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Remember when everyone said "this time is different"? Yeah, JPMorgan just threw cold water on that idea. Here's the plot twist nobody saw coming: while chip and memory stocks are absolutely crushing it—the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index is up 87% this year—the companies actually *spending* the money on AI are getting absolutely wrecked. Meta and Microsoft, two of the biggest AI capex spenders, are down 5% and 18% year-to-date respectively. Microsoft just had its worst month since 2000. Ouch. JPMorgan's Jason Hunter noticed ...
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The Dow Jones just wrapped up its best first-half performance since 2021, posting an 8.9% gain. Not bad for six months of market chaos, right? But here's the thing—momentum like this doesn't just happen. There's actual technical strength backing it up, and Wall Street's already eyeing which blue-chip stocks could keep the party going through the second half of 2026. Let's talk technicals for a second (I promise to keep it simple). The Dow is currently sitting pretty above both its ...
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For two years, the AI skeptics had a pretty solid argument: "Yeah, sure, companies are spending $2 trillion on AI infrastructure, but where's the revenue?" It was the financial equivalent of building a massive stadium and hoping someone would eventually buy tickets. Well, someone's buying tickets now. And the bears just lost their best excuse. Here's the thing that just flipped: the AI economy is now generating enough cash to actually cover the cost of all that infrastructure. Not with champagne-popping margins, ...
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Friday's jobs report headlined a drop in unemployment to 4.2% — but the real story beneath the surface is far more alarming. That decline came almost entirely because 720,000 Americans stopped looking for work in June, not because more people found jobs. The labor force participation rate — the share of working-age Americans who are either employed or actively job hunting — plummeted to 61.5%, the lowest level since March 2021. Strip out the COVID-era distortions, and it marks the ...
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One of America's fastest-growing sandwich chains is heading to Wall Street. Jersey Mike's filed for an initial public offering on Thursday, July 2, aiming to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "JMKE." The filing revealed a business that has quietly built enormous scale: $4.3 billion in annual system sales in 2025, up 13% from the prior year, with cumulative same-store sales growth of 50% from 2020 through 2025. The company now has nearly 3,300 locations — ...
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Tesla beat Wall Street's delivery expectations by a wide margin in the second quarter of 2026 — and investors sold the stock anyway. The EV maker reported 480,126 deliveries for Q2, blowing past the analyst consensus of around 406,600 and its own company-compiled estimate of 406,024. Production came in at 451,758 vehicles. Despite the 18% beat, Tesla shares sank approximately 7% on Thursday, continuing a troubling pattern: the stock has fallen after each of the last three quarterly delivery reports. The ...
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The June jobs report delivered a significant shock to markets on July 2. The U.S. economy added just 57,000 nonfarm payrolls last month, less than half the 115,000 that economists had forecast. The unemployment rate moved to 4.2%. The miss is stark — and coming just one day after ADP reported only 98,000 private payrolls in June, it paints a consistent picture of a labor market that is decelerating more sharply than the consensus anticipated heading into summer. Context matters here ...
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Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ) is no longer just a Bitcoin miner — and Wall Street is starting to price that in. On July 2, Insider Monkey reported that BTIG analyst Gregory Lewis raised his firm's price target on CORZ from $33 to $38, maintaining a Buy rating. From current levels, that revised target implies roughly 46% additional upside. The catalyst is a fundamental business pivot: Core Scientific is aggressively repositioning itself as a high-performance computing and AI colocation provider, moving ...
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