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AMD, Oracle, and Hewlett Tapped to Help Build US Supercomputers

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Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Department of Energy is forming a $1 billion “partnership” with three big tech companies to build a pair of “supercomputers” to solve complex scientific problems.

Advanced Micro Devices (Nasdaq: AMD | AMD Price Prediction), Hewlett Packard Enerprise (NYSE: HPE), and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) will partner with the DOE’s own Oak Ridge National Laboratory to build the supercomputers.
Hewlett stock is up 2% on the news, AMD less than 1%, and Oracle shares are… down a fraction of 1%.

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Ford Skids Despite Positive Analyst Note

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Citi analyst Michael Ward raised his price target on Ford (NYSE: F) stock to $13.50 this morning, maintaining a neutral rating on the automotive stock. Ford beat earnings in Q3 despite taking a $1 billion hit from higher tariffs, and now Citi is raising its earnings forecast for Ford stock.

Despite the good news and optimistic words, Ford stock is down 3% today.

Rare Earth Metals Stocks Crash

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Not everyone’s thrilled with the prospect of a U.S.-China trade truce. Shares of companies attempting to build up a Western-only rare earth mining and refining capability, to defang the threat of a China rare earth embargo, are tumbling.

In early trading today, industry bellweather MP Materials (NYSE: MP) stock is down 6.5%. Companies less advanced in their rare earth mining quests, such as Trilogy Metals (NYSEMKT: TMQ) and Energy Fuels (NYSEMKT: UUUU) are down even more, 15% and 12%, respectively.

The Voo still opened 0.8% higher, however.

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