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Stablecoins Push Toward $3 Trillion as Regulation Clears the Way
Business

Stablecoins Push Toward $3 Trillion as Regulation Clears the Way

Stablecoin adoption keeps rising through a crypto bear market, with the market cap set to grow 10x to $3 trillion by 2030 as new rules clear.

Bull vs. Bull on Microsoft: Cheap Software After IBM's Miss
Business

Bull vs. Bull on Microsoft: Cheap Software After IBM's Miss

Microsoft drops on IBM's weak preliminary results and software-sector fears, but analysts stay bullish and build two options trades around its July 29 earnings.

Intel Earnings Preview: Foundry, 18A Node, and the AI CPU Bet
Business

Intel Earnings Preview: Foundry, 18A Node, and the AI CPU Bet

What to watch in Intel's earnings: foundry customer wins, 18A yields, a $43B AI CPU market, and offsets to a cooling PC business.

Block's Comeback: Why Cash App and Square Point to Long-Term Value in XYZ
Business

Block's Comeback: Why Cash App and Square Point to Long-Term Value in XYZ

Block (XYZ) is winning market share with Cash App up 50% and Square up 19%, with a 0.54 three-year PEG ratio pointing to long-term value.

Three Morning Movers: Apple Downgraded, Nvidia Target Raised, SpaceX Rated a Buy
Business

Three Morning Movers: Apple Downgraded, Nvidia Target Raised, SpaceX Rated a Buy

Key Bank cuts Apple to underweight, lifts Nvidia to $330, and Evercore starts SpaceX at outperform with a $230 target.

CPI Cools on Falling Energy Prices While IBM's Warning Rattles Software Stocks
Economy

CPI Cools on Falling Energy Prices While IBM's Warning Rattles Software Stocks

June CPI fell on a 23% drop in crude, core inflation eased, and IBM's weak preview sank software stocks while big banks beat.

The 20-Year Bet on SpaceX: Rockets, Starlink, and Data Centers in the Sky
Business

The 20-Year Bet on SpaceX: Rockets, Starlink, and Data Centers in the Sky

Why SpaceX at its IPO price looks like a 20-year hold, built on three businesses and one long-shot bet on space data centers.

TSMC Posts Record June Revenue as AI Demand Drives 68% Jump Ahead of Earnings
Business

TSMC Posts Record June Revenue as AI Demand Drives 68% Jump Ahead of Earnings

TSMC reported record June revenue up 68% year-over-year on AI demand, with earnings due Thursday and a tight options trade setup around key support.

Markets Can't Shake U.S.-Iran Risk as Earnings Season Begins
Economy

Markets Can't Shake U.S.-Iran Risk as Earnings Season Begins

Geopolitical risk keeps pressing on markets as CPI data, bank earnings, memory-chip selloffs, and an Apple-OpenAI suit crowd the week.

Iran Tensions, Memory Selloff, and Apple's OpenAI Suit Set a Tense Market Week
Business

Iran Tensions, Memory Selloff, and Apple's OpenAI Suit Set a Tense Market Week

Rising U.S.-Iran tensions, a sharp memory-chip pullback, and Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI open a week dominated by bank earnings and inflation data.

Three Mega Trends and the Companies Best Placed to Ride Them
Economy

Three Mega Trends and the Companies Best Placed to Ride Them

A macro framework tied to three long-run trends, and why SpaceX, Apple, and Eli Lilly stand out as best-positioned plays.

Mid-Year Market Review: AI Disruption, Small Caps, and the Beaten-Down MAG 7
Business

Mid-Year Market Review: AI Disruption, Small Caps, and the Beaten-Down MAG 7

A mid-year read on how AI is reshaping market leadership, why small caps are quietly winning, and where value now sits in tech.

CrowdStrike: Betting Big on the AI Cybersecurity Wave
Business

CrowdStrike: Betting Big on the AI Cybersecurity Wave

A close look at CrowdStrike's strong Q1 FY2027 results, its AI-native Falcon platform, high valuation worries, and bullish chart.

The Power Bottleneck Behind AI: Why Data Centers Must Make Their Own Energy
Technology

The Power Bottleneck Behind AI: Why Data Centers Must Make Their Own Energy

AI's real limit is power, not chips, and the fix is self-powered campuses, natural gas turbines, fuel cells, and small nuclear reactors.

Why a 1973 Chart Points to $8,000 Gold by End of 2026
Economy

Why a 1973 Chart Points to $8,000 Gold by End of 2026

A 1973 gold-bottom pattern suggests a 100% rally to $8,000 by December 2026 while Bitcoin and AI stocks deflate.

The Clarity Act and the Crypto Mega Trends Set to Explode
Crypto

The Clarity Act and the Crypto Mega Trends Set to Explode

How the pending Clarity Act could unlock institutional crypto money, and the tokenization and decentralized-AI trends already growing before it passes.

Meta's AI Bet Pays Off and SK Hynix Lands Strong in Its U.S. Debut
Business

Meta's AI Bet Pays Off and SK Hynix Lands Strong in Its U.S. Debut

Meta rose on AI cloud and chip news despite an EU probe, SK Hynix jumped 13% in its U.S. debut, and next week brings bank earnings and CPI.

Big Options Bets on Nvidia, SpaceX, and Intel
Business

Big Options Bets on Nvidia, SpaceX, and Intel

Large options trades this week show bullish bets on Nvidia and SpaceX and a bearish bet against Intel amid CPU and AI chip news.

Why the Gap Between Cloud Giants and Chipmakers Holds the Key to AI Stocks
Business

Why the Gap Between Cloud Giants and Chipmakers Holds the Key to AI Stocks

An AI investment case built on closing the hyperscaler-chipmaker gap, custom ASICs, cheap cloud giants, and a strong consumer.

China Tech's Turn: Rotation, AI Software, and a Memory Chip Boom
Business

China Tech's Turn: Rotation, AI Software, and a Memory Chip Boom

Why Alibaba, JD, Baidu and Chinese memory chip makers like CXMT are rallying on rotation, AI cloud growth, and IPO spin-offs.