Vistra Corp. (VST) news and analysis

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Nancy Pelosi opened a new Bloom Energy (BE) position worth up to $12 million in late July
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Nancy Pelosi opened a new Bloom Energy (BE) position worth up to $12 million in late July

Nancy Pelosi's financial disclosure, filed August 21, shows a first-time position in Bloom Energy (BE): about 15,000 shares and 200 call options worth $3 million to $12 million, her biggest new single-name bet of 2026. The same filing adds 10,000 shares and 50 call options of Intel (INTC), on top of the Intel options she reported in June.

Aug 24, 2026
Oklo (OKLO) jumped 15% Friday after its reactor hit criticality. Every other nuclear stock we track rose too, except one
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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.

Aug 7, 2026
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.
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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.

Aug 4, 2026
Constellation Energy (CEG) reports Thursday with the stock 35% below its 52-week high
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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.

Aug 4, 2026
The Fed held rates 9 to 3. Warsh says the AI capex boom is driving up chip prices.
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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.

Jul 29, 2026
Solar stocks fell again Friday, July 24. T1 Energy (TE) is down 58% since June 2, Enphase (ENPH) 49% and First Solar (FSLR) 36%
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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.

Jul 24, 2026
Hedge fund Millennium disclosed a new 5.2% stake in Ameresco (AMRC) the week the stock hit its lowest point of 2026
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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.

Jul 22, 2026
Alphabet (GOOGL) raised AI capex to $205 billion, its third hike this year. Nvidia (NVDA) and Broadcom (AVGO) barely moved after hours
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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.

Jul 22, 2026
Oklo (OKLO) and X-Energy (XE) rallied Tuesday. After the bell, a Trump nuclear-for-AI report sent them higher again (July 21, 2026)
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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.

Jul 21, 2026
China's Xi Jinping just launched a 29-nation AI bloc. That's bullish for US AI stocks (NVDA, PLTR)
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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.

Jul 17, 2026
Nebius (NBIS) signed a $1 billion deal this week. Its stock is down 14% today anyway, worse than the chipmakers.
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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.

Jul 16, 2026
Jim Cramer's tech calls, like Micron and Intel, are missing far more than everything else
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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.

Jul 9, 2026
Meta said it had spare compute. Then it broke ground on a $9 billion data center in Canada (META, CRWV, NBIS)
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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.

Jul 8, 2026
The AI shortage keeps moving: from GPUs to memory, and now to hard drives (STX, WDC)
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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.

Jun 26, 2026
Bullish Watch, week of June 29: four AI names we're watching into the July 4 week
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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.

Jun 25, 2026
Meta is funding an entire gas plant in Alberta to power its AI. Here's what that means for CEG, VST and OKLO.
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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.

Jun 24, 2026
The AI stock map: every layer of the trade, from sand to software
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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.

Jun 23, 2026
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