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Maybank Investment Bank significantly boosts earnings forecasts across key Malaysia sectors for the second half of 2026, naming technology and plantation plays as top picks while downgrading war-premi...

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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh acknowledged AI's disinflationary potential at the ECB Sintra Forum but warned that elevated US inflation — above 4% — rules out near-term rate relief.

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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says AI tools have made the company's workforce four to five times more productive, enabling a course expansion surge without a single full-time layoff.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Marvell Technology deliver historic earnings beats and stock gains even as AI jitters trigger the Nasdaq's worst multi-day stretch in 2026, cementing their standing at t...

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Marvell stock news and HPE AI growth are driving one of 2026's most powerful tech market rallies, with AI infrastructure stocks surging triple digits even as broader sentiment wavers.

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Nvidia's forward price-to-earnings ratio sits 41% below the semiconductor sector median, creating a rare valuation spread for the AI infrastructure cycle's dominant hardware supplier.

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Qualcomm's $3.9 billion acquisition of AI software startup Modular gives the chipmaker a hardware-agnostic inference platform and a direct line into NVIDIA's dominant developer ecosystem.

Cerebras Systems shares dropped more than 17% on Wednesday after the AI chipmaker's inaugural post-IPO earnings report sparked concern over a sharp forecast decline in gross margins, even as first-qua...

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Alphabet's Class A shares will enter the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, 2026, completing the index's most consequential tech realignment in years as Verizon exits after 22 years.

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VegaShares' new SpaceX ETF (XSPC) debuted on Nasdaq June 16, giving retail investors diversified exposure to SpaceX and the broader space economy days after the historic $75B IPO.

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Braeburn's injectable buprenorphine, Brixadi, delivers roughly double the six-month treatment retention of sublingual formulations in fentanyl-using patients, per data presented at CPDD 2026.

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CARFAX's 2026 vehicle security report names the Ford F-150 as the nation's most targeted vehicle for catalytic converter theft, with over 137,000 stolen car parts recorded in 2025.

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Kimberly-Clark's Pull-Ups brand launches Learning Layer™ technology, a baby product innovation designed to help toddlers build potty training confidence by feeling wet before drying.

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Alibaba's mapping unit debuts the world's first 3D native city-scale world model, generating kilometer-scale urban scenes in 10 minutes at 1% of conventional production cost.

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Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

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ADP's May 2026 National Employment Report shows private-sector payrolls rising 122,000 — the strongest gain since January 2025 — as broad-based US hiring defies recession fears.

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Datavault AI (DVLT) signs a $2.0 billion structured financing term sheet granting an institutional counterparty exclusive access to its global data tokenization platform.

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Global trade growth is forecast to slow sharply to 1.9% in 2026 as U.S. tariff deadlines, a stalled EU deal, China redirections, and Middle East supply disruptions converge into the most complex trade...

Federal Open Market Committee

Operation Epic Fury

Wall Street's AI trade is showing deep cracks in 2026 as a $2 trillion software wipeout, stalled ROI narratives, and surging old-economy sectors signal the most consequential market rotation in years.

The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis has driven U.S. crude oil above $90 a barrel and American gas prices to $3.41 a gallon as Iran's blockade chokes roughly 20% of the world's seaborne oil supply.
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The Fed's preferred inflation gauge surged to 3.8% year-over-year in April 2026 — the highest reading since May 2023 — as the Iran war drives energy prices sharply higher and core pressures broaden.

JPMorgan's Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou says simultaneous outflows from gold and Bitcoin ETFs in May 2026 signal a broad investor retreat from the debasement trade, not a rotation between the two assets.

Situational Awareness LP, the AI-focused hedge fund run by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, disclosed a 5.6% passive stake in Nebius Group worth ~$2.58 billion, sending NBIS shares sharply ...

Nvidia's NVDA stock closed fiscal year 2026 at $215.9 billion in revenue, and Wall Street's 61 analysts — 91% bullish — see the AI chip giant pushing toward $247–$320 by year-end 2026.

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Brent crude fell to $94.77 a barrel on May 27, 2026 — down nearly 5% in a single session — as the US Navy quietly resumed guiding commercial tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, raising hopes of a su...

Micron Technology's MU stock surged 54% in 30 days to trade near $751 as record Q2 FY2026 earnings, sold-out HBM supply, and rising DRAM and NAND prices reshape the AI memory market.

SpaceX filed its S-1 on May 20, 2026, targeting a Nasdaq debut under SPCX in June, seeking up to $80 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation — the largest IPO ever attempted.

As of May 26, 2026, the US and Iran stand at a defining crossroads — a 14-point memorandum of understanding is within reach, yet fresh American strikes in the Strait of Hormuz signal how rapidly the f...

Global equities climbed to record highs on May 25, 2026, as US-Iran peace deal momentum lifted the S&P 500 to 7,542 and sent Brent crude tumbling nearly 5% to two-week lows.

Wix.com announces roughly 1,000 layoffs in May 2026 as surging AI and Base44 costs push the web platform back to a $57.5M quarterly loss, sending WIX shares down 27%.

Microsoft is scrapping most internal Claude Code licenses by June 30, 2026, after token-based billing caused costs to surge — redirecting thousands of engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI.

Dell Technologies beat Q1 FY2026 revenue expectations and raised its full-year profit outlook, powered by $12.1 billion in AI server orders — a single-quarter record that surpassed all of fiscal 2025 ...

The US–Iran conflict enters a fragile memo phase on May 23, 2026, as stalled nuclear talks, an active naval blockade, and Strait of Hormuz uncertainty keep global energy markets on edge.

Spotify shares soared 13% after the company announced a landmark AI music deal with Universal Music Group and unveiled bold 2030 financial targets at its New York Investor Day.

IBM shares surged over 12% on May 22, 2026, adding $26 billion in market cap after the U.S. government awarded Big Blue a $1 billion CHIPS Act grant to build America's first quantum chip foundry.

Intuit shares plunged nearly 20% on May 21, 2026, after fiscal Q3 revenue missed Wall Street estimates and the company announced a sweeping 17% workforce reduction targeting more than 3,000 employees.

Applied Digital (APLD) surged after signing a 15-year, $7.5 billion AI infrastructure lease at its fourth campus, Polaris Forge 3, pushing total contracted capacity past 1 GW.

AMD pledges over $10 billion in Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem on May 21, 2026, launching its EPYC "Venice" processor — the first HPC chip in production on TSMC's cutting-edge 2nm node.

Nvidia's fiscal Q1 2027 results blew past Wall Street estimates as data center revenue nearly doubled to $75.2B, EPS hit $1.87, and Q2 guidance of $91B stunned analysts.

Intuit announced on May 20, 2026 it will cut 17% of its global workforce — roughly 3,000 jobs — as CEO Sasan Goodarzi doubles down on AI partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic, sending INTU shares dow...

U.S. equities extended losses on May 19, 2026, as semiconductor stocks dragged the Nasdaq lower, Treasury yields hit 12-month highs, and elevated oil prices stoked fresh inflation fears.

NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy announced a landmark $66.8 billion all-stock merger on May 18, 2026, creating a combined utility giant serving 10 million customers across four U.S. states with 110 ...

Figma (NYSE: FIG) shares surged up to 10% on May 15, 2026 after Q1 revenue hit $333.4M — a 46% year-over-year jump that crushed estimates and triggered a full-year guidance raise.

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Cerebras Systems priced its CBRS IPO at $185 per share on May 13, 2026 — above the expected range — raising $5.55 billion and debuting at a $56.4 billion valuation on Nasdaq May 14.

Cisco is eliminating nearly 4,000 jobs — 5% of its workforce — as part of an AI-driven restructuring, even as the company posts record Q3 FY26 revenue of $15.84 billion and raises its full-year foreca...

The U.S. has approved roughly 10 Chinese companies including Alibaba and ByteDance to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips, yet not a single unit has shipped as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins Trump's Beijing sum...

President Trump arrived in Beijing on May 13, 2026, with Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Elon Musk aboard Air Force One for a high-stakes two-day summit with Xi Jinping focused on AI chips, trade, and Iran.

Nebius Group (NBIS) reported Q1 2026 revenue of $399M, up 684% year-over-year, as surging demand for GPU infrastructure from Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA drives the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company to ...

Nebius Group reports Q1 2026 results on May 13 with Wall Street expecting revenue of $317M–$389M, a 600%+ year-over-year surge, as Bank of America lifts its price target to $205.

Walmart cuts or relocates ~1,000 corporate workers in May 2026 as it merges global-tech and AI teams under a sweeping restructuring drive.

U.S. consumer prices surged 3.8% year-over-year in April 2026, the highest annual inflation rate since May 2023, driven by a 17.9% spike in energy costs tied to the Iran war.

Hims & Hers posted $608.1M in Q1 2026 revenue — up 4% year-over-year but below the $616.8M Wall Street consensus — while swinging to a net loss of $0.40 per share amid a sweeping strategic overhaul of...

Micron Technology (MU) has surged more than 700% over the past year, hitting an all-time high above $746 as AI-driven HBM demand reshapes the global memory chip market.

The AI bull market enters May 2026 with extraordinary momentum — NVIDIA breaches $5 trillion, Samsung crosses $1 trillion, and Asian chipmakers rewrite the global tech power map.

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Anthropic signs a landmark $1.8 billion, seven-year cloud computing contract with Akamai Technologies, catapulting AKAM shares 28% and signaling a seismic shift in AI infrastructure procurement.

IREN stock surged over 13% after sealing a five-year $3.4B managed GPU cloud deal with NVIDIA and granting the chipmaker a $2.1B warrant option on 30 million shares.

Cloudflare slashes 1,100 jobs — 20% of its global workforce — citing a 600% surge in internal AI usage, sending NET shares tumbling 19% in after-hours trading on May 7, 2026.

CoreWeave (CRWV) posted Q1 2026 revenue of $2.08B, up 112% year-over-year, beating estimates, but Q2 guidance of $2.45–$2.6B fell short of the $2.69B Wall Street consensus, sending shares down 10% aft...

Datadog's Q1 2026 revenue hit $1.006 billion — up 32% year-over-year — crushing Wall Street's $960M forecast and triggering the stock's biggest single-day gain since its 2019 IPO.

McDonald's Q1 2026 revenue hit $6.52B, beating estimates, with global comparable sales up 3.8% and adjusted EPS of $2.83 topping Wall Street's $2.74 forecast.

Supermicro shares surged 19% after-hours on May 5, 2026, after Q4 guidance topped Wall Street estimates and gross margins staged a sharp recovery on robust AI infrastructure demand.

Anthropic commits $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years in a landmark AI compute deal that now represents over 40% of Alphabet's $462 billion revenue backlog.

Advanced Micro Devices posted $10.25 billion in Q1 2026 revenue — up 38% year-over-year — smashing analyst estimates as AI data center demand hit a new gear.

AI-native restructuring

Palantir shattered Q1 2026 consensus with $1.63B in revenue — 85% year-over-year growth, its fastest since the 2020 IPO — and raised full-year guidance to $7.65B, 71% annual growth.

Iran's navy claimed missile strikes on US vessels entering the Strait of Hormuz on May 4, 2026, as Washington launched "Project Freedom" to rescue 20,000 stranded seafarers, sending Brent crude surgin...

Nebius Group agreed to acquire Eigen AI for $643 million in a cash-and-stock deal, bringing MIT-bred inference optimization talent in-house to dominate the AI cloud market.

eBay shares surged more than 15% in after-hours trading on May 2, 2026, after the Wall Street Journal reported GameStop is preparing a takeover bid targeting a $100 billion valuation.

Reddit's Q1 2025 revenue hit $392.4 million, beating Wall Street's $370 million estimate, as daily active users rose 31% — though after-hours gains faded on macro and Google search concerns.

RevPAR growth

SanDisk (SNDK) surged past $1,000 as Q3 FY2026 results shattered Wall Street forecasts, with revenue hitting $5.95B and EPS of $23.41 — fueled by a 233% data center explosion and a $6B share buyback.

Microsoft beat Wall Street on revenue and EPS in Q3 FY2026, with Azure growing 40% and annualized AI revenue hitting $37 billion, even as a $190B capex forecast rattled markets.

Amazon crushed Q1 2026 Wall Street estimates with $181.5B in revenue and AWS accelerating to 28% growth — its strongest quarter since late 2022 — as AI demand surged.

Alphabet reported $109.9 billion in Q1 2026 revenue — beating estimates by 3% — as Google Cloud hit $20 billion and net profit soared 81% to $62.6 billion.

Meta Platforms beat Q1 2026 earnings with $56.3B in revenue, yet shares fell 7% after-hours as the company raised its 2026 AI capex forecast to as high as $145 billion.

SoFi Technologies posted record Q1 2026 revenue of $1.1 billion, up 43% year-over-year, but SOFI shares tumbled roughly 9% after EPS came in flat and full-year guidance held unchanged.

Brent crude surged above $111 per barrel on April 29, 2026, extending an eight-session winning streak driven by the Strait of Hormuz blockade, U.S.-Iran war uncertainty, and the UAE's shock OPEC exit.

Robinhood Markets posted $1.07 billion in Q1 2026 revenue — a 15% year-over-year gain that still fell short of Wall Street's $1.13 billion target.

Amsterdam-based AI cloud provider Nebius Group is in advanced acquisition talks with Israeli AI startup AI21 Labs, a deal that would vault the Nasdaq-listed company beyond pure-play GPU infrastructure...

The United Arab Emirates has issued a formal notification of withdrawal from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on April 28, 2026, a move that delivers the most consequential struct...

OpenAI fell short of multiple internal revenue benchmarks and a key user growth milestone in recent months, triggering a sell-off across AI-linked equities.

Microsoft and OpenAI unveiled a sweeping overhaul of their landmark alliance on April 27, 2026, ending Microsoft's exclusive right to OpenAI's artificial intelligence models and capping the revenue sh...

Beijing's top economic planner has formally blocked Meta Platforms' $2 billion takeover of agentic AI startup Manus, delivering a direct blow to Mark Zuckerberg's artificial intelligence ambitions and...

The most consequential earnings week of 2026 arrives Wednesday, April 29, as Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta Platforms simultaneously report Q1 results

U.S. equity futures opened Monday, April 27, muted after four straight weeks of gains, as investors weighed a new Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz against still-rising crude oil prices....

Nearly two months into what analysts call the worst energy supply disruption since the 1970s oil crisis, the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed to international commercial shipping as of Apri...

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were rushed from the Washington Hilton by Secret Service agents Saturday night after a heavily armed gunman opened fire near the security screening a...

Nvidia shares rocketed as much as 5.2% on April 25, 2025, closing up 4.3% — the stock's best single-session performance in weeks — powered by a landmark Morgan Stanley forecast upgrade and fresh signs...

Advanced Micro Devices shares extended a powerful multi-week rally on April 24, 2026, climbing sharply in pre-market trading on the back of bullish analyst sentiment and mounting excitement over the c...

Intel delivered a landmark first-quarter earnings beat on April 24, 2026, with revenue and adjusted profits far surpassing analyst expectations, sending shares surging more than 15% in after-hours tra...

Google debuted the TPU 8t and TPU 8i at its Google Cloud Next 2026 conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, marking the company's most aggressive move yet into specialized AI silicon. The dual-chip strat...

Applied Digital secured a landmark $7.5 billion, 15-year lease with a U.S. investment-grade hyperscaler at its 430 MW Delta Forge 1 AI Factory campus.

Netflix's board authorized a massive $25 billion stock repurchase program on April 22, 2026, the largest in the streaming giant's history, following a steep post-earnings selloff. The move comes on to...

SpaceX announced it has obtained the right to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, or alternatively pay $10 billion for joint collaborative work — marking one of the most significant bets...

Precious metals retreated in Tuesday's session as a surging U.S. Dollar Index and geopolitical uncertainty surrounding the Strait of Hormuz weighed on gold and silver, pulling both metals off recent h...

Apple announced Monday that Tim Cook will transition from Chief Executive Officer to Executive Chairman, with hardware engineering chief John Ternus ascending to the top role effective September 1, 20...

The Nasdaq Composite entered Monday's session riding a historic 13-day winning streak, the longest since 1992, as Wall Street pivots aggressively back into the AI supercycle. The S&P 500 has already s...

Global equity markets retreated Monday after a weekend escalation in U.S.–Iran tensions erased last week's record-breaking rally. Oil surged back above $90 a barrel as the Strait of Hormuz was closed ...

The 50-day-old U.S.-Israel war on Iran teetered toward full resumption on April 20, 2026, after the U.S. Navy seized an Iranian cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman, Tehran cancelled planned peace talks i...

Meta Platforms has set May 20 as the trigger date for its first wave of sweeping workforce cuts in 2026, targeting roughly 10% of its global headcount as CEO Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on an all-in ...

Figma shares tumbled nearly 8% on Friday, April 17, 2026, after Anthropic unveiled Claude Design — an AI-powered collaborative visual tool that directly challenges Figma's core business. The launch de...

Netflix delivered a strong Q1 2026 earnings beat Thursday, but shares tumbled as much as 10% Friday after co-founder Reed Hastings announced his departure from the company's board and a softer-than-ex...

Tesla shares posted their sharpest single-session gain in weeks on Wednesday, April 16, 2026, surging as much as 8% after CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company's next-generation AI5 self-driving chip. Th...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company delivered a historic first-quarter performance on April 16, 2026, with net profit soaring 58.3% year-over-year to an all-time record, powered by insatiable g...

The S&P 500 breached its all-time intraday record on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, touching levels above the previous peak of 7,002.28 set on January 28, powered by a potent combination of Mideast de-esc...

Allbirds — once Silicon Valley's favorite sustainable sneaker — staged one of the most dramatic single-day stock reversals in recent Nasdaq history on April 15, 2026, after announcing a full corporate...

U.S. equity markets pushed broadly higher on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, as optimism over a potential lasting U.S.-Iran peace agreement and cooler-than-expected wholesale inflation data drove a broad-bas...

Nebius Group has become the defining AI infrastructure story of 2026, with shares up over 30% year-to-date and more than 435% over the past 12 months.

SanDisk Corporation (SNDK) climbed more than 6% on April 13, 2026, as markets absorbed the landmark announcement that the NAND flash memory giant will join the Nasdaq-100 Index on April 20.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview represents the most capable AI model the company has ever produced — and also the one it fears the most. The San Francisco-based AI lab has opted to withhold the mode...

Palantir Technologies shares are under intense pressure on April 10, 2026, trading near $127, as a brutal multi-session selloff wipes out more than $23 billion in market value.

CoreWeave secured a landmark multi-year compute agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, bringing the AI infrastructure provider's roster to nine of the ten leading AI model companies. Shares of Co...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed Thursday that the company is actively considering selling its custom Trainium AI chips to outside buyers, a move that would thrust the e-commerce and cloud giant directl...

Wall Street surged Wednesday on a landmark U.S.-Iran ceasefire announcement, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average soaring more than 1,300 points in its best single-session performance in a year.

Crude oil suffered one of its most dramatic single-session collapses in years on April 8, 2026, after President Donald Trump announced a conditional two-week ceasefire with Iran, triggering an immedia...

Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing, a $100 million AI cybersecurity coalition anchored by an unpublished frontier model — Claude Mythos Preview — that the company itself deems too dangerous for ...

President Donald Trump and Iranian leaders reached a provisional two-week ceasefire on April 8, 2026, halting more than six weeks of escalating military conflict that claimed over 5,000 lives across t...

Wall Street turned volatile on April 7, 2026, as President Donald Trump issued a hard 8 p.m. ET deadline demanding Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz — or face escalating military consequences. Major eq...

Intel's dramatic recovery from 2024 lows has propelled INTC shares to levels not seen in nearly two years, fueled by strategic mega-investments, a foundry technology breakthrough, and a management ove...

UnitedHealth Group shares reclaimed the critical $300 level on April 7, 2026, fueled by a landmark Medicare Advantage payment increase from federal regulators and a fresh analyst upgrade. The twin cat...

NASA's Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft "Integrity" wrapped up their fourth day in deep space Saturday, April 4, 2026, completing a landmark manual piloting demonstration and finalizing pre...

The once-unstoppable Magnificent Seven megacap group enters April 2026 in full retreat, battered by a confluence of geopolitical turbulence, fading AI euphoria, and a resurgent inflation outlook. Ever...

Energy markets are experiencing historic volatility as the ongoing Persian Gulf conflict sends crude oil prices soaring above $111 per barrel, while precious metals and industrial commodities post div...

The Strait of Hormuz remains effectively blockaded as Iran deploys a new maritime permit regime, global oil prices surge above $108 a barrel, and more than 40 nations gather under British leadership t...

Elon Musk's SpaceX has confidentially submitted IPO registration documents to the SEC, setting the stage for what is poised to become the largest public offering in history.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket successfully launched four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft "Integrity" on April 1, 2026, marking the first crewed mission to the lunar vicinity since Apollo 17...

President Donald Trump signed two landmark executive orders on April 2, 2025, declaring the date "Liberation Day" and unveiling the most aggressive U.S. trade barrier restructuring since the Smoot-Haw...

Intel shares posted one of their strongest single-session gains of the year on April 1, 2026, as a landmark $14.2 billion fab repurchase deal and the commercial debut of its 18A process node delivered...

Micron Technology shares have collapsed more than 30% in eight sessions, wiping out all 2026 gains after a record-breaking Q2 earnings report triggered profit-taking and a new wave of AI-compression f...

U.S. equities opened Monday's session with a modest rebound after their worst week since the Iran conflict began, only to give back early gains as crude oil surged toward $109 a barrel and geopolitica...

Crude oil prices exploded to multi-year highs on March 30, 2026, as Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militants fired ballistic missiles at Israel, broadening the five-week-old U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran...

Markets suffered a brutal session on Friday, March 28, 2025, as a toxic combination of sticky inflation data, collapsing consumer confidence, and escalating trade war fears dragged all three major U.S...

Shares of the sector's biggest names dropped as much as 7.9% Friday after leaked documents revealed Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos model is "far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities...

U.S. equity futures opened Friday in fractured territory as President Donald Trump extended his pause on strikes against Iranian power plants by an additional 10 days, offering Wall Street a diplomati...

Meta Platforms shares tumbled sharply on March 26, 2026, after back-to-back jury verdicts found the social media giant liable for harming young users. The dual rulings — spanning California and New Me...

Wall Street closed sharply lower on Wednesday, March 26, as President Trump's announcement of sweeping 25% tariffs on imported automobiles and auto parts triggered a broad market selloff. The Nasdaq C...

OpenAI has abruptly discontinued its AI video-generation platform Sora, shutting down both its consumer app and professional API just six months after public launch.

Gold suffered its most violent single-session swing of 2026 on Monday, crashing as low as $4,100 per ounce before recovering sharply after President Trump announced a five-day pause on military strike...

Spot gold stabilizes around $4,490 per ounce on March 22, 2026, following a brutal week that erased more than $527 from its price — a decline exceeding 10.5% in a single week, the sharpest weekly sell...

Global equity markets closed the week of March 21, 2026, in a state of acute distress, with the S&P 500 snapping a 214-session streak above its 200-day moving average and recording its fourth consecut...

Super Micro Computer's stock suffered one of its worst single-day collapses in years after federal prosecutors unsealed charges against three individuals — including a company co-founder — for orchest...

Micron Technology delivered the most explosive quarterly performance in its history on March 18, 2026, posting fiscal second-quarter revenue of $23.86 billion — a staggering 196% surge year-over-year.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang used the company's marquee annual developer conference to declare that global AI infrastructure spending is only in its earliest innings, with data center capital expenditure pro...

Meta Platforms has signed a sweeping new agreement with AI cloud provider Nebius Group worth up to $27 billion over five years, dramatically scaling up a partnership first forged in November 2025. Sha...

CoreWeave shares are trading near $79–80, more than 50% below their all-time highs, as Wall Street issues a "Moderate Buy" consensus despite a storm of legal actions, insider selling, and a bruising p...

Adobe delivered a landmark first quarter for fiscal 2026, beating Wall Street expectations on both revenue and earnings per share, yet shares fell sharply after the company simultaneously announced th...

Enterprise software maker Atlassian announced the elimination of approximately 1,600 positions — roughly 10% of its global workforce — in a sweeping restructuring designed to self-fund an accelerated ...

Nvidia's $2 billion strategic investment in Nebius Group sent shares of the Amsterdam-based AI cloud provider surging more than 15% on Wednesday.

Oracle Corporation delivered a landmark third-quarter earnings report that sent shares rocketing 12% on Wednesday, March 11, as the enterprise software and cloud giant blew past Wall Street estimates ...

The S&P 500 plunged to its lowest close of 2026 on Monday, March 9, as crude oil rocketed above $100 per barrel following a dramatic escalation in the Middle East conflict with Iran. The benchmark ind...

Hims & Hers Health shares rocketed nearly 48% in premarket trading on Monday after Novo Nordisk announced it will distribute its blockbuster weight-loss drugs — Wegovy and Ozempic — through the telehe...

Crude oil prices exploded above the $100-per-barrel threshold on March 9, 2026, marking the highest level since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Global equities face their most challenging macro backdrop in years as the week of March 9, 2026 opens with oil at $93 a barrel, a weakening U.S. labor market, and an escalating U.S.-Israel-Iran confl...

Coordinated U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, launched February 28, have unleashed the most severe geopolitical shock to global financial markets since the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war.

Broadcom Inc. delivered a powerful fiscal Q1 2026 beat, with total revenue surging 29% year-over-year to a record $19.3 billion, driven by explosive AI semiconductor demand. The company's AI chip reve...

U.S. equity futures fell sharply in premarket trading on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, as the escalating military conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran rattled global markets for a fourth con...

Lockheed Martin shares rocketed more than 7% in premarket trading on March 2, 2026, after the United States and Israel launched coordinated military strikes on Iran over the weekend. The geopolitical ...

U.S. and Israeli forces launched a massive coordinated military campaign on February 28, 2026, killing Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggering the most consequential Middle East cr...

Israel has officially declared Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed following "Operation Epic Fury," a massive joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign targeting Iran's top leadership. President Trump told ...

The United States and Israel initiated coordinated military strikes against Iran on Saturday, February 28, 2026, in one of the most significant military operations in Middle East history. President Do...

Jack Dorsey's fintech giant Block announced the elimination of more than 4,000 jobs — nearly half its global headcount — citing artificial intelligence as the driving force behind the sweeping restruc...

CoreWeave delivered record-breaking full-year 2025 revenue of $5.1 billion, surging 168% year-over-year to become the fastest cloud provider in history to reach that milestone. However, shares fell sh...

Duolingo shares cratered more than 20% on February 27, 2026, after the language-learning platform issued a weaker-than-expected full-year bookings forecast, signaling a deliberate strategic pivot away...

Salesforce delivered a landmark fiscal fourth quarter, posting $11.2 billion in quarterly revenue and closing out its strongest full year in company history with $41.5 billion in total revenue.

Snowflake delivered a landmark fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, posting $1.28 billion in total revenue — a 30% year-over-year surge — while signing the largest deal in company history. Strong AI-driven ...

NVIDIA delivered another historic quarter on February 25, 2026, posting record-breaking revenue of $68.1 billion and blowing past Wall Street's consensus estimates. The Santa Clara-based chipmaker's f...

Nvidia heads into its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report today, February 25, with Wall Street bracing for a landmark quarter that could cement the company's dominance in the global AI infrastructur...

IBM shares collapsed 13.2% on February 23, 2026 — their steepest single-day drop in over 25 years — after Anthropic unveiled a Claude Code capability that directly threatens the tech giant's multibill...

Anthropic has publicly accused three major Chinese artificial intelligence companies of orchestrating a massive, coordinated campaign to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude AI model using o...

Gold climbs sharply on February 23, 2026, reclaiming the $5,150–$5,185 range as a perfect storm of renewed U.S. trade policy turbulence, a weakening dollar, and escalating Middle East tensions sends i...

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a historic blow to President Trump's trade agenda on Friday, ruling that his sweeping import tariffs imposed under a 1977 emergency law are unconstitutional. The 6-3 decis...

Nvidia is close to finalizing a $30 billion equity stake in OpenAI, replacing the ambitious $100 billion infrastructure commitment announced just five months ago — a dramatic restructuring that redefi...

Figma delivered its strongest quarter since going public, posting $303.8 million in Q4 2025 revenue — a 40% year-over-year increase — while 2026 guidance blew past Wall Street expectations. Shares of ...

Meta Platforms announced a sweeping multiyear partnership with NVIDIA, committing to purchase millions of AI chips including next-generation Blackwell and Rubin GPUs worth tens of billions of dollars....

Gold futures crashed over 11% to below $4,900 per troy ounce on February 17, 2026, marking the precious metal's steepest single-day decline since the 1980s amid thin holiday trading and a surging U.S....

Major indexes tumbled for a third consecutive session on February 12, 2026, as artificial intelligence disruption concerns spread across multiple sectors, driving the Dow below 50,000 and sending tech...

Nebius Group reported fourth-quarter revenue of $227.7 million, falling short of analyst expectations and sending shares lower in pre-market trading. The AI cloud company achieved 479% full-year reven...

Robinhood Markets tumbled in Wednesday trading as fourth-quarter revenue of $1.28 billion fell short of Wall Street expectations despite the trading platform posting record full-year results and beati...

Data center companies are entering an unprecedented growth phase as global demand for AI infrastructure and cloud services drives a massive investment supercycle, with industry analysts projecting nea...

Spotify Technology SA posted exceptional subscriber growth in its latest quarterly results, driving shares up 18% in pre-market trading as the streaming giant exceeded analyst expectations across all ...

Monday.com stock crashed more than 21% following fourth-quarter earnings that beat expectations, as investors focused on cautious 2026 guidance and mounting concerns about artificial intelligence disr...

Gold prices shattered the $5,000 psychological barrier for the first time in history on February 9, 2026, extending the precious metal's remarkable rally amid heightened geopolitical tensions and sust...

Major technology companies experienced unprecedented market losses exceeding $1 trillion in February 2026 as investors questioned the sustainability of massive AI infrastructure spending and growing c...

Meta Platforms stock rallied 10% in extended trading following strong Q4 earnings results and aggressive artificial intelligence spending plans, demonstrating continued growth potential in AI-driven a...

Major technology companies are ramping up artificial intelligence investments to unprecedented levels this year, with combined capital expenditures approaching $700 billion as the industry races to do...

Amazon shares tumbled in Friday trading after the e-commerce giant unveiled ambitious capital expenditure plans totaling $200 billion for 2026, representing a massive 53% increase from 2025's $131 bil...

Global markets experienced their worst trading session in nearly a year as technology stocks crashed, cryptocurrency markets collapsed over 10%, and weak employment data triggered widespread investor ...

Bitcoin tumbled below $65,000 on February 6, 2026, marking its lowest level since November as cryptocurrency markets extended losses amid broader technology sector declines and institutional profit-ta...

Bitcoin crashed through the critical $70,000 support level on February 5, 2026, marking its lowest point since November 2024 and wiping out all gains made since Donald Trump's presidential election vi...

Alphabet delivered record Q4 2025 results with $113.8 billion revenue and $2.82 earnings per share, surpassing analyst estimates while unveiling plans to dramatically increase AI infrastructure spendi...

Gold surged back above the crucial $5,000 threshold on February 4, 2026, extending a dramatic two-day recovery following last week's historic collapse from record highs. The precious metal climbed 2.8...

AMD reported record fourth quarter revenue of $10.3 billion and earnings per share of $1.53, significantly beating Wall Street expectations, yet shares declined over 5% in after-hours trading as inves...

PayPal Holdings replaced its CEO Alex Chriss with HP's Enrique Lores while simultaneously issuing a disappointing profit forecast for 2026, sending shares tumbling nearly 20% in Tuesday trading. The d...

Elon Musk combines his rocket company SpaceX with artificial intelligence startup xAI in the largest corporate consolidation in his business empire, setting the stage for a trillion-dollar public offe...

PayPal Holdings replaced CEO Alex Chriss with HP's Enrique Lores while issuing disappointing earnings guidance that sent shares tumbling in pre-market trading. The payments giant reported fourth-quart...

Palantir Technologies reported exceptional fourth-quarter results, beating Wall Street expectations with $1.41 billion in revenue, representing 70% year-over-year growth driven by explosive AI demand ...

U.S. equity futures declined sharply in early February trading as investor sentiment turned cautious following significant losses in cryptocurrency markets and concerns over major technology investmen...

Oracle shares gained 2.5% on Monday after the enterprise software giant unveiled an ambitious $45 billion to $50 billion fundraising plan for calendar year 2026, aimed at expanding cloud infrastructur...

Gold and silver experienced their steepest selloff in over a decade on January 30, 2026, with gold tumbling below $4,900 per ounce and silver crashing to $78 levels as President Donald Trump's nominat...

Apple has finalized its acquisition of Tel Aviv-based Q.ai for approximately $2 billion, marking the tech giant's second-largest purchase in company history and advancing its strategic push into AI-po...

SanDisk Corporation shares surged over 21% in premarket trading January 30, 2026, following blockbuster fiscal second-quarter results that crushed Wall Street estimates. The memory chip manufacturer's...

Cryptocurrency markets experienced severe volatility on January 30, 2026, with Bitcoin dropping to $82,023 and Ethereum sliding below $2,800 as massive options expirations coincided with broader risk-...

US stocks plunged Thursday as Microsoft's massive capital expenditure guidance sent shockwaves through technology shares, with the Nasdaq posting its worst session since October amid growing investor ...

Microsoft Corporation shares plunged over 6% in premarket trading following disappointing second-quarter results that showed record artificial intelligence spending but sluggish cloud revenue growth, ...

Meta Platforms delivered

Amazon announced its largest workforce reduction in company history on January 28, 2026, eliminating 16,000 corporate positions while simultaneously closing all 72 Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go retail lo...
ASML Holding delivered record fourth-quarter revenue of €9.7 billion and achieved historic bookings of €13.2 billion, driven by surging AI chip demand. The semiconductor equipment giant raised its 202...

Gold futures surged past $5,300 per ounce for the first time in history on Tuesday, January 28, 2026, as the U.S. dollar plunged to a four-year low amid mounting concerns over Federal Reserve policy a...

UnitedHealth Group stock extended its decline on January 27, 2026, as the healthcare giant warned of potential revenue headwinds ahead of its critical Q4 earnings announcement, with shares trading dow...

UnitedHealth Group surpassed analyst estimates for fourth quarter 2025 earnings, reporting adjusted earnings per share of $2.18 versus the consensus estimate of $2.09, while revenue reached $114.2 bil...

Nvidia has invested $2 billion in CoreWeave at $87.20 per share as the companies expand their collaboration to build over 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity by 2030.

Gold blazed through the historic $5,000 barrier on Monday, marking another milestone in the precious metal's extraordinary rally as investors sought refuge amid escalating geopolitical tensions and su...

The Russell 2000 has gained nearly 10% through January 25, 2026, while the Magnificent Seven stocks have turned negative, signaling a dramatic reversal of 2025's large-cap dominance. This market rotat...

Silver crossed the $100-per-ounce milestone for the first time in history on Friday, while gold surged to within striking distance of $5,000 as precious metals extended their record-setting rally amid...

US equities posted solid gains Wednesday as the S&P 500 reached a new record high, driven by strong Netflix earnings and optimism around artificial intelligence investments, while markets welcomed red...

Donald Trump

Gold prices surged to an all-time high above $4,800 per ounce on Wednesday as President Trump's escalating tariff threats over Greenland intensified geopolitical tensions and sparked massive safe-have...

U.S. equity markets rebounded sharply Wednesday after President Donald Trump appeared to soften his position on using military force to acquire Greenland, reversing Tuesday's steep sell-off that marke...

Yahoo Finance suffered a significant service outage on January 21, 2026, preventing millions of investors from accessing real-time market data, portfolio tracking, and trading information during activ...

President Trump's escalated tariff threats over Greenland sparked widespread selling across global markets Tuesday, sending gold to record highs above $4,800 while equities posted their steepest decli...

European Parliament Suspends US Trade Deal

ARK Invest's flagship manager made her biggest trade of 2026, purchasing $50.74 million worth of Broadcom shares while reducing Tesla holdings by $38 million in a strategic portfolio rebalancing towar...