Every day, Q.ai brings you a list of trending stocks that have caught the fancy of hedge funds, retail investors, and the occasional Robinhood-er alike. And to celebrate the start of the new month, today's batch is a rather motley assortment spanning the sector spectrum, from vaccines and bath towels to spirits and cloud computing. Without further ado, let's see what stocks are trending as we celebrate the first day of July with an independence-sized bang. Q.ai runs daily factor models to get the most up-to-date reading on stocks and ETFs. Our deep-learning algorithms use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to provide an in-depth, intelligence-based look at a company – so you don't have to do the digging yourself.

Every week, Q.ai covers a different theme to introduce retail investors to different types of investing. These run the gamut from large and small cap stocks to particular sectors of the market to companies with solid value or growth potential. This week, we're going to take a look under the hood of some of the stocks in the Forbes AI Investor Industrial portfolio. Whether these stocks tinker, build, or drive commercial efforts behind the scenes, we're here to drag out the good, the bad, and the greasy for your edification. Q.ai runs factor models daily to get the most up-to-date reading on stocks and ETFs.

The stock market trembled in the midweek after the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday, 16 June, that it plans to hike interest rates as early as 2023. And though the Nasdaq NDAQ and S&P 500 both recovered fairly quickly from Wednesday's midafternoon slump, the Dow Jones Industrial Index wasn't quite so fortunate. The Fed's policy update deviates from previous estimates from the Fed, which pushed rate hikes out into 2024 and beyond. And while there was no mention of when the Fed will start to roll back its $120 billion per month bond purchase program, rest assured, investors are poised for that blow, too. But until that happens, we can all sit back, breathe a sigh of relief that the Fed didn't sweep the rug out from under our investment accounts overnight, and enjoy this week's trending stocks courtesy of Q.ai. Q.ai runs daily factor models to get the most up-to-date reading on stocks and ETFs.

The stock market shook Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised its inflation expectations for the year and moved up its next hike on interest rates. The policymaking Federal Open Market Committee noted that rate hikes may occur in 2023, a reversal from its March statements that it foresaw no increases until beyond then. However, a date for the Fed's expected reversal of its $120 billion per month bond buying program didn't come up, the Fed Chief has noted that the central bank will provide "advanced notice" before tapering asset purchases. This thrust investors' worries about fiscal policy decisions into the spotlight after weeks of nail-biting angst, while many individual stocks did indeed trend down for the day. But many of these stocks were already trending this week anyway on their own merits. Let's explore a few of them, and take a peek behind the curtain into what, exactly, is going on in some of America's biggest industries.

The mainstream emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), coupled with the digitization of essentially all processes, has caused a surge in the amount of data running around the world. All that data is being used by both small and big companies alike to optimize operations. This includes everything from gleaning insights from the data so as to make the best product to leverage that data to deliver advertising solutions to the right market. From this perspective, data is the new currency. And the value of that currency is only growing as the data revolution gains steam. With that in mind, here is a list of four big data stocks that have broad exposure to the data revolution, and should be big winners in a multi-year window.

The mainstream emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), coupled with the digitization of essentially all processes, has caused a surge in the amount of data running around the world. All that data is being used by both small and big companies alike to optimize operations. This includes everything from gleaning insights from the data so as to make the best product to leverage that data to deliver advertising solutions to the right market. From this perspective, data is the new currency. And the value of that currency is only growing as the data revolution gains steam. With that in mind, here is a list of four big data stocks that have broad exposure to the data revolution, and should be big winners in a multi-year window.

The past few months have been a roller coaster ride for China digital search giant Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU). From the beginning of April to the middle of May, BIDU stock rallied from $220 to $280 thanks to resurgent strength in China technology stocks and a really strong double-beat-and-raise first-quarter earnings report which underscored strengthening long-term fundamentals. But then Baidu stock dropped off a cliff in May after the company announced that its Chief Operating Officer, former Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) executive Qi Lu, would be stepping down and transitioning to part-time duties at BIDU. Lu was widely considered to be the "AI guy" at Baidu, and AI is at the core of Baidu's growth engine. Thus, losing Lu was a big hit and Baidu stock dropped to below $240.

Most technology companies are betting that artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to big changes for their businesses. For some, it should make their operations more efficient. For others, it may improve how they deliver content to their users, make their devices smarter, or enhance their hardware and software. But beyond those improvements that will be widely enjoyed across the sector, a handful of companies are actually leading the way. So what are these companies doing in AI, and is there more room for investors to benefit?

Most technology companies are betting that artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to big changes for their businesses. For some, it should make their operations more efficient. For others, it may improve how they deliver content to their users, make their devices smarter, or enhance their hardware and software. But beyond those improvements that will be widely enjoyed across the sector, a handful of companies are actually leading the way. So what are these companies doing in AI, and is there more room for investors to benefit?