Today's market conversation is being driven by a collection of major corporate headlines that reinforce several of the most important themes in the market right now: artificial intelligence infrastructure spending, enterprise cloud adoption, government technology contracts, defense modernization and the challenge of meeting extremely high investor expectations.

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AI Infrastructure and Data Centre Equipment

Dell delivered strong earnings results and secured a significant government contract, reinforcing confidence in demand for AI servers, enterprise computing infrastructure and large-scale data centre investments. As businesses, government agencies and cloud providers continue investing billions into artificial intelligence capabilities, companies supplying the hardware required to power those systems may experience ...