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Extreme Networks Positioned for Market-Share Gains Amid AI Push, Oppenheimer Says

Extreme Networks (EXTR) unveiled one of its "most ambitious product cycles" in years at its annual Connect conference, with its expanding artificial intelligence-driven networking platform and improving competitive position could support "accelerating revenue growth" and market-share gains, Oppenheimer said in a report emailed Thursday.Platform ONE is "exceeding expectations" within 10 months of launch, with new support for third-party devices expected to help customers migrate from "legacy vendors" while strengthening its position in cloud-managed networking, the report said.The company introduced Agent ONE, an AI-powered "upgrade" to Platform ONE, while also launching the Extreme Exchange, an "AI skills marketplace," the report noted.The company also "broadened" its Wi-Fi 7 portfolio and added Cloud PKI security capabilities that will pull in security spend to the networking platform.The firm noted channel checks suggesting that stabilizing post-COVID pricing trends, and improving "pricing power" should accelerate revenue growth into next year. Also, supply constraints and price increases at Cisco Systems (CSCO) could create a "major opportunity" for Extreme Networks to gain market share, Oppenheimer said.Oppenheimer has an outperform rating on Extreme Networks, with a price target of $25.Price: $23.43, Change: $-0.11, Percent Change: -0.47%

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US Markets

Nasdaq, S&P 500 Hit Fresh Peaks as Oil Retreats

The Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 advanced to new highs on Tuesday as oil prices pulled back, while traders digested a fresh batch of corporate earnings reports.The Nasdaq rose 1% to 25,326.1, while the S&P 500 climbed 0.8% to 7,259.2, both marking their highest finish ever. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.7% to 49,298.3.All sectors ended in the green, led by materials followed by technology. Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU), Apple (AAPL), and Cisco Systems (CSCO) were among the tech names that logged gains on Tuesday.West Texas Intermediate crude fell 3.4% to $102.81 per barrel in afternoon trading, while Brent shed 3.6% to $110.31.US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly said that the ceasefire agreement with Iran remained intact despite renewed tensions in the Gulf region.The comment came a day after Tehran fired missiles and drones at the United Arab Emirates, reigniting concerns about the fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran.The US military destroyed six Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday after Tehran attacked US Navy ships and commercial vessels, CNN reported, citing Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of the US Central Command. A senior Iranian military official reportedly disputed that claim.US Treasury yields were lower, with the 10-year rate down 2.1 basis points at 4.42% and the two-year rate falling 1.6 basis points to 3.95%.In company news, Pinterest (PINS) shares jumped 6.8%. The image-sharing platform company posted better-than-expected first-quarter results late Monday and forecast up to 16% revenue growth year over year for the ongoing three-month period.Shopify (SHOP) on Tuesday issued a second-quarter revenue outlook that implied a sequential slowdown in annual growth. The stock slid nearly 16%.PayPal (PYPL) shares slumped 7.8% after the payments company said it was targeting at least $1.5 billion in cost cuts over the next few years, while it maintained its full-year earnings outlook.Palantir Technologies (PLTR) shares dropped 6.9%, despite the software maker raising its 2026 revenue outlook and first-quarter results topping Wall Street's expectations.In economic news, two surveys released Tuesday painted a mixed picture of the US services sector in April, with Institute for Supply Management data showing a deceleration in growth and an S&P Global (SPGI) report indicating a return to expansion."The services sector continues to expand, but the sharp cooling in new orders alongside still-subdued employment momentum suggests growth may be becoming less durable," TD Economics Senior Economist Vikram Rai said in a note.On Friday, ISM and S&P surveys showed that the US manufacturing sector saw continued growth in April, though inflationary pressures intensified amid disruptions caused by the Middle East conflict.New-home sales in the US grew past Wall Street's estimates for March, driven by a demand surge in the Northeast region, government data showed.Gold rose 0.8% to $4,568.70 per troy ounce, while silver lost 0.3 % to $73.30 per ounce.

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Sectors

Sector Update: Tech Stocks Mixed Late Afternoon

Tech stocks were mixed late Monday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) increasing 0.3% and the State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) decreasing 0.1%.The Philadelphia Semiconductor index decreased 0.2%.In corporate news, Apple (AAPL) is planning to introduce a new feature for its next iPhone software update that will allow users to develop and personalize their own digital tickets and gift cards in the Wallet app, Bloomberg reported. The pass-building feature for iOS 27 Wallet is expected to address the issue of many services still not offering passes compatible with the Wallet platform, the report said. Apple shares were down 1.3%.Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI has secured more than $4 billion from investors for a new joint venture valued at $10 billion to expand adoption of its AI products, Bloomberg reported. Microsoft shares shed 0.5%.Cisco Systems (CSCO) shares rose 0.8% after the company said Monday it plans to buy Astrix Security to broaden its automated agent and non-human identity defense capabilities.Blaize (BZAI) said it signed a strategic partnership agreement with Winmate to integrate its AI chips into systems for defense and critical infrastructure, targeting about $15 million in first-year business. Blaize shares surged 20%.

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Sectors

Sector Update: Tech Stocks Edge Higher Monday Afternoon

Tech stocks edged up Monday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) increasing 0.2% and the State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) marginally up.The Philadelphia Semiconductor index decreased 0.5%.In sector news, Cerebras Systems plans to kick off the roadshow for its proposed initial public offering as the AI chipmaker targets raising up to a little over $4 billion.In corporate news, Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI has secured more than $4 billion from investors for a new joint venture valued at $10 billion to expand adoption of its AI products, Bloomberg reported. Microsoft shares rose 0.1%.Cisco Systems (CSCO) shares rose 1% after the company said Monday it plans to buy Astrix Security to broaden its automated agent and non-human identity defense capabilities.Blaize (BZAI) said it signed a strategic partnership agreement with Winmate to integrate its AI chips into systems for defense and critical infrastructure, targeting about $15 million in first-year business. Blaize shares surged past 27%.

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Wire

Cisco Systems Plans to Acquire Astrix Security

Cisco Systems (CSCO) said Monday it plans to buy Astrix Security to broaden its automated agent and non-human identity defense capabilities.Astrix delivers discovery, lifecycle administration, and threat mitigation tools to secure machine credentials and minimize system vulnerabilities, Cisco said.The network equipment provider expects to integrate Astrix's functions into its identity intelligence, boosting visibility and context across identities within its security platform, it added.Financial terms were not disclosed.Price: $93.03, Change: $+1.18, Percent Change: +1.28%

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Evercore ISI Adjusts Cisco Systems Price Target to $110 From $100, Maintains Outperform Rating

Cisco Systems (CSCO) has an average rating of overweight and mean price target of $90.67, according to analysts polled by FactSet.Price: $92.29, Change: $+0.44, Percent Change: +0.48%

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US Markets

Equity Markets Mostly Rise Intraday as Apple Helps Lift Tech

US benchmark equity indexes were mostly higher intraday as a post-earnings rally in Apple (AAPL) shares helped lift the technology sector, while oil prices fell.The Nasdaq Composite was up 1.2% at 25,183.1 after midday Friday, while the S&P 500 rose 0.6% to 7,252.5. Both benchmarks hit new closing highs in the previous session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was little changed at 49,661.6 intraday Friday.Among sectors, tech paced the gainers with a 1.7% jump, while energy saw the biggest drop.Apple shares were up 4%, the best performer on the Dow. Late Thursday, the tech giant logged fiscal second-quarter results above Wall Street's estimates as iPhone revenue came in stronger than expected.Apple's fiscal third-quarter revenue guidance was well above the Street's estimates despite supply constraints for Mac models that will likely continue for several months, Wedbush Securities said in a note.Several other big tech names were also advancing intraday, with Oracle (ORCL) up 7.4%, among the biggest gainers on the S&P 500. Shares of Intel (INTC), Salesforce (CRM), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon.com (AMZN), Cisco Systems (CSCO), and IBM (IBM) were also higher.In other company news, Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) reported year-over-year declines in their first-quarter earnings amid supply disruptions due to the Middle East war, though the figures came in ahead of the Street's estimates. Exxon shares were down 1.2% intraday, while Chevron lost 1.5%, the second-worst performer on the Dow.West Texas Intermediate crude oil fell 3.1% to $101.82 per barrel, while Brent crude was down 2.1% at $108.04.US President Donald Trump said he is displeased with a new peace offer from Iran, noting that Tehran "wants to make a deal, but I'm not satisfied with it," CNBC reported Friday.Israeli strikes against the Habbouch town in southern Lebanon have killed six people, CNN reported, citing Lebanon's health ministry.US Treasury yields were lower intraday, with the 10-year rate down 1.4 basis points at 4.38% and the two-year rate losing one basis point to 3.88%.In economic news, the US manufacturing sector saw continued growth in April, though inflationary pressures intensified amid disruptions caused by the Middle East conflict, separate surveys by the Institute for Supply Management and S&P Global (SPGI) showed."The prices-paid index's steep climb to multiyear highs -- alongside the conspicuous slowdown in supplier deliveries -- signals mounting supply-chain stress and inflationary pressures driven by surging energy prices and war-related disruptions," TD Economics said in a note. "These resurgent price pressures are keeping the Federal Reserve on alert, supporting expectations that any additional monetary policy easing is unlikely in the near term."Three Fed officials who wanted language changes in the April monetary policy statement said Friday that risks to inflation and employment didn't warrant an inclusion of the so-called easing bias.On Wednesday, regional presidents Beth Hammack of Cleveland, Neel Kashkari of Minneapolis and Lorie Logan of Dallas supported the Fed's decision to keep its benchmark lending rate steady, but opposed including an easing bias in the Federal Open Market Committee statement.Gold rose 0.4% to $4,647 per troy ounce, while silver climbed 3% to $76.23 per ounce.

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Cisco Systems Introduces Research Prototype for Quantum Information Routing

Cisco Systems (CSCO) said Thursday that it has developed a Universal Quantum Switch prototype that can route and translate quantum information between different systems, advancing efforts toward a scalable quantum network.The company said the device can connect quantum systems across multiple encoding types while preserving quantum information, using a patented conversion engine that translates signals during routing without loss.Cisco said the prototype enables interoperability between quantum systems from different vendors and supports future distributed quantum computing networks.Price: $89.09, Change: $-0.71, Percent Change: -0.79%

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Sectors

Sector Update: Tech Stocks Decline Premarket Monday

Technology stocks were declining premarket Monday, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) down 0.6% and the State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) 0.8% lower.Sony (SONY), SoftBank, NEC and Honda Motor (HMC) have jointly established a new artificial intelligence company to develop a domestic AI foundation model for use by Japanese companies, multiple media outlets reported. Shares of Sony Group were down more than 2% pre-bell.Aeluma (ALMU) stock was up more than 25% after the company said it has won more than $4 million in contracts to scale the US government's semiconductor heterogeneous integration platform for quantum and high-speed datacom applications.Cisco Systems (CSCO) is in discussions to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Astrix Security for $250 million to $350 million, The Information reported, citing people with knowledge of the deal. Cisco Systems shares were 0.6% lower pre-bell.

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US Markets

Cloudflare Sell-Off Offers Buying Opportunity as Project Glasswing Concerns 'Overblown,' Oppenheimer Says

Cloudflare's (NET) stock sell-off offers a buying opportunity, while concerns around Project Glasswing are "overblown" as the cloud-services company is seen benefitting from a projected exponential growth in agentic artificial intelligence applications, Oppenheimer said Friday.Oppenheimer's upbeat outlook for Cloudflare comes as its shares tumbled 8.6% Thursday, which the brokerage attributed to competitive concerns around Anthropic's Project Glasswing initiative and a broader market weakness. Cloudflare shares were down 13% in Friday late-afternoon trade, bringing its year-to-date losses to nearly 15%.Project Glasswing is a cross-industry coalition formed to "secure the world's most critical software," Anthropic said in a statement. The alliance, which will be using Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos frontier model, includes Amazon (AMZN) Web Services, Apple (AAPL), Broadcom (AVGO), Cisco (CSCO), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), and Palo Alto Networks (PANW).Cloudflare is not part of the coalition.The concerns over Project Glasswing are "overblown," with the Cloudflare stock sell-off providing a "tactical buying opportunity," Oppenheimer analysts Param Singh and Jake Heimowitz said in a note to clients Friday. Claude Mythos will "proactively find and fix vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure," they said."We want to highlight that Cloudflare's security sales are tied to its physical network, which is necessary to funnel data traffic," the analysts wrote. "We see Cloudflare as a beneficiary of this growing sophistication in frontier models, which will support exponential growth in agentic AI applications and benefit Cloudflare across delivery, security, and compute."Cloudflare handles roughly 20% of global internet traffic volume, with Oppenheimer seeing the company as a share gainer and beneficiary from an "increasingly agentic web," the analysts said. Agentic AI is expected to drive data traffic growth at a compound annual growth rate of more than 20%, according to the note.The brokerage, which has an outperform rating on the Cloudflare stock, said its checks indicate an accelerating customer spend with the company amid "higher security module and compute attach."Price: $167.26, Change: $-25.79, Percent Change: -13.36%

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