Tech company bonds fall on AI spending and oil price concerns

Tech company bonds fall on AI spending and oil price concerns

Tech company bonds fall on AI spending and oil price concerns
Stocks Published: Monday, August 24, 2026, 7:40 [IST] Indian equities are likely to begin the new week with a cautious tone after two consecutive weeks of declines. Analysts expect the benchmark indices to remain largely range-bound, with a possibility of a modest recovery if domestic cues remain supportive. Monsoon progress, foreign institutional investor (FII) flows,…
Alphabet (GOOG -1.24%)(GOOGL -1.43%) will pay its next dividend on Sept. 14 — $0.22 per share, a rate the company raised 5% in April. The payout works out to about $10.8 billion a year across about 12.2 billion shares. In June, the same tech company sold about $50 billion of new stock in a single…
Legendary actor Tim Curry—famous for his roles in “It,” “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and “Home Alone 2“—has passed away at the age of 80, 14 years after suffering a serious stroke that saw him confined to a wheelchair. The British-born star is reported to have passed away inside his Los Angeles home, according to TMZ,…
Scan to Pay is designed to offer Samsung Galaxy users an alternative to physical cards and make checkout quicker, the tech company announced Friday (Aug. 28). “Scan to Pay is designed to remove unnecessary friction from everyday transactions,” the company said in a news release. “There is no need to carry a physical card or…
Key Points Mark Zuckerberg released a 6,500-word manifesto detailing his plan to accelerate the agentic AI buildout and give everyone superintelligence. These investments can finally help Meta Platforms diversify beyond online advertising, just like Alphabet and Amazon. Meta Platforms is still losing a lot of money from AI, and the metaverse debacle may be fresh…
Russia canceled its landmark Navy Day parade for the second year in a row, instead holding a muted event where only large posters of warships on display. Two rows of roughly 30 sailors greeted the country’s leader, Vladimir Putin, as he arrived on Sunday at the Russian Navy’s headquarters in St. Petersburg, where the Kremlin…