the score is a weekly review of the biggest stock moves and the news that drove them ai mania lifted nvidia to new heights on tuesday the graphicschip maker briefly became the first semiconductor company with a 1 trillion market capitalization joining an elite club that includes amazon amzn 121increase green up pointing triangle  apple and microsoft nvidia nvda 111decrease red down pointing triangle touched the milestone intraday but its shares didn’t close above the threshold the stock’s recent gains stemmed from nvidia’s upbeat outlook for artificialintelligence technology as the chip industry struggles with slowing sales a potential ai boom could lead to a surge in demand for the semiconductors that power tools like chatgpt nvidia is the market leader in chips used for ai data centers having about an 80 share of such processors as of 2020 per an omdia estimate the stock of the online lender jumped 15 wednesday building on tuesday gains after president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy reached a debtceiling deal to avert a looming government default sofi’s services include studentloan refinancing and the deal locks in the restart of studentloan payments and interest accrual this summer—without any further extensions to the pandemicera pause per previous federal budget estimates keeping studentloan payments paused costs the us government around 5 billion a month both houses of congress passed the sweeping bill that suspends the federal government’s 314 trillion debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts the measure now heads to president biden for his signature kohl’s kss 1273increase green up pointing triangle is the latest retailer facing calls for a boycott this pride month a recent socialmedia blitz including tiktok videos tagged with boycottkohls stemmed from the department store’s pride month merchandise the customer backlash follows a similar controversy at target due to the chain’s assortment of lgbtthemed pride month products including a transgenderfriendly swimsuit the two companies aren’t unique in selling pridethemed merchandise walmart jcpenney and gap also sell such products and many retailers have done so for years separately anheuserbusch was also the subject of an earlier consumer boycott after sending a personalized bud light can to a transgender influencer advance auto parts aap 069decrease red down pointing triangle hit some speed bumps in its latest quarter the autoparts retailer on wednesday posted a steep drop in quarterly profit after it was forced to slash prices to stay competitive and hold on to professional customers such as autorepair shops advance auto parts lowered its profit outlook for the year and cut its dividend the disappointing numbers stick out compared with the broader auto industry as the company said the us car population is still growing and americans are driving more shoppers are spending less and bargain hunting in a tough economic climate spelling trouble for retailers dollar general dg 263increase green up pointing triangle fared well in the last economic downturn but the dollarstore chain cut its fiscal year’s sales and profit outlook and said it would slow the pace of new store openings pointing to a weakening economy the company noted that its typically lowerincome customers said they are relying more on items priced at 1 or below other retailers are feeling the pinch as well macy’s on thursday cut its fullyear outlook on sales and profits citing the economic challenges facing consumers chief executive jeff gennette said sales trends began to weaken in late march and the departmentstore chain is stepping up promotions to clear out spring seasonal merchandise as a result gennette said demand has picked up as temperatures have turned warmer the improvement was most pronounced at the company’s bloomingdale’s and bluemercury chains which typically cater to higherincome customers than macy’s the company’s shares fell in earlier trading but recovered ending 12 higher thursday dollar general on the other hand sank 20—its worstever daily drop amazon may be entering the telecom market sending shares of tmobile and others down friday bloomberg news reported friday that the tech giant has been talking with wireless carriers about offering lowcost or free mobile to prime subscribers grocery stocks were dealt a similar blow when amazon in 2017 announced its acquisition of whole foods the wall street journal reported in may that dish network was in talks to sell wireless plans for its nascent mobile service through amazon friday’s news sent dish shares higher a welcome change after the stock reached a 24year low earlier this year wireless plans sold through amazon’s massive ecommerce portal could challenge rivals like tmobile att and verizon as they wrestle with slowing subscriber growth after a pandemicera boom