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America's long-running automotive sales battle has a dramatic new chapter. Toyota Motor (TM) is now within striking distance of overtaking General Motors (GM) as the top-selling automaker in the United States — a development that would be historic if it materializes. According to a new forecast from Cox Automotive released Wednesday, Toyota is expected to post a nearly 1% increase in U.S. sales for the first half of 2026, reaching approximately 1.25 million vehicles. General Motors, meanwhile, is projected to ...
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The oil market just received a major jolt of positive news. At least 20 tankers that had been stranded in the Persian Gulf for more than three months — collectively carrying 35 million barrels of crude — have now exited the Strait of Hormuz following the U.S.-Iran deal, according to data from Kpler, a firm that tracks global trade flows. Total confirmed oil shipments through Hormuz have climbed to approximately 4.8 million barrels per day since the agreement, marking the ...
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Micron Technology (MU) is reporting earnings Wednesday night, and this is not your average quarterly update. At a market cap approaching $1.2 trillion — ranking it among the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 — Micron's results could set the tone for the entire technology sector. The stock has surged roughly 700% over the past year, making it one of the market's most consequential earnings events in recent memory. Options traders are currently pricing in a 10% swing in ...
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Remember when markets used to move in one direction? Yeah, those were the days. On Wednesday, stocks decided to play both sides of the fence—staging a tentative recovery after Tuesday's tech bloodbath, while simultaneously reminding everyone that nothing's actually fixed. Here's the deal: Tech stocks got absolutely hammered on Tuesday because investors finally started asking the uncomfortable question: "Wait, are AI valuations actually insane?" Turns out, yes. So Wednesday morning, the market tried to shake it off, with tech edging up ...
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The CPU chip trade is one of the hottest on Wall Street right now, and UBS is doubling down on it. On Wednesday, analyst Timothy Arcuri raised his 12-month price target on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to $670 from $470, implying 29% upside from Tuesday's close. He simultaneously raised his ARM Holdings (ARM) target to $455 from $260 - a 28% premium to where shares last traded. Both stocks carry Buy ratings at UBS. The catalyst? A fundamental shift in ...
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JPMorgan's top equity strategist Dubravko Lakos-Bujas raised his year-end 2026 S&P 500 target to 7,800 on Wednesday - up from 7,200 - implying roughly 5.9% additional upside from current levels. The upgrade was tied directly to what the strategist called a "Blue Sky scenario" as the U.S.-Iran war appears to be nearing a resolution. President Trump announced Tuesday that Iran has assured the U.S. there will be no tolls on the Strait of Hormuz, removing a major geopolitical overhang that ...
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OpenAI and Broadcom have jointly unveiled "Jalapeno," the first custom AI chip to emerge from their eight-month partnership - and it signals a major strategic shift in how the world's most powerful AI company plans to power its future. The chip, which OpenAI is calling an "Intelligence Processor," is designed specifically for inference: the compute-intensive task of serving AI model outputs to hundreds of millions of users across ChatGPT and other platforms. A physical sample was delivered to OpenAI on ...
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Remember when Elon Musk hit trillionaire status? Yeah, that was fun while it lasted. Like, two weeks of fun. The world's richest person just got a harsh reminder that even when you're worth nearly a trillion dollars, the stock market doesn't care about your feelings. After SpaceX's historic IPO in mid-June sent shares soaring to $225, Musk briefly joined an exclusive club that literally no one had ever been in before. But this week's tech sell-off hit the reset button hard—SpaceX ...
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