Japan's Nikkei Stock Average rose 0.8% to close at 39958.87 amid risk-on sentiment. "Equities worldwide continued to ride on the wave of U.S.' AI investment announcement, as well as blowout earnings from streaming giant Netflix,

Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 120.97 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 44,146.78. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Asian stocks are mixed after U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest comments on tariffs raised uncertainty in Chinese markets

U.S. stock index futures held steady Wednesday evening after the SP 500 hit a record high, driven by Netflixs strong earnings and optimism over President Donald Trumps AI investment initiative. SP 500 Futures were flat

WALL Street’s indexes rose on Wednesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 hitting an intraday record high as investors cheered streaming video provider Netflix’s quarterly report and President Donald Trump’s private-sector artificial intelligence infrastructure investment plan.

Netflix, Oracle and other big technology stocks are lifting Wall Street toward a record on Wednesday as their profits pile higher and excitement builds around the moneymaking

Netflix stock opened for trading at a split-adjusted $111.02 on July 16, 2015, after the seven-for-one split. A $1,000 investment at the time could have bought 9.01 Netflix shares. Today, that $1,000 investment would be worth $8,834.49, up 783.4%.

We may now know roughly how much money SoftBank and OpenAI are contributing toward Stargate, OpenAI's massive data center project.

Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981. It has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies.

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Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank, the Japanese media technology conglomerate, is often cast as a dreamer, financial engineer, and speculator. But his career — which has spanned the launch of the personal computer and internet,