Power Players with Brian Sozzi

Is Nvidia (NVDA) the best place to stay in terms of AI? Or does one warm back up to Apple (AAPL) ahead of the debut of its Apple Intelligence suite? Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi goes on the search for the next hot tech stock trade with EMJ Capital founder Eric Jackson. Two things in markets have held true in 2024. One, the stock market opens and closes at the same times each day. And...

Fed Watch Advisors Founder and Chief Investment Officer Ben Emons joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Editor Brian Sozzi and the pair dive into the potential for massive interest rate cuts, if stocks are silly overvalued and if Trump would make the market even greater again. The stock market is pumped up on a view that the Federal Reserve will make it rain free money once more. Many pros think a...

Are you a hungry, curious investor on the hunt for the hottest market commentary? Join Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday starting at 8AM. Your journey to smart investing begins here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Editor Brian Sozzi goes inside the future of the plant-based food industry with Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness. McGuinness shares potential outcomes for his business, and why he is backing hot dog eating legend Joey Chestnut. The plant-based food industry burst onto the scene more than a decade ago thanks to a battle between then new upstarts Beyond Meat and I...

Ask most investors and they'll say they've had a great year. The S&P 500 is up double-digits. Nvidia’s stock has captivated the masses amid its epic gains, and corporate profits continue to rock as the economy chugs along. Some would even argue the stock market is in melt-up mode, and could continue with those vibes for a while barring a heavy dose of cold water. The bulls may be ignoring a large...

Newsflash to the people that love investing in Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG), Netflix (NFLX), Meta (META), Amazon (AMZN) and Nvidia (NVDA). We can confirm there ARE other great tech companies to invest in! They may not garner Nvidia like headlines and visions of $10 trillion valuations, but names such as Hubspot (HUBS), Micron (MU) and other under the radar names offer up great pot...

Check out another great show from Yahoo Finance... Financial Freestyle!... Aiming to empower our audience with actionable insights, expert advice, and inspirational stories. Ross Mac and guests will discuss the wealth building journey, and what it takes to build a lasting financial footprint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The iconic New York Stock Exchange trading floor looks a lot different than it did in its heyday in the 1980s. Blame the advance of technology, of course. Despite the onslaught of super advanced trading technology, there are still real humans on the floor doing important work daily for investors all around the world. No one knows that better than the “Einstein of Wall Street”, Peter Tuchman. Tuchm...

Amazon didn’t become its beastly, dominant self by sitting back and watching its competitors do business. Quite the contrary. The Jeff Bezos founded company has long been seen as ruthless on prices and a relentless innovator. At the core of those things is the notoriously cutthroat Amazon culture, which is believed to be a win at any cost mindset. But Amazon’s ways may be catching up to it, with t...

If there has been any constant down the aisles of supermarkets and on the racks at clothing stores, it’s inflation. While inflation has started to cool down, the reality is that prices for stuff continue to be high – and that remains a top of mind problem for consumers and consumer companies. Some retailers have fared well against this backdrop, namely a discounter such as Walmart. Others like Mac...

Affirm founder and CEO Max Levchin is one of the preeminent tech entrepreneurs of the past 25 years. He worked alongside Silicon Valley heavyweights Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and Elon Musk to create PayPal and then take it public. Levchin has since invested in hundreds of startups and mentored many of the top tech executives now creating the revolutionary AI technology that is taking the world by...

The Fortune 500 is one of the oldest lists published in the financial media space. The first Fortune 500 was published in May 1955, and was based on annual revenue figures. The top ten companies on the list that year included: General Motors (GM), Jersey Standard, U.S. Steel (X), General Electric (GE), Esmark, Chrysler, Armour, Gulf Oil, Exxon Mobil (XOM), and DuPont (DD). Suffice it to say, the l...

In a special taping of Yahoo Finance’s ‘Opening Bid’, we explore how investors should go about investing in the polarizing company that is GameStop (and if they should at all!) and help break down the approach to trading in meme stocks. This is your ultimate 24-minute guide to building and not losing wealth in some of the most volatile, confusing stocks in the entire market. Yahoo Finance Executiv...

For some people, their job is just that. But for Ford CEO Jim Farley, his job is his whole world. A car guy through-and-through, he spends as much time on cars personally as he does professionally; whether leading Ford as an American institution, bonding with his son, and even as a race-car driver. It's no wonder that he hosts his own car-themed podcast DRIVE with Jim Farley. However, Farley won't...

After 120 years we've seen a lot of competition’ says Ford CEO Jim Farley to Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi in the grand hall of the newly refurbished Michigan Central Station. The historic building is in many ways the crown jewel of the automaker’s new 1 billion dollar Detroit-based campus. Ford’s 30-acre innovation district, centered around the station, will serve as a base to develo...

Warren Buffett is a household name for all investors. The 'Oracle of Omaha' as he is known has turned Berkshire Hathaway from a small textile operation into an industrial powerhouse that owns railroad Burlington Northern and insurance player Geico. Buffett is also a legendary stock picker, getting in early on leading companies such as Coca-Cola, Apple and American Express. In the process of all th...

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence has been leading the audio giant for close to eight years. You don’t get to hold onto the CEO role for that long without doing a lot right time and time again: from introducing new home speakers to diversifying the company’s supply chain out of China. What many in the business world don’t realize is that Spence was there at the early days of Blackberry. In fact, he sold so...

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio is one of the most recognized people in the world of Wall Street. He built the firm into an out-performing hedge fund giant in part by developing ‘The Principles’, an intense and enacting guide to developing a workplace culture. Through the years, Dalio has gained legions of fans for his no nonsense approach to self-improvement, amassing millions of followe...

The stock market is sizzling. And that means stocks that were once cheap are now probably so expensive you can’t make a lot of money off of them. So how do you find value against this backdrop? Keep in mind said backdrop comes as retail traders are sending shares of near death companies such as GameStop and AMC back to the moon. Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi talks with Boyar Research...

Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are taking tough stances on trade with China. The consequences to consumers and the stock market are wildly unknown, but it may not be pretty. Also not pretty? Apple’s once indestructible stock price! With new AI power, what impacts can we expect on Apple and Nvidia stock? Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi goes one-on-one with inf...

You may not have heard of M13’s Carter Reum, and that has been your loss. Reum founded his venture capital firm in 2016 alongside his brother Courtney. Since then, M13 has been an early stage investor in some of the most well-known consumer brands such as Lyft and Bonobos. Yahoo Finance Executive Editor, Brian Sozzi, sits down with Reum to reveal the secrets of his investing success, and discusses...

This week Brian catches up with former Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers. They discuss his fascinating career, the tech lifecycle, AI and how to be an effective leader in corporate America. Welcome to Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid, our high-octane take on the freshest analyst calls, wildest stock moves and shrewdest commentary in the business world. Executive Editor Brian Sozzi puts Wall Street's fine...

Amazon is known for its amazing Prime service. And yes, the tech giant still owns your favorite organic grocery store Whole Foods. But the real financial goldmine for Amazon is its cloud services business called AWS. It's this business that is helping shape the very future of artificial intelligence in America. At the helm of this business is the wine-loving, weekend water skier Adam Selipsky. In...

Is the era of low interest rates over forever?! And what if Donald Trump wins the White House and takes more control of the Federal Reserve, how crazy would that be for investors? The Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent of the White House, after all. Billionaire Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may be right that AI won’t take your job, which is a good thing. In episode 3 of Yahoo Finance’s Openin...

While the rich and powerful on Wall Street have non-stop conversations over when, or even if, the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates to supercharge the stock market, investors in one of the hottest areas of the market are selling first and asking questions later. That hot sector is none other than the Magnificent 7 – aka the Mag 7 – comprised of top tech companies Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, A...