SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

SPDR Gold Shares

iShares Biotechnology ETF

On January 28, the S&amp;P index <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/s-p-500-vpervye-v-istorii-prevysil-7000-punktov">hit the</a> 7,000 mark for the first time, fueled by optimism around artificial intelligence and expectations of corporate results. Two days later, a 10% drop in Microsoft shares triggered a large-scale sell-off. Oninvest asked Alexei Primak, founder of the Institute of Financial and Investment Technologies, what trends await us in February and where $10000 should be invested. His choice: the technology market (S&amp;P 500), gold ETFs, and a biotechnology fund.

Where to invest $10,000 in February: an example of a simple investment portfolio

Oracle Corporation

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Oracle is preparing a large-scale capital raise to build data centers to meet the demand from its largest customers, and Alibaba and its competitors are rolling out multi-billion dollar campaigns to promote AI applications in China. About these and other topics - in our review of key events by the morning of February 2.

Top story for the morning: Oracle to raise up to $50 billion, gold and silver continue to fall

Microsoft Corporation

The value of securities in trading on January 29 collapsed at the strongest rate since 2020

Outperforming 99% of rivals, an investment fund bought Microsoft stock during the collapse

Roblox Corporation

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Alphabet Inc.

Securities of game companies fell sharply on Friday, January 30, after Google <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/">presented a</a> model of artificial intelligence, capable of creating interactive digital worlds by text queries. Thus, the shares of Take-Two Interactive, the developer of Grand Theft Auto, fell by about 12%, the game platform Roblox - by 14%, and the securities of the developer of the game engine Unity Software fell in the moment by 28%.

Google has launched an AI that creates digital worlds. Shares of video game developers collapsed

Sandisk Corporation

The memory deficit and AI boom have made the stock one of the most popular in the S&amp;P 500 lineup

Sandisk's earnings forecasts impressed the market. Its shares have gained 1400% in almost a year

Amazon.com, Inc.

The three-year agreement will allow Perplexity to expand its cloud infrastructure beyond AWS amid a legal battle with Amazon

Perplexity strikes cloud deal with Microsoft amid conflict with Amazon

Tesla, Inc.

According to Bloomberg, a merger with Tesla is also a possibility

Musk wants to merge SpaceX and xAI into one company before IPO - Reuters

Apple Inc.

Apple has bought Israeli startup Q.ai, which develops technologies for reading facial movements and understanding silent communications, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/apple-buys-israeli-ai-startup-that-interprets-facial-movements">reported</a>. The terms of the deal Apple did not disclose and did not specify exactly how Q.ai technology will be used, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-acquires-audio-ai-startup-qai-2026-01-29/">noted</a> Reuters. According <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/49f4e2e4-3a68-4842-be67-879409d06aa1">to</a> Financial Times sources, the deal values the startup at nearly $2 billion.

Apple has bought an AI startup that reads facial movements. Earlier, a similar deal resulted in FaceID

NVIDIA Corporation

Oracle Corp. shares are down more than 50% from last year's all-time high. Investors, concerned about the huge spending on artificial intelligence and the investment cycle within the AI sector, are selling their shares.

Oracle's capitalization has halved from its 2025 peak. Are investors turning away?

Inuvo, Inc.

Shares of Inuvo, a small-cap provider of AI-based marketing technology, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INUV/">sank</a>&nbsp;more than 26% in early trading on Thursday, January 29, after the company released two pieces of news: a sharp year-over-year&nbsp;<a href="https://inuvo.com/inuvo-reports-unaudited-preliminary-fourth-quarter-2025-revenue-results/">decline</a>&nbsp;of 47%&nbsp;in fourth-quarter revenue, on preliminary numbers, and a <a href="https://inuvo.com/inuvo-appoints-rob-buchner-as-chairman-and-chief-executive-officer/">change at CEO</a>.

Shares of AI ad company Inuvo sink 26% on preliminary 4Q plunge in revenue

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

SK hynix Inc.

Analysts consider the shares of both companies attractive and the likelihood of a market redistribution is low due to the huge deficit

Samsung has lost to SK Hynix for the first time in terms of annual profits

Existing suppliers are unable to supply Tesla with the volumes it needs, Musk claims

Artificial intelligence (AI)