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Micron's Wild Ride: AI Memory Boom Meets a Valuation Puzzle
Business

Micron's Wild Ride: AI Memory Boom Meets a Valuation Puzzle

Micron (MU) jumped over 20% in five days on AI memory demand, but with the stock swinging wildly, the fair valuation is unclear.

NVDA Earnings Preview: Wall Street Expects Doubled Revenue and Watches Forward Guidance
Business

NVDA Earnings Preview: Wall Street Expects Doubled Revenue and Watches Forward Guidance

NVIDIA's Q2 report is expected to nearly double revenue, but investors focus on Q3 guidance, CPU expansion, and AI demand.

Nvidia Backstops SB Energy for a 10-Gigawatt OpenAI Data Center in Ohio
Business

Nvidia Backstops SB Energy for a 10-Gigawatt OpenAI Data Center in Ohio

Nvidia secured land and power in Ohio and backstopped a 10GW OpenAI data center, taking a $1.5B stake in SoftBank's SB Energy.

Monday's Movers: Workday Downgraded, Okta Upgraded, Alibaba's AI Momentum
Business

Monday's Movers: Workday Downgraded, Okta Upgraded, Alibaba's AI Momentum

Workday (WDAY) gets two downgrades on buyout hopes, Okta (OKTA) upgraded on cyber demand, and Alibaba (BABA) pops on 3B AI downloads.

Fabrinet (FN) Heads into Earnings with a Low-Cost Bullish Options Trade
Business

Fabrinet (FN) Heads into Earnings with a Low-Cost Bullish Options Trade

Fabrinet (FN) reports earnings with shares up 74% on the year; a call butterfly offers cheap bullish exposure past the pricey premiums.

Consumer Earnings and Big Tech Deals Set the Tone for Markets
Business

Consumer Earnings and Big Tech Deals Set the Tone for Markets

Retail earnings will test consumer strength while Apple's iPhone outlook and Nvidia's AI deals reshape the tech story.

Bitcoin Bottoming: Why the Bear Market May Be the Best Buy
Business

Bitcoin Bottoming: Why the Bear Market May Be the Best Buy

Bitcoin and Ethereum sit in the bottoming zone after a 50% drop, with low volatility and rising leverage pointing to a big move ahead.

NVIDIA's Kingmaker Role in the AI Buildout as Alphabet Chases True AI
Business

NVIDIA's Kingmaker Role in the AI Buildout as Alphabet Chases True AI

How NVIDIA's $500 billion financing power, Alphabet's negative cash flow, and the AGI race are reshaping who wins the AI buildout.

Reading Market Risk Through NDX, SPX and Semiconductor Options
Economy

Reading Market Risk Through NDX, SPX and Semiconductor Options

How cheap NDX straddles, index-vs-single-stock volatility, and semiconductor options signal market risk in 2026.

Three AI-Linked Consumer Stocks: Palantir, Warby Parker, and Chewy
Business

Three AI-Linked Consumer Stocks: Palantir, Warby Parker, and Chewy

Why Palantir (PLTR), Warby Parker (WRBY), and Chewy (CHWY) each offer distinct AI and consumer growth stories worth watching.

The AI Agent Paradox: Zero Trust, Cybersecurity, and the IPO Fallout
Technology

The AI Agent Paradox: Zero Trust, Cybersecurity, and the IPO Fallout

How agent-on-agent AI breaches pushed the industry into a zero-trust era, reshaping cybersecurity spending and pending AI IPOs.

Cerebras Systems: Wafer-Scale AI Chips, a Revenue Miss, and Heavy Customer Concentration
Technology

Cerebras Systems: Wafer-Scale AI Chips, a Revenue Miss, and Heavy Customer Concentration

Cerebras posted a $450M loss and revenue miss on its second report, betting giant wafer-scale chips against Nvidia while leaning on OpenAI and UAE money.

AI as a Macro Force: The Trillion-Dollar Compute Boom and the Road to 7% GDP Growth
Technology

AI as a Macro Force: The Trillion-Dollar Compute Boom and the Road to 7% GDP Growth

Why AI drives economic growth four ways, could push GDP past 7% by 2030, and creates trillions in compute demand for NVDA, AMD and cloud.

The Clarity Act Is Coming: Why Banks Are Fighting Crypto and Which 7 Coins Look Bullish
Crypto

The Clarity Act Is Coming: Why Banks Are Fighting Crypto and Which 7 Coins Look Bullish

Why big banks are lobbying hard against the Clarity Act, the deposit-flight myth, and seven crypto coins burning supply to capture value.

July Retail Sales Fall as Consumer Sentiment Slides and AI Trade Powers Markets
Economy

July Retail Sales Fall as Consumer Sentiment Slides and AI Trade Powers Markets

July retail sales fell 0.6% and consumer sentiment dropped to 51, while strong AI earnings lifted tech and memory stocks.

Single-Stock Leverage ETFs: How Direxion Trades the SpaceX and Tesla "Musk Complex"
Business

Single-Stock Leverage ETFs: How Direxion Trades the SpaceX and Tesla "Musk Complex"

How 2x leveraged and inverse single-stock ETFs on SpaceX and Tesla work, why they reset daily, and how the US market differs from South Korea.

Why Private Equity's Workday Bid Could Lift the Whole Software Group
Business

Why Private Equity's Workday Bid Could Lift the Whole Software Group

Silver Lake's rumored bid for Workday signals a price floor for beaten-down SaaS stocks and points to which names could be bought next.

Bull vs. Bear on Amazon (AMZN): AWS Surge and the Slowdown Risk
Business

Bull vs. Bear on Amazon (AMZN): AWS Surge and the Slowdown Risk

Amazon's (AMZN) AWS growth and record backlog fuel the bull case, while slowing cloud rates and a weaker consumer stand as the main risks.

Google Cloud Growth Cools While Alphabet's Billion-User Empire Stays Strong
Business

Google Cloud Growth Cools While Alphabet's Billion-User Empire Stays Strong

Google Cloud's 82% growth shows early signs of slowing, but Alphabet's search, YouTube ads, and Gemini adoption keep the long-term case bullish.

The Big Three: Palantir, CrowdStrike, and Cloudflare Chart Setups
Business

The Big Three: Palantir, CrowdStrike, and Cloudflare Chart Setups

Trade setups and chart levels for PLTR, CRWD, and NET, with support, resistance, moving averages, and RSI signals.