ON Semiconductor (ON) reported net profit margins of 7.3% for the twelve months ending July 2025, marking a significant drop from last year’s 24.8%. Earnings growth turned negative over the past year, impacted by a substantial one-off loss of $634.2 million, even though the company achieved a robust 21.7% average annual earnings growth over the last five years.
KUALA LUMPUR: Investors remained positive on blue chips on Bursa Malaysia following the previous day’s surge, as tensions between the US and China eased amid ongoing negotiations.
At the open, the FBM KLCI was down 1.2 points to 1,621.22, but soon rebounded to an early morning high of 1,625.97.
According to Rakuten Trade,
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares are sliding on Monday after climbing to new highs last week. Here’s a look at what’s going on.
What To Know: Apple investors appear to be circling a Bloomberg report focused on the year ahead for Apple.
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Apple’s (AAPL) guidance for the December quarter could be the company’s strongest period ever, driven by a robust iPhone refresh cycle. The hardware giant forecasts revenue to grow between 10% and 12% year-over-year (YoY) in the holiday quarter. In fiscal Q1 of 2025 (ended in December), Apple reported sales of $124.3 billion. At the midpoint estimate,
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A stock split isn’t a reason to buy shares of a company, but it’s a good signal from management.
A stock split doesn’t change any of the underlying fundamentals of a business. It does, however, signal confidence from management that the stock can keep climbing higher from here. And investors are keen to pick up on that signal.
Eight leading member nations of OPEC+, a group of major oil producers, agreed on Sunday to raise production by 137,000 barrels per day (b/d) in December but signaled a pause in rate changes through the first quarter of 2026.
Futures on Brent crude oil (BZ=F),
Nvidia and other AI superstar stocks propped up Wall Street.
The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Monday, even though the majority of stocks within the index fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.5%.
Nvidia was the strongest force lifting the market, much as it has been throughout 2025.
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Amazon jumped after announcing a partnership allowing OpenAI to scale its workloads on Amazon Web Services, further cementing AWS’s role in powering AI infrastructure.
Nvidia shares also advanced after former President Trump stated that the company’s top-tier AI chips would remain within U.S.
Artificial intelligence is exciting, but it currently depends on existing hardware and software.
The “Magnificent Seven”
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Big Tech firms’ increasing investments in artificial intelligence show that even if the stock market is in a bubble, equities still have room to run higher before it bursts.
Last week, Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), and Meta (META) hiked their capital expenditure forecasts for their 2025 fiscal years,