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Worth the bargain? Malaysian consumers win big on Pinduoduo as local sellers cry foul

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 25 -- Inside the sprawling digital storefront of Chinese e-commerce titan Pinduoduo, Shaun Kong routinely finds exactly what he didn't know he was looking for. A few taps on his sm... Read More


MSFT Stock Today, August 24, 2026: Microsoft's 32% Earnings Growth Is 22% Without OpenAI

REDMOND, Aug. 25 -- Microsoft reported that its earnings per share grew 32 per cent last year. It also reported that they grew 22 per cent. Both numbers are in the same document, both are correct, and... Read More


AMZN Stock Today, August 24, 2026: Amazon's Free Cash Flow Has Gone Negative

SEATTLE, Aug. 25 -- Amazon now spends more money on property and equipment than its entire business generates in cash. The company publishes that fact itself, in a small reconciliation table near the ... Read More


META Stock Today, August 24, 2026: Meta Escrowed $10.8 Billion It Cannot Touch Until 2028

MENLO PARK, Aug. 25 -- Somewhere in the cash line of Meta's latest quarterly filing sits $10.80 billion the company can no longer spend. It was ordinary money market funds at the start of the year. It... Read More


AVGO Stock Today, August 24, 2026: Broadcom's $164.6 Billion Committed Backlog

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- Buried in the notes of Broadcom's latest quarterly filing is a number the company did not put in a press release: $164.6 billion of orders that customers have firmly committed to,... Read More


AMD Stock Today, August 24, 2026: AMD Has Written Warrants Over a Fifth of Itself

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- AMD has issued warrants over 320 million of its own shares to two customers, at an exercise price of one cent each. The company had 1.63 billion shares outstanding at the start of... Read More


US Iran Sanctions: 'Operation Economic Outcast' Targets Tehran in Economic D-Day

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- Scott Bessent descended on a podium in Washington on Monday with a phrase intended to sound like finality. "Economic D-Day," the US Treasury Secretary called it. He announced wh... Read More


Alibaba Sells $10.2 Billion of Stock for AI, and Hong Kong Marks It Down 10%

HONG KONG, Aug. 25 -- Whoever owned Alibaba on Friday afternoon is paying for its artificial intelligence build, and on Monday morning Hong Kong told them what it cost. The company priced 710 million... Read More


PLTR Stock Today, August 24, 2026: Palantir Has Written Off 98.6% of Its Tax Assets

DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Palantir Technologies paid $15.4 million of income tax in the three months to June 30. It earned $1.08 billion before tax over the same period. The rate works out at 1.4 per cent, a... Read More


MSFT Stock Today, August 24, 2026: Microsoft's Answer to the Capex Question Is $678 Billion

REDMOND, Aug. 25 -- The question every hyperscaler has been asked this year is what the capital spending returns. Microsoft has an unusually specific answer: $678 billion of contracted revenue it has ... Read More