Linde keeps streak of earnings beats, shows it can handle any economy

Linde on Friday reported another impressive quarter, as the industrial gas supplier continues to demonstrate its reliability and value in a diversified stock portfolio. Revenue in the second quarter totaled $8.27 billion, a bit shy of the $8.32 expected by analysts, according to estimates compiled by LSEG. On annual...

Read more...

Chevron (CVX) earnings Q2 2024

Gas pumps are seen at a Chevron gas station in Orlando.Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesChevron missed second-quarter earnings expectations, hurt by lower refining margins as the stock is already under pressure from delays to its pending acquisition of Hess Corporation.Chevron's shares fell about 2%...

Read more...

Why not all chip firms are benefitting from the AI boom like Nvidia

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., displays the new Blackwell GPU chip during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference on March 18, 2024. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNot all chip firms are benefitting from the boom in artificial intelligence, earnings show, underscoring the complexities of the...

Read more...

Apple spending more on AI, but remains behind its Silicon Valley peers

Apple CEO Tim Cook opens WWDC 2024 in Cupertino, California, on June 10, 2024.Source: AppleThe topic of greatest interest to analysts on Apple's quarterly earnings call on Thursday was a product that's not even available to the general public yet.Apple Intelligence, the company's forthcoming artificial intelligence system, could spur...

Read more...