S&P 500: As of September 4th, 2025

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00:00The Nasdaq rose 1% and the S&P 500 also ended higher on Wednesday as Alphabet jumped after a U.S. judge ruled against breaking up the Google parent

00:09and as investors were optimistic that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates this month.

00:15The Dow finished slightly lower with shares of bowing down 2.1%.

00:19Alphabet and Apple gave the S&P 500 and Nasdaq their biggest boost.

00:23Let's go in-depth with the recent updates on Apple and Google.

00:26As we can see from the S&P 500 website here, we're going to take a look at the U.S. market

00:32and every stock categorized by sector in the industry, we can see the size represents all the market cap.

00:39We're going to start with Apple also. Apple as of this morning is up by 3.81%.

00:45As we can see, the update for Apple as of this morning is greener than most of the other sectors within the S&P 500 currently.

00:53And for the Apple, we can say that it's not only Apple, but also Google is also up by 9.02%,

01:01almost achieving two growth digits as of 4th September.

01:05And the latest and the recent updates about Google and Apple is Google won't have to sell its Chrome browser,

01:11a judge in Washington state on Tuesday, handing a rare with two big tech in its battle with U.S. antitrust enforcers,

01:18by ordering Google to share data with rivals to open up competition in online search.

01:23Google parent Alphabet's shares were up to 7.2% in extended trading on Tuesday as investors share the judge ruling,

01:31which also allows Google to keep making lucrative payments to Apple that antitrust enforcers said flows out search rivals.

01:38Apple's shares rose 3%.

01:40Make sense of the latest ESG trends affecting companies and governments, U.S. district judge.

01:45Amit Mehta also ruled Google could keep its Android operating system,

01:50which together with Chrome helped drive Google's market-dominating online advertising business.

01:56The ruling results from a five-year legal battle between one of the world's most profitable companies

02:01and the U.S. were where antitrust regulators and lawmakers have long questioned big tech's market domination.

02:08Mehta ruled last year that Google holds an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising.

02:15But the judge approached the job of imposing remedies on Google with humility, he wrote,

02:20pointing to competition created by artificial intelligence companies since the case began.

02:25Google faces a major threat from increasingly popular AI tools, including OpenAI's popular ChatGBT chatbox,

02:32which are already eroding Google's dominance.

02:35If allowed to access the data Google is required to share, AI companies could bolster their developments in chatbox,

02:42and in some cases, AI search engines and web browser.

02:47And as of this morning, we can see this is the recent updates about Google and Apple as of this morning.

02:52And we're going to move on to semiconductor updates, especially NVIDIA.

02:56First came the theft, then the epic PowerPoint fail.

03:00A software engineer stole confidential source codes,

03:04jumped ship to chip-making giant NVIDIA,

03:06and then accidentally shared the documents on a video call with his former colleagues.

03:11The theft and blundered led the man's prior employer, Global Automotive Tax Supplier Value,

03:17to file a trade secrets lawsuit against NVIDIA.

03:19Now, a federal judge in San Jose, California, has greenlit the case for a trial in November ruling

03:28that the jury must decide whether the chipmaker benefited from the pilfered information.

03:34Trade secrets have been called the lifeblood of Silicon Valley,

03:37and the case raises a thorny intellectual property question.

03:40Can NVIDIA, which claims it didn't want or use any of the stolen information,

03:45still be held liable for the rogue employee's misappropriation,

03:48and that is the recent updates of NVIDIA.

03:51And as of the morning, we can see NVIDIA is down by 0.09%.

03:57And the next update for one of the biggest companies within the software infrastructure is Microsoft.

04:02It's up a little bit by 0.05%,

04:05and Microsoft has agreed to give U.S. agencies a discount on its cloud services.

04:10The General Services Administration said Tuesday as part of the administration's push to sign deals

04:16with tech companies for departments across the executive branch.

04:20The deal will save the U.S. government up to $3 billion in the first year, according to GSA and Microsoft.

04:26Reuters could not immediately verify that figure.

04:29As part of the agreement, the company will offer free access to Microsoft Co-Pilot,

04:34its generative AI chat box, to existing federal government users, according to the company.

04:39Agencies can also get lower prices on cloud products such as Microsoft, Sentinel, and Azure Monitoring.

04:47And that is the recent update for some of the companies within the U.S. market.

04:51And we have more updates, especially on the World Economic Forum,

04:55as we are catching what are top stories of the weeks right after this break.

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