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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) CEO Elon Musk made history earlier today by reportedly becoming the world’s first trillionaire, fueled largely by SpaceX‘s (NASDAQ:SPCX) blockbuster NASDAQ debut. Yet, Tesla stock is barely budging…
Shares of SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK | SNDK Price Prediction) are up 14% to roughly $1,873 in midday trading Thursday, while Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) stock is climbing 6% to around $520. The bounce snaps a rough…
Shares of Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL | MRVL Price Prediction) are up 8% today, trading at around $273 in midday action on Thursday, June 11. The move extends a remarkable run that has the stock…
The Bank of America (NYSE:BAC | BAC Price Prediction) checklist of pre-peak warning signs is flashing at 70%, matching the rough average reading seen at the last seven major stock market tops over the…
Shares of Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI | SMCI Price Prediction) are down 11% at midday Tuesday, while Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) is sliding 9%. Both high-beta AI hardware names are getting hit in a coordinated…
Shares of Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM | QCOM Price Prediction) are down 8% to $201 in Tuesday morning trading, while Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) shares are off 10% to $260. The catalyst centers on news that ByteDance…
The Magnificent 7 has a new challenger. Strategist Ben Emons, in a post amplified by Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal on X, has dubbed a basket of seven semiconductor and AI-hardware names the “Parabolic 7.” Weisenthal’s…
Shares of Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) are up 20% in midday trading to around $190, snapping back hard from a Friday close of $158.41. The single-session pop lifts the stock’s year-to-date (YTD) 2026 gain to…
Shares of Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) are down 9% midday Friday to roughly $154, leading a broader cool-off in AI optics names. Coherent (NYSE:COHR | COHR Price Prediction) is off 8% to about $346, and…
The S&P 500 and a related fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY), have vaulted 28% over the past year, the household ledger sitting beneath that rally on Wall Street tells a far more…
Two signals are running in opposite directions on Wall Street right now, and both are flashing at maximum intensity. Hedge funds and professional traders are piling into short positions at levels not seen in…
Although Wall Street tends to treat record-setting streaks as a reason to brace for a pullback, the historical record points the other way this week. The benchmark S&P 500 just stitched together eight straight…
Although the S&P 500 has gained 17% over the past 8 weeks, the instinctive reaction across Wall Street has been familiar: brace for a pullback. Yet, the historical record, as compiled by research firm…
Shares of Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU | MU Price Prediction) are up 12% to $843 after UBS raised its price target on MU stock to $1,625 from $535. The firm maintained its Buy rating, and…
Shares of Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR | PLTR Price Prediction) are trading near $130 in midday action on Wednesday, down 4% on the day. That extends a punishing year for the AI software name, which…
