Weekly Review — 2026-10-26
Weekly review of 109 market news articles.
Everything we learned from Anthropic's S-1: Huge losses, massive growth and big risks
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Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom could buy Meta shares as part of $35 billion stock offering
Meta is looking to raise a total of $95 billion through stock-related deals that stretch into early next year.
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NBA Embraces the CFTC on Prediction Markets as the NFL Fights It in Court
The agreement, which follows similar deals with MLB and NHL, establishes information-sharing to guard against insider trading as sports betting migrates to CFTC-regulated venues.
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Fear vs. greed: How investors should react to Anthropic-fueled market moves
US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) are ending Monday's session in positive territory after Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) released its S-1 prospectus earlier this morning. The AI developer aims to go public on the Nasdaq in mid-November under the ticker symbol "ANT." CFRA Research chief investment strategist Sam Stovall sits down with Brooke DiPalma to discuss the emotions that may be driving investor reactions to this headline event for the tech trade.
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Earnings live updates: Whirlpool stock drops on softer quarter as inflation weighs on sales
Third quarter earnings season is in full swing this week. Follow along for live updates.
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Which Healthcare ETF Is the Better Buy: Invesco’s Broad RSPH or First Trust’s Biotech FBT?
FBT has outperformed RSPH by a wide margin recently. The question is whether you want to own the fund that won last year or the one built to hold up over many years.
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We stopped helping our neighbors with free home repairs and our friendship cooled. Who’s to blame?
“Last summer, they complained about needing to replace their roof. A few months later, they bought a new SUV.”
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Tesla Makes Bullish Move, But These Five AI Stocks Lead The S&P 500
Tesla rose strongly Monday, moving above an aggressive entry. But Lumentum and Comfort Systems headlined five AI stocks leading the S&P 500 index.
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How major US stock indexes fared Monday 10/26/2026
stocks climbed amid a shaky day for markets worldwide, as AI stocks keep swinging and Brazilian stocks tumble. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.
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Stocks close higher as excitement over Anthropic IPO filing propels tech sector: Live updates
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Sorry investors, but there’s no such thing as an early ‘Santa Claus rally.’ Here’s when the real gains typically happen.
Analysts like to overhype stock-market rallies in the fall, but the numbers show Santa only arrives once a year
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Prediction market traders say an Anthropic IPO is near-certain this year after company filed with SEC
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Why investors are bullish on Anthropic — despite some big risks
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South Korea Arrests Seven in First Big AI-Assisted Hacking Case
Police in Seoul say a 32-year-old with no IT background used AI tools to break into about 90 hospitals, schools and companies, then pressed victims for roughly $270,000 combined.
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Bull market isn’t over: Sam Stovall’s top sector to own for 2027
Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist at CFRA Research, shares his stock market outlook for year-end and 2027, reveals his top sector to own, and explains why he remains bullish on technology, healthcare and energy.
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Trump DOJ unlawfully fired Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, judge rules
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Anthropic's Upcoming IPO is Buoying Markets After Steep Losses. Stocks Rebounded.
The company took another step toward debuting in the stock market while also warning that its technology could cause a catastrophe so costly that insurance might be unable to cover the damage.
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Williams-Sonoma Finds Reasons To Celebrate In Rattled Market
With its relative strength line near a 52-week high, S&P 500 retailer Williams-Sonoma browses a buy zone.
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My husband wants to sell our $1.5 million home and invest the proceeds. But this is where we raised our kids — and I can’t bear to leave.
“He wants to buy something for $600,000 now that we are empty-nesters.”
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80% of S&P 500 stocks are in correction territory. These 3 are still buys
With more than 80% of S&P 500 stocks down at least 10% from their highs, Ted Thatcher, founder and president of Bright Lake Wealth Management, reveals why he’s bullish on Nvidia, Microsoft and Alphabet.
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Should You Buy Amazon Stock Now or Wait for a Dip?
Amazon's stock has underperformed the markets this year, and its valuation is much more modest than normal.
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Several Natural Gas Stocks Near Buy Points Amid Europe Supply Crunch
European natural gas prices rose to a nearly four-year high. Several liquefied natural gas stocks now trade near buy points.
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Update: Anthropic's IPO Filing Boosts Tech Risk Sentiment, Lifts US Equity Indexes
(Updates with index/price moves from the first paragraph.) US equity indexes advanced as Anthropi
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Which International ETF Is the Better Buy: iShares’ Developed Market IEFA or Emerging Markets EEM?
The fee gap between these two funds is one of the widest in the ETF market. Whether EEM’s growth potential is worth it is the real question.
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2 financials stocks with promising prospects and 1 facing headwinds
Financial firms serve as the backbone of the economy, providing essential services from lending and investment management to risk management and payment processing. But uncertainty about fiscal and monetary policy has tempered enthusiasm, limiting the industry’s gains to 1.4% over the past six months. This return lagged the S&P 500’s 6.8% climb.
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Canada opens consultation on stablecoins, citing US GENIUS Act
As part of the potential implementation of its Stablecoin Act, the Canadian government will hear from the public on a proposed framework for tokens from non-financial institutions. ]]>
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1 financials stock to keep an eye on and 2 facing headwinds
Financial providers use their expertise in capital allocation and risk assessment to help facilitate economic growth while offering consumers and businesses essential financial services. Still, investors are uneasy as companies face challenges from an unpredictable interest rate and inflation environment. These doubts have certainly contributed to the industry’s recent underperformance — over the past six months, its 1.4% gain has fallen behind the S&P 500’s 6.8% rise.
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The house, the kids’ college and the raise: Where people in their 30s and 40s go wrong
Big life decisions in your 30s and 40s will determine just how well you retire.
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Hacker Drains Nearly $1,000,000 in SOL From Solana Trading Bot Users in 94 Seconds
A hacker has drained about 9,408 SOL, worth nearly $1 million, from 49 wallets belonging to nine users of the Bloom Telegram trading bot. Bloom says it will fully repay the losses. The post Hacker Drains Nearly $1,000,000 in SOL From Solana Trading Bot Users in 94 Seconds appeared first on The Daily Hodl . ]]>
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Can PayPal Stock Hit $80?
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AI Agents Found a Way Into Anthropic's Business Systems in Under 12 Hours
Cathedral, a startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says its AI agents found paths into Anthropic's sales, HR, and IT systems through third-party software.
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My wife has only $80,000 saved for retirement. I have $2.2 million. Am I wrong to be shocked?
“When I brought up retiring last spring, she said she was ready whenever I was, and I took that to mean we were in good shape.”
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‘You need only watch episodes of Judge Judy’: I’m in my 70s. Why do people keep making the same avoidable financial mistakes?
“Consider some familiar examples of poor decisions: accumulating credit-card debt or failing to plan for retirement.”
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Stock Market Today: Dow Up As Anthropic Filing Boosts Tech; Lingerie Play Flirts With Buy Point (Live Coverage)
The Dow Jones index rises on the stock market today as Anthropic files for an IPO. Brazil stocks lag but Tesla and Nvidia shine.
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McDonald’s new bet on chicken hits a snag as franchisees say the birds are too big
McDonald’s franchisees have complained about “tough meat” and other issues with new hand-breaded chicken, an analyst said.
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Intuitive Machines Just Dropped 30% in a Month. Is It Time to Sell?
Intuitive Machines stock has cratered while the broader space sector barely flinched, and the reasons behind that gap reveal a company walking a very fine line between a transformational growth story and a concentration risk that could unravel fast.
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Federal Reserve is likely to hold interest rates steady in October. Here's what that means for consumers
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Alibaba Is Now Down 31% This Year: Is BABA Stock a Falling Knife or Poised for a Comeback?
A leading e-commerce name’s decline this year has tracked the broader basket of Chinese internet stocks almost point for point, turning the dead-money debate into a referendum on the whole group. Shares of Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) are down 31% year to date (YTD) to $99.91 this afternoon, a decline that shows how sharply the market […]
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Why Prediction Markets Got the Brazilian Election So Wrong
Experts say Brazil's prediction market ban left the odds in the hands of traders with little knowledge about the election.
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J&J's potential 'game-changer' drug — plus, what Microsoft's mass buyouts mean
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Apple responds to user reports of broken iPhone Duo screens on new foldable phone
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AI company Anthropic announces IPO, expected as early as November
The artificial intelligence company disclosed more than $16 billion in revenue and an $80 billion net loss for the first half of 2026. ]]>
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Oklo Is Now Down 63% This Year: Is OKLO Stock Dead Money or Due for a Bounce?
Oklo has shed more than half its value this year while peers bleed out alongside it, yet some investors see a setup for a sharp reversal. The question is whether the stock reflects a company on the verge of a breakthrough or one quietly running out of road.
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FTC and 20 states sue Dollar General, alleging retailer overcharged shoppers
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Buying America at a discount: This timberland REIT is on sale
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SpaceX Locks Up $40 Billion for AI Chips as Musk Warns Most Neoclouds Will Die
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed a $40 billion chip deal with Apollo while lenders shut the door on smaller AI cloud firms, a split that could decide who controls computing.
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These energy stocks are poised to profit from an imminent AI power crunch
Bloom Energy and Solaris Energy would benefit from an urgency around securing power to AI developers.
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Skydance Sinks 6% Despite Citi Buy Call and Elon Musk’s Reported $1B Investment; Roku and Disney Dip
A Citi Buy rating and a reported billion-dollar investment from Elon Musk arrived at the same time, yet Skydance shares kept falling. The reason sellers are ignoring both signals points to something deeper on the balance sheet.
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Micron Climbs 4% as Bank of America Grows More Positive on Memory; Western Digital Rises 5%, SanDisk Gains 3%
Bank of America just met with Micron executives and came away more positive on memory, pointing to a structural shift in how customers are locking in supply that could change the economics of one of the most volatile corners of the chip market.
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NBA names Kalshi, Polymarket preferred exchanges, signs CFTC deal
The US professional basketball league is expanding into prediction markets with official data agreements and safeguards against insider trading. ]]>
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Bitcoin Wallet Fixes Critical Flaw That Redirected Funds to Attackers
A confirmed exploit let rogue servers replace Electrum’s pending transactions, tricking users into redirecting Bitcoin to attacker addresses.
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Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as AI leads to efficiency push
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The arc of Trump: How the president lost the coalition that put him in the White House
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Meet the financial-literacy teacher who helps high-school students open their own Roth IRAs
Christopher Jackson got hurt before his first NFL game. He now coaches teens on building wealth.
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Lula wins Brazil runoff after prediction markets favored Bolsonaro
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Netflix Drops 4% as Engagement Worries Outweigh Earnings Beat; Disney and Spotify Slip
Netflix beat earnings but Wall Street is selling anyway, and the reason behind the selloff is rattling the entire streaming sector. The real debate centers on something management admitted they need to fix fast.
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Lumentum Jumps 8% as StoneX Starts Coverage With $1,200 Target; Applied Optoelectronics and Coherent Climb 6%
A single Buy rating from a firm new to the name sent optical networking stocks surging well past the broader market, raising a pointed question about whether this is a genuine sector rebound or just a short-lived bounce after a brutal month.
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PayPal Slips 3% Ahead of Earnings Despite Truist Target Raise; Klarna and Affirm Retreat
Truist just raised its price target on PayPal stock while shares tumble ahead of earnings, and the disconnect between analyst optimism and trader caution puts the upcoming quarterly report at the center of a growing debate over the company's recovery.
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India’s CoinDCX Confirms $16 Million Loss Days After CEO Called It a ‘False Alarm’
The Mumbai-based exchange says 15.99 million USDT was drained from wallets it retired after last year’s $44 million hack, bringing its combined losses to nearly $60 million—and it’s absorbing the hit.
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Ritual Launches AI-Native Layer 1 for Autonomous Agents
New York, United States, 26th October 2026, Chainwire The post Ritual Launches AI-Native Layer 1 for Autonomous Agents appeared first on The Daily Hodl . ]]>
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Elon Musk says more than 200 neoclouds face 'guppy-level death'
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South Korea lawmakers mull pushing crypto tax implementation to 2029
The Seoul government is reportedly weighing another delay for a 2020 income tax policy on digital assets, citing concerns with receiving data from US officials. ]]>
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Brazil’s Stock Market Crashes After Lula’s Upset Victory
The iShares Brazil ETF fell as much as 26% after Lula da Silva beat Flávio Bolsonaro, who prediction markets had at 80%, while the dollar jumped as much as 12% against the real.
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NBA enters prediction markets with Kalshi, Polymarket partnerships
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TeraWulf Jumps 7% as CEO Pushes Back on Stranded Data Center Fears; Cipher Digital Rises 3%, Applied Digital Edges Higher
TeraWulf's CEO fired back at analysts calling his unfinished data centers stranded assets, and his argument rests on a build sequence that he says most critics are getting backwards.
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Alaska Senate: Peltola seeks quick dismissal of DOJ election lawsuit before midterm
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Bloom Energy Jumps 7% as Post-Earnings Selloff Reverses; FuelCell Rises 6%, Plug Power Edges Higher
Bloom Energy's blowout quarter sent the stock sharply lower instead of higher, and now buyers are rushing back in. Whether that rebound holds depends on one unresolved question about the company's cash.
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Reddit Sinks 5% as Slower Growth Guidance Looms Over Earnings; Snap Drops 3%, Meta Holds Steady
Reddit stock is sliding hard into its earnings report while Meta barely flinches, and the gap between them tells a story about which ad model investors trust right now.
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Investors are doing just as well this year by shunning AI. How to invest if the tech trade keeps fizzling
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Tom Lee's Bitmine Keeps Buying Ethereum But Pivots to Record Share Buybacks
The firm added 10,452 ETH to reach 4.95% of supply, but its bigger move was repurchasing 2.04 million of its own shares—part of what it calls the largest equity buyback any crypto treasury company has run.
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SpaceX's AI infrastructure plans are not yet fully priced in, analysts say
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Apollo to buy nearly 10% stake in Abu Dhabi-backed alternative asset manager Mubadala Capital
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Fanatics teams up with OpenAI for new AI-powered shopping suggestion feature
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'Privacy Horror’: Researcher Uncovers Extent of Samsung Smart TV User Tracking
AI-powered reverse engineering could make it "easier and faster" for researchers to uncover and explain how devices collect and share data.
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JetBlue Airways Tumbles 16% as Creditors Hire Restructuring Advisers; United Airlines Rises 3%, Delta Edges Higher
A creditor group hiring restructuring advisers has sent JetBlue Airways into a freefall while rival carriers climb, raising hard questions about whether the airline's turnaround plan can outrun its mounting debt obligations.
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Trump says he'll soon decide whether to ‘make a deal’ with Iran or ‘finish it off'
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PHP flaw shows AI ‘vulnerability apocalypse’ is on schedule: Immunefi CEO
Mitchell Amador warned internet users that websites could remain compromised for weeks, particularly smaller websites slower to adopt the emergency upgrades. ]]>
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Brazilian stocks rocked as Lula wins presidential election, Bolsonaro reportedly refuses to concede
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Meta announces $95 billion stock offering to fund AI expansion
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Mortgage rates above 7% are the 'new normal'—here's why
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Anthropic Makes IPO Filing Public, Plans Nasdaq Listing Under ‘ANT’
The S-1 shows revenue up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, and a share structure that leaves a trust and the co-founders in control.
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Verizon lifts annual forecasts, signs more than $2 billion AI infrastructure deal with AWS
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Strategy skips Bitcoin purchases, spends $205M on STRC buybacks
Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases or sales last week, as its STRC preferred stock buybacks reduced its USD Cash balance by 46% to $242.4 million. ]]>
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Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation. ]]>
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Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying, Spends $205M Buying Back STRC
The Bitcoin treasury firm's USD Cash balance fell to $242.4 million after its biggest weekly STRC buyback in more than a month.
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Brazilian Stocks Tumble as Lula Wins Surprise Fourth Term: Nu Holdings Sinks 25%, Petrobras Tumbles 21%, MercadoLibre Drops 15%
Lula's surprise return to Brazil's presidency blindsided investors who had positioned for the opposite outcome, and the fallout is carving deep losses into some of the most widely held Brazilian names trading in the U.S.
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CoreWeave Drops 5% as Musk Warns of Neocloud ‘Guppy-Level Death’; IREN Slides 3%, Nebius Slips 2%
Elon Musk fired a warning at debt-funded AI cloud companies, calling it guppy-level death territory, and the selloff that followed split the neocloud group in a way that reveals which names traders trust least when credit markets tighten.
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Exchange-Traded Funds, Equity Futures Higher Pre-Bell Monday Ahead of Big Tech Earnings, Fed Decision
The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.5% and the actively trad
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Wes Moss: Retirement Happiness “Starts at a Million” in Liquid Savings
Wes Moss updated his retirement happiness research and moved the goalposts on liquid savings, but the income his target actually generates depends on a yield ladder where the rungs carry very different risks.
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Moderna Tumbles 7% as Cancer Vaccine Selloff Deepens; BioNTech Falls 3%, Pfizer Holds Steady
Moderna's personalized melanoma vaccine cleared its primary hurdle in a late-stage trial, yet shares are sinking fast. The gap between what the data promised and what it delivered is forcing traders to rethink how much the company's flagship cancer bet is actually worth.
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HOOD’s prediction markets to add $1.7B to revenue, exceed crypto by 2028: Bernstein
Bernstein analysts raised Robinhood’s revenue estimates through 2026 and 2028, while maintaining their HOOD price target unchanged at $160. ]]>
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Bitcoin Dips Below $80,000 Ahead of Fed Decision, Midterms
Analysts point to a sell-off in AI stocks and ETF outflows, with HashKey's Tim Sun flagging $75,000 as the next key support level.
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Bitcoin’s Bear Market Is Over, Galaxy Research Says: 'Now Is an Attractive Time to Buy'
Galaxy Research says Bitcoin’s bear market ended in June, pointing to a reclaimed 50-week moving average, fading selling pressure, and a strengthening debasement case.
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Bulls Insist Arm’s Trio of Multipliers Justify Its Sky High Valuation
Arm's stock has shed half its value while its three core revenue engines keep accelerating, leaving investors to decide whether a brutal sell-off signals a buying opportunity or a warning sign about what comes next.
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Can GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a moderate who's bucked Trump, keep his Pennsylvania swing seat?
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Morning Minute: Bitcoin Breaks Below $80,000 as Iran Fears Hit the Weekend
Some relief is appearing this morning as oil and rates fall, with a big macro week ahead featuring major earnings, FOMC and key data drops.
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Caregiving for adult relatives can cost thousands. AARP survey finds support could matter to midterm voters
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Cracking AI trade has Wall Street looking for a hedge. An ex-Citadel quant may have the answer
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Aviva Investors launches tokenized share class of $29B Sterling fund on XRP Ledger
The move marks Aviva’s second fund to list tokenized shares, part of a broader collaboration to bring more tokenized funds to the XRP Ledger. ]]>
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Israel's Central Bank Rebukes Netanyahu Plan to Use Crypto to Dodge Sanctions
Over 100 economists, including former governor Jacob Frenkel, warned of deeper isolation ahead of Israel's October 27 national election.
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