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China’s minister of public security, Wang Xiaohong, and U.S. FBI Director Kash Patel met in Beijing and pledged to strengthen law enforcement cooperation. The talks followed two recent repatriations of fugitives between the two countries — which do not have an extradition treaty — and covered a range of operational areas from counter-narcotics to c…
Barclays projects that Alphabet’s planned TPU-as-a-service offering could be a material driver of profit and revenue by 2028. The bank expects the initiative to initially support Anthropic, broaden compute availability across AI developers, and enable Google to sell Tensor Processing Units directly, improving capital efficiency and expanding operat…
Microsoft is trading at $381.86 on the 5-hour timeframe and is caught between a fragile support band at $377-$380 and nearby resistance at $383-$385. Technical indicators show negative momentum, with the MACD and moving averages tilting toward sellers, while short-term supports such as the SuperTrend and the lower Bollinger Band offer limited prote…
Alphabet raised its FY26 capital expenditure guidance to $195B–$205B and said it will expand third-party AI compute capacity beginning in Q3, directly routing demand to neocloud providers. CoreWeave and Nebius emerged as the most prominent potential beneficiaries, while smaller speculative names show new contract wins but face balance sheet uncerta…
Tesla's 5-hour chart plunged to $315.10 in a high-volume gap-down, driving the relative strength index (RSI) to an extreme reading near 18.7 and placing price more than two standard deviations below the lower Bollinger Band. Momentum indicators remain firmly bearish, creating a volatile trading environment where both mean-reversion plays and trend-…
Amazon is trading near $232 as the market frets about an accelerating AI capex cycle. The company's negative free cash flow and rising spending are real, but so is the payoff: stronger AWS customer lock-in, higher long-term margins and faster revenue growth. This trade idea buys the dip with a 180-trading-day horizon, a strict stop and a target nea…
Amazon trades near $232 with a $2.5T market cap after a pullback driven by headline risk around competitor capex and an upcoming Q2 print on 07/30/2026. Fundamentals - led by AWS and advertising - remain intact, valuation is not exuberant (EV/EBITDA ~16.2, P/E ~28-30), and technicals show room to recover (RSI ~38). This trade idea recommends a long…
Canada’s main stock index ticked up on Friday, supported by advances in technology and consumer discretionary shares, while investors parsed U.S. corporate results, renewed Middle East hostilities and a fresh round of U.S. tariffs affecting dozens of countries. Oil and safe-haven assets reacted to a string of U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, and Fe…
SK hynix shares dropped 7.1% in U.S. morning trade to $157.42 after opening at $164 as a reversal in AI-related stocks following Alphabet’s post-earnings slide erased the prior session’s gains. Additional pressure came from a TrendForce warning that AI-driven NAND Flash demand will normalize, a Seoul High Court ruling involving SK Group Chairman Ch…
The FTSE 100 closed near record levels, helped by stronger-than-expected UK retail sales and a stronger pound, yet six large-cap constituents show double-digit gaps to model fair value. GSK leads the list with the widest implied upside, followed by LSEG, Diageo, BP, RELX and AstraZeneca, each presenting distinct yield, valuation and cash-flow profi…
A coalition of major technology firms, including Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and IBM, published an open letter calling on the U.S. government to endorse open-weight AI models. The group argues that making model weights freely available preserves innovation, equips defenders with tools to counter threats, and keeps AI development within the United State…
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. rallied in morning trading as investors reacted to robust Q2 2026 results, a much stronger-than-expected Q3 adjusted EBITDA outlook, an analyst upgrade and a senior management promotion. The combination of a return to positive free cash flow and reiterated shipment guidance reinforced confidence in the company’s near-term oper…
French prosecutors said an autopsy of modelling scout Daniel Siad, found dead at his Colombes home on July 20, showed no signs of recent violence. The examination on July 23 did not determine a direct cause of death but identified impaired health and traces of a previous heart attack. Further toxicology and pathology testing is ongoing. Siad, who a…
A concentrated technology allocation exposes portfolios to rate sensitivity, U.S.-centric risk and cyclical earnings swings. This piece outlines six ETFs across distinct asset classes - healthcare, international equity, energy, real estate, dividend value and fixed income - chosen to provide return drivers that are meaningfully different from growt…
SS&C Technologies rallied in morning trading after the company reported second-quarter 2026 results that exceeded analyst forecasts on both revenue and adjusted EPS, posted record adjusted EBITDA, accelerated organic revenue growth, raised full-year adjusted EPS guidance, and executed its largest quarterly share repurchase to date.
Digital Realty Trust rallied strongly in morning trading after reporting second-quarter 2026 results that topped expectations on both core FFO and revenue, accompanied by a narrowed full-year core FFO guidance range above prior consensus. Record bookings, a larger backlog and meaningful renewal rate gains reinforced the report, while a wave of anal…
RingCentral shares jumped sharply after the company reported second-quarter 2026 results that exceeded analyst estimates on every major metric and issued a strongly raised full-year outlook. Management highlighted accelerating AI monetization, approved a sizeable quarterly dividend increase, expanded strategic partnerships and a continued share buy…
ServiceNow reported Q2 2026 results that put to rest the most prominent investor worry about AI revenue traction: AI annual contract value (ACV) exceeded $1 billion, with net new AI ACV accelerating over 40% sequentially. Subscription revenue growth reaccelerated to 23% in constant currency and full-year subscription guidance was raised again. Marg…
Legend Biotech ($LEGN) has been beaten down from last year's highs, but recent Phase 1 data for an in vivo CD19/CD20 CAR-T and a $226M public offering give a constructive setup. I think the risk/reward favors a long at current levels, provided you use a disciplined stop and a mid-to-long-term horizon tied to upcoming clinical readouts and commercia…
BTIG released its highest-conviction real estate stock selections for the second half of 2026 across six property and finance sectors. The firm emphasized candidates chosen for fundamental strength, earnings-growth potential and favorable supply-demand dynamics over a 12-month horizon. Top picks include Prologis in industrials, SL Green in offices,…
Intel reported Q2 2026 revenue of $16.13 billion and non-GAAP EPS of $0.42, each substantially ahead of Street estimates. The quarter reinforced the company’s pivot to AI workloads - with Data Center & AI now a dominant revenue source - and management confirmed progress on advanced nodes and manufacturing yields. Liquidity and operating cash flow s…
The Bank of Russia cut its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 14% even as inflation accelerated following Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries and an e-commerce warehouse. The central bank also pared its growth projection for the year to a range between zero and 1% and lifted its 2026 inflation forecast to 6-7%, citing a notable rise in fuel…
Broadcom pulled back sharply in the recent AI-led selloff, leaving a high-quality cash-flow machine trading well below its June peak. Fundamentals remain intact - double-digit ROE, $32.8B in free cash flow and a $1.9T enterprise value - while short-term technicals and macro headlines create a tactical opportunity. This trade idea outlines a precise…
Nano Labs (NA) trades at $1.83 with a market cap of roughly $46.1M, a trailing P/E under 2 and a PB of 0.39. Recent insider buying and strategic MOU news contrast with heavy short activity and low liquidity. This is a high-risk, high-reward flip: establish a small, disciplined long at $1.83, use a hard stop at $1.58 and target an initial exit near …
Quantum X Labs Inc. reports meaningful advancements in its Deep Quantum Error Correction (DQEC) program, demonstrating outperformance of its transformer-based QECCT decoder over classical decoders in cloud-based simulations with NVIDIA CUDA-Q on AWS. The company advances toward real-time quantum error correction with hardware-derived syndrome data …
