Shares of leading designer of graphics chips Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) jumped 6% in the afternoon session after the company said it would sell more than 18,000 of its AI chips (GB300 Blackwell chips) to Saudi Arabian company Humain to be used in a 500 megawatt data-center project. The agreement also includes further expansion with "several hundred thousand" additional chips potentially planned for delivery within five years.
Shares of server solutions provider Super Micro (NASDAQ:SMCI) jumped 15.8% in the afternoon session after Raymond James analysts initiated coverage of the stock with a Buy rating and a price target of $41. The analysts called out SMCI's leadership in "AI-optimized infrastructure," noting that artificial-intelligence platforms represented approximately 70% of the company's sales.
As CEO for more than a decade, Stephen Hemsley built up UnitedHealth Group now a $400 billion healthcare behemoth. With his return to the top job, the company will learn whether his playbook still works. Hemsley, 72, is back in the chief executive’s chair after seven years as chairman, and UnitedHealth is in a more vulnerable position than it has been since he started his first CEO stint in 2006, in the shadow of a stock-options-backdating scandal that helped lead to the ouster of his predecessor.
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In true UnitedHealth fashion, the big health insurance stock was denying the Dow of a daily gain on Tuesday. The Dow was down 160 points, or 0.4%, but UnitedHealth stock was shaving 382 points off the index on its own with a nearly 17% drop. UnitedHealth is regularly a thorn in the Dow’s side due to the index’s antiquated weighting by stock price rather than market cap.
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