Japan's Nikkei Stock Average rose 0.8% to close at 39958.87 amid risk-on sentiment. "Equities worldwide continued to ride on the wave of U.S.' AI investment announcement, as well as blowout earnings from streaming giant Netflix,

Netflix, Oracle and other technology stocks are lifting U.S. indexes Wednesday as their profits pile higher and excitement builds around the moneymaking prospects of artificial intelli

All told, the S&P 500 rose 37.13 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 130.92 and the Nasdaq composite jumped 252.56.

Wall Street closed higher, with the S&P 500 index scoring an all-time high. Blowout Netflix results and plans for $500b AI investment fuel gains.

Netflix, Oracle and other technology stocks are lifting U.S. indexes Wednesday as their profits pile higher and excitement builds around the moneymaking prospects of artificial intelligence.

Netflix shot up 14.6% after it reported adding nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter and it topped sales and profit targets. The video streaming service’s expansion into live programming appears to be paying off as it wrapped up its best year ever with more than $40 billion in revenue.

U.S. stocks were rising on Wednesday morning with the major stock averages seeing their third day of gains as investors digested a slew of robust corporate earnings and President Donald Trump's new initiative on artificial intelligence.

Geetha Ranganathan, Bloomberg Intelligence Analyst on US Media, recaps Netflix earnings. Todd Gillespie, Bloomberg Finance Reporter, discusses staffing moves at Goldman Sachs. Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence Technology Analyst,

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son is shifting his focus away from investments in China and toward the US, as seen with his involvement with President Donald Trump and the recently announced Stargate.

We may now know roughly how much money SoftBank and OpenAI are contributing toward Stargate, OpenAI's massive data center project.

Gold price sticks to positive bias for the third successive day on Wednesday and trades near its highest level since November 1 above $2,750. The uncertainty around US President Donald Trump's trade policies turns out to be a key factor that continues to drive haven flows towards the precious metal.

(Reuters) - Wall Street's indexes rose on Wednesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 hitting an intraday record high as investors cheered streaming video provider Netflix's quarterly report and President Donald Trump's private-sector artificial intelligence infrastructure investment plan.