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On Tuesday, Nvidia, No. 1 in US stock turnover, closed 3.65% higher with a turnover of US $35.334 billion. After falling 10% last Friday, the stock has rebounded for the second consecutive trading day.
as report goes, SoftBank The company has increased investment expenditure of 150 billion yen this year and next, and will purchase graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia to provide computing power required for training models.
2nd place Tesla It closed 1.85% higher with a turnover of 15.488 billion US dollars. Tesla has released a new high-performance model 3, priced at $52990.
Media reported on Tuesday that Tesla plans to cut more than 6000 jobs in Texas and California. Previously, the company will also open a layoff plan in Germany, preparing to reduce 400 employees in Germany.
Tesla released its financial report after the closing on Tuesday. The revenue of the first fiscal quarter was 21.3 billion dollars, and analysts expected it to be 22.3 billion dollars; Adjusted earnings per share of 0.45 dollars, analysts expected 0.52 dollars; In the first fiscal quarter, negative free cash flow was 2.53 billion dollars, and analysts expected a positive 653.6 million dollars; The gross profit rate in the first fiscal quarter was 17.4%, and analysts expected 16.5%; The operating profit in the first fiscal quarter was $1.17 billion, and analysts expected $1.53 billion.
At the same time of releasing the financial report, Tesla announced that it would accelerate the launch of more affordable cars. The company said: "We have updated the future model lineup to accelerate the introduction of new models before the production in the second half of 2025, which we previously announced." "These new cars, including more economical models, will take advantage of all aspects of the next generation platform and our existing platform, and will be able to produce on the same production line as our existing vehicle production line."
After the announcement of the financial report, Tesla's share price soared more than 7% in after hours trading.
3rd place Apple It closed 0.64% higher with a turnover of 8.145 billion US dollars. Statistics show that the sales of iPhone series of consumer electronics giant Apple fell by 19% in the Chinese market in the first quarter up to March, which is the worst performance of Apple's iPhone in the Chinese market in a single quarter since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic around 2020.
This data shows that Apple continues to hand over its market share in China to its local competitors, and the company is trying to deal with the uncertainty of its flagship products.
Apple announced on Tuesday that it will hold an online special event on May 7, when it will launch new hardware products.
Apple set the slogan of this event as "Let loose" and Chinese as "Let fly". The event was scheduled to be held at 07:00 a.m. on May 7, Pacific Time, or 22:00 p.m. Beijing Time. The pre recorded conference video will be broadcast live on Apple's official website.
It is also reported that Wedbush said that Apple's upcoming global WWDC in June will be a "critical moment" for the technology giant's AI ambition, and it is expected that Apple will realize the historic leap of AI smartphones through the iPhone 16, which is scheduled to be launched in September this year.
Meta Platforms, No. 5, closed up 2.98% with a turnover of 7.303 billion US dollars. Meta Platforms Program and Microsoft Cooperate to jointly release the limited edition Quest header display. According to Meta, the head apparition launched by both parties came from Xbox, but it did not disclose more details about the head apparition.
Meta said that it cooperated with Xbox last year to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) to Meta Quest head display users, so that users can play Xbox games on the 2D virtual large screen of mixed reality.
7th Amazon It closed 1.30% higher with a turnover of US $6.392 billion. Bank of America Securities reported that Amazon's key indicators are expected to develop in the right direction in the first quarter. The bank estimated that the Group's revenue in the first quarter was $143 billion, consistent with the market forecast; AWS and advertising business will be higher than market expectations, and retail business is also expected to beat expectations. For AWS, the bank believes that the backlog growth in the fourth quarter is positive, and it is expected to increase by $545 million on a quarterly basis in the first quarter, or 16% on an annual basis. The bank also estimated that the group's operating profit in the first quarter was $11.5 billion.
No. 9 Microsoft closed 1.65% higher with a turnover of 6.1 billion US dollars. Microsoft and Coca Cola On April 23, the statement said that the two sides would establish a five-year strategic partnership to adjust Coca Cola's core technology strategy system wide, promote the adoption of cutting-edge technology, and promote innovation and improve productivity globally.
As part of the cooperation, Coca Cola has committed to invest 1.1 billion dollars in Microsoft Cloud and its generative AI functions. Through cooperation, the two companies will jointly try to use new technologies such as Azure OpenAI services to develop innovative generative AI use cases in various business functions, including testing how Microsoft 365 Copilot can help improve work efficiency.
Spotify, No. 10, closed 11.41% higher with a turnover of USD 3.523 billion. Spotify's total revenue increased by 20% in the first fiscal quarter, and the year-on-year growth of paid users was 14%, which exceeded expectations. Total revenue in the first fiscal quarter increased by 20% to 3.6 billion euros (3.8 billion dollars). The adjusted operating profit was 168 million euros, which exceeded analysts' expectations compared with the loss a year ago.
11th Google Class A shares (GOOGL) closed 1.27% higher with a turnover of US $3.273 billion. Google said on April 23 that it would invest 600 million euros to build a new data center in Groningen, the Netherlands, to create 125 direct jobs. Since 2014, Google's investment in data centers and related digital infrastructure in the Netherlands has exceeded 3.8 billion euros.
It is also reported that Google on Tuesday fired at least 20 employees who protested that it provided technology to the Israeli government during the Gaza War, bringing the total number of employees fired by the company to more than 50.
This is the latest sign of the internal turmoil of the technology giant. The core of this protest is the "Nimbus Project". In 2021, Google and Amazon jointly signed this project contract worth 1.2 billion dollars to provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government.
12th GE It closed 8.28% higher with a turnover of US $3013 million. GE's revenue in the first fiscal quarter was 16.1 billion US dollars, up 11% year on year, 400 million US dollars higher than the market expectation; Operating profit increased by 24% year-on-year to US $1.5 billion. During the period, the sales of aerospace business increased by 15% to $8.1 billion.
13th Netflix It closed 4.17% higher, with a turnover of US $2.827 billion. Netflix recently released its financial report and announced that it would no longer continuously and regularly disclose its number of paying users from 2025.
16th Meguiar It closed 3.06% higher with a turnover of 1.97 billion US dollars.
17th Pinduoduo It closed 3.13% higher, continuing the rising trend of more than 9% yesterday, with a turnover of US $1.849 billion.
18th United Health It closed 1.03% lower, with a turnover of USD 1.779 billion. United Health Group said on Monday that in February this year, the company may have leaked a large number of private information of American customers in a serious network attack, which may constitute one of the largest medical care data leakage incidents in history.
In this attack, United Health Group has paid a ransom, and a company spokesman said in an email that this is one of the measures to protect patient data from further disclosure.
Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of United Health Group, was targeted in this hacker attack. Before the hacker attack, the company handled 2 trillion dollars of health claims every year, involving about 15 billion transactions. The disclosure of this event may lead to greater political pressure, prompting the company to explain the cause of the attack and its countermeasures.
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