Eternal Flame The swirling vortex center of the Milky Way is a weird place, with a supermassive black hole that vacuums up interstellar matter and supernovae torpedoing hapless stars to the edges of our galaxy. Add another strange thing about our galaxy’s nucleus, according to new research: stars that stay young indefinitely by feeding off […]
You can’t go five minutes without hearing about Nvidia these days. The computer chip giant recently became the largest company in the world by market capitalization and today is valued at over $3.34 trillion. Investors are betting that the huge capital spending on artificial intelligence (AI) will continue, with Nvidia maintaining its dominant market position. But […]
Data centers in Ashburn, Virginia (Gerville / Getty Images) Virginia, home to the country’s largest concentration of data centers, faces a critical juncture in its energy future. As the demand for data storage and processing grows, so does the need for reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy to power these facilities, the largest of which can […]
Time to step back from your Nvidia (NVDA) obsession for just a moment. AI is changing the data center landscape and unearthing an entirely new avenue of infrastructure demands — a hidden investment opportunity that’s currently under-appreciated by Mr. Market, according to Morgan Stanley. The under-the-radar play: Power generation producers. “The opportunity is around infrastructure… […]
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: We all know the “Magnificent Seven,” the current crop of megacaps that broke away from the S&P 500’s peloton of stocks. A group that has since dwindled to just four. But the small-cap […]
Starting off the new month on a positively energetic note, Cameco (NYSE: CCJ) stock is shooting higher today. While both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are in the red, investors are clicking the buy button on the uranium producer’s stock after learning of some favorable attention that the stock is receiving from […]
(Bloomberg) — The blistering gains of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have sent the chipmaker to the most overbought level in three years, but its critical role in artificial intelligence suggests investors may find it too early to abandon the rally. Most Read from Bloomberg TSMC, whose chips are used by some of the world’s most […]
Consisting of Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Tesla, the “Magnificent Seven” may be the most important stocks of this generation. After collectively rising 107% in 2023 — and another 14% so far in 2024 — each of these businesses now hold market capitalizations between $600 billion and $3.1 trillion. To put this […]
(Bloomberg) — An insurance product that consumers use to help fund their retirements is selling at record levels, powering demand for corporate debt and commercial mortgage bonds. Most Read from Bloomberg Last year, sales of annuities, which allow consumers to effectively buy income for the rest of their lives, reached an all-time record high of […]
Astronomers have discovered a quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, in the infant universe. Strikingly, this quasar appears to be spewing out molecular gas, the raw material needed to form new stars. The discovery helps to confirm theories about how the star formation in some galaxies seems to have slowed to almost a complete […]
Astronomers have discovered a new rapidly spinning star that races through the universe at millions of miles per hour and spins 14 times a second. The pulsar, the rapidly spinning core of a dead star, also blows a powerful wind of particles, creating a so-called “pulsar wind nebula”. The team made the discovery using Australia’s […]