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Oracle just dropped earnings that made Wall Street lose its mind—and for good reason. The stock rocketed 15% after the company revealed it's basically printing money from cloud services. But here's the thing: the real story isn't what Oracle did last quarter. It's what they're about to do. Let's start with the numbers, because they're actually impressive. Oracle pulled in $15.9 billion in revenue, beating expectations by $400 million. Net income climbed 9% year-over-year to $3.4 billion. Yawn, right? Except here's ...
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Remember when the stock market was having a nice Tuesday morning? Yeah, that lasted about as long as a crypto bull run in a bear market. After a solid comeback on Monday and a promising start to Tuesday, the market decided to pull the rug out from under itself. The Nasdaq 100 tanked nearly 4% during the session—and if you were holding semiconductor stocks, well, buckle up because it got ugly fast. The VanEck Semiconductor ETF nosedived almost 7% at its ...
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Here's a fun fact: Nvidia's latest AI chips consume as much electricity per rack as 100 American homes use in a year. That's not a typo. That's just what happens when you're training models that can write your college essays and argue with you about philosophy. But here's where it gets interesting for investors—and where most people completely miss the play. Everyone's obsessed with Nvidia, Microsoft, and the big AI names. They're the celebrities of the tech world. But like any good ...
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Friday was rough for tech. The Nasdaq 100 dropped nearly 1%, but the real carnage happened in chips and memory stocks—the sectors that have been printing money all year. The iShares Semiconductor ETF, still up a cool 99% year-to-date, got absolutely hammered with a 3% drop. SK Hynix? Down 8%. Sandisk? Down 6%. Samsung, Micron, AMD—all bleeding red. Here's the thing: nobody's quite sure what happens next, and that uncertainty is eating investors alive. The sell-off has two main culprits. First, there's ...
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Here's the plot twist nobody saw coming: when the U.S. government told Anthropic to shut down access to its newest AI models, investors panicked. But if you're paying attention, this is actually the most bullish signal for AI infrastructure stocks we've seen all year. Let me explain why. For years, Washington treated AI like any other tech trend—cool, transformative, maybe needs some rules. But last week, the feds essentially said: "Nope. This is now in the same category as nuclear weapons and ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn’t use hyperbole lightly. Last week, he told The Wall Street Journal that memory prices have become so extreme that Apple — the single most powerful hardware procurement machine on the planet, spending tens of billions of dollars per year on memory chips — can no longer shield its customers from the increases. “We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers ...
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Something significant is happening in the bond market that retail investors shouldn’t ignore. U.S. bond ETF inflows have surged 60% compared to this time last year, according to Steve Laipply, global co-head of iShares fixed-income ETFs at BlackRock. The flood of money isn’t coming from panic; it’s coming from math. With the Federal Reserve under new Chair Kevin Warsh signaling potential rate hikes and inflation running above 4%, real yields — bond yields minus inflation — have turned meaningfully positive ...
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The Federal Reserve’s most closely watched inflation measure just posted its worst reading in nearly three years, and it’s forcing investors to rethink everything they assumed about rate cuts in 2026. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that core PCE — the personal consumption expenditures index excluding food and energy — rose 3.4% year-over-year in May, its highest level since October 2023. The all-items PCE headline number was even more alarming: a 4.1% annual rate, the highest since April 2023. Both ...
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