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Remember last week when software stocks got absolutely demolished? Yeah, well, guess who came rushing back with their wallets open? That's right—retail traders, aka the people who probably learned about investing from TikTok and Reddit (and honestly, good for them). JPMorgan just dropped some juicy data about what happened after the great software meltdown of February 2026. Spoiler alert: retail investors did exactly what retail investors do—they bought the dip like it was Black Friday at Best Buy. The Numbers Don't Lie Here's ...
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So Trump just dropped $12 billion on something called "Project Vault," and suddenly everyone's acting like rare earth mining is the next crypto. Spoiler alert: it's not going to make you rich overnight, but it might actually make sense this time. Here's the deal: America has been basically ordering all its fancy tech minerals from China like it's DoorDash. Need neodymium for your EV motor? China's got you. Want dysprosium for that AI data center? Also China. It's like if your ...
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So here's what happened: Last week, software stocks got absolutely demolished. We're talking historic wipeout levels – the kind of carnage that makes even seasoned traders reach for the antacids. But while Wall Street was having its collective panic attack, retail traders were apparently sitting there like, "Sweet, everything's on sale!" JPMorgan just dropped some fascinating data on what the Reddit crowd and other retail investors were actually doing during the chaos. Spoiler alert: They were buying. A lot. The Great Dip-Buying ...
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So here's the thing about crypto people: they're basically the financial world's equivalent of that friend who insists the party's just getting started at 3 AM while everyone else is calling Ubers. Case in point: Bitcoin Investor Week just wrapped up in NYC, and despite bitcoin being down about 50% from its recent peak, the vibes were apparently immaculate. Picture this: cowboys in snakeskin boots mingling with hedge fund bros in Patagonia vests, all united by their shared belief that orange ...
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When people think about tariff casualties, they picture factories, shipping containers, and steel mills. Nobody had "social media ad platforms" on their bingo card. But Pinterest just proved that tariff damage can show up in the strangest places. Shares of Pinterest crashed nearly 20% on Friday after the company delivered a gut punch of a quarter. Revenue of $1.32 billion — up 14% year-over-year — and adjusted EPS of $0.67 both narrowly missed estimates. But the real damage came from the ...
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Cisco just delivered its best quarter in years. Record revenue. Double-digit growth. Earnings beat. AI infrastructure orders piling up. And the stock got punished anyway. The networking giant reported $15.35 billion in Q2 revenue — up 10% year-over-year and ahead of the $15.12 billion Wall Street expected. Earnings came in at $1.04 per share adjusted, beating the $1.02 consensus. Net income surged to $3.18 billion from $2.43 billion a year ago. By almost any traditional measure, this was a strong quarter. So ...
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For three years, Nvidia's dominance in AI chips has been the closest thing to a natural law in tech investing. Then Arista Networks' CEO Jayshree Ullal casually dropped a bombshell on her earnings call that should make every chip investor sit up. "A year ago, it was pretty much 99% Nvidia," Ullal said when asked about her company's work with AMD. "Today, when we look at our deployments, we see about 20%, maybe a little more, 20% to 25%, where AMD ...
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Rivian just posted the kind of quarter that turns skeptics into believers — or at least makes them pause. The EV maker beat Wall Street estimates on both earnings and revenue, then guided to a 47-59% increase in vehicle deliveries for 2026. Shares ripped 27% higher on Friday, closing at $17.73 after sitting at $14 the day before. The numbers: Rivian lost 54 cents per share in Q4, handily beating the 68-cent loss analysts expected. Revenue came in at $1.29 billion ...
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