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Guggenheim upgrades Microsoft, says generative AI is ‘too strong’ to ignore

Generative AI advancements can help Microsoft bounce back from its recent losses, according to Guggenheim. Analyst John DiFucci upgraded the stock to neutral from sell, saying the “potential monetary benefit from Generative AI is too strong a force to contend with” despite the company’s recent underperformance. The analyst removed his price target on the stock…

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Huawei stays silent on secretive 5G phone at high-profile product launch

Customers experience the new Mate 60 Pro smartphone at a Huawei-branded store in Shanghai, China, September 5, 2023. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese telecommunications and smartphone giant Huawei didn’t reveal any details about its new phone or reported advanced chip breakthrough during a high-profile launch event Monday. Instead, the company teased…

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Here’s what changed in the new Fed statement

This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting on July 26. Text removed from the July statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle. Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined. Black text appears in both…