Short week ahead for Wall Street after the holiday “Presidents’ Day” from last Monday. The market is still back on track with fears about artificial intelligence or AI over a wide spectrum of companies, while results season ends with the presentation of Walmart for Thursday. Although it remains NVIDIA for next week. He DOW JONES Ind Average, S&P 500 y NASDAQ 100 They close on Tuesday at +0.07% to 49,533 points, +0.10% to 6,843 points and +0.14% to 22,578 points respectively.
A clear example of AI fears was Amazon losing approximately $450 billion in market capitalization after announcing the AI spendingaccording to Investing.
The massive sell-off began after the fourth quarter earnings report of Amazon published earlier this month. The company announced that it expects to spend $200 billion in capital investments this year, which represents an increase of almost 60% compared to last year and exceeds Wall Street’s forecast by more than $50 billion.
Most of this spending will go to AI-related initiativeswhich require substantial investments in infrastructure including data centers, chips and network equipment. Investors have expressed growing concern about large technology companies making substantial investments in AI that could potentially reduce or eliminate free cash flows.
In other corporate news, Bloomberg reported that Apple is accelerating the development of three new wearables with AI capabilitiesincluding glasses, a pendant and AirPods according to Yahoo Finance.
According to the report, all devices are designed around SiriApple’s digital assistant.
The iPhone manufacturer competes with Meta (Facebook), who also works in glassesy OpenAIwho reportedly also works in wearables.
After his attempts with Mustang Mach-E models and the F-150 Lightning pickup truck Ford Motorthe signature valuable perspective on the manufacture of electric cars according to Yahoo Finance.
The big problem for Ford and other automakers other than Tesla was that the Customer demand did not come close to the enthusiasm projected by the industryand the costs associated with the program were enormous, reaching $19.5 billion in losses for Ford.
As a result, Ford modified its electric vehicle plans, but it’s not giving up. The company focuses on a new universal electric vehicle (VEU) platform built from the ground up with a specialized development team in California. The first product will be a midsize electric van with an approximate cost of $30,000with the aim of being profitable from the beginning.
«We are still in a phase of drastic reduction in the costs of electric vehicles, and this can only be achieved by innovating at a system level, optimizing what ultimately becomes a product that the customer wants,» he said. Ford’s Alan Clarkewho runs the skunkworks team in Long Beach and was a Tesla engineer for many years.
In the geopolitical sphere, the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchideclared on state television reach a general agreement in his meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff. Which reduces the risk of a military conflict between both nations, according to Yahoo Finance.
«We reached general agreement on a set of guiding principles, on the basis of which we will proceed from now on and move towards drafting a possible agreement,» Araghchi declared.
Iran largely controls the Strait of Hormuza major maritime choke point through which approximately 20 million barrels of oil daily. Any move to restrict access to the strait, or any attack on the region’s infrastructure, would significantly boost oil prices as buyers factor in longer, slower shipping routes, as well as a decline in supply from the Middle East.
Today we had 3-month public debt auction (T-Bill) with a 3,600% performance already 6 months 3,500%.
Among the actions winners we have Alnylam Pharma (+5.79% to $332.61), Fiserv Inc (+6.82% to $63.41) and Apple (+3.18% to $263.91)
Alnylam go up after achieving in the fourth quarter and full year 2025 he first full year of GAAP profitabilityaccording to Simply Wall Street.
The firm obtained a revenue increased to $1.1 billion for the quarter and $3.71 billion for the yearwith a transition from previous losses to a net profit of 111.54 million dollars in the fourth quarter and 313.75 million dollars in 2025.
The company’s first full year of GAAP profitability was largely due to the Expansion of Amvuttra Use in Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy and was accompanied by a registration of 2.26 billion dollars for up to 7,000,000 shares under an employee shareholding plan.
Fiserv climb after him support from activist investor Jana to its current CEO, Mike Lyonsaccording to Yahoo Finance.
While Jana’s position at Fiserv is unknown, the Wall Street Journal reported that the investment manager believes the company could benefit from a higher bank expense.
Jana reportedly wants Fiserv to focus on his core banking franchisewhich provides essential processing technology that powers banks’ daily operations. Jana also wants the company to carry out a strategic review and seek the exit of non-essential assets.
Apple rises after the development of new wearables as we said at the beginning of the article.
Among the losing stocks we have Intuit (-5.13% to $378.90), Genuine Parts Co (-14.56% to $125.74) and Walmart (-3.76% to $128.86)
Intuit falls not because of a specific fact, but because of the persistent fear of AI on software stocks as we have seen these last few weeks.
Genuine Parts falls after the fourth quarter and full year 2025 results that turned out mixed for investors, according to Investing.
The company reported a fourth quarter adjusted earnings per share of $1.55missing analyst expectations of $1.81 by 14.36%, despite recording global sales of $6 billionwhich represented an increase of 4.1% year-on-year but was slightly below the projected $6.06 billion. While the adjusted gross margin improved 70 basis points to 37.6% and the Adjusted EBITDA increased a 5.7% until 459 million dollarshe adjusted diluted EPS decreased one 3.7% until 1.55 dollars.
Walmart falls because the share price is found below the objective of some analysts. Which suggests that investor sentiment still sees potential risks or overvaluation at current levels, according to GuruFocus.
Based on one-year price targets offered by 39 analystshe average target price for Walmart it is $118.49with a high estimate of $130.00 and one minimum of 69.10 dollars. The average price target implies a drop of approximately 8.47% with respect to the current price.
Los Oil futures WTI caen one -0.96% at 62.15 dollars and the Brent -1.92% at 67.33 dollars.
He Orofalls a -2.89% to $4,900 per ounce and the Plata -5.63% at 73.57 dollars.
The pair EUR/USD prices flat in the 1.1852.
Bitcoin falls a -1.80% to $67,693.
He US 10-year bond yield upload a +0.17% a 4.059 already 30 years falls -0.19% to 4,690.
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