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CoreWeave (CRWV) crushed earnings and Cramer's IREN call aged well. Nebius (NBIS) reports tomorrow
CoreWeave crushed its quarter and jumped about 15% after hours, five days after Jim Cramer told a caller to buy CRWV over IREN and called it cheaper and better. The backlog hit $104 billion. Nebius (NBIS) reports Wednesday morning, and it's the next test for the whole neocloud trade.
Lumentum beat estimates and raised its outlook after a pre-earnings selloff. Coherent reports next (COHR, LITE).
Lumentum beat on revenue and earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter and guided the next quarter well above Wall Street, capping a run that had sold off into the print. Coherent reports Wednesday into the same AI optics demand.
HubSpot (HUBS) just had its worst day ever. Its newest director bought $200,000 of the stock days later.
Jerry Dischler joined HubSpot's (HUBS) board on August 5, a day before the stock fell 19 percent. On August 10 he bought 925 shares in the open market for $199,735, nearly doubling his personal stake.
Congressman Tony Wied sold up to $250,000 worth of AMD stock and loaded up on software stocks
Wisconsin Rep. Tony Wied sold up to $250,000 of AMD on June 3, then bought Adobe (ADBE), Salesforce (CRM), ServiceNow, HubSpot and The Trade Desk six days later. His February filing showed the same move out of chips and into software.
Samsung catches SK Hynix on HBM4 as 2027 forecasts flip the race
Samsung has lifted its HBM4 yield to about 80% in six months, level with SK Hynix. For the first time, UBS and KB Securities expect Samsung to pass SK Hynix in high-bandwidth memory in 2027, turning a technology race into a contest over who can supply Nvidia at scale.
President Donald Trump bought Snowflake (SNOW) before it doubled. The filing tells a different story.
President Trump's disclosure shows three Snowflake (SNOW) trades in 17 days: a buy, a sell, and a buy. Walking the full record, rather than a single-line alert, shows why the round trip points to an automated model, not an insider bet.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood week 8: its first winning trade was worth $1.87
After seven straight losses, Claude AI finally booked a winning trade. It sold most of a SoundHound (SOUN) position into a rally for one dollar and eighty-seven cents, then bought a quiet chip stock, Navitas (NVTS), on its own read. The account is still down about 32%.
Samsung carried the Kospi on Tuesday on growth beyond memory. It rose 4.13% while SK Hynix stayed flat.
Samsung Electronics rose 4.13% on Tuesday and carried the Kospi higher while SK Hynix barely moved. Strong August chip exports lifted both, but Samsung has a foundry business and a new robot unit that give investors a reason to own it beyond memory.
Ten Viasat (VSAT) insiders sold $54.8 million in a year. None bought stock on the open market.
A year of Viasat Forms 4 shows ten insiders selling 1,113,241 shares for $54.8 million, and not a single open-market purchase on the other side of the ledger.
Sinclair (SBGI) got the FCC ownership cap repeal it wanted. Two sessions later, a founding-family director filed to sell $10 million.
Sinclair director Robert E. Smith filed to sell 700,000 shares worth $10.09 million, stock the notice traces to the June 1995 IPO. His last sale priced in the high $38s.
Riot Platforms (RIOT) postponed its earnings call. Six days later it announced a $9.1 billion AI lease
Riot pulled its August 5 call with no reason and no date, and the stock got punished for it. The rescheduled call landed a 20-year, 191 MW Rockdale lease with an unnamed frontier AI lab worth $9.1 billion, on interconnection Texas already approved before it froze the queue.
Bitdeer (BTDR) filed to sell up to $1 billion of stock six days after its $4.7 billion Norway lease. Its remaining cost to finish the site is $500 million.
Bitdeer registered up to $1 billion of Class A shares on Monday, six days after announcing a 16-year, $4.7 billion colocation lease at Tydal. The tenant can walk at 10 years with no fee.
Meta (META) is giving $1 billion to its data center towns. Its capex budget this year runs to $145 billion.
Zuckerberg announced the Future Is For Everyone Fund inside his superintelligence essay on Monday. Meta put the size at $1 billion, against 2026 capex guidance of $130 billion to $145 billion.
Two drone stocks announced NFL deals over one weekend. Ondas (ONDS) got hired. Red Cat (RCAT) bought signage.
Ondas (ONDS) subsidiary Sentrycs will run counter-drone security for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Red Cat (RCAT) signed a Washington Commanders sponsorship. One deal pays the company, the other costs it.
Kratos (KTOS), AeroVironment (AVAV) and Ondas (ONDS) jumped at least 16% in two weeks. All three are still down this year.
Lockheed Martin, Palantir and Kratos all beat estimates and raised guidance inside twelve days, and every drone maker we track gained at least 16% over the two weeks. Kratos and AeroVironment are still the worst performers in the group for 2026.
Meta backed Texas's data center audit. Its $10 billion El Paso project sits outside the grid Abbott froze.
Governor Abbott's office said Meta will comply with the state's data center standards. Meta's largest Texas campus is not on the ERCOT grid, and the Texas Tribune reported the same day that its Fort Worth and El Paso abatements ran through Delaware shell companies. CleanSpark, whose entire 885 MW Texas portfolio is inside ERCOT, backed the audit on its own.
Kioxia spent its entire $5 billion buyback in six trading sessions
Kioxia had until October 30 to spend $5.0 billion buying its own stock. It finished on August 10, six sessions in, at an average of 49,586 yen ($312 USD) a share. Toshiba sold into day one and lost the largest shareholder spot. What the pace and the September guide say for SanDisk (SNDK) and Micron (MU).
SK Hynix's Solidigm would be the fourth listed company in one SK chain. Korea's new rule has a 10% hole.
If SK Hynix's Solidigm lists on the Nasdaq, four listed SK companies would sit in a single line of control. Korea's new duplicate listing rule exempts subsidiaries that are under 10% of the parent, and Solidigm is under it on all three tests.
Intel (INTC) is selling $15 billion of new stock. The US government paid $20.47 a share last August
Intel filed a preliminary prospectus on August 10, 2026 to sell $15 billion of common stock, with the price still unset. Here is the dilution math, and what the government, SoftBank and Nvidia paid for the same stock in the low $20s.
13 of Jim Cramer's last 15 tech calls beat the Nasdaq. The stocks he told people to avoid did even better.
I built a page to track how wrong Jim Cramer is. Right now 13 of his last 15 tech calls are beating the Nasdaq, and the stocks he waved people off are doing better than the ones he liked.
Korea's Kosdaq just rallied 29%. It's still below where it started 30 years ago.
The Kosdaq is up about 29% in seven sessions and back over 800. It opened in 1996 at a base that now reads 1,000, and the market has grown about 66 times bigger since without the index following.
The biggest stocks under $10, and why a low share price means almost nothing
93 US-listed stocks trade under $10 with a $1 billion market cap and real volume behind them. The two biggest are banks worth about $90 billion each, and the band below them holds most of the AI and drone names retail traders follow.
Korea's young and old borrowed to chase stocks. Then the market fell 43.9%, and they started missing payments.
Data the Financial Supervisory Service prepared for a lawmaker on August 9 shows 63% of the money borrowed against Korea's five most valuable stocks belongs to investors 60 and over. The two age groups now falling behind on their bank loans are the youngest borrowers and the oldest.
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump bought more Dominari Holdings (DOMH) stock and still got diluted.
Each brother bought 216,138 more shares between February 2025 and May 2026. Each one's stake still fell from 6.71% to 5.23%, because Dominari's share count went from 6.98 million to 22.6 million over the same stretch.
Naver posts record revenue, but AI spending squeezes profits and sends shares down 7%.
Naver’s revenue hit a record, but AI Factory spending squeezed profit and sent the stock down 7.1% anyway, even after a trillion-won buyback. Kakao had the opposite week.
AXT (AXTI) director's last stock sale was at $8.41. His new one is priced at $87.51.
AXT director Leonard LeBlanc filed a Form 144 to sell stock at $87.51 a share. His only other sale this year priced out at $8.41.
Kospi just fell for a seventh straight week. SK Hynix (SKHY) says its bigger shareholder payout plan is coming by September 30.
Kospi closed out a seventh straight losing week on August 7, its longest slide since 2022. Two days after SK Hynix said a bigger shareholder payout was coming by year end, it moved that promise up to the third quarter.
Lumentum (LITE) and Coherent (COHR) have each beaten Wall Street six quarters straight. Intuitive Machines (LUNR) has missed six straight, and 28 more AI stocks report the same week.
Lumentum and Coherent haven't missed a quarter in over a year. Intuitive Machines hasn't beaten one. More than 30 AI-linked stocks report earnings the week of August 10, and their trailing records couldn't be more different.
Max your 401k match, Roth IRA and HSA before you touch a single stock. Index funds come next, individual stocks come last.
The order I'd actually go in: 401k match, then Roth IRA and HSA, then a broad index fund (or X Money if you want zero market risk), then mega-caps and dividend ETFs, then single stocks last.
Leopold Aschenbrenner just bet $500 million against ASML's (ASML) lithography monopoly. His fund almost didn't survive the week he got married.
Leopold Aschenbrenner put $500 million into Source Foundry, a startup going after ASML's lithography monopoly, a week after his fund nearly collapsed the same week he got married.
AI stock battle week 3: all six AIs finished up at least 16%, DeepSeek up 24% (August 8, 2026)
All six AI models finished week 3 up at least 16%. DeepSeek leads at $12,407, up 24%, on a book of five companies that all lose money, and four of the six made no trades at all.
Oklo (OKLO) jumped 15% Friday after its reactor hit criticality. Every other nuclear stock we track rose too, except one
Oklo rose 14.8% Friday after its Groves reactor reached first criticality and the company posted its first-ever quarterly revenue. X-Energy, Cameco, Constellation Energy and the rest of the nuclear and uranium trade rallied too, except Vistra.
Sunrise Energy Metals (SREMF) gets a $400 million War Department loan. Rare earth stocks rallied the same day.
The Office of Strategic Capital signed a $400 million conditional loan with Sunrise Energy Metals to build a U.S.-aligned scandium supply chain, the third such critical-minerals deal this year.
SK Hynix approved $38 billion for two new chip plants, one for AI memory and one for NAND flash. The first cleanroom doesn't open until December 2028.
SK Hynix's board approved 54.3 trillion won ($38.3B USD) on August 7 for two new chip plants, one in Yongin for DRAM and one in Cheongju for NAND. Neither makes a chip before 2028, and the company also moved up its 2045 completion target for the whole Yongin cluster to 2033.
Cathie Wood's ARK tripled its GeneDx (WGS) stake in 10 months. It now owns 5.33% of the company.
ARK's GeneDx (WGS) position has grown every quarter for ten months straight, through an 81 percent stock crash and most of the recovery back. The fund just crossed 5 percent ownership.
Korea's stock crash sparked a criminal complaint against President Lee Jae-myung, and a separate petition to impeach him already has more than 500,000 signatures.
A civic group filed a criminal complaint against President Lee Jae-myung and three officials on August 3, five days after investors sent funeral wreaths to the National Assembly over leverage ETF losses Citi puts at 56.3 trillion won ($38.7 billion USD). A separate petition to impeach Lee, unrelated to the market, already has more than 500,000 signatures.
SK Hynix's US chip unit is reportedly heading toward Nasdaq. Korea's new spinoff rule might not actually apply.
SK Hynix's US NAND unit Solidigm is raising money toward a possible Nasdaq listing worth up to 50 trillion won ($35.3B USD), four days after Korea's new rule on subsidiary listings took effect. Solidigm wasn't created the way the rule defines a spinoff, so the toughest part of it might not apply.
Amkor (AMKR) director Guillaume Rutten has filed to sell $7.9 million of stock this year. Only one sale was under a trading plan.
Five Amkor insiders have filed to sell stock since February, $7.9 million of it from one director alone. Only one of his five filings has a trading plan behind it. The other four, including this week's, do not.
Michael Burry shorted Oracle (ORCL) at $144.63 and Nebius (NBIS) at $211.77. This time it's the stock, not puts.
Michael Burry shorted Oracle at $144.63 and Nebius at $211.77 on August 6, this time selling the shares short instead of buying puts. His argument: their AI-era earnings are inflated by understated chip depreciation.
Cathie Wood bought nearly $20 million of SpaceX (SPCX) as it crashed 13.6%. She hasn't sold a share since June.
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest bought 181,830 SpaceX shares on Aug. 5, about $20 million, the day the stock fell 13.6% to $108.27, and funded it by trimming Roblox, Palantir and Shopify. ARK has put over $475 million into SPCX since June and hasn't reported selling a share.
Korea's stocks crashed. So why is the won hitting a 10-month high?
A falling stock market and heavy foreign selling usually pull a currency down. This week they didn't. The Korean won reached its strongest level against the dollar in about 10 months, helped by exporters selling dollars, SK Hynix's Nasdaq listing, and a softer dollar everywhere.
The $5.5 billion optics startup in this week's headlines already has a public partner: POET Technologies (POET)
Lumilens emerged from stealth at a $5.5 billion valuation. POET Technologies (POET) is the public company that signed in May to build its optical engines, a $50 million order that can scale to $500 million.
Korean investors dumped SK Hynix (SKHY) after a report on Nvidia's Rubin Ultra chip. Some analysts say the selloff went too far.
A report says Nvidia is testing versions of its next AI chip that carry less high-bandwidth memory than planned, some with an older kind. SK Hynix, which makes most of that memory, fell about 15% in two days, though some analysts in Korea think the reaction is too big.
Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) did a double beat and guided up 42%. Why did the stock tank to $115 before clawing back?
AAOI did a double beat and guided Q3 up 42%. After the report the stock spiked to $142, tanked to $115, then clawed back to around $125. I own it, I'm holding, and here's why I think next week is the real move.
An Applied Digital (APLD) director just sold $2.34 million of stock. Four other insiders only looked like they did.
One Applied Digital director genuinely sold on August 4, and his Form 4 confirmed it on August 6: 75,000 shares for $2.34 million, an open-market sale with no 10b5-1 plan behind it. Four other insiders filed the same week and only looked like sellers, because their dispositions were tax withholding on newly vested stock, and all four finished the day owning more of the company.
Why T1 Energy (TE) stock is surging on the polysilicon tariff (Aug. 6, 2026)
The White House said Trump will impose a 15% tariff and minimum import prices on polysilicon and its derivatives. T1 Energy (TE) round-tripped a 15% spike, then rose after hours on the confirmation.
Ondas (ONDS) is up 16% this week on three straight wins, and the loudest trading day wasn't the biggest price move.
Ondas jumped 12% the day David Barnea joined, then posted its loudest volume of the week on the Army order without much price movement at all. I own ONDS at $9, and here's the honest math on backlog, dilution and what August 13 needs to show.
How to buy Sivers Semiconductors stock (SIVEF) from the US, and the broker that won't sell it to you
SIVEF is Sivers Semiconductors' ticker for US brokerage accounts, but Robinhood doesn't carry it. Here is which brokers do, how the OTC price compares to the Stockholm shares, and the silver ETF ticker easy to mix it up with.
Samsung Biologics just made a $1.8 billion bet on peptide drugs. One Korean biotech fell 30%, then rallied 30%, within a month.
Samsung Biologics agreed to pay $1.8 billion for a Swiss peptide manufacturer as SK Pharmteco raced to finish its own plant. The Kosdaq stocks already making these drugs are moving 30% in a week, in both directions, while the US and Korea tighten different rules that do not touch the supply chain.
Alphabet (GOOGL) is borrowing $25 billion more for AI. Bond investors are charging more for it than a week ago. (Aug. 6, 2026)
Alphabet launched a new $25 billion bond sale Thursday, its third of the year. GOOGL barely moved, but hyperscaler bond spreads widened, a signal from credit investors that the stock market hasn't caught up to yet.
Aeva Technologies (AEVA) stock is surging after the lidar maker landed its first AI data center customer
Aeva's stock spiked as much as 45% Thursday, then settled near a 32% gain, after the automotive lidar maker announced a pivot into supplying optical hardware for AI data centers, alongside a still deeply unprofitable Q2.
SpaceX's 911 million share unlock landed today. The stock rose, and the rest of the space trade rallied harder.
SpaceX's 911.5 million share unlock landed today and the stock rose anyway. Fourteen other space stocks rallied harder, from Rocket Lab's new Space Force deal to Voyager's raised guidance.
SK Hynix reached a $70 billion cash target in four months. It denied a report that shareholders would receive a similar amount.
SK Hynix set a 100 trillion won ($70B USD) net cash target in March and reached it by summer. A June report said it would return a similar amount to shareholders, and the company denied it. Analysts are now landing near the same number anyway.
Datadog (DDOG) beat every number Wall Street asked for. The stock sank anyway.
Datadog beat Q2 estimates on revenue and adjusted profit and raised full-year guidance, and shares still fell as much as 19.5% in premarket trading. The stock had run almost 200% since February, and net additions of large customers slowed.
Samsung and SK Hynix (SKHY) said they will expand shareholder returns. Neither gave a number, and SK Hynix fell 7% in Thursday's first hour.
Both companies sent statements to Reuters on Wednesday, a day after the US rule that had kept SK Hynix quiet since its Nasdaq listing expired. SK Hynix said a concrete plan is coming by the end of the year. Samsung named no date at all. Seoul had already priced in more than that.
ProPetro Holding (PUMP) director Larry Lawrence sold 35,831 shares. The number wasn't random. It was his exact balance from last October.
Two ProPetro insiders sold on the same afternoon. The director's 35,831 shares are the exact balance he was carrying before his restricted stock vested in May, so he sold the old block and kept the new one.
Hudson Technologies (HDSN) lost a $210 million defense contract to a protest in January. The DLA just awarded it again.
The Defense Logistics Agency re-awarded Hudson Technologies a $210.4 million industrial gas contract on August 5, eight months after a competitor's bid protest voided the original award.
SoundHound AI (SOUN) revenue rose 45% to a record $61.9 million and beat by $9 million. The stock gained 13% after hours.
SoundHound reported second quarter revenue of $61.9 million, up 45% and $9.5 million above consensus, with a $0.02 non-GAAP loss against the $0.06 expected. It raised the floor of full-year guidance to $230 million and the stock traded up 13.6% after hours.
Korea’s Kosdaq fell below 800 and left 307 companies facing delisting. Four sessions later it was up 24%.
Two weeks ago the Kosdaq was under 800 with 307 companies facing delisting tests. It has now risen 24% in four sessions, and on three of them the buying was fast enough that the Korea Exchange froze program orders, something that has never happened three days in a row before.
SharonAI (SHAZ) signed its third cloud deal of the year. It took the smallest one to make the stock go up.
SharonAI’s third cloud deal of 2026 is its smallest, and the first the stock rose on. The five-year, $373 million contract deploys 2,048 Nvidia B300 GPUs in Australia for an unnamed AI platform.
Jane Street's short in Sivers Semiconductors (SIVEF) is gone from the public list. D.E. Shaw's isn't.
Jane Street's disclosed short position in Sivers Semiconductors (SIVEF) fell back below Sweden's 0.5% threshold on August 5, one day after it was first named. D.E. Shaw's 0.62% short is still public. Total reported short interest is 3.13% of shares.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 7: It wrote a longer risk memo than the trade was worth
Claude AI ran five-minute bars on four stocks, caught an earnings call that had been quietly postponed, computed a risk-reward ratio and wrote a memo against its own trade. Then it bought four shares of a battery company and went red in twenty minutes.
Anthropic is building AI chips and paying up to $850,000 to teach Claude how to design them.
Anthropic confirmed Wednesday it is building an in-house Custom Silicon team for Claude, the first time it has said so publicly. The job listings pay $320,000 to $485,000 for the chip designers and $500,000 to $850,000 for the researcher teaching Claude to do the design work.
Musk says memory demand grows 200% a year against 20% supply. The new Micron (MU) and SK Hynix (SKHY) plants open in 2027 and 2028
Elon Musk did the memory math out loud on SpaceX's call: supply up 20% a year, demand up 200%. Microsoft put $25 billion of its capex on memory and Amazon named it too. The plants that would fix it open in 2027 and 2028.
CoreWeave (CRWV) secured priority SSD supply from SK Hynix's Solidigm in a multi-year deal, but key terms weren't disclosed.
CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Solidigm for priority access to enterprise SSD capacity. The release carried no dollar value, no term length and no capacity figure, which is not how CoreWeave's $21 billion Meta agreement read. Enterprise SSD contract prices rose about 80% in the first quarter.
Korean media says Apple (AAPL) asked CXMT for cheaper memory. CXMT quoted more than Samsung and SK Hynix (SKHY)
Digital Daily reported on August 5 that Apple asked China's CXMT to lower its price on LPDDR5X mobile memory and was refused. CXMT quoted the same as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, or higher, and the floor under ordinary memory prices held.
Leopold Aschenbrenner sold 11.5 million Core Scientific (CORZ) shares below the Aug. 3 low. The stock closed up 10%.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness sold 11,519,078 Core Scientific (CORZ) shares in two block trades on Aug. 3 at an average near $19.59, both priced under the session low. The stake fell to 4.4% from 8.1%, which ends the reporting obligation. He still holds 14,089,395 shares.
Texas froze new data center grid connections pending an audit of 474 gigawatts in requests. Bernstein says Cipher (CIFR) and CleanSpark (CLSK) are the most exposed.
Governor Greg Abbott ordered the PUCT and ERCOT to audit every data center seeking a grid connection, and new approvals are frozen until it is done. Bernstein says already-approved megawatts just got more valuable, and named Cipher (CIFR), CleanSpark (CLSK) and Core Scientific (CORZ) as the most exposed.
Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) director bought 20,000 shares at $15.50. He just filed to sell the same block near $109.
Fourteen insiders filed notices to sell stock on Tuesday. Thirteen were selling shares the company gave them. The fourteenth, a director at Aehr Test Systems, was selling 20,000 shares he bought himself at $15.50 two years ago.
Rigetti (RGTI) and D-Wave (QBTS) report earnings Thursday. Rigetti's last profit was a warrant revaluation.
D-Wave reports Thursday morning and Rigetti Thursday afternoon, with IonQ going first on Wednesday. The Street wants about $4 million of revenue from D-Wave and $5 million from Rigetti, against market caps of $8.1 billion and $5.8 billion.
Sivers Semiconductors (SIVEF) jumped on a US plan to block Chinese transceivers. Sivers supplies the lasers inside them.
SIVE closed up 18.86% in Stockholm and the US line finished at $3.90, up 17.1%. Sivers announced nothing Tuesday. The connection runs through Jabil, which said in April it plans to build a 1.6T transceiver module using Sivers' DFB lasers, with no customer or revenue date disclosed.
Constellation Energy (CEG) reports Thursday with the stock 35% below its 52-week high
Constellation Energy reports second quarter results Thursday morning, with full-year guidance of $11.00 to $12.00 a share affirmed in May. The stock trades about 35% below its October high, and the wider AI power group fell again Tuesday.
Anthropic is paying $10 billion over six years for compute at a Norway data center owned by bitcoin miner Bitdeer (BTDR). The startup reselling it was founded in January.
Anthropic will pay $10 billion over six years for capacity at a hydro-powered Norway campus, Bloomberg reported. Bitdeer signed a separate 16-year, $4.7 billion lease with the seven-month-old startup running the site.
Bloomberg said Korea's stock market is becoming uninvestable. The regulator fired back that night, over one number.
A Bloomberg Opinion column counted 33 days this year when the Kospi moved 5% or more, against four for the Nikkei and none for the Hang Seng. Korea's Financial Services Commission called its forced-selling figure unsourced.
SpaceX (SPCX) beat on every line. The 911 million share unlock Thursday took the whole rally back
SpaceX beat on revenue, EPS and every segment in its first quarter as a public company. The stock rose 9.4%, then handed the whole move back. The reason is Thursday, when 911.5 million shares unlock against a float of about 646 million.
Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) rose 18% on record results. A $73 million tariff refund did most of the margin work.
Zebra beat by $1.99 a share and raised full year guidance. The quarter also carried $73 million of IEEPA tariff recoveries booked into gross profit, and the company guided next quarter's margin nearly 6 points lower.
The FCC may ban Chinese optical transceivers. Photonics stocks exploded, and Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) has run nearly 70% in four sessions.
Reuters says the FCC is drafting a rule that would ban imports of all new optical transceiver models, then exempt many non-Chinese suppliers. The photonics group repriced on it Tuesday morning, and AAOI, down 66% since May, ran the hardest.
T1 Energy (TE) jumped 19% on a 641 MW Clearway order. First Solar (FSLR) rose 10% the same day.
T1 Energy closed up 18.7% Monday after signing Clearway for 641 MW of solar modules. Solar stocks rallied across the board behind First Solar's earnings beat.
The Nasdaq just erased six red days in three. It's only done that once before.
The Nasdaq closed at 25,913.90 on Monday, up 2.13% and green for a third day running. Those three days added 6.02% and wiped out the 5.4% lost during the six red days that ended July 29. Since 1971 the Nasdaq has gone six down then three up 35 times, and day four came back green in only 11 of the 34 finished cases.
Palantir (PLTR) grew revenue 93%, raised its full-year forecast by $500 million, and is still a third below its high.
Palantir reported second quarter revenue of $1.935 billion, up 93% from a year earlier, and adjusted earnings of $0.41 a share. It raised full year revenue guidance by about $500 million. Shares were up more than 8% in early after-hours trading.
CrowdStrike insiders filed to sell $196 million of CRWD since June. The CEO's sales were preplanned. The CFO's weren't.
Nine Form 144 notices since June 5 cover $195.7 million of CrowdStrike stock, and $145.3 million of it is the chief executive. His Forms 4 check the 10b5-1 box. The finance chief filed again Monday, and his do not.
I run an Inverse Cramer tracker. Jim Cramer just went 6 for 8, led by Astera Labs' 30% rally.
I built a page to track how wrong Jim Cramer is, and I like the guy anyway. Six of his last eight tech calls beat the Nasdaq, and the one that didn't is the one holding my whole tracker up.
A drone motor costs $12 from China and $100 from America. The Pentagon just committed $820 million to close the gap.
The Pentagon committed $1.3 billion to drones last week and none of it reached the stocks that rallied. The $820 million loan went to privately held Performance Drone Works, and it was for motors, batteries and control electronics rather than aircraft. The majority of drones on the Pentagon's own approved list still run Chinese motors, because a Chinese one costs $12 and an American one costs $100.
SK Hynix couldn't discuss a buyback for 25 days because of a US rule. That ends Tuesday in Seoul.
A US prospectus rule has barred SK Hynix from announcing a buyback or special dividend since its Nasdaq listing on July 10. The 25 days end on the night of August 4 in Korea, with 87.96 trillion won of cash on the balance sheet and the company saying no plan has been finalized.
AMD gave Meta and OpenAI warrants on 320 million shares at a penny. They're now worth about $152 billion.
AMD issued Meta and OpenAI warrants on 160 million shares apiece at an exercise price of $0.01, vesting on 6 GW of Instinct shipments and a $600 share price. At Friday's close the pair is worth about $152 billion against $3.2 million to exercise. AMD's Q1 10-Q says none of it has vested or touched the financial statements yet.
The AI trade rallied Monday. Memory fell as much as 8% at the open even as chip prices kept rising.
Micron (MU) has lost a third of its value since June 25 and SanDisk nearly half. CoreWeave and Vertiv fell about half as far, and Nvidia rose. Memory contract prices never fell. What changed is the rate of increase, which went from 93-98% a quarter to a forecast 13-18%.
EchoStar (ECHO) just reported $24.12 in earnings per share. Almost all of it came from bankruptcy.
EchoStar reported net income of $8.46 billion for the second quarter. About $9.73 billion of it was a non-cash gain booked when DISH DBS filed a prepackaged Chapter 11 on the final day of the quarter.
Radware (RDWR) CFO bought after a 17% drop. Two colleagues sold at higher prices this year.
Guy Avidan bought $50,420 of Radware stock two days after the shares fell 17 percent. It is the only open-market purchase in the company's Form 4 record, and that record begins on April 2, 2026.
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are close to half the Kospi. They fell almost 9% on Monday and took the index down 5.12%, while Korea's smaller companies rose.
The Kospi closed down 5.12% on August 3, giving back a third of the record rise it had on July 31. Foreign and institutional investors net sold 4.3814 trillion won ($3.06 billion USD) of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix on the day, and almost nothing else. The Kosdaq rose 2.44% in the same session.
SoundHound (SOUN) reports Wednesday. Five of our six AI stock pickers own it despite the stock trading near a 52-week low.
SoundHound reports second quarter results Wednesday after the close. Guidance leaves a large second half to cover, gross margin fell to 31% last quarter, and five of the six AI models in our stock contest own the shares.
Korea's new rule pushed investors out of Samsung and SK Hynix leverage funds. They moved 500 billion won into a bet against the whole index instead.
Korea's 30 million won cash rule covers single-stock leverage products only. On its first day investors net sold over 1 trillion won of those and net bought about 500 billion won of index inverse funds the rule does not touch, on the day the Kospi rose a record 17.91%.
The options market expects AMD to move $46 after earnings Tuesday. Its last two earnings reports moved even more.
AMD reports second quarter results Tuesday after the close. Analysts expect $1.61 a share on $11.31 billion, and the Aug. 5 straddle prices a 9.7% move. The last two reports moved the stock 17.3% and 18.6%. In February AMD beat on both lines and fell anyway, on guidance.
Semiconductors made up 41.5% of everything South Korea exported in July. It was the country's second-biggest export month on record. So why did its stock market fall 22%?
South Korea exported $98.89 billion of goods in July, its second-biggest month ever, with semiconductors alone at $41.01 billion. The same month, the Kospi fell 22.19%, the largest monthly drop of any major world index.
Korea's new $21,000 cash rule cut trading in its 2x Samsung and SK Hynix funds by 76% in one day. The Kospi still rose a record 17.91%, and the real test comes Monday in Seoul.
Korea now requires about $21,000 in cash before an investor can buy the 2x funds on Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Trading in them fell 76% on the rule's first day, while the Kospi rose a record 17.91% in the same session. Seoul's Monday open is the first clean test of whether the rule calms the market.
SanDisk (SNDK) beat every line and guided way above consensus. The stock fell anyway.
SanDisk (SNDK) reports fiscal Q4 on August 5 with Goldman's target at $2,200 and the stock at $1,214.87 after a 5.1% Friday drop. SK Hynix printed a 76% operating margin on July 29 and Seoul still closed down 9.61%, because revenue missed consensus by 5.5%.
You cannot buy China's CXMT in the US. You can buy the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM), which has $627 million riding on it.
The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) added a $627.5 million CXMT total return swap at a 2.52% weight, five days after CXMT's Shanghai listing. The position is bigger than GigaDevice, and there was no CXMT line in the fund's July 23 file.
Kioxia is the memory chip maker that passed Toyota as Japan's most valuable company, then fell 66%. Here's who owns it
Kioxia is the former Toshiba Memory, and it makes NAND flash and nothing else. Toshiba still holds 15.10% and keeps selling, an SK Hynix (SKHY) vehicle holds 14%, and Sandisk (SNDK) co-owns the factories. What the company makes, who owns it, and how a US investor can reach it.
The new US import ban covers cotton, tomatoes, and the capacitor supply chain behind AI servers
DHS added 43 Chinese companies to the UFLPA Entity List on July 31, 2026. Two of them sit in the aluminum electrolytic capacitor chain, the parts that fill AI server power supplies. Nichicon and Nippon Chemi-Con had already raised prices in June, citing aluminum foil costs.
Nine Aschenbrenner stocks report earnings Aug. 4 to 6, led by SanDisk (SNDK). Nobody can say which six are still his.
Citadel bought the fund's public stock book on July 30. Six of the names in its last itemized filing report earnings between Tuesday and Thursday, and no filing yet says who owns them.
The US Treasury bought Yen for the first time since 2011, and it paid in Euros (July 31, 2026)
The New York Fed sold Euros to buy Yen for the Treasury on July 31, 2026, after Japan intervened two days running and South Korea sold Dollars to support the Won.
Millennium bought the Agility Robotics SPAC (CCXI) at $10 in December 2025. It had sold a third of the stake by the time the stock hit $17.45.
Millennium Management's stake in Churchill Capital Corp XI (CCXI), the SPAC merging with humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics, is down to 1,490,636 shares from 2,224,879, according to a Schedule 13G/A filed July 31. The fund now reports 3.6% of the class, below the 5% line. BlueCrest disclosed a new 5.6% stake two days after the deal was announced.
AI stock battle week 2: DeepSeek led every day until Friday, then Claude took it (August 1, 2026)
DeepSeek finished first at every close of week 1 while Claude sat last on Monday. Then Ambarella rose 16% on Friday and the order flipped. Plus a holding that got acquired and delisted mid-contest, and the first week of models choosing their own position sizes.
Ondas went from 137 million shares to 496 million in a year. BlackRock and Vanguard bought anyway.
Ondas' share count nearly quadrupled in twelve months. Over the same stretch BlackRock built a 38,129,865 share position, its first 5% filing on the company in an EDGAR history running back to 2015, and Vanguard added 6.8 million shares. The private equity firm that sold DZYNE to Ondas now shows up at 5.7%.
BTS went back on tour and HYBE had the biggest quarter in K-pop history. The stock fell 16 percent the same day.
BTS went back on tour in April, and HYBE has just posted the first quarter in K-pop history above 1 trillion won ($702M USD). Revenue more than doubled, operating profit rose 159 percent, and both came in well above what analysts had asked for. The stock fell 16.09 percent the same afternoon, its worst day since 2022.
The Pentagon committed $820 million to a drone company you can't buy, and said several more are coming
The Office of Strategic Capital signed a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 million with Performance Drone Works, topping the $725 million it committed to Energy Fuels in June. OSC director David A. Lorch said several more drone component producers will get loan commitments. PDW is private, and the one public company with a stake in it owns less than 1 percent of its own market cap in PDW preferred.
SK Hynix's record Nasdaq listing named Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness a cornerstone investor. What he actually bought stays hidden until November.
Situational Awareness was named a cornerstone investor in SK Hynix's $28 billion Nasdaq debut three weeks before it sold its US stock portfolio to Citadel. Four SEC disclosure routes could show the size of that stake. Every one of them misses.
SpaceX (SPCX) took every space stock down with it, and it started the day it filed, not the day it listed. Rocket Lab (RKLB) is the one I'd own
SpaceX filed its S-1 on May 20 and space stocks went vertical, then broke. Every name in the group now trades below its pre-filing price. Why Rocket Lab (RKLB) is the one I'd buy out of it.
Heavy leverage has South Korea's investors betting against their own market. One put everything into SK Hynix falling, on the day it rose 30%.
Korea gave its investors funds that pay double in a day, and the people using them have started calling it baccarat. One asked a message board for the courage to bet everything against Samsung on Thursday. Another went all in against SK Hynix on Friday, hours after it closed limit up.
Alibaba (BABA) gave Kimi's maker 20,000 Nvidia (NVDA) chips. The White House says it trained on banned ones in Thailand.
Bloomberg reported Friday that Moonshot AI runs Kimi on about 20,000 Nvidia chips rented from Alibaba, its own 36% shareholder. Alibaba is cleared to buy 75,000 H200s and has taken almost none of them, so the contracted fleet is old stock. What K3 actually trained on is a separate question, and White House science director Michael Kratsios has already given his answer.
Korea locked 94% of stock accounts out of leverage funds on Friday morning. By the close SK Hynix was limit up and those funds had returned 60%.
Korea's individual investors were not betting against this market. Through the crash they were buying the 2x leverage funds, and a new 30 million won cash rule shut most of them out on the exact morning those funds returned 60%.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund owned 19 stocks outright. Every one of them rose Thursday after he sold his positions
Four SEC filings name 19 companies Situational Awareness owned outright, and every one of them rose on July 30. Nebius was the biggest at about $1.84 billion, and the quarterly report understates SharonAI by twelve times.
Korean investors spent the worst month in Kospi history rescuing a crab stick maker, a women's underwear brand and a pen company
Korea Exchange raised the Kospi delisting floor on July 1 and a batch of old domestic companies fell under it. Retail investors organized to buy them back over the line. For four sessions the best performers among all 944 Kospi companies were a kitchen furniture maker, an underwear brand, a pen company and a crab stick producer.
Quanta (PWR) raised guidance and rose 17.3%. Sterling Infrastructure (STRL) reported nothing and rose 17.4%
Quanta Services reported record second quarter revenue of $9.56 billion and a $53.4 billion backlog, and raised full-year guidance across every metric. Sterling Infrastructure, which has not reported, rose slightly more.
Chey Tae-won ran SK Hynix for 14 years without owning a share. With the stock down 56%, he bought 4.79 billion won of it.
Chey Tae-won has run SK Hynix since 2012 without ever owning a share of it. On July 30 he bought 3,620 of them for about 4.79 billion won ($3.33 million), stopping just under the 5 billion won line that would have forced him to announce it 30 days early.
The Nasdaq fell six days straight, then chips ripped. Microsoft, Samsung, and Citadel buying out Aschenbrenner all landed inside 18 hours.
The Nasdaq's six-day losing streak ended at exactly six, which our own history piece said was the single most likely outcome. Microsoft's $678 billion backlog, Samsung's call that the chip crunch runs to 2028, and Citadel buying the bulk of a leveraged $24 billion book all arrived between Wednesday's close and Thursday afternoon.
Citadel bought Leopold Aschenbrenner's stock book. Two outlets say he kept part of it, and a filing due Monday settles it.
Bloomberg and Reuters both name Ken Griffin's Citadel as the buyer of Situational Awareness's stock book, and both say bulk, not all. CNBC said the entire public book went in one block to one buyer. A Form 4 on the SharonAI (SHAZ) stake is due Aug. 3, an initial 13D or 13G from Citadel on Aug. 6, and the fund's own quarterly report on Aug. 14.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI fund sold its levered stock book, longs and shorts, to a single buyer. It was levered as much as four times.
CNBC's David Faber reported that Situational Awareness sold its entire public equities book, longs and shorts together, to a single buyer. The fund reached $24 billion near its highs and ran leverage of as much as four times. Its last public filing shows 62% of a $13.68 billion book was bets against chip stocks, and the stocks it owned outright fell twice as far.
Korea's small investors absorbed the whole crash. On Thursday they gave up and sold 1.43 trillion won.
For two weeks Korea's individual investors bought whatever foreign funds sold. On July 30 the roles reversed. Foreigners came back for the first time in five sessions, retail sold 1.43 trillion won into them, and forced liquidations at brokerages rose 340% in a single day.
Samsung posted its best quarter ever. Seoul was up 5.54% on it, then gave the whole thing back.
Samsung's stock fell 5.23 percent on July 29, a day before its own confirmed earnings even came out. When the record numbers landed Thursday, the Kospi rose as much as 5.54 percent, then gave all of it back and closed lower.
Microsoft (MSFT) grew Azure 43% with $678 billion already booked. That is what Nvidia (NVDA) and Micron (MU) needed to hear.
Microsoft held its capital spending outlook near $190 billion, grew Azure 43% and rose 7.6% after hours. Meta raised its capex range by $10 billion at the low end, missed on earnings at $6.18 against a $7.14 estimate, and fell 9.0%. The market stopped scoring hyperscalers on capex announcements and started scoring them on whether the revenue arrives. That is a better setup for Nvidia, Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor than another spending headline, though it does nothing about the memory supply problem that actually caused July.
The Nasdaq is down six days straight. We checked what happened next all 85 times, so you don't have to.
The Nasdaq Composite closed lower for a sixth straight session on July 29, finishing at 24,442.94, down 5.4% over the run and 9.8% below its June record. It has happened 85 times since 1971. One month after those streaks the index gained a median 1.5%, which is exactly what a random month returns, and at three months it actually underperformed. The averages hide everything: every streak from 2000 to 2002 was followed by heavy losses, and every streak after 2009 by gains.
The Fed held rates 9 to 3. Warsh says the AI capex boom is driving up chip prices.
The Fed held the federal funds target range at 3.5% to 3.75% on July 29 in a 9 to 3 vote, with Beth Hammack, Neel Kashkari and Lorie Logan dissenting in favor of a quarter-point increase. Chairman Kevin Warsh listed the AI capex boom as one of four questions the committee debated and said it is driving up prices of memory and logic chips. The June minutes show many participants expect AI infrastructure demand to keep pressuring technology and electricity prices.
SoFi (SOFI) beat and raised guidance. The stock still hit a 52-week low.
SoFi beat on revenue, earnings and EBITDA, raised its full-year revenue outlook, and then fell 7.2% to a 52-week low. Credit actually improved this quarter. The issue is where the growth came from: lending revenue grew 63% while the asset-light Financial Services and Technology Platform segments grew 17% between them.
Nokia (NOK) has halved since June. Five insiders bought $2.2 million of it in the past week.
Three Nokia insiders bought on July 24, including board chair Timo Ihamuotila. Two more bought on July 29, another 7 percent lower. The stock is down about 50 percent from its June peak even as second quarter profit grew.
Korean investors sent funeral wreaths to the National Assembly. Forced selling is up 596% this year (July 29, 2026)
An investor group had about 30 funeral wreaths delivered to Korea's National Assembly on July 29, carrying messages asking whether investor protection is only words. Forced liquidations at Korea's 10 largest brokerages rose 596% from January to June, and the fastest increase of all was among investors 70 and older.
SK Hynix (SKHY) missed consensus by 5.5%. I sat through the call and I'm still holding
I was signed into the SK Hynix earnings call last night, watching SKHY drop and trying to figure out why. The company came in 5.5% under estimates on the best quarter it has ever had, but the margin held at 76% and the shortfall was HBM4 shipments sliding into the second half. Seoul took the stock down 19.6% intraday. I own SKHY at $154 and I'm not selling this one.
Micron (MU) CEO sold $37.3 million in stock, the same 40,000 shares he has sold every 28 days since May
The Form 4 landed July 28 showing $37.3 million sold. It is the same 40,000-share block Micron's chief executive has sold every 28 days since May, on a plan signed back in January.
Seoul halted its stock market two days in a row. The rules written to stop it start Friday (July 29, 2026)
The Kospi closed Wednesday at 5,663.24, down 5.98%, after trading 12.63% lower at its worst point, and both Korean markets halted for a second straight day, which has never happened before. Deputy Prime Minister Koo Yun-chul apologized for the single stock leveraged ETFs blamed for the size of the move, then called the four financial chiefs in at 6 p.m. The cash deposit rule meant to cool those funds does not take effect until Friday.
SK Hynix (SKHY) reported a record quarter and still missed. One analyst broke from the pack and called it within a quarter of a percent
SK Hynix reported 60.5426 trillion won ($41.6 billion USD) of operating profit against a 64.09 trillion won consensus, 5.5% short, on revenue 5.6% short. Both figures are records. The operating margin came in at 76%, right where the street had it, so the entire miss was revenue rather than profitability. Korea Investment & Securities was the only firm below the pack and landed within a quarter of a percent.
Hedge fund Durable Capital now owns 10.6% of Goosehead (GSHD). Its last public filing showed 6.6%.
Durable Capital's last public filing showed 1,562,969 Goosehead shares on March 31. Tuesday's Form 3 showed 2,380,281, and everything bought in between required no disclosure at all.
The FCC moved to ban Chinese robots. Agility Robotics (CCXI) rose 12% in half an hour while the humanoid ETF (KOID) fell.
The FCC moved July 28 to bar new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots, plus connected power inverters, from the US market. Four small robotics names did all the moving: RoboStrategy (BOT) closed up 17.6% and Churchill Capital XI (CCXI) rose 12.3% in the half hour after the headline. Teradyne then jumped after hours on earnings. The robotics ETFs closed lower.
Kioxia hit limit-down again and is down 60% from its June peak. Sandisk (SNDK) co-owns its factories (July 28, 2026)
Kioxia closed at its limit-down price of 44,550 yen ($272 USD), down 18.33%, after finishing at the bottom of its daily band on July 17 as well. It is 60.5% below the 112,700 yen peak it set on June 22. It shares the Yokkaichi and Kitakami NAND plants with Sandisk (SNDK), which is why the two keep falling together.
Citadel says the Fed hikes Wednesday. All 104 economists Reuters asked say it won't (MU, NVDA, July 28, 2026)
I was sure Citadel's rate call knocked the Nasdaq down 2% Tuesday morning. Nvidia (NVDA) was green while Micron (MU) fell 7.69% and the 2-year yield never moved, so it was not the Fed at all. It was Seoul. Here is the split that actually matters at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Michael Burry posted three charts making the AI bear case. Two of them show the selling already happened.
Burry shared three Bloomberg charts on the AI trade. One maps the circular deals around Nvidia (NVDA). The other two show big tech forward multiples back at or below their 10-year averages, with Apple (AAPL) the lone expensive name and the only megacap missing from the circular map.
Korea's Kospi fell 10.84% and halted trading. Nvidia (NVDA) is flat and Micron (MU) is down 10% (July 28, 2026)
Korea's Kospi closed at 6,023.66 on Tuesday, down 10.84%, its fourth largest one-day fall on record, after Korea Exchange stopped all trading for 20 minutes. Samsung and SK Hynix each lost more than 13%. The US carryover went into memory and storage, with Sandisk (SNDK) down 14.52% and Micron (MU) down 9.54%, while Nvidia (NVDA) held flat and the Dow rose.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 6: It swapped CleanSpark (CLSK) for D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) and quit 23 minutes later
Claude AI's CleanSpark (CLSK) stop fired Monday for a $2.36 loss and was right, since CLSK fell another 10% after. Then it bought D-Wave (QBTS) at Tuesday's open into a chip crash, sold 23 minutes later for $1.80, and filed a report two minutes after that saying it had not traded.
T1 Energy raised its Austin solar fab budget 20% and blamed the Texas data center boom (TE)
The Austin solar cell fab's phase one estimate went from $425 million to $510 million and first production slipped a quarter. T1 named the Texas data center construction market as the reason. A second filing the same morning disclosed a $135 million purchase of the TOPCon patents Trina Solar owned until December.
Anthropic says it never asked to ban open-weight AI. Dario Amodei does want China cut off from Nvidia (NVDA) chips.
Dario Amodei answered the Nvidia-hosted open-weights letter on July 27, three days after Anthropic became the only major AI lab to skip it. He says a ban was never the ask. What he does want is China cut off from US chips, a crackdown on industrial-scale distillation, and mandatory safety testing for every capable model, open or closed.
Micron (MU) accounting chief sold 879 shares for $879,000, at exactly $1,000 each, two days before the 10% drop
Scott Allen sold 879 Micron shares for $879,000 at exactly $1,000 each on July 23, the only unscheduled large insider sale our tracker caught last week. His other 34,958 shares stayed put.
We gave six AIs $10,000 each to pick small-cap AI stocks. Five bought the same one.
Six AI chatbots each got $10,000 for small-cap AI stocks. Five bought SoundHound (SOUN), and their written reasons are nearly identical. DeepSeek leads week one.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz bought SpaceX on its first day of trading. The disclosure landed 44 days later, with the stock down 29%.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz disclosed a $1,001 to $15,000 purchase of SpaceX (SPCX) dated June 12, 2026, the stock's first day of trading. It has fallen about 29 percent since, and the one stock he sold that week is the best performer in the filing.
Nvidia (NVDA) will own more of Korean internet company Naver than its founder does
Naver, the Korean company that runs the country's main search engine and its biggest shopping platform, told the Korea Exchange on Monday it will sell 1.4809 trillion won of new shares to Nvidia, near $1.01 billion. That makes Nvidia the third largest shareholder at about 4.5%, ahead of founder Lee Hae-jin at 3.8%.
About $25 billion of Microsoft's (MSFT) AI budget is memory getting more expensive. Wednesday says whether that grew.
Microsoft told investors in April it would spend about $190 billion on capital projects this year. Around $25 billion of that increase bought nothing new, it was the same buildout at a higher price after memory costs rose. Microsoft reports Wednesday after the close, two hours after the Fed decision.
Michael Burry's picks: the Micron (MU) bet is up 17%. He has been averaging down on Lululemon (LULU) since 2025.
Burry deregistered Scion, so the 13F trail stopped and his trades now surface first on a newsletter with 300,000 subscribers. Here is everything he has disclosed since June, priced as of July 27. The point of laying them out together is that he is not always right.
Amazon (AMZN) wants 5,105 satellites talking to your phone, on Globalstar (GSAT) spectrum it doesn't own yet
The application covers 5,105 satellites connecting straight to phones, starting in 2028, running on airwaves that still belong to Globalstar. Amazon agreed in April to buy the company for about $11.6 billion, and that deal is not expected to close until 2027. Globalstar trades $11 under the headline price, and the reason is in the exchange ratio rather than in doubts about the deal.
Nasdaq futures were up over 1% and things looked good. Then chips tanked and took the whole gain with them, led by ASML, Micron (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) (July 27, 2026)
Futures pointed to a strong open on the Iran ceasefire and a 6.79% drop in oil. QQQ opened up 1.09% and was negative within the hour. Three chip headlines did it, and two of them came out of China: a domestic DUV lithography report that hit ASML, and CXMT's Shanghai debut that hit Micron.
ChangXin Memory (CXMT) closed up 466% on day one and is worth as much as Intel. Its factories are sold out through 2027.
ChangXin Memory (CXMT) closed its Shanghai debut up 465.82%, passing ICBC as China's most valuable listed company and drawing level with Intel. Only 6.73% of its stock was tradable. The order book behind it is the part that matters for Micron (MU) and SK Hynix (SKHY).
Korea signed $950 billion in AI deals, then foreign investors sold 2.9 trillion won of SK Hynix and Samsung (July 27, 2026)
Monday was the first Seoul session after Korean companies signed about $950 billion of AI agreements in San Francisco. Kospi opened 1.7% higher, then fell almost 2% when China's CXMT closed its Shanghai debut up 465.82%. Foreign investors sold a net 2.9039 trillion won of Kospi stocks, and the two they sold most were SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics.
Nvidia (NVDA) is in talks to guarantee $250 billion of OpenAI's data center financing. The chips are another $350 billion.
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday evening that Nvidia is in talks to guarantee about $250 billion of OpenAI's financing for a 10 gigawatt campus in southern Ohio. The guarantee would cover lease and construction costs, not chips, which are a separate arrangement worth about $350 billion. Nvidia's earlier plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI was never completed.
Fed rate hike odds went from 10.7% to 38% in nine days. AI stocks are the most exposed.
Odds of an increase at Wednesday's meeting stood at 38% on July 24, against 10.7% on July 15. Nine of 18 FOMC participants projected a hike this year back in June, and Chair Kevin Warsh says policymakers have no tolerance for elevated inflation. June CPI came in cooler than forecast, but oil has since gone back over $100, and the AI trade is the part of the market most exposed to what happens next.
SK Hynix (SKHY) reports earnings Wednesday. Even the lowest forecast beats what it earned in all of 2025.
Everyone who follows SK Hynix agrees the April to June quarter was the best in company history. They disagree by about 16% on how good. The lowest forecast on the board still has the company making more money in three months than it made in all of 2025.
US strikes on Iran paused. Oil fell more than 3%, and Micron (MU) and Nebius (NBIS) rose over the weekend
US Central Command has gone two straight nights without striking Iran, and a Defense Department source told CNN operations are on a hold. Polymarket puts an effective ceasefire at 75% by August 31. US markets were shut all weekend, but the tokenized stock market never closed, and it spent Sunday buying the AI trade and selling oil.
SoundHound (SOUN) is paying $42.8 million for LivePerson. LivePerson's own bankers valued its equity at almost nothing.
SoundHound AI (SOUN) cleared its last regulator on July 20 and LivePerson (LPSN) stockholders vote August 20. The proxy puts the price at $42,784,532.64, well under the figures circulating, and both of its valuation analyses value LivePerson's equity at de minimis.
If I had $1,000 for one AI chip stock, I'd buy SK Hynix (SKHY) over Nvidia (NVDA), Micron (MU) and AMD
Nvidia and SK Group signed a $500 billion AI infrastructure deal late Friday night, after both New York and Seoul had closed for the week. Given $1,000 for one of the four AI chip stocks, I'd put it in SK Hynix, which trades at 5.6 times forward earnings even after its 28% ADR premium against 6.4 for Micron.
Samsung just signed a $200 billion deal with Broadcom (AVGO), a 32-year TSMC (TSM) customer.
Samsung Electronics signed a memorandum with Broadcom on July 24 covering more than $200 billion of work over five years, through 2030. Broadcom has had TSMC make its chips since 1994, and about 95% of the wafers it outsourced last year came from there. Samsung's foundry holds 6.5% of the world market against TSMC's 72%, and Seoul had closed for the week before any of it was announced.
The busiest stock on Hyperliquid isn't Nvidia. It's SK Hynix (SKHY), and it out-traded Ethereum
Real world assets did $25.1 billion on Hyperliquid in the week of July 13 to 19, out-trading crypto on the venue for the first time. The busiest contract is not Nvidia or Tesla. It is SK Hynix, which passed Ethereum for second place on the whole exchange, and whose Nasdaq listing (SKHY) fell 8.8% on Friday.
Michael Burry sent readers to a BIS report on AI's poorly disclosed deals. Oracle (ORCL) reports $638 billion in one line.
Michael Burry spent July 23 pointing his readers at a Bank for International Settlements report on how AI deals get financed. The clearest illustration sits in an Oracle (ORCL) filing: a $638 billion backlog reported as one aggregate line, with the customer split left to S&P to estimate.
What is a pod shop? Millennium didn't buy your stock. One of its 340 teams did.
Citadel's last quarterly filing listed 15,589 positions. Millennium runs more than 340 separate investment teams and Point72 more than 200, which changes what a hedge fund stake in your stock actually means.
Korea's stock market has been forced to pause 41 times this year. All of 2008 had 26.
Kospi set off 41 sidecars between January 2 and July 24, more than the 26 it set off in all of 2008 and far more than the 3 it managed in all of last year. Circuit breakers have fired 7 times in 2026 against 13 in the market's entire history since 2000. Most Korean analysts blame the Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix leverage ETFs that listed in May, but one state research institute says that is the wrong target.
Nvidia (NVDA) and 34 other companies told Washington not to restrict open-weight AI. OpenAI signed a day late. Anthropic still hasn't.
The Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter asks Washington not to restrict AI models anyone can download. It went from 25 signatures to 35. OpenAI added its name after sitting out the launch, Google's CEO backed it without signing, and Anthropic declined to comment. Update, July 27: the list has since grown to 133 names, and both Google and Amazon signed.
I gave six AIs $10,000 for AI stocks. Five bought SoundHound (SOUN), one bought a construction company.
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI each got a paper $10,000 and five slots, capped at $10 billion. Five bought SoundHound. Claude bought a gas-plant builder. Two of them broke the rules on the first try.
SK Hynix (SKHY) sells the memory in Nvidia's (NVDA) Rubin racks. SK Group is committing $1.44T USD to the chips and data centers around them.
Nvidia and SK Hynix signed a multiyear memory partnership with no dollar figure attached. SK Group then committed 2,100 trillion won ($1.44T USD) to chip capacity and 15 gigawatts of AI data centers, built on Nvidia's Vera Rubin reference design. Nvidia put $1 billion into Naver on July 24. Here is what each side actually committed, and what is funded versus announced.
Solar stocks fell again Friday, July 24. T1 Energy (TE) is down 58% since June 2, Enphase (ENPH) 49% and First Solar (FSLR) 36%
The Invesco Solar ETF closed 31% below its May 29 record. Enphase and SolarEdge have lost close to half their value since June 2. The July 4 construction deadline, the expired 25D homeowner credit and a pending Section 232 polysilicon ruling are the drivers.
A record 944 billion won ($644M USD) divorce ruling lifted SK Telecom as SK Hynix fell 8.34% (July 24, 2026)
A Seoul court ordered SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won to pay Roh So-young 944 billion won ($644M USD), the largest property division in Korean history. SK Telecom closed up 0.50% on a day Kospi fell 5.72%, because a smaller award means he is less likely to sell SK Inc stock and more likely to lean on subsidiary dividends. SK Hynix, three steps down the same ownership chain, fell 8.34%.
Everyone's asking if AI is the next dot-com bubble. Nvidia and 25 companies just gave a clue.
Nvidia rallied 25 companies behind open AI models, and OpenAI and Anthropic sat it out. Here's why I think their coming IPOs, not this fight, mark the real top of the AI bubble.
Vietnam and China now pay the same US tariff rate. Nike (NKE) and Deckers (DECK) built years of sourcing strategy on the gap between them.
New Section 301 tariffs took effect Friday, putting Vietnam and China at the same 12.5% rate for the first time. Nike, Deckers, Columbia, Gap, Ralph Lauren and Under Armour all have heavy Vietnam manufacturing exposure.
Jensen Huang's first-ever post on X was an open-weights AI letter. Nvidia (NVDA) and Microsoft (MSFT) both signed it, along with 23 other companies.
Jensen Huang joined X in June and stayed silent for weeks. His first post was a joint industry letter on open AI models, signed by 25 companies including Microsoft. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Amazon did not sign.
Verizon (VZ) jumped 2.7% on record profit margins and a subscriber beat. A $1 billion Google deal got buried in the same call.
Verizon's Q2 2026 earnings brought record EBITDA margins, a subscriber beat and a $1 billion-plus dark fiber deal with Google buried in the same call. Shares climbed as much as 2.7% on the earnings, not the deal.
Elon Musk thanked Micron (MU) by name on Tesla's earnings call this week. That's what a real memory shortage looks like.
Musk thanked Micron on Tesla's earnings call, Intel's CEO called memory its biggest supply constraint the next day, SK Hynix's CEO sees a shortage into the next decade, and CXMT is about to IPO into all of it.
Kospi fell 5.72% today. Chinese financial media says the selloff crossed into China and the US too. (July 24, 2026)
Kospi fell 5.72% Friday as Middle East tension pushed oil above $100 a barrel and traders priced in a real chance the Fed raises rates instead of cutting them. A Chinese financial outlet says Korea's leverage ETF unwind is now dragging Chinese and US chip stocks down with it.
Every Friday this month has been different, and the trend says today should be green (July 24, 2026)
Futures are pointing modestly higher Friday morning after Thursday's brutal tech selloff, even with oil crossing $100 a barrel on Middle East tensions and Korea's Kospi and Kosdaq getting crushed overnight. This is what actually happened, and what we're watching before the close.
Intel (INTC) just reported the earnings I called the real catalyst. Revenue grew 25%, and the company posted an $11 billion loss.
Intel beat revenue and EPS estimates by a wide margin, but a CHIPS Act accounting charge turned the quarter into an $11 billion GAAP loss. Here is what the numbers actually mean, and why I am still holding the stock.
SK Hynix (SKHY) reports July 29, and it will most likely be the best quarter the company has ever had
SK Hynix (SKHY) reports second quarter earnings on July 29, and analysts think it will most likely be the best quarter in company history. Profit is expected to be almost six times what it was a year ago, with a profit margin that would be a new record. The demand is coming from artificial intelligence, and it now reaches more than just one kind of chip.
Cybersecurity keeps pulling in money. Palo Alto Networks (PANW) trades at 291 times earnings.
Cybersecurity spending looks as durable as anything in this market, and a wave of M&A backs it up: three public companies gone in a year, the biggest a $25 billion Palo Alto Networks deal for CyberArk. But Palo Alto itself trades at 291 times earnings and CrowdStrike's price-to-earnings ratio is negative. Here's the market-cap breakdown of the 21 stocks left standing, and why the category and the stocks aren't the same bet.
All seven Magnificent Seven stocks fell today. Here's where that money actually went (July 23, 2026)
All seven Magnificent Seven stocks were red by late morning Thursday, led by Tesla's 14% drop on an earnings miss and Alphabet's close-to-7% slide despite beating estimates, on another capex raise. Amazon and Meta sold off too ahead of next week's reports. The money didn't just leave, it rotated: into defense on Lockheed's earnings beat, and out of quantum, SaaS and space.
Tesla (TSLA) and Alphabet (GOOGL) are falling hard. The rest of the AI trade isn't (July 23, 2026)
Tesla and Alphabet kept falling through Thursday morning even as chipmakers, neoclouds and photonics stocks held up fine. Oil topped $100 a barrel after Trump threatened to bomb Iranian infrastructure over any new attack on shipping.
Kospi rose 4.4% today. Alphabet's (GOOG) bigger spending plan is why. (July 23, 2026)
Kospi rose 4.4% Thursday, its third straight day of gains and its first close back above 7,000 in five trading days. Alphabet raised its own AI spending plans, easing fears that Korea's memory chip demand was peaking, and foreign investors piled into SK Hynix in particular.
Nokia (NOK) spiked almost 9% on earnings, then reversed. AI and cloud sales doubled, but reported profit fell to a loss
Nokia's Q2 2026 net sales rose 8% and AI and cloud sales more than doubled, but reported operating profit swung to a loss and reported EPS hit exactly zero, on accelerated restructuring charges. NOK spiked as high as $11.17 in early trading before reversing back near Wednesday's close.
Hedge fund Millennium disclosed a new 5.2% stake in Ameresco (AMRC) the week the stock hit its lowest point of 2026
Millennium Management's fresh 5.2% stake in clean-energy developer Ameresco (AMRC), worth about $42.5 million, was disclosed the same week the stock touched its lowest weekly close of 2026. The company is also building a still-early data center power business, including a partnership with CyrusOne.
The House passed a $1.15 trillion defense bill. I think Lockheed Martin (LMT) is due for a bounce, and tomorrow's earnings are the real test.
The House passed a $1.15 trillion defense authorization bill Wednesday and defense stocks rallied, but not evenly. Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are still down 25% to 30% from their 2026 highs, RTX and General Dynamics already recovered, and Lockheed reports earnings Thursday morning.
Alphabet (GOOGL) raised AI capex to $205 billion, its third hike this year. Nvidia (NVDA) and Broadcom (AVGO) barely moved after hours
Alphabet raised its 2026 capex guidance to $195-205 billion during Wednesday's call, its third increase this year, and GOOGL fell as much as 5% in extended trading. But the chip and power stocks that are supposed to benefit from that spending, Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC, Micron, Vistra and Constellation, barely moved.
Korean overdraft debt grows 4.5 times faster on Kospi crash days than rally days
A Seoul Economic Daily analysis of five major Korean banks found overdraft account balances grew 4.5 times faster on days Kospi fell than on days it rose, as retail investors borrowed to buy the dip during this summer's volatility.
Alphabet (GOOGL): cloud growth hits 82%, and its AI spending just doubled
Alphabet's Q2 2026 results answered the question this earnings week was supposed to settle. Google Cloud grew 82%, capital spending on AI infrastructure more than doubled to $44.9 billion for the quarter, and the reported 298% profit jump comes with an asterisk worth reading before you believe it.
IBM earnings are tonight. The stock crashed 25% and the government is betting $1 billion on its quantum future (July 22, 2026)
Down 38 percent in seven weeks, still falling into tonight's call, with a government-backed quantum business nobody is talking about.
GE Vernova (GEV) raised its cash forecast by $5 billion and fell 8% (July 22, 2026)
GE Vernova raised its 2026 revenue and free cash flow forecasts and reported an 88% jump in orders, but earnings missed and the wind unit's losses widened. The stock fell about 8%.
Senator Jerry Moran bought Berkshire Hathaway for the third time since May, then bought back Google 11% below where he'd sold it a month earlier
Sen. Jerry Moran's July 21 disclosure shows he bought Berkshire Hathaway on June 23, his third purchase of the stock since late May, and bought back Alphabet the same day, about 11% below the price he'd sold it at a month earlier. Here's what the filing shows and how both stocks have moved since, hours before Alphabet's own Q2 earnings report.
Super Micro's (SMCI) revenue landed at the low end of guidance. The stock is up 25% anyway (July 22, 2026)
Super Micro Computer's preliminary Q4 update showed a record $60 billion order backlog and gross margin guidance that nearly doubled, but revenue landed at the low end of its own range. The stock is up about 25% anyway.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 5: it passed on CleanSpark (CLSK) near its low, then bought it at the highs
Two weeks ago, with CleanSpark (CLSK) around $12.65, Claude AI called it a falling knife and passed, buying MSTR instead, which lost money. Then CleanSpark landed a $6.6 billion AI data center lease. This morning Claude AI finally bought CLSK, at $15.53, about 23% above where it passed.
Nasdaq-100 futures sank close to 1% Wednesday morning. Stocks clawed almost all of it back by mid-morning (July 22, 2026)
Nasdaq-100 futures fell close to 1% Wednesday morning on an Iran oil spike, new tariffs and chip-stock fear. Stocks opened lower too, but climbed steadily through the first half hour of trading and were back to nearly flat by mid-morning.
Korea's SK Hynix opened up almost 9% on a global chip rally. It closed the day lower.
Korea's SK Hynix opened up almost 9% on a global chip rally, then closed down 0.33%. Kospi gave back most of a 6.20% intraday gain, closing up just 0.74% after triggering its second buy-side sidecar in two trading days.
Oklo (OKLO) and X-Energy (XE) rallied Tuesday. After the bell, a Trump nuclear-for-AI report sent them higher again (July 21, 2026)
Oklo (OKLO) closed up about 6% Tuesday and X-Energy (XE) about 7%, then both extended those gains after the bell. Bloomberg reports the two nuclear reactor developers are joining Microsoft and Nvidia in a near-$200 million Trump administration effort to speed power plant construction for AI data centers.
SK Hynix (SKHY) denies it is buying Intel's (INTC) Ohio chip campus, hours after the report lifted its stock
SK Hynix was reported to be in talks to buy Intel's unfinished Ohio chip campus. Hours later, SK Hynix formally denied the report in a Korea Exchange filing.
Kosdaq's trading value hit an 11-month low. Kospi's rally on record chip exports didn't change that.
Kosdaq's trading value fell to 4.83 trillion won on July 20, the lowest in about 11 months and down 54.9% in a single month, despite Kospi's 3.56% rise on record chip exports the next day.
IBM already sank 20%. This week's earnings from Alphabet, Tesla, Intel and four more decide if AI spending is real
IBM already sank 20% on a warning. Now Alphabet, Tesla, Intel and four more of our tracked stocks report earnings within 48 hours, the clearest test yet of whether AI spending is paying off.
Rocket Lab (RKLB) won a $266 million Space Force contract, the third defense headline for the stock in two weeks
Rocket Lab (RKLB) landed a $266 million Space Force contract for suborbital launches out of Kodiak, Alaska on July 21, the third defense headline for the stock in two weeks. Shares closed up 5.16% and kept climbing after hours.
Micron (MU), SK Hynix and AMD just gave chip stocks their first back-to-back gain in two weeks (July 21, 2026)
Micron (MU) closed up about 12 percent, SK Hynix's ADR about 14 percent, and AMD 8 percent Tuesday, chip stocks' first back-to-back gain in two weeks. A Bank of America upgrade on memory demand and a new AMD-Microsoft Azure deal did the heavy lifting.
Cipher Digital (CIFR) is up 39% in two sessions, and its own AI news hasn't landed yet
Cipher Digital (CIFR) gained 39% in two trading sessions, but most of the credit belongs to Hut 8 and IREN's AI infrastructure deals. Cipher's own catalyst, its first AWS rent payment, doesn't land until August.
Rep. Laurel Lee's spouse sold Nokia three times this year. One sale landed on the stock's exact peak, three days before its worst day of the year.
Rep. Laurel Lee's spouse sold Nokia three separate times in 2026, and the stock has fallen from every single price he sold at. One of the three sales landed on the exact day Nokia peaked, three trading days before its sharpest single-day drop of the year. Two of the three trades were also disclosed past the STOCK Act's 45-day deadline.
Jim Cramer's tech calls are still lagging the rest of his book. Intel is 1 for 5, and IBM crashed the day after his second buy call.
Jim Cramer's tech calls are still his weak spot. Intel is 1 for 5 since June, IBM is down nearly 30% since his back-to-back buy calls, and his tech picks trail the Nasdaq-100 by more than three points a call even after Tuesday's chip bounce.
Korea's top ETF manager sells leveraged Samsung and SK Hynix funds for a living. This week, he told investors to stop buying them. (July 21, 2026)
Bae Jae-kyu, the CEO known as the father of Korea's ETF market, posted on Facebook that investors should stop buying single-stock leverage ETFs, then deleted it. His own firm sells the exact products, and the same day, lawmakers held a forum on a market where the sell sidecar has triggered 38 times this year.
Jim Cramer says Chinese AI models are run by the PLA and US companies must stop using them. Microsoft is already testing one.
Jim Cramer posted a four-part warning on X that US companies must stop using Chinese AI models, calling the companies PLA-run. The claim lands a day after Microsoft was reported testing Kimi K3, and Moonshot AI's actual ownership is more complicated than he suggests.
Kospi's 3.56% rise triggered a buy-side sidecar. Korea's chip exports just surged 180%.
Kospi closed up 3.56% Tuesday and briefly triggered a buy-side sidecar, but the real driver was a 180.6% rise in Korea's semiconductor exports, not a fresh JPMorgan call. That call is nearly a month old, and it landed in the middle of a rough stretch for Samsung's foreign ownership specifically.
IREN signed $2.8 billion in AI contracts, and bitcoin miner stocks rallied with it
IREN closed up 19.6% after announcing $2.8 billion in new AI cloud contracts. Hut 8 and CleanSpark had data center lease news of their own, while CIFR, SLNH and KEEL rallied in sympathy. The fuel: Moonshot AI is turning away paying Kimi K3 subscribers because it ran out of GPU capacity.
Hedge fund Millennium added a million shares of Perspective Therapeutics (CATX) in three weeks and crossed the 5% line
Hedge fund Millennium Management filed its second ownership disclosure on Perspective Therapeutics (CATX) in a month: 5.3% as of July 13, up from 4.3% in June. What the passive 13G filing shows, and what it leaves out.
Penguin Solutions (PENG) is down 40% since its best quarter ever, and none of it is about the business
Penguin Solutions (PENG) is down about 40% from the 52-week high its best quarter ever bought it, thanks to its own $750 million convertible notes deal. The stock fell again Monday even as chip stocks like Broadcom and Micron rebounded and the broader market closed roughly flat.
Microsoft (MSFT) is testing Moonshot's Kimi K3 for Copilot to cut its Azure AI bill by $600 million
Microsoft is testing Moonshot's Kimi K3 for Azure and Copilot, hoping to cut AI costs by $600 million, the same week the model's launch gave chip stocks a rough ride and its maker began prepping a $30 billion Hong Kong IPO.
Kospi's one-month drop is the worst of 46 major economies. Even Russia did better. (July 20, 2026)
Kospi fell 28.02% in one month, the worst return among 46 major economies tracked, even below Russia's own sanctions-driven slide. It is still up 54.63% since the end of last year, but analysts say leverage and semiconductor concentration made the drop worse than plain profit-taking.
I own SharonAI (SHAZ) at $65. It signed a $1.32 billion deal four days ago and dropped anyway
SharonAI (SHAZ) is down slightly while every other neocloud stock rallies hard, four days after a $1.32 billion cloud deal. I bought SHAZ at $65 and dug through SEC filings to find out why.
Michael Burry cut his Oracle (ORCL) short in half, and says reports he closed it are fake news
Michael Burry sold half his Oracle (ORCL) puts on July 17 after a 63% stock plunge, then called reports that he'd fully exited the short "fake news." The same post added Nvidia (NVDA) puts, more DraftKings (DKNG), and a skeptical read on Netflix (NFLX).
Nvidia (NVDA) and Microsoft (MSFT) don't just sell OpenAI chips and cloud time. They also fund the bill.
Nvidia, Microsoft, Oracle, Broadcom, AMD, and CoreWeave have promised OpenAI close to a trillion dollars combined, and some of them are OpenAI's investors as well as its vendors. Here's how the money actually loops, and where it's already showing strain.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 4: It's 0 for 4, then it passed on IREN's 17% jump, and watched it run higher
Claude AI is 0 for 4 with my $100 and the account is down to $74.59. On Monday it built an order for IREN at $39.45, then found that the same stock had popped on the same news back on July 6 and given back 23%, and walked away. IREN ran higher without it.
Google is baking Gemini's blueprint directly into a new chip. The stock jumped 3%, and earnings land Wednesday
Alphabet shares jumped about 3% Monday on a report that it's building a new AI chip called Frozen v2, one that bakes Gemini's own architecture into the silicon. The real test comes Wednesday, when Alphabet reports Q2 earnings.
SK Hynix in Korea moved from down 5.8% to up 2.7% to down 4.2%. Here is why a leveraged bet on that day would have hurt even more
SK Hynix's Korea-listed shares and the Kospi moved through a huge range and still closed down more than 4% on Monday. Here is the math on why a 2x leveraged position on a day like that is more dangerous than it looks, even after a partial recovery.
Alibaba owns 36% of Kimi's parent company. Here's why I'm still not sure BABA is a buy
Alibaba owns about 36% of Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi, plus stakes in MiniMax, Zhipu AI, and Kling AI. It has also taken two unrelated hits to the stock in three weeks. I break down whether that adds up to a buy.
FuelCell Energy (FCEL) director bought $495,000 in stock on the day it fell 15%
FuelCell Energy (FCEL) director John Livingston made his first stock purchase on July 16: $494,967 in the open market, on a day shares fell 15%, about a week after a $225 million offering diluted existing shareholders.
Retail investors say Korea's new Samsung and SK Hynix leverage ETF rule punishes the wrong people. Two professors agree.
Korea's deposit hike for Samsung and SK Hynix leverage ETFs takes effect July 31. Retail investors and two professors argue the rule punishes buyers while leaving the brokerages that issue these products untouched.
About 300 companies on South Korea's Kosdaq are a month away from being delisted. The index just cannot get back above 800.
About 307 companies on Korea's Kosdaq exchange, close to 17% of the board, are sitting below the price or size thresholds that can lead to delisting, some with as little as a month left to fix it.
Nasdaq futures up 0.6%, Kospi bounced back hard. Will it hold by Monday's open?
Nasdaq futures are up about 0.6% Sunday night and Kospi clawed back from a rough open. Here's what would need to hold, and what could break it, before Wall Street opens.
Korean funds are paying 25 percent extra to buy SK Hynix (SKHY) in New York
Eleven Korean active ETFs bought SK Hynix's US listing (SKHY) days after its Nasdaq debut, paying about 25 percent above the Seoul price. A fund rule explains why.
Kimi AI stopped taking new signups days after launch as GPU demand maxed out. Alphabet (GOOGL), Tesla (TSLA) and Intel (INTC) report into a chip bear market (week of July 20, 2026)
Moonshot paused new Kimi subscriptions three days after K3 launched because its GPUs hit capacity, which was our whole argument for chip stocks. This week: Alphabet, Tesla, Intel and Nokia earnings, $88 oil, and a Kospi reopen.
I gave five AIs a pretend $10,000 to pick 5 tech stocks. Four bought Nvidia (NVDA). Claude went rogue.
ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI and Claude each picked five tech stocks to hold for six months. Four bought Nvidia. Claude went the other way. Every pick is here and the scoreboard runs monthly.
SK Hynix's (SKHY) 'reverse kimchi premium': Americans now pay 25% more than Seoul for the same stock
SK Hynix's US shares (SKHY) closed Friday at $154.03, about 25% above the same company's price in Seoul. Korean media calls it the reverse kimchi premium. The difference reached 51% on July 14, and analysts say a premium this wide usually starts pulling the cheaper Seoul shares upward.
Memory stocks fell hard this week, from Micron (MU) to Western Digital (WDC). Sandisk (SNDK) lost 29%, and Goldman's price target says it should be 60% higher.
Sandisk (SNDK) fell 29% this week, the worst of a brutal stretch for memory stocks that also hit Micron (MU) and Western Digital (WDC). Two weeks ago Goldman Sachs raised its SNDK target to $2,200, more than 60% above Friday's close. Earnings on August 5 start settling the argument.
Ingenia Therapeutics is about to be the first foreign biotech to list in South Korea's Kosdaq in five years.
Boston biotech Ingenia Therapeutics is about to become the first foreign company to list on the Kosdaq in five years, with three more Korean-founded US biotechs lining up behind it. Korea's regulator says a NYSE-listed company has directly inquired too, ahead of a September investor roadshow.
New Mexico blocked the pipeline feeding Oracle's (ORCL) biggest Stargate site. Bloom Energy (BE) has 2.45 GW riding on it.
New Mexico's land commissioner denied the Green Chile gas pipeline for Oracle's Project Jupiter Stargate site a second time, and SemiAnalysis now sees a 1 to 2 year delay risk. That puts Bloom Energy's record 2.45 GW fuel cell order, and a $61 billion market cap built on AI power deals, on the clock.
Broadcom just picked its next supplier, and it is not Samsung Electronics or SK Hynix.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics and LG Innotek, not Samsung Electronics or SK Hynix, are racing to supply Broadcom with the substrates its AI chips sit on. One has already won Broadcom's business and is shipping glass substrate samples. The other is fielding trillion won investment offers to catch up.
Sivers Semiconductors (SIVEF) diluted shareholders by 11% in two days. Then its insider lockup expired.
Sivers Semiconductors (SIVEF) grew its share count by about 11% in two days in early July, between a SEK 700 million raise and a lender's debt-to-equity conversion. An insiders' lockup then expired July 16, and the stock, still without a rebuttal to short seller Ningi Research's claims, is down roughly 67% from its 52-week high.
Ondas (ONDS): 214 million shares of volume, 32% short interest, and a stock that still closed red
Ondas (ONDS) traded about 214 million shares today, more than double its two week average, yet the stock still closed down. Here's what the volume, the DZYNE share unlock, and the 32% short interest actually add up to.
Nebius (NBIS) tried a $1 billion customer deal and a new business model to stop its stock slide. A $775 million loan is what actually worked.
Nebius raised $775 million in its first-ever secured debt facility, backed by GPU infrastructure and contracted cash flows, without issuing new shares. The stock is up more than 5% today, defying a weak Nasdaq, after a $1 billion customer deal and a new partnership model both failed to stop a 22% five-day slide.
China's Xi Jinping just launched a 29-nation AI bloc. That's bullish for US AI stocks (NVDA, PLTR)
Xi Jinping used the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai to launch a 29-nation World AI Cooperation Organization and take a shot at US chip export controls. History says Washington answers moves like this with money, and that is bullish for the US AI trade.
SK Hynix's own chairman had one message for panicking investors: stop trading, just hold. (July 17, 2026)
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won told investors Friday to stop trading SK Hynix and just hold it, a day after the stock fell 11.5% in Seoul and its Nasdaq shares (SKHY) dropped another 13.7% overnight. By Friday afternoon, SKHY was already green, up more than 5% in New York trading.
Meta (META) is in talks to lease $10 billion of computing power to its rival Anthropic
The New York Times reports Meta is negotiating to lease AI rival Anthropic up to $10 billion in computing power, following the path SpaceX and TeraWulf already blazed.
Dan Crenshaw sold Google, Amazon, Apple and Meta on the same day, then bought a leveraged oil fund
Rep. Dan Crenshaw's July 16 disclosure shows he sold Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and a leveraged financial ETF all on the same day, then bought a leveraged oil fund instead. A separate trade in the same filing closed out a Meta options bet right after the stock's roughest day of the year.
Micron slid 6% into Friday's open, then flipped positive within the hour as chip stocks staged a violent rebound (July 17, 2026)
Chip stocks slid overnight and into Friday's open, with Micron down as much as 5.8 percent, then staged one of the sharpest reversals of the week within about an hour.
An executive can schedule a stock sale 120 days before they even know what's coming
Ontrak's former CEO went to prison for misusing a 10b5-1 trading plan, the same legal tool that lets most executives schedule stock sales months in advance. Here's how the plan is supposed to work, why the SEC tightened it in 2022, and how to tell a real scheduled sale from one that wasn't.
RoboStrategy (BOT) holds pieces of Figure AI and Apptronik. It just registered shares tied to a $2 billion stock deal, eight times its own size.
RoboStrategy trades on Nasdaq as BOT and holds private stakes in Figure AI, Apptronik and 12 other robotics startups. Two months after its IPO, it can now sell $2 billion in new shares, about eight times the fund's current size. Here's how the deal works and what it means for existing shareholders.
Kimi K3 just gave Nvidia (NVDA) its second "DeepSeek moment." The first one made chip demand go up, not down.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 sent Nvidia and Oracle lower this week, reviving the "cheap AI kills chip demand" argument. History, and the actual spending numbers, say the opposite is true.
Korea triples the deposit to trade its riskiest leverage ETFs. FSS chief Lee Chan-jin wishes he had stopped them sooner.
Korea's regulators tripled the minimum cash deposit for single-stock leverage products on Samsung and SK Hynix and halted new listings, after the products drove 16 of this year's 37 Kospi trading halts since their May launch. The financial regulator's own chief already said in June he wishes he had stopped them before they launched.
Steven Cohen's Point72 bought into Evommune (EVMN). The stock had already crashed 38%.
Point72 disclosed a new 5.3% stake in Evommune (EVMN) today, more than two weeks after the stock crashed 38% on a failed Phase 2b trial. The filing doesn't say what Point72 paid or whether the position is up or down, but the stock has kept sliding since the disclosure date.
Korea-listed Samsung and SK Hynix ETFs are built to sell when the market drops. That is why the Kospi keeps crashing at the close.
A 2x leveraged ETF is designed to sell more every time its stock falls, and it does this near the market close. When the stock is Samsung or SK Hynix, each of which is a huge share of the Kospi, that automatic selling drags down the whole index. Here is how single-stock leverage ETFs have been quietly amplifying Korea's crashes.
SharonAI (SHAZ) just signed a $1.32 billion cloud deal. The stock is down anyway.
SharonAI (SHAZ) signed a $1.32 billion, five-year cloud computing deal with an unnamed AI lab today, its first project in New Zealand, and the stock fell about 5.5% anyway. It's the same pattern that hit TSMC and Nebius on the same day: real good news, and the stock drops regardless.
Nebius (NBIS) signed a $1 billion deal this week. Its stock is down 14% today anyway, worse than the chipmakers.
Nebius signed a $1 billion, multi-year AI compute deal with Reflection AI, and its stock is still down about 14% today. The pressure has spread well past chips: CoreWeave, crypto miners like IREN and Cipher Mining, power stocks like Talen Energy and Vistra, and now New York's data-center moratorium and a Trump-Hochul clash are all weighing on the same trade.
SK Hynix (SKHY) and Samsung make almost 80% of the world's AI memory. That's why Micron (MU) and US chip stocks crashed again (July 16, 2026)
Chip stocks fell hard again on July 16: SK Hynix's US shares (SKHY) closed down 13.7%, SanDisk (SNDK) 12.6%, Western Digital (WDC) 9.2%, Micron (MU) 5.7%, even after TSMC's record quarter. The reason traces back to Korea, where Samsung and SK Hynix make close to 80% of the world's AI memory, and to China's CXMT pricing an $85.7 billion IPO the same day.
Jim Cramer blessed IBM on Monday. Tuesday was its worst day ever. Wednesday he blessed my Intel. Thursday it dropped.
Jim Cramer told viewers to buy IBM on July 13. It fell 25% the next day, the worst session in the company's history. Then he turned bearish at the bottom and has been right since. On Wednesday he called Intel his favorite stock for the fifth time since June. I own Intel. Thursday it dropped another 3.5%.
Pasqal hired a 30-year HPE executive to lead its commercial push, months into its $2 billion SPAC deal
Pasqal, the Nobel laureate's quantum computing startup, just hired a nearly 30-year HPE veteran to lead its commercial push across Europe and Asia. The hire comes months into the $2 billion SPAC merger it announced back in March, still working toward a close later this year.
TSMC beat earnings for a seventh straight quarter. The whole chip sector sold off anyway, and health care picked up the money.
TSMC beat Q2 earnings for a seventh straight quarter and raised its own 2026 capex forecast, an unusually bullish print. The semiconductor sector sold off anyway, continuing this week's memory-chip unwind, while health care, led by big earnings beats from UnitedHealth and Abbott, picked up the money instead.
Korea's president called the stock market unstable. Two days later, the Kospi crashed again (July 16, 2026)
South Korea's Kospi fell another 6.37% Thursday on a surprise Bank of Korea rate hike, two days after President Lee Jae-myung called the market unstable and blamed leveraged ETFs tracking Samsung and SK Hynix. The same week, regulators rolled out a new debt hotline after more than 320,000 accounts were forcibly liquidated this month.
SpaceX briefly fell below its IPO price today, and the revenue never supported a $2 trillion valuation
SpaceX dipped as low as around $132 on Wednesday, briefly trading below its $135 IPO price for the first time, before closing at $135.27, just pennies above it. With about $18.7 billion in revenue last year, a $2 trillion valuation was always a stretch, and Morningstar said as much before the IPO even priced.
RoboStrategy's CEO bought $10 million of new BOT stock this week, priced at more than 3 times the fund's net asset value
RoboStrategy CEO Andrew Kang bought $10 million of newly issued BOT shares in a board-approved private placement, priced at more than three times the fund's reported net asset value.
AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) sinks close to 13% after hours on its third billion-dollar note sale since October
AST SpaceMobile went back to the debt market for the third time since October, and investors kept selling into the evening, with the stock down nearly 13% after hours despite the company holding $2.7 billion in cash.
Big tech is about to spend $725 billion on AI data centers. That's not what a bubble looks like.
Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta are guiding to roughly $725 billion in combined AI capex for 2026, up 77% from last year. States are moving to regulate the data centers that money builds, but the real risk to watch is that spending now outpaces free cash flow.
ASML raised guidance sharply today. Wall Street barely reacted, and TSMC reports tomorrow.
ASML beat its own Q2 estimate and raised full-year 2026 guidance again, citing surging AI chip demand. The stock barely moved on the news. Since ASML builds the machines TSMC depends on, that muted reaction is worth watching heading into TSMC's own report tomorrow morning.
Only about 10 members of Congress use a blind trust. Here's why almost nobody bothers.
A blind trust sounds like the simple fix for a lawmaker owning stock while writing the laws that move it. Only about 10 sitting members of Congress actually have one. Here is what a real blind trust requires, why so few bother, and whether it even does what people think it does.
Semiconductors are having their worst day in weeks. Tomorrow, TSMC gets a chance to reverse it.
Semiconductor stocks are having their worst day in weeks, Micron, SanDisk, and SK Hynix's ADR all down double digits. TSMC reports Q2 earnings before the bell tomorrow, scores an 88 out of 100 on our Stock Scorer, and might be the one print that stops the bleeding.
Money is rotating out of semiconductor stocks and into the Mag 7 today. (July 15, 2026)
The real move Wednesday is money rotating into the Mag 7, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are each up more than 3%. That money is coming out of semiconductor stocks, as SK Hynix's Nasdaq ADR, Micron and SanDisk all give back this week's spike.
A short seller says a third of Sivers Semiconductors' (SIVEF) revenue is dubious. Its CEO and board bought shares anyway.
A short seller says 31% of Sivers Semiconductors' 2025 revenue is dubious and Sweden is probing an information leak. Its CEO and full board bought shares anyway, right as its laser chips landed a real GlobalFoundries partnership.
Producer prices (PPI) fell in June too, a day after CPI's first drop since 2020 (July 15, 2026)
June's Producer Price Index fell 0.3%, cooler than expected and the second straight day inflation data has surprised to the downside. Energy led the drop, gasoline fell 12%, and core PPI cooled to a 5.1% annual rate.
Should you actually copy stocks bought by hedge funds, Congress, or insiders? What the data really says
Copying stocks bought by Congress, hedge funds, and company insiders all sound like easy shortcuts. Here's what the actual research says happens once you try each one, and why the delay before you see the trade matters more than people think.
The Close, July 14: IBM lost a quarter of its value, and SK Hynix's Nasdaq stock jumped 27%
IBM lost about a quarter of its value in a single session after a weak preliminary report, and the damage spread across enterprise software. SK Hynix's brand-new Nasdaq stock went the other way, jumping 27% on a day chips broadly rallied.
Bitcoin miners are becoming AI landlords. Here's how far each one has actually gotten.
Eight bitcoin miners are pitching the same AI pivot, but they're nowhere near equally far along. IREN and TeraWulf already have AI revenue flowing. Hut 8, Cipher and Applied Digital have billions in signed leases that haven't started billing yet. CleanSpark still just mines bitcoin.
SK Hynix's new Nasdaq stock rose 20% today. The same company in Seoul only gained 4%.
SK Hynix's week-old Nasdaq stock, SKHY, rose about 21% Tuesday. The company's original Seoul shares gained less than 4% the same day. The difference comes down to a very new, very thinly available ADR, and it is worth understanding before it happens with the next Korean listing.
New York froze new data centers for a year, and TeraWulf just became the day's biggest loser because of it. Nebius, close behind, has nothing to do with New York.
Governor Hochul signed a first-in-the-nation moratorium on new hyperscale data centers today, and TeraWulf (WULF) fell 6.7%, the hardest hit in the group, because it owns exactly the kind of project the order targets. Nebius (NBIS) fell almost as much, and Digital Realty (DLR) also dropped on real New York exposure, but Nebius and CoreWeave (CRWV) have nothing to do with Albany.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 3: it sold MSTR right at the low and it gapped up 6% the next morning
The AI running my $100 Robinhood account cut MicroStrategy (MSTR) at $90.93 on Monday. Tuesday morning MSTR gapped up about 6%. It drives me insane, but the deal was that Claude makes the calls, so I am letting it ride.
Inflation fell for the first time since 2020, the Kospi closed green, and IBM still crashed 23% (July 14, 2026)
June CPI fell 0.4%, the first monthly decline since 2020, and chips bounced. Then IBM missed on preliminary results, lost roughly 23%, and dragged Workday, ServiceNow and Adobe down with it. CleanSpark jumped 8% on a $6.6 billion AI data center lease, and the Kospi closed green before the CPI number even existed.
Gloo (GLOO) sells tech to churches. One of its biggest shareholders is Bill Hwang's foundation.
Grace & Mercy Foundation just bought $3 million more of Gloo (GLOO) stock, bringing its stake to about 18.6%. The foundation was founded by Bill Hwang, the Archegos founder sentenced to 18 years in prison for a fraud that cost banks $30 billion.
A day after the crash, Kospi moved 3% in 15 minutes and Samsung opened green (July 14, 2026)
The Kospi opened Tuesday down 2.8% within ten minutes, then bounced nearly all the way back, a move of more than 3% before 9:15am in Seoul. Samsung opened green a day after the circuit-breaker crash, and the US CPI report lands six hours after the Korean close.
Chips got smoked today. Tomorrow's CPI report at 8:30am decides what happens next.
Arm, Coherent, Micron, AMD and Nvidia fell between 3.5% and 7.5% Monday while Microsoft, Apple and Amazon finished green. The selling stayed inside crowded AI infrastructure names. Tuesday's 8:30am CPI report could send the same stocks sharply either way, and the real risk isn't even in the data yet.
Penguin Solutions (PENG) hit a 52-week high last week. Its own debt sale knocked it down 12% on July 13.
Penguin Solutions announced a $650 million convertible notes offering after Monday's close, and the stock dropped as much as 12% in after-hours trading before clawing back some of the loss. The sale comes less than a week after PENG touched a 52-week high on a blowout earnings beat.
Figma's 12% jump is a short squeeze. Astera Labs fell 13% on no news at all.
Figma led todays gainers on a short squeeze, not sector strength. Astera Labs led losers on no company news at all, dragged down by the same SK Hynix crash rattling memory chips. Here is what todays biggest movers actually tell you.
Gloo's executive chair is the former CEO of Intel and VMware. He just bought $500,000 of the stock.
Gloo Holdings priced a follow-on offering at $3.25 a share on July 8, and the stock fell about 24% the next session. Two days later, Form 4 filings showed CEO Scott Beck, board member Derek Todd Green, and executive chair Pat Gelsinger, the former Intel and VMware CEO, bought a combined $6 million of the deal themselves.
A farming stock jumped 51% overnight by rebranding into AI real estate
Braiin (BRAI), a farming tech company, jumped 51% on a single press release announcing an AI real estate product. Volume spiked 230 times normal. Here is the pop, and the risk behind it, compared with the real AI real estate trade in Equinix and Digital Realty.
Why KOSPI moves so violently: two chip stocks, half the market, and 10x leverage
Samsung and SK Hynix are now nearly half of KOSPI, single stocks can move 30% in a day, and Korean retail investors trade with leverage tools that go up to 10 times their money. Here is how those three things combine into one of the world's most violent stock markets.
The VIX is up 8% today. Gold, bonds and Bitcoin are all down anyway.
The CBOE Volatility Index jumped 7.6% today, intraday around 11:30am ET, real fear in the tape. But gold, silver, Treasury bonds and Bitcoin all fell anyway. Energy and oil were the clear winners, technology and small caps the clear laggards.
We built a stock score tool. It gave Intel a D, and I bought the stock anyway.
One pick in every layer of the AI hardware stack, each one graded by the SEC-filings scoring tool we just built. Four picks agree with the tool: NVDA, WDC, TSM, VRT. Micron is a partial. INTC and COHR do not agree with the tool at all, and I am holding both anyway.
Strive's (ASST) new SEC filing: 19,900 bitcoin held, and 480,000 new shares sold in one week to keep buying
Strive's Monday 8-K says it bought 18 bitcoin at a $64,028 average. The more telling numbers are further down the filing: 480,351 new shares issued in eight days, $44 million of Strategy's preferred stock, and coins already worth less than the company paid.
The Iran war just crashed the Kospi into its 7th circuit breaker of the year. SK Hynix fell harder than Samsung again.
South Korea's Kospi crashed 8.95% and halted trading for the seventh time this year as US strikes on Iran spread to Bahrain, Oman, Jordan and Kuwait. SK Hynix fell harder than Samsung again, and its three-day-old US ADR followed the Seoul selloff down too, though by a smaller margin.
Inside the AI hardware stack, from Nvidia's chips to the grid that powers them
An AI data center is seven layers of hardware: GPUs, memory, storage, CPUs, networking, manufacturing, and power. Here's the full map, with the public companies behind each layer and where the bottlenecks actually are.
Futures down, oil up just 3% after Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz (July 12, 2026)
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed after the heaviest weekend of US strikes in months. Stock futures opened lower Sunday night and oil jumped about 3.1%. When this war started in March, the same headline took Brent to $126.
What is a 13D filing? Why investor stakes keep landing at 19.9%, not 20%
Schedule 13D and Schedule 13G both mean an investor crossed 5% of a company. The form they choose signals what they plan to do next, and it explains why big stakes keep landing at exactly 19.9%.
Intel hired away SK Hynix's memory boss, and nobody's pricing that in yet
The government owns 10% of Intel. It hired SK Hynix's former CEO to run advanced packaging, not to build DRAM. Here's why that combo, plus July 23 earnings, has me watching INTC closely.
The government is banking on drones becoming the future of warfare. The stocks got crushed anyway
Ukraine is fighting with cheap, disposable drones and the Pentagon wants nearly $75 billion for unmanned systems next year. AeroVironment, Kratos, Red Cat, Ondas, Unusual Machines, and AIRO are all down 45% to 65% anyway. Here's why.
Institutions got SK Hynix at $149. The public paid $170 the next day.
SK Hynix's $26.5 billion Nasdaq ADR priced at $149, and ten investors took half the deal. When SKHYV actually started trading, the first print came in at $171.71. Here's how the allocation worked, and why the public never had a shot at that price.
Bullish Watch, week of July 13: the market panicked over a Meta headline, and got it wrong
This week's watchlist, updated through Tuesday: Nebius gave back its early bounce on a data-center headline unrelated to its business, Kraken Robotics is holding up best of the five, Intel swung from a 6% drop to a 4.5% rally in two days, and Rocket Lab and Harmonic are still finding their footing.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, end of week 2: it dumped RCAT at a 13% loss and bought MSTR instead of anything I wanted
Claude, the AI running my $100 Robinhood agentic account, finally cut Red Cat at a 13% loss. Then it ignored every discounted ticker I suggested and put nearly the whole account into MicroStrategy. End of week 2 letting Claude trade my money.
Why options really do lose value fast on Fridays, and it's not a Wall Street conspiracy
It feels like your option loses value the moment Friday shows up, and a lot of traders assume institutions are rigging it against them. The real explanation, theta decay and how market makers hedge, is less sinister and more useful to actually understand.
What is a SPAC? DraftKings, Lucid and the Agility Robotics deal (CCXI), explained
A SPAC skips the normal IPO process by merging a private company into an already-public shell. Here is how that actually works, and what happened to the famous ones, from DraftKings to Lucid to the Agility Robotics deal (CCXI) moving through the pipeline right now.
SK Hynix (SKHY) passed Samsung for one day in South Korea. My theory on why it ran to the Nasdaq
On June 22 SK Hynix passed Samsung as South Korea's most valuable company for the first time in 25 years. It lasted one day, and the Kospi hit circuit breakers the next session. Here's my theory on why that's exactly why SKHYV just sprinted to the Nasdaq.
Meta (META) jumps 4.7% on Muse Spark 1.1, Zuckerberg's return to X, and the Alberta data center
Meta Platforms (META) closed up about 4.7% on July 9, with the gains accelerating hardest in the final hour of trading. A new coding AI model, Mark Zuckerberg's first X post in three years, and last week's $9 billion Canada data center all fed the same move.
TeraWulf is borrowing $3.5 billion for its Anthropic data center. Here's what that means for the stock (WULF)
TeraWulf is raising $3.5 billion in debt, its first-ever leveraged loan deal, to build the Kentucky campus behind its $19 billion Anthropic lease. The stock is up again today, but the move is more complicated than it looks.
Jim Cramer's tech calls, like Micron and Intel, are missing far more than everything else
We pulled 23 of Jim Cramer's stock calls from late April through early July and checked the real numbers. His tech picks are down 7.2% on average with just 1 winner out of 10. His other calls are roughly flat, and just under half are green.
Hedge fund Point72 disclosed a stake in Freenome's SPAC merger, days before the vote got delayed (PCSC)
Point72's Steve Cohen disclosed a 5.7% stake in the SPAC merging with cancer-detection startup Freenome, right as the shareholder vote to close the deal got pushed back a week.
T1 Energy (TE) is down today while tech rallies. Here's why I added to my position anyway.
T1 Energy (TE) fell about 1% today while the Nasdaq and tech sector rallied. Short interest is high, a Fuzzy Panda short report is still unresolved, and there's unconfirmed chatter on X that Leopold Aschenbrenner sold his stake. I added to my position yesterday anyway. Here's why.
SK Hynix priced its Nasdaq debut 3.1% above Seoul, after demand ran 7 times oversubscribed.
SK Hynix guided its Nasdaq ADR offering to $149 each, a 3.1% premium to Seoul's close, after the book ran more than 7 times oversubscribed. Here's the math behind the premium and who anchored the deal.
A senator sold Apple and Nvidia in June. He bought Coherent and Micron instead.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's latest disclosure shows he sold Apple and Nvidia in late June, then bought Coherent and Micron the same week. Here's what the filing actually shows, and how each stock has moved since.
Chip stocks just had their best day in weeks. Meta and Amazon are both betting billions that AI compute demand isn't topping out (MU, WDC, META)
Micron, SanDisk, and Western Digital are having their best day in weeks. A week after a rumor said Meta had too much AI compute, Meta and Amazon both bet billions that demand is still growing, and Samsung's own record quarter couldn't shake investors until this week's data center news did.
What is an AI neocloud? CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius (NBIS), explained
Neoclouds like CoreWeave and Nebius buy GPUs with debt and rent out the computing power to AI companies. Here is how the business model works, and the risk built into it.
Meta said it had spare compute. Then it broke ground on a $9 billion data center in Canada (META, CRWV, NBIS)
A week after Meta's excess-compute cloud plan crushed the neoclouds, it broke ground on a C$13 billion, 1-gigawatt data center in Alberta, Canada. The demand is real.
China called Claude Code a security backdoor. Here's what it means for Anthropic's trillion-dollar IPO.
China's National Vulnerability Database called Anthropic's Claude Code a security backdoor, and Alibaba banned it. Amazon and Google's stakes in Anthropic already drive over half their quarterly profits, with a trillion-dollar IPO on the way.
Every trade a CEO makes in their own stock goes public within 2 days. Here's how to read a Form 4.
Corporate insiders must disclose their own stock trades within two days. Here's what a Form 4 actually shows, using two real filings, and why most insider selling isn't the warning sign it looks like.
The Nasdaq fell 8% when this war started, then blew past its old record high.
Iran escalated again today, and the Nasdaq is only down about 0.8%. This same war already showed the pattern once: an 8% drop in March, then a genuine record high by June.
Wall Street used to move the Kospi. This week, the Kospi moved Wall Street.
South Korea's Kospi tumbled into a bear market this week. Its relationship with Wall Street isn't a one-way street. It runs both directions, depending on where the shock starts.
TeraWulf, CoreWeave, and Nebius are having a big day. The stocks still mostly mining bitcoin are not.
TeraWulf, Nebius, IREN, CoreWeave, and five other AI infrastructure stocks are surging together Wednesday, while HIVE Digital and CleanSpark, the two names still mostly mining bitcoin, are red. The split isn't random.
Penguin Solutions (PENG) beat by 53%, dropped overnight on Iran news, then exploded 21% this morning
Penguin Solutions crushed Q3 earnings Tuesday night, then the stock faded, dropped below its pre-earnings price overnight as Iran ceasefire news hit futures market-wide, and finally broke out once regular trading opened Wednesday.
Oil spikes and stocks slide after new US strikes on Iran, but Nasdaq futures are already clawing back
New US strikes on Iran sent oil surging and helped drag the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq lower on top of a Samsung-driven chip selloff. Hours later, Nasdaq futures were already recovering some of the loss.
What are stock futures, and what do they actually predict?
S&P and Nasdaq futures trade almost around the clock and set the tone before the opening bell. What a futures contract actually is, why tech futures swing harder, and how much you should trust them.
SharonAI (SHAZ) is down 13% today after a wild week. Here's what Leopold Aschenbrenner has disclosed since our last look
SharonAI (SHAZ) has moved from $85 to $68 to $80 to $70 in the week since our stake deep dive. A price update, plus a new filing showing Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund anchoring SK Hynix's Nasdaq debut.
IBM (IBM) is up almost 12% this week while chip stocks get hit. Here's why.
IBM has closed higher four straight sessions and is up again today, even as Samsung's earnings reaction and a broader chip selloff hit Micron, SanDisk, and Penguin Solutions. A BofA upgrade, a quantum computing milestone, and a new mainframe launch all landed within 48 hours.
Penguin Solutions (PENG) beat earnings for a seventh straight quarter and raised its outlook
Penguin Solutions (PENG) beat earnings for a seventh straight quarter, posting record $479 million in sales and $0.84 EPS, and raised its full-year outlook again. Shares fell in the regular session before jumping in after-hours trading on the beat.
What is the VIX? The market's fear gauge, explained
The VIX measures how much movement options traders expect in the S&P 500, not which direction it moves. Here is what counts as low or high, how investors actually use it, and the real risks in trying to trade volatility directly.
A week ago I called my SK Hynix (SKHY) trade. I sold the $190 spike and bought the $154 dip.
David Han laid out a specific SK Hynix (SKHY) trade theory on July 7: a debut spike, Micron riding the sympathy wave, then a memory selloff as the excitement drained out. A week later it mostly played out, and he sold SKHY near $190 and bought back at $154. The original call is left exactly as written.
SK Hynix's $28 billion Nasdaq debut names Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund as a cornerstone investor
SK Hynix's record roughly $28 billion Nasdaq listing (SKHY) drew a cornerstone commitment from Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund. The twist: the fund's single biggest disclosed position is a bet against the chip sector, which makes an anchor check into a memory chipmaker the story worth watching.
Samsung's record beat couldn't stop a memory stock selloff, and Micron (MU) is caught in it
Samsung posted a record 89.4 trillion won ($58.5 billion) Q2 operating profit, up 18-fold year over year, and the stock still opened lower. Memory names like Micron, SanDisk, and Western Digital are down sharply while the broader Nasdaq 100 barely moved. This is still developing after-hours and can change fast.
TeraWulf (WULF) spiked 18%, then gave most of it back: sell the news, buy the rumor
TeraWulf (WULF) opened up 14% and spiked as high as $25.04 on a $19 billion Anthropic lease, then gave back nearly 70% of that gain by early afternoon. Here is how the short interest and the deal math explain the fade.
What is HBM? The memory chips powering the AI boom
Only three companies make high bandwidth memory, the chips every AI accelerator depends on, and supply is sold out through 2026. What HBM is, who makes it, and how to invest in it.
My $100 Claude AI trade in RCAT: still holding, week 2
The Robinhood Agentic AI's first pick, Red Cat (RCAT), is down about 5% heading into week 2. Here is why I am not selling, the real drone-program news that came out over the holiday, and where the cut line and target still sit.
Astera Labs (ALAB) rallies again, and Wall Street's targets can't keep up
ALAB surged again as chip stocks rallied broadly on July 6, extending a two-week run built on a Q1 beat and Nasdaq-100 inclusion. Even Bank of America's Street-high $450 target, set nearly two weeks ago, can't keep pace with the stock.
Broadcom (AVGO) and Apple (AAPL) extend their chip deal through 2031, and AI is part of it now
Broadcom filed two sentences with the SEC about extending its Apple chip deal to 2031. The 3.7% pop came from reporting about an unconfirmed AI chip, not from anything Broadcom actually said. Here's what's confirmed and what isn't.
Ondas (ONDS) buys DZYNE for $875 million: bigger platform, more dilution
Ondas (ONDS) is buying DZYNE Technologies for $875.8 million, mostly in stock, and raised its 2026 revenue guidance to at least $525 million. It's also the biggest dilution event yet in a year of stock-funded acquisitions. Here's what the deal means and what to watch next.
SemiAnalysis says Nvidia's Kyber AI rack is delayed to 2028: what it means for NVDA, AMD, and the photonics trade
SemiAnalysis says Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 rack is delayed more than a year to 2028, its backup design was scrapped, and Rubin Ultra was quietly cut in half. NVDA barely moved and AMD jumped instead. Here's what it means for the wider photonics trade, from Coherent and Lumentum to POET Technologies.
TeraWulf (WULF) stock jumps 18% on a 20-year, $19 billion Anthropic data center lease
TeraWulf signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic worth about $19 billion in contracted revenue at its Kentucky data center campus, and sold its Abernathy, Texas stake to a Fluidstack-led group for about $530 million the same day. WULF stock jumped as much as 17%, reversing a hard slide, right after Anthropic's reported $15 billion Australia data center plan.
Oracle (ORCL) stock crashed 59%: is it near the bottom?
Oracle keeps beating earnings and keeps falling anyway, down from $345.72 to around $140. Here is why, the debt and cash burn behind it, the $638 billion bull case, and whether the stock is bottoming.
Hyperliquid's Sunday tape shows chip and memory stocks bouncing hard
Western Digital, SanDisk and Micron are all up more than 6% from Thursday's close on Hyperliquid's 24/7 stock perpetuals. Here is the Sunday snapshot, and why it is not the same as Sunday night's real reopen.
Why I bought a small position in SharonAI (SHAZ)
I picked up a small SharonAI (SHAZ) position Thursday near the lows. Here is the Nvidia deal, the Leopold Aschenbrenner and Anthropic angle, and the real risks a short report raised.
Uber's $20 million Lime (LIME) buy is now official, and its stake tops 23%
A July 2 SEC filing confirms Uber Technologies bought $20 million of Lime stock at its $25 IPO price, following through on a pre-IPO commitment. The same filing shows old convertible notes converting into equity too, taking Uber's total Lime stake to about 23 percent of the company.
How to buy SK Hynix stock (SKHY), the leveraged tickers, and two symbols that no longer work
SK Hynix trades on the Nasdaq under SKHY, and any US brokerage account can buy it. Here is how to place the order, which stocks actually give you this trade, the six leveraged tickers, and why the leveraged ones lost more than double.
Anthropic's $15 billion Australia data center plan, and why Leopold Aschenbrenner's real bet might be SharonAI (SHAZ), not IREN
Anthropic is reportedly weighing a $15 billion, 1.4 gigawatt data center buildout in Australia. Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund owns both IREN and SharonAI (SHAZ), but his SharonAI stake, nearly 20 percent of the company, dwarfs his roughly 3 percent stake in IREN, and he's engaged to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's chief of staff.
How to read an earnings report: EPS, margins, and what actually matters
Earnings reports look like a wall of numbers. Here is how to read the lines that matter, from revenue and EPS to margins, guidance, and whether a stock is cheap or expensive.
Made in America stocks: how to build a reshoring portfolio
A plain-English guide to the reshoring trade: the steel, machinery, power, automation, and chip stocks behind the Made in America push, and the catch the headlines skip.
Micron (MU), Nebius (NBIS) and chip stocks jump on Hyperliquid's weekend tape
Real markets are closed for July 4th, but tech and chip stocks are trading green right now on Hyperliquid's 24/7 stock perpetuals. Micron, Marvell and Nebius lead the bounce, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq perpetuals are up too. Here is the full read, and why Monday could look nothing like this.
AI's water problem: real towns, real complaints, and the stocks built to fix it
Residents near data centers in Georgia and Oregon have raised real water complaints, one reaching Congress, but Meta and Amazon both dispute that their data centers are the cause. Here is each side, the numbers, and the stocks positioned to profit from fixing the bottleneck.
Bullish Watch, week of July 6: four oversold names, and one that already bounced
This week's Bullish Watch: CleanSpark (CLSK), Nokia (NOK), Teradyne (TER), and Ondas (ONDS) are oversold; AeroVironment (AVAV) already bounced on a beat-and-raise plus a fresh Army contract.
Nokia and BlackBerry got AI multiples. Ericsson (ERIC) still hasn't, and earnings are July 14
Nokia and BlackBerry made real AI bets and the market paid up for them. Ericsson chose custom silicon over Nvidia and has barely budged in 2026. Here is the gap in the numbers and what to expect from Ericsson's July 14 earnings.
Congressman Gil Cisneros bought Argan (AGX) on its highest day of 2026
Congressman Gil Cisneros disclosed a $15,001 to $50,000 purchase of Argan (AGX) dated June 30, 2026, the stock's highest close of the year. It is down 27.4% since. Five Argan insiders sold $84.0 million in June, none of it under a prearranged plan.
Samsung and SK hynix lead a 5.8% Kospi rebound after Thursday's chip rout (July 3, 2026)
Kospi crashed toward 7,300 early Friday before ripping to a 5.76% gain as Samsung and SK hynix reversed a brutal chip rout, a strong finish to a week that was still down about 3.65% overall.
Did Ondas (ONDS) just win a NASA contract? What the new filing actually says
A NASA filing on July 2 named Ondas's (ONDS) World View unit alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin. Here is what it actually is, and why it is not the NASA contract win some are calling it.
Michael Burry shorted Micron (MU) from $1,052, a bet the chip pain is not over
Michael Burry disclosed a new short on Micron (MU), reported near $1,052, even after the stock had already crashed from $1,255. It closed July 2 at $975.77, so the short is working, and it fits his wider bet against AI chips.
Do politicians actually beat the stock market? What the data says
Nancy Pelosi, David Rouzer, Ro Khanna and more: do members of Congress really beat the stock market? What the research and the yearly reports actually show, and whether copying their trades works.
Microsoft (MSFT) is finally moving: the news behind it and what could push it higher
Microsoft has bounced about 12% off its June low even as chip stocks keep falling. Here is the news moving MSFT, from the software rotation and the Haleon AI deal to the catalysts that could push it higher into July 28 earnings.
Meta selling spare compute doesn't mean the AI crunch is over (META, CRWV, NBIS)
Chip stocks sold off on Meta's plan to rent out spare compute. But Meta itself just got rationed by Google and is locked into take-or-pay deals with CoreWeave and Nebius. Why the overcapacity story is shaky, plus what to watch next week.
Micron cracks $1,000 as the chip scare returns from Korea (MU, AVAV)
Stocks opened firm, then chips rolled over after 10 a.m. Micron (MU) cracked $1,000 as the Korea selloff spread. The Dow held, and healthcare and AVAV rallied.
Ondas (ONDS) CEO reportedly touts a $20 billion market cap goal. The stock says $4 billion
An investor who was on a group Zoom call with Ondas CEO Eric Brock says Brock told participants the company will reach a $20 billion market cap and not stop there. Ondas is worth about $4.15 billion today. Here is the math, what is real behind the ambition, and the dilution catch.
Chips had their third worst day of 2026 and the S&P barely noticed (MU, INTC)
The S&P 500 closed within a whisker of flat on July 1 and the chip trade still had its third worst day of the year. Micron fell 10.5 percent, Intel lost 9 percent, and Meta gained almost 9 percent on the other side. Here is the damage report.
Intel's turnaround, AMD's run, and why the CPU still matters in AI
Intel (INTC) was the comeback story of 2026, up about 278% in the first half on a foundry turnaround. AMD (AMD) rose about 171% on the same theme. A deep dive into what changed at Intel, how AMD keeps taking share, and why the CPU still matters in an AI world obsessed with GPUs.
The AI stocks that led and lagged the first half of 2026
The first half of 2026 split the AI trade in two. Memory and chip-supply names like Micron (MU, +304%) and Intel (INTC, +278%) soared, while marquee names lagged and AI software fell, with Palantir (PLTR) down about 34%. Here is the full scoreboard and what it means.
How to track stock trades by Congress and the president
A plain guide to how politicians disclose their stock trades: the STOCK Act, which forms to read (PTR, OGE 278-T, 13F, Form 4), where to find them for free, and how to read them without fooling yourself.
Meta's cloud news is hammering the neoclouds: CoreWeave and Nebius drop about 13% (July 1, 2026)
The same Meta cloud announcement that sent META up about 10% on July 1, 2026 is hammering the neoclouds. CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius (NBIS) each fell about 13% as investors saw a giant new rival for renting out AI computing power.
Where the money moved July 1: out of chips, into software, as Meta jumps on cloud news
A flat tape hid a sharp rotation on July 1, 2026: money moved out of semiconductors (SMH -4.2%) and into software (IGV +3.8%), led by Meta's (META) roughly 10% jump on news it will sell its spare AI cloud computing power.
I let Claude AI trade $100 of my money and it bought Red Cat (RCAT)
I funded Robinhood's new Agentic AI account with $100 and let Claude trade for me. Its first pick was Red Cat (RCAT) at $10.68, an Army drone stock I would not have grabbed myself. Two days in, it is green, and I still cannot fully explain the pick. My honest, slightly humbling take.
T1 Energy (TE) leads a solar stock rally on a looming Chinese inverter ban
T1 Energy (TE) jumped alongside Nextracker, Shoals Technologies and JinkoSolar this week as solar stocks rallied on a Reuters report that Washington is moving to ban Chinese-made power inverters. Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund has a small stake in T1, too.
Michael Burry is betting against Tesla (TSLA) and Caterpillar (CAT), days after making a multi-year bet Microsoft (MSFT) rises
Michael Burry disclosed five new short positions on June 30, including a first-ever bet against Caterpillar (CAT), just days after a multi-year bet that Microsoft (MSFT) shares would rise. Every price he disclosed, and where the trades stand now.
AI investing glossary: the jargon behind every AI stock, explained
A plain-English glossary of the jargon in AI-stock coverage: GPU, HBM, foundry, neocloud, hyperscaler, capex, 13F, picks and shovels, Mag 7 and more, grouped by theme with links to fuller explainers.
Agility Robotics (CCXI) trades 66% above the price its own insiders are paying. Nobody outside the deal has seen the financials.
CCXI closed at $16.62 against the $10 price Foxconn and Agility's existing backers are paying to take the humanoid robot maker public as AGLT. What the filings show about the deal, Digit's unit economics, and the six funds that bought at $10.
What is a 13F filing? How to track what hedge funds are buying (and what it leaves out)
A plain-English guide to 13F filings: what they are, the 45-day lag, what they include and leave out, how 13D and 13G stakes differ, and how to track what hedge funds are buying for free.
Smart money is piling into AI neoclouds: Nebius NBIS, SharonAI SHAZ and Cerebras CBRS
Several top funds disclosed 5%+ stakes in AI compute names this spring: Leopold's Situational Awareness in Nebius (NBIS) and SharonAI (SHAZ), Tiger Global in Cerebras (CBRS), and Lone Pine in miners turned AI data centers TeraWulf (WULF) and Hut 8 (HUT).
What is SharonAI (SHAZ)? Inside the AI cloud stock Leopold Aschenbrenner just took to a 19.9% stake
A deep dive on SharonAI Holdings (SHAZ), the thinly-traded AI GPU-cloud stock Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness just took to a 19.9% stake, plus the price action since his position became visible: roughly $57.50 in mid-May to about $88 now.
Bitcoin is sliding, and the AI data center miners are sliding with it (IREN, CORZ, CLSK)
A dozen former bitcoin miners now call themselves AI data center companies. With bitcoin down near $58,300 and sliding a second day, most fell with it, while the names furthest from crypto held up best.
Drone stocks jump: AeroVironment AVAV, Unusual Machines UMAC, Ondas ONDS and Red Cat RCAT rally
Drone stocks jumped on June 30, 2026 after AeroVironment's (AVAV) beat, with AeroVironment up about 20% and Unusual Machines (UMAC) about 15%. Beaten-down names Ondas (ONDS) and Red Cat (RCAT) finally bounced, even as Washington and Beijing escalate a drone trade war.
AI's quiet winners: ASML, AMD and Vertiv VRT lead at the June 30, 2026 open
On the last trading day of the first half, the AI suppliers led again. ASML, Arm (ARM) and Vertiv (VRT) each rose about 4%, while Micron (MU) is up roughly 300% in 2026.
Space stocks had their day Monday, June 29: Rocket Lab (RKLB), AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) and Iridium (IRDM) soar
A Rocket Lab takeover of Iridium, an analyst upgrade, and the SpaceX index story all hit at once. Here is what actually moved space stocks on June 29.
AeroVironment (AVAV) jumps after hours on a Q4 beat and raise (June 29)
AeroVironment (AVAV) beat on both lines in fiscal Q4, with adjusted EPS of $1.84 and revenue of $641.6M up about 133% year over year, then guided fiscal 2027 well above. The stock jumped roughly 15% after hours.
Data-center and bitcoin-miner stocks (CRWV, HIVE) sold off at the open on June 29 after a pre-market pop
AI data-center, neo-cloud, and bitcoin-miner stocks ticked up pre-market on June 29, then sold off hard at the open. Most are down 3% to 10% from the open and now slowly recovering. Nebius (NBIS) was the exception.
Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) popped today and I'm still long. Here's my real thesis, and why I'm ignoring the AMD rumor.
Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) jumped about 9% today. My take: the real thesis is the $1.1B-plus revenue guide, the $200M 1.6T order, and a 6x capacity ramp. The AMD talk is unconfirmed X chatter. I'm long, here's how I see it.
AeroVironment (AVAV) reports earnings tonight, and drone stocks Red Cat (RCAT) and Ondas (ONDS) rally with it
AeroVironment (AVAV) reports earnings after Monday's close, and the small-cap drone group is rallying with it, led by Red Cat (RCAT) up about 8%, with Ondas (ONDS) and Draganfly (DPRO) higher.
The hidden chokepoints behind the AI chip boom
Everyone watches Nvidia and TSMC. But the AI chip boom rests on a few obscure materials, often from one company, country, or town: ABF substrate, photoresist, high-purity quartz, neon and gallium. Who controls them, and how big the risk really is.
Senator Dave McCormick bought Goldman Sachs (GS) twice. Here is what he paid, and where it sits now.
Senator Dave McCormick (R-PA) disclosed two Goldman Sachs (GS) buys in late May and early June. Here is what he paid on each date versus now, and why his Goldman trades draw extra scrutiny.
Today's AI rotation map: out of the chips, into software, power and the frontier
A snapshot of Monday's rotation: as the AI build-out sold off, money moved into software (ServiceNow, Adobe), AI power (GE Vernova), quantum, space and cyber. A one-day picture that can flip fast.
It is not just the chips: optics, memory and the neo-clouds all sold off this morning
The whole AI build-out sold off Monday morning, not just semiconductors. Optical names like Coherent (COHR) led the drop, memory (MU) and the neo-clouds fell hard, and Nebius (NBIS) was the lone holdout. What is going on.
Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron (MU): where the DRAM price-fixing lawsuit stands, updated August 8, 2026
A federal class action accuses Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron (MU) of colluding to choke DRAM supply and inflate RAM prices roughly 700% over four years. Updated July 28, 2026: defense counsel has appeared and the docket has passed 50 entries, but nothing substantive has been filed.
The market's closed, but the weekend stock tape is flashing green
The US market is closed, but stocks trade 24/7 on Hyperliquid. As of Sunday night the weekend tape is green, led by the chip names that fell hardest Friday. Our read before Monday's open.
S&P Global's CEO bought $1 million of SPGI stock, and it's already underwater
S&P Global CEO Martina Cheung put about $1 million of her own money into SPGI stock at around $430 the day after a strong quarter. Two months later it trades near $408, so the buy is already underwater. Here is what she bought, what an insider purchase signals, and the company's 53-year dividend streak.
The government is betting billions on quantum computing, but the payoff is years away
Washington is now a quantum-computing investor, having committed about $2 billion to nine companies and taken equity stakes back in May. But the technology will not pay off for years, and the pure-play stocks are already priced for a future that has not arrived. Here is the realistic picture.
Can you trade stocks on the weekend? Inside Hyperliquid and the IBM run
A years-old Trump clip went viral on a Saturday and IBM gapped up 15% by Monday. You could watch the whole thing on Hyperliquid, where stocks, oil and indexes trade all weekend in stablecoins. Here is how it works, and why 8 PM Sunday matters.
Iran attacked again this weekend. Here's what to expect at Monday's open.
It is Sunday night and Iran is back in the headlines after the US and Iran traded strikes over the weekend. Here is where the market stands, the base case for Monday's open, and the one thing that would turn a routine dip into a real drop.
Nokia ($NOK) had a rough week, and I'm still holding
Nokia got smoked in June after a 170% run. The Nvidia deal, the BlackBerry mix-up, the chart, and why I'm still holding $NOK into July earnings.
Advanced packaging is the bottleneck behind the AI chip, and the stocks that own it
Everyone watches TSMC make the AI chip, but it cannot ship without advanced packaging, the CoWoS step that bonds the GPU to its memory, and it has been sold out into 2026. Here is what advanced packaging is, why it is the real bottleneck, and the overlooked stocks behind it: Amkor (AMKR), Camtek (CAMT), Onto Innovation (ONTO) and Besi.
SpaceX is taking on the cell carriers, and analysts are floating a T-Mobile (TMUS) takeover
SpaceX just told IPO investors it will challenge the big wireless carriers with its own Starlink Mobile service, armed with $17 billion of new spectrum and satellites that work like cell towers in orbit. Here is what is real, plus the speculative T-Mobile (TMUS) takeover idea Wall Street is floating, and why Deutsche Telekom makes it hard.
Monthly dividend ETFs explained: QQQI, SPYI and the safer SCHD
Covered-call ETFs like QQQI and SPYI dangle 12 to 14 percent monthly yields, but the headline number hides real risks and very different tax treatment. Here is how they actually work, what they pay, the catch, and how the safer SCHD compares.
Meet the robot stocks, and why every Big Tech giant is racing into physical AI
Physical AI, robots that act in the real world, is being called the next big wave after AI, and the whole Mag 7 is racing in. Here is what they are building and the robot stocks you can actually buy, from the established names to the small caps with the most upside and risk.
SpaceX (SPCX) is joining the Nasdaq-100 just two weeks after its IPO, at less than 1% weight
SpaceX is joining the Nasdaq-100 barely a month after the largest IPO in history, under a brand-new fast-entry rule. Here is why a $2 trillion company comes in at under 1% weight, how it compares with the other recent additions, and whether the forced buying is actually bullish.
The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) just added its first Chinese stock, and it is the priciest name in the fund
The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) added GigaDevice as its first Chinese holding, and it is the priciest name in the fund. Updated August 1: CXMT is now in the fund too, at a 2.52% weight worth $627.5 million, held through a total return swap.
What history says about tech stocks in July of a midterm year
July is normally one of tech's best months, but 2026 is a midterm election year, and those play by different rules. Here is what history shows about the Nasdaq, the late-summer swoon, and the rally after the vote.
What every space stock actually does, and why ASTS, RKLB and the rest fell after SpaceX went public
Space stocks ran up together on Golden Dome defense money, then fell together after SpaceX’s record IPO. Here is what AST SpaceMobile (ASTS), Rocket Lab (RKLB), Planet Labs (PL) and the rest of the basket actually do, and why they move as one trade.
HIVE Digital (HIVE): a green bitcoin miner pivoting to AI, and a Leopold Aschenbrenner pick
HIVE Digital (HIVE) is the cheap, green bitcoin miner betting on AI. A look at the BUZZ HPC pivot, the recent $300 million share program, the Leopold Aschenbrenner stake, and the full bull and bear case.
Ondas (ONDS): a Lockheed Martin (LMT) deal, 10x revenue, and a stock cut in half
Ondas (ONDS) has a Lockheed Martin (LMT) counter-drone deal, a $457 million backlog and revenue up tenfold. It also has 508 million shares, heavy short interest, insider selling, and a Cramer meme-stock label. Both stories are true.
BlackBerry (BB) surged on its AI pivot while Nokia (NOK) and Qualcomm (QCOM) sold off
BlackBerry (BB) jumped on a QNX-led earnings beat while Nokia (NOK), Qualcomm (QCOM) and the chip suppliers fell. The old phone names are no longer one trade.
What is a chip foundry? Why almost every AI chip is made by one company, TSMC (TSM)
Nvidia, Apple and AMD design chips but do not make them. A plain-English guide to what a semiconductor foundry is, the fabless model, why TSMC (TSM) makes around 70 percent of the world's chips, and the packaging bottleneck holding back AI.
Are SaaS stocks AI roadkill or AI winners? A look at ServiceNow (NOW), Adobe (ADBE) and the SaaSpocalypse
Software has shed about $2 trillion as AI agents threaten the per-seat model. What ServiceNow (NOW) and Adobe (ADBE) actually do, why NOW round-tripped from its lows, and whether SaaS is still needed in the AI era.
Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron (MU) are all trillion-dollar stocks now. Here is how they stack up against the Mag 7.
The AI memory boom turned Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron (MU) into trillion-dollar companies. Here is how the memory giants stack up against each other and the Mag 7, and the DRAM ETF that packages them in one ticker.
The AI shortage keeps moving: from GPUs to memory, and now to hard drives (STX, WDC)
The AI shortage keeps rotating down the supply chain: first GPUs, then compute and networking, now memory, and hard drives are the leg lighting up next. The pattern, the stock moves at each stage, and what could be next.
Korea's market halted for the third time this week. Micron (MU) fell overnight, then bounced at the open.
South Korea halted trading a third time this week as SK Hynix and Samsung fell about 9 percent. Micron (MU) dropped overnight, then bounced at the open. Why this memory selloff is about leverage and positioning, not demand.
Michael Burry made a multi-year bet Microsoft (MSFT) will rise and sold part of his bet against Palantir (PLTR)
The investor famous for betting against markets just made a rare, multi-year bet that Microsoft (MSFT) will rise, using December 2028 LEAP calls, and sold part of his bet against Palantir (PLTR). MSFT is up this morning.
IREN bought the Warriors' jersey patch. Here's how it stacks up against WULF, CIFR and the other ex-miners
A few years ago IREN was a bitcoin miner. Now its badge is going on every Golden State Warriors jersey in a deal worth more than $50 million a year. Here is what IREN actually does, the Microsoft and Nvidia contracts behind the splash, and how it compares to ex-miners like WULF, CIFR, APLD and CLSK.
Sandisk (SNDK) ripped more than 20% on Micron's (MU) blowout: the memory stocks to watch
Sandisk (SNDK) jumped more than 20% today, the loudest name in a memory-stock rally lit by Micron's (MU) record quarter. Why SNDK ripped, and the other memory names riding the same wave.
Heads up for the July 4th week: the market is closed Friday, and options move to Thursday
July 4 lands on a Saturday in 2026, so the stock market is closed Friday, July 3. Thursday July 2 is a full session (not a half day), weekly options shift to Thursday, bonds close early, and crypto stays open. Here is the clean rundown.
Your old phone brands are AI stocks now: Nokia (NOK), BlackBerry (BB), Qualcomm (QCOM)
The brands that ruled the 2000s, Nokia, BlackBerry, Qualcomm and Ericsson, mostly got crushed by the iPhone. The survivors reinvented themselves around AI, from data-center networking to the software in your car to chips taking on Nvidia. What each does now, and the catch.
Nancy Pelosi's latest disclosure: Intel and Uber, then and now
Nancy Pelosi's household disclosed new call options on Intel and Uber. What the filing says, what the strike and dates mean, and how both stocks have moved since.
Solar stocks for the AI power boom: First Solar, T1 Energy, Canadian Solar and more
Solar plus batteries is the fastest power getting built for AI, and the stocks are heating up. The case for First Solar, Canadian Solar, Tesla and Fluence, plus T1 Energy, the US solar maker Leopold Aschenbrenner just took a big stake in.
Bullish Watch, week of June 29: four AI names we're watching into the July 4 week
Our first weekly bullish watch. Four AI-related names heading into the holiday-shortened week of June 29, each with a real catalyst and the risk that comes with it. Watching, not recommending.
After Micron's blowout, SK Hynix could go even bigger on July 29
Micron just posted a blockbuster quarter. The real question for July 29 is whether SK Hynix, the bigger HBM player with about 62% market share, the largest Nvidia HBM4 allocation, and record 72% margins, can top it. The bull case, and the catch.
Micron just had its best quarter ever. Wall Street sold tech anyway.
We called the blowout and Micron delivered a record quarter. So why did the Nasdaq sell off anyway? A hot inflation print and a jittery AI trade, not the fundamentals.
Our take: the AI sell-off looks overdone, and we think Micron gaps up tonight
The AI trade is in full panic and Micron has slid from over $1,200 toward $1,000 ahead of tonight's earnings. Here is why we think the sell-off is overdone and Micron could gap up.
Everything sold off at once right before Micron earnings. Here is what is actually going on.
A two-day, sell-everything rout hit stocks, Bitcoin, gold and silver right before Micron earnings. Here is what actually drove it, in plain English.
Meta is funding an entire gas plant in Alberta to power its AI. Here's what that means for CEG, VST and OKLO.
AI data centers need enormous, around-the-clock electricity, and the grid wasn't built for it. That's reviving nuclear, pushing Meta to fund an entire new gas plant in Alberta, and pulling solar into the mix too. Here's the demand, the deals, the stocks, and the risks worth respecting.
Did the AI bubble just pop, or was that a dip to buy?
After a brutal week for chip stocks, everyone's asking if the AI bubble is bursting. Here's the bear case, the bull case, and where I land: this looks more like a fear-driven dip than a popped bubble, with one real crack worth watching.
The AI selloff isn't done, and now it's all about Micron
Asia rebounded overnight and Samsung jumped more than 9%, but the bounce didn't hold. AI and chip stocks are selling off again, most of the Magnificent Seven are red, and Micron erased its premarket gains. The market is still down on fear, and Micron's earnings tonight are the one thing that can break it.
This month's top AI stocks in overnight trading: Marvell leads, Dell a one-night spike
We split a month of AI stock returns into overnight versus intraday. Dell and Marvell led overnight at about 32%, but Dell's came almost entirely from one earnings night, while Marvell's was the real repeating pattern.
SK Hynix's US listing: tune out the hype, watch the order book
SK Hynix is listing in the U.S. and the headlines have gone wild. The early numbers were guesswork, and the real terms came in far bigger: a roughly $29 billion Nasdaq deal. The simpler reason to like the stock is its sold-out 2026 memory book, already filling into 2027.
Trump spotlights Nokia's $30M Pennsylvania chip expansion: a small check, a notable signal
President Trump touted Nokia's new $30 million Pennsylvania semiconductor expansion at a Mack Trucks plant. The sum is small, but the spotlight, stacked on Nvidia's stake and Nokia's AI-networking push, is a notable sentiment signal for NOK.
AAOI cracks its floor: why photonics is getting routed today, and why the AI optics story holds
AAOI is down 14% into the $140s and the whole optical complex is bleeding. A deep dive into the sector rout, the broken chart, and why the long-term AI photonics thesis is still intact.
Green in a sea of red: why Microsoft is bucking the tech selloff today
Tech is bleeding on a memory-chip rout, but Microsoft is green. A deep dive into the rotation lifting MSFT and asset-light software while chips and Oracle get sold.
The AI stock map: every layer of the trade, from sand to software
A top-to-bottom deep dive on the AI supply chain, from the machines that make the chips down to the hyperscalers writing the checks, and how every layer pushes and pulls on the others.
What really happened to SK Hynix and Samsung overnight
Korea's KOSPI fell about 10% overnight and tripped its circuit breakers twice while SK Hynix and Samsung each dropped about 12%. Here's what actually drove the selloff, why it steadied, and why Micron's earnings tomorrow are the real test.
CoreWeave and Nebius dropped on their Nasdaq-100 debut, but we're still bullish
CoreWeave and Nebius got added to the Nasdaq-100 and immediately sold off, which is a pretty textbook buy the rumor, sell the news move. Here's what actually happened and why we're still bullish on the neo-clouds.
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