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So Trump just dropped another Truth Social bomb that has corporate America scratching their heads: He wants companies to ditch quarterly earnings reports and switch to a twice-a-year schedule instead. Because apparently, nothing says "Make America Great Again" like making CEOs report their numbers less often. Here's the deal: Right now, every public company has to spill their financial guts every three months to the SEC. It's like a quarterly confession booth, but instead of sins, it's revenue and profit margins ...
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Okay, let's talk about the stocks that absolutely crushed it this week. While everyone was glued to their screens waiting for the Fed to finally cut rates (spoiler alert: they did), some companies decided to put on a show that would make even TikTok influencers jealous. The market had a pretty solid week overall – small caps led the charge with the Russell 2000 jumping 2.5%, which makes sense because small companies love rate cuts like millennials love avocado toast. The ...
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Remember that friend who was always "about to make it big" but never quite did? That's been small-cap stocks for the past four years. While the big tech giants were having their AI party and hitting record after record, small caps were basically sitting in the corner eating stale chips. Well, guess what? They just crashed the party in a big way. The Russell 2000 – think of it as the index for companies that aren't quite household names yet – just ...
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So the Fed cut rates by 0.25% this week, and everyone was like "cool story bro" because, honestly, we all saw that coming from a mile away. The market barely budged – up about half a percent across the board. Yawn. But then Nvidia dropped a bombshell that made everyone forget about Jerome Powell's predictable rate cuts: they're throwing $5 billion at Intel. Yes, that Intel – the one everyone thought was basically the tech equivalent of a Nokia flip phone. Plot ...
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So Alphabet (you know, Google's fancy parent company) just casually outperformed the entire stock market yesterday, and honestly? We're not even surprised anymore. The stock closed at $255.24, up 1.15% for the day. Now, that might not sound like much until you realize the S&P 500 only managed a measly 0.49% gain. It's like watching your overachieving friend ace another test while the rest of the class is just happy to pass. But here's where it gets interesting (and by interesting, we ...
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Remember when Intel was basically the tech equivalent of that friend who peaked in high school? Yeah, well, plot twist: they just got the ultimate glow-up courtesy of Nvidia dropping a cool $5 billion on them. While everyone was busy watching the Fed cut interest rates by 0.25% (yawn, we all saw that coming), the real fireworks happened when Nvidia decided to play fairy godmother to Intel's Cinderella story. Intel's stock shot up 22% faster than you can say "artificial intelligence ...
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So the Fed finally did what everyone's been begging them to do for months – they cut rates. And surprise, surprise, stocks went up. Who could have seen that coming? (Literally everyone, but let's pretend we're shocked.) While most of us were doom-scrolling through our portfolios wondering if we should have just put our money in a mattress, these four companies decided to have themselves a little party. Here's who made bank this week: 89Bio: The Biotech That Hit the Lottery Up 85% ...
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Remember when cars first showed up and everyone was like "let's just slap an engine on a horse carriage and call it a day"? Yeah, that's basically what's happening with AI data centers right now. Except Oracle decided to be the Henry Ford of cloud computing, and honestly? It's working out pretty well for them. The Problem: Everyone's Building AI Horse Carriages Here's the thing about most AI data centers – they're basically fancy gaming rigs dressed up in business suits. These ...
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