the cloud hyperscalers are ramping up their capital spending to invest in AI, investors seem less concerned about Amazon’s AI spending compared to Meta (META) and Microsoft (MSFT). He says, “There's a few unique things” with Amazon,” including “Amazon's not solely reliant on chips from Nvidia” as “ they also build and create their own AI chips that are more cost-effective and of more value. So they may not be seeing the same type of capacity constraint issues that Microsoft is seeing at the moment.” Sundaram notes, “The other thing I would point out too is, you know, Amazon has multiple levers to grow margins,” including their e-commerce business, advertising, Amazon Web Services, and other segments. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination Overtime here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan. Yahoo Finance Video ? 17 hours ago MSFT META AMZN Intel stock soars on revenue beat, Q4 outlook Intel (INTC) reported a third quarter adjusted loss per share of $0.43. In the release, the company states it saw a "$(0.63) impact to non-GAAP EPS attributable to Intel from $3.1 billion of impairment charges." The chip giant reported revenue of $13.28 billion compared to the Bloomberg consensus estimate of $13.02 billion. For Q4, Intel sees adjusted earnings per share of $0.12 versus a $0.06 estimate and revenue in a range of $13.3 billion to $14.3 billion. Wall Street was expecting $13.63 billion. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporters Alexandra Canal and Jared Blikre break down Intel's results in the video above. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination Overtime here. This post was written by Stephanie Mikulich. Yahoo Finance Video ? 17 hours ago INTC Nasdaq, S&P 500 sell off ahead of Amazon, Apple earnings The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) closed Thursday over 2.7% lower, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) not too far behind with a session loss of 1.86%. Tech sector worries seem to have been revived coming off Meta Platforms (META) and Microsoft's (MSFT) latest earnings print and ahead of Amazon (AMZN) and Apple's (AAPL) results due out after the close. 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