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Australian profits flat as global earnings soar to record highs

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
... investment director Andy Budden said. Technology and the media sectors were the key drivers of 2025's profit growth, with Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and TSMC accounting for US$1 in every US$14 of all the profits for companies in the global index. Financial ...

Big tech has "inconsequential" carbon emissions planning: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
... research by World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has found that top technology companies including Meta, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft lack in mobilising low-carbon investments through capital expenditure and R&D, even though they have an emissions transition ...

Waning AI optimism, Fed rate cut driving US pullback: UniSuper

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... Magnificent Seven bundle Google was up 13.5% in the month, having had a big run in the last few months and taking over Microsoft as the third biggest company in the world. It also released its Gemini 3 AI model during the month, built on Google's own ...

ETF Shares reduces management fee

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... strategy, investing in the "Magnificent 7" stocks, comprising Nvidia, Tesla, Google, Facebook (Meta), Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. It uses a rules-based and quantitative approach by selecting the top 10 stocks on the Nasdaq and equally weighting them ...

HESTA, Vision Super divest Israeli securities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... violations and international crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory OPT]". Some of the most well-known globally are Microsoft, Alphabet, Airbnb and Booking.com, Amazon, Palantir Technology, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems and Caterpillar. Several ...

Macquarie sells data centres in landmark deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... Infrastructure Partners and the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership, which is backed by the likes of Microsoft and Nvidia. Macquarie first acquired a stake in Aligned in April 2018, which was increased in July 2020. In the time since ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... of its H100 GPUs. J.P. Morgan Asset Management portfolio manager of US equity Eric Ghernati says companies like AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Meta are spending big on GenAI - but with minimal ROI - and it's reminiscent of the Dotcom era. Collectively ...

Loftus Peak to launch hedged Global Disruption active ETF

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... It will hold the same investments as the Loftus Peak Global Disruption Active ETF, including Amazon, Eli Lilly, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Roku, Salesforce and TSMC, Loftus Peak explained. "It applies Loftus Peak's high-conviction ...

VanEck goes for growth with new ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... underrepresented in benchmarks. "This manifested in the first half of 2025, where the highly visible NVIDIA, Apple and Microsoft mega-caps took a back seat to lesser-known stocks such as defence intelligence company Palantir Technologies (up 492% in ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... in the present report alone," she wrote in her report From economy of occupation to economy of genocide. They include Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Booking.com., Airbnb, Palantir Technologies, Volvo, BNP Paribas and Caterpillar. Albanese also highlighted ...