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Remember Snowflake? That cloud data company that was supposed to be the next big thing, then spent most of August looking like it forgot how to stock market? Well, plot twist: it just remembered. SNOW dropped some seriously impressive Q2 numbers yesterday, and suddenly everyone's acting like they never doubted it. The company beat earnings expectations by a solid $0.08 per share ($0.35 vs. $0.27 expected), which in earnings-speak is basically a mic drop. But here's the real kicker: revenue jumped 32% ...
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Remember when your friend told you their crypto portfolio was "definitely going to the moon" right before it crashed 80%? Well, Warren Buffett has a little metric that's basically doing the same thing for the entire stock market right now – except instead of moon talk, it's more like "Houston, we have a problem." Meet the Buffett Indicator, which sounds way fancier than it actually is. It's literally just the total value of all US stocks divided by the country's GDP ...
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Remember small-cap stocks? Those scrappy little companies that everyone forgot about while we were all obsessing over whether Nvidia could possibly beat earnings for the 47th consecutive quarter? Well, plot twist: they're back, and they're not here to play second fiddle anymore. Last Friday, while everyone was parsing Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole speech like it was a Taylor Swift lyric, small caps quietly had their best day in months. The S&P Small-Cap 600 Index jumped 3.8% – which in small-cap land ...
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So here's the thing about AI stocks right now: they're basically the financial equivalent of that friend who insists on ordering the $30 truffle pasta at every restaurant. Sure, it might be good, but you're definitely paying a premium. GMO, a $64 billion investment firm that's been around long enough to have seen some stuff, just dropped some reality on us. Their take? The AI hype train has officially made US stocks more expensive than a Taylor Swift concert ticket. We're ...
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So here we are again, folks. Another NVIDIA earnings day, another chance for the entire stock market to have a collective panic attack or victory dance based on what one company says about selling computer chips to robots. The markets are doing that thing where they pretend to be calm while secretly sweating bullets. Futures are up a whopping 0.1% across the board – which in market speak translates to "we're all just sitting here twiddling our thumbs until Jensen Huang ...
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So you know how sometimes a stock just decides to absolutely lose its mind and shoot up 75% in a single day? Yeah, that happened to EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS) on Tuesday, and honestly, it's quite the story. Picture this: Monday, EchoStar is chilling at around $30 per share. Tuesday afternoon? Boom. $52. That's not a typo – we're talking about a company that went from "meh" to "holy cow" faster than you can say "satellite internet." The Deal That Changed Everything The catalyst? ...
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So here's a plot twist nobody saw coming: The U.S. government just bought a 10% stake in Intel. Yes, that Intel – the chip company that's been having about as much luck as a cat in a dog park lately. Let's be real for a second. Intel's stock chart over the past decade looks like someone drew it with their non-dominant hand during an earthquake. While NVIDIA was busy becoming the golden child of AI and racking up 1,300% gains, Intel ...
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So here's the thing about Monday's market action: while most stocks were busy doing their best impression of a deflating balloon, Alibaba (BABA) decided to be that one friend who shows up to the party in a good mood when everyone else is complaining about their day job. The Chinese e-commerce giant closed at $124.36, up a solid 1.16% while the broader market was having what we in the business call "a moment." The S&P 500 dropped 0.43%, the Dow fell ...
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