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成交额TOP20 | 微软涨近1%,拟回购多达600亿美元并提高派息;沃尔玛跌超2%,已清仓所持达达全部股份

Top 20 transaction volume | Microsoft rose nearly 1%, planning to buy back up to 60 billion US dollars and increase dividend; Walmart fell more than 2%, has cleared all the shares of Dada holdings.

環球市場播報 ·  Sep 18 04:51

Microsoft, the top trading volume in the US stock market on Tuesday, fell by 1.02%, with a trading volume of $26.993 billion. Tesla, the second place, rose by 0.48%, with a trading volume of $15.367 billion. Apple, the third place, rose by 0.22%, with a trading volume of $9.84 billion.

The first in the U.S. stock market turnover on Tuesday.$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$It fell 1.02%, with a turnover of 26.993 billion US dollars. Investment bank Wedbush believes that if the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates this week, artificial intelligence hot companies led by Nvidia and a series of technology stocks may benefit from it.

The second.$Tesla (TSLA.US)$It rose 0.48%, with a turnover of 15.367 billion US dollars. According to reports, in the past few months, the expansion speed of Tesla's super charging network has slowed down. The large-scale layoffs in April resulted in the team responsible for installing new electric vehicle charging piles and charging stations being depleted.

Data from EVAdoption, an electric vehicle analysis institution, shows that despite Tesla's efforts to rebuild the team, including rehiring some previously dismissed employees, the number of newly opened super charging interfaces from May to August reduced by 28% compared to the same period last year. The data shows that this figure for the first eight months of this year decreased by 11% compared to 2023.

Ranked third, up 0.71%, trading at $8.267 billion. According to media reports, the Apple iPhone 16 series has entered full-scale production, and Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory is expanding its workforce to meet production targets. The expected sales target for iPhone 16 series this year is 90 million units, with a hope to achieve 95 million units. $Apple (AAPL.US)$ Up 0.22%, trading $9.84 billion. Analysts said the initial sales of the iPhone 16 series fell short of expectations. Prominent analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said he estimated that the iPhone 16 series had a first-weekend pre-order sales of about 37 million units, a decrease of about 12.7% compared to the first-weekend sales of the iPhone 15 series last year, mainly due to lower-than-expected sales of the iPhone 16 Pro series.

Guo Mingqi pointed out that the shipping time of the iPhone 16 Pro series is significantly lower than that of the 15 Pro series. In addition to the increase in pre-order inventory, the key reason for the year-on-year decrease in first weekend sales is due to lower-than-expected demand. It is worth noting that the first weekend sales of the iPhone 16 Plus and iPhone 16 have increased, but the overall shipment of iPhones is limited.

Ranked fourth.$Microsoft (MSFT.US)$Up 0.88%, trading $8.23 billion. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will increase its dividend by 10% to 83 cents per share and establish a buyback plan of up to $60 billion to reward shareholders and boost the company's stock price. This move aims to maintain Microsoft's leading position in the global technology industry amidst intensifying competition.

Microsoft hopes to attract more investors' attention and enhance its market competitiveness by increasing dividends and implementing a buyback plan.

The fifth.$Meta Platforms (META.US)$Up 0.57%, with a trading volume of $6.264 billion. On the 16th local time, Meta Platforms announced that it would ban the use of its application platform by the Russian official media such as "Russia Today" international news agency (Rossiya Segodnya) and "Russia Today" television station (RT).

According to the company's statement, the reason for prohibiting these Russian media from using the Facebook platform is their use of deceptive tactics to carry out secret influence operations online. This ban marks a sharp escalation in the actions of the world's largest social media company against Russian official media.

The sixth.$Amazon (AMZN.US)$Up 1.08%, with a trading volume of $4.887 billion. Amazon announced on Tuesday that this year's Prime Day, called "Prime Big Deal Days," has been officially scheduled for October. It is reported that this promotion will start at 15:01 on October 8, 2024 Beijing time and will last for two days, offering a series of holiday discounts in advance. The highlight of this event is that seasonal necessities have discounts of up to 40%, including winter fashion, electronic products, and Halloween costumes. Prime members can also enjoy various benefits, such as free access to Amazon Music Unlimited and Grubhub+.

Bank of America maintains a buy rating on Amazon and a target price of $210.

$Intel (INTC.US)$ The stock rose by 2.68% and the turnover was 4.27 billion USD. Recently, Intel has received a continuous stream of positive news. Not only did it finally meet the qualifications to produce semiconductor components for the Pentagon, it is expected to win a contract worth up to 3.5 billion USD to provide chips for the US military. It will also manufacture custom AI chips for Amazon AWS, establish a long-standing product and wafer supply cooperation framework, and plan to spin off Intel's foundry business (IFS) as a subsidiary. In addition, Intel is striving to save cash flow by suspending projects at its factories in Poland and Germany for approximately two years, and more than half of the plan to lay off 0.015 million workers has already been implemented.

Rank 9. $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ The stock rose by 0.80% and the turnover was 3.297 billion USD. Google said in a statement on Tuesday that it will start from scratch to redevelop its plan to build a data center worth 0.2 billion USD in Santiago, Chile, due to concerns about its impact on the environment in the capital.

11th place$MicroStrategy (MSTR.US)$Fell by 2.42%, with a turnover of 2.815 billion US dollars. Last Friday, Microstrategy's founder Michael Saylor announced that the company had bought another $1.1 billion worth of$Bitcoin (BTC.CC)$.

In a post on social media platform X, Saylor stated that over the past four years, MicroStrategy's average purchase price of bitcoin was $38,585 per coin, while the current trading price of bitcoin is close to $600,000.

Ranked 14th.$Oracle (ORCL.US)$Fell by 1.68%, with a turnover of 2.112 billion US dollars. Oracle announced the release of Java 23.

Ranked 19th.$Walmart (WMT.US)$The shares fell 2.43%, with a turnover of $1.666 billion. On September 17th, the announcement of the US stock market showed that jd.com has completed the acquisition of walmart's stake in dada, increasing its shareholding to over 60%.

The announcement stated that dada and walmart have also maintained good cooperation for many years, and both parties have achieved stable results in their respective established strategic goals. Regarding whether this transaction will affect the cooperation between the two parties, dada insiders told reporters that this transaction is only a change at the equity investment level, and the relationship between dada and walmart's business is not affected. Both parties are still important strategic partners to each other, and they look forward to continuing to maintain stable cooperation and long-term business dealings in the future.

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