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Cisco shares rallied after the networking giant posted earnings that beat analysts' estimates and announced a plan to trim staff.

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Q1 earnings season continues at its robust pace, and apparently no news is good news when it comes to the war in Iran.

HPE has exposure to both networking and servers, two persistent themes in the artificial-intelligence trade.

This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

Cisco Systems (CSCO) stock has surged by double-digits since reporting fiscal third quarter results in Wednesday's extended hours, topping Wall Street expectations with revenue of $15.84 billion and adjusted earnings of $1.06 per share. This comes after the cloud operator laid off 4,000 workers as part of a new AI-focused restructuring. Hennion & Walsh CIO Kevin Mahn and Yahoo Finance Senior Reporters Ines Ferré and Brooke DiPalma take a closer look at the AI demand propelling Cisco, the cloud operator's outlook, and its recent job cuts.

The Dow Jones rose with Cisco soaring on earnings, while fellow Dow stocks Nvidia and Boeing could be Trump-Xi summit winners.

U.S. stocks continued their upswing as artificial intelligence remained investors’ primary focus.

U.S. stocks pushed to fresh records Thursday as Cisco's earnings beat and Nvidia's China chip win supercharged the tech tape, with the Dow briefly piercing 50,000.

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CIEN is riding AI-driven demand and cloud adoption as hyperscalers boost optical network spending and Ciena expands its market share.

Stocks opened higher after a pair of healthy economic reports, with the Dow getting a boost to 50,000 from Cisco’s strong earnings. The Dow was up 0.8%, to trade at 50,080.30. The picture for the U.S. economy is positive, with retail sales coming in healthy and jobless claims showing the labor market continues to hum.

Cisco stock could be a big artificial intelligence winner. Cisco said it has taken $5.3 billion of artificial-intelligence infrastructure orders from hyperscalers so far this fiscal year and raised its full-year expectations to orders of $9 billion, up from $5 billion. “Massive déjà vu here from 1990s—but it actually could be just beginning for Cisco as their investments in silicon and optics pay off,” Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes wrote in a note late Wednesday.

The dot-com bubble began to burst in the spring of 2000, when presidential candidates George Bush and Al Gore emerged from their party conventions, the human genome project unveiled its first draft, and ‘American Beauty’ dominated the Oscars with five awards, including best picture. More than a quarter-century later, however, those same three stocks are leading an old-tech revival that has powered U.S. markets to a series of record highs, paced by an insatiable appetite for all things related to artificial intelligence. Investors are seeing few signs of a pullback like the one during the turn of the century crash that rocked tech markets for a decade.

Shares of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) are up roughly 17% in early Thursday trading, putting the stock near $119 after a close of $101.87 on May 13. The jump follows a fiscal third-quarter report that decisively reframed the AI networking competitive narrative. The move makes Cisco the clear single-day leader in networking infrastructure. By comparison, Hewlett ... Cisco Is Up 17% Today: Is It Outperforming Other Networking Stocks Like Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Arista Networks?

Ford Motor (F) is rallying again after posting its biggest one-day gain in six years. But it’s not the “Motor” driving the move.

U. S. stock futures traded higher on Thursday, with the Nasdaq positioned for additional gains after the technology-heavy index closed at a fresh record high in the previous session.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.4% and the actively trad

US equity futures were rising pre-bell Thursday as technology stocks drove new record highs for the

Here are some of the companies making headlines in midday trading.

Shares of Cisco Systems surged on Thursday after reporting upbeat Q3 results. Analysts are bullish, expecting continued growth.

Discover the top S&P500 movers in Thursday's pre-market session and stay informed about market dynamics.

Morgan Stanley analyst Meta Marshall maintains Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) with a Overweight and raises the price target from $91 to $120.

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Evercore ISI Group analyst Amit Daryanani maintains Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) with a Outperform and raises the price target from $110 to $150.

B of A Securities analyst Tal Liani maintains Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) with a Buy and raises the price target from $95 to $114.

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