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Hooker Furniture (HOFT) Surpasses Q2 Earnings Estimates
Hooker Furniture (HOFT) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.11 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.02 per share. This compares to a loss of $0.31 per share a year ago.
HOFT +0.63% Petrobras: A Double-Check On My Top Pick
Petrobras remains my top pick for 2026, supported by sector-leading margins and operational efficiency. Geopolitical insulation and the Iran War have driven oil prices higher, boosting PBR's free cash flow outlook. PBR trades at a 40–56% discount to peers on EV/EBITDA and P/E, despite superior profitability and growth metrics.
PBR +2.77% TRON integrates Ethena's USDe and sUSDe for seamless cross-chain bridging
TRON's integration of Ethena's tokens could enhance its DeFi ecosystem, diversify stablecoin options, and boost cross-chain liquidity. TRON integrates Ethena's USDe and sUSDe for seamless cross-chain bridging.
Shopify: Buy The Affirm Australia Expansion, But Do Not Chase Blindly
Shopify Inc. earns a buy rating, balancing premium valuation with robust growth and improving free cash flow. Q2 FY2026 delivered 34% revenue growth, strong GMV, and free cash flow of $654 million, exceeding expectations. Expansion of Shop Pay Installments into Australia and aggressive AI commerce initiatives strengthen SHOP's merchant ecosystem and future optionality.
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Ripple Adds AI Agents to $1B Corporate Treasury Push
Ripple expands GSmart AI across corporate treasury management, adding governed AI agents for liquidity, risk, forecasting and digital assets.
Piper Sandler names 2 stocks set to benefit from rising compute demand
A self-reinforcing cycle is accelerating across the artificial intelligence sector. Smarter AI models require increasingly huge amounts of training compute and the rising consumer and enterprise adoption of agentic AI is driving a parallel surge in inference demand.
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Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Falls Below $77K, $75K Next?
Bitcoin falls below $77K after hot U.S. inflation triggers $562M in crypto liquidations, while ETF outflows and rising yields put $75K in focus.
Bitcoin Price Attempts Stabilization At Around Critical Levels Following Dip
Bitcoin recovered toward $77,300 after Thursday's decline, but remained 0.87% lower over 24 hours and 6% below last week's high. Crypto futures open interest fell to $59.5 billion as liquidations reached $256.3 million, with Zcash recording the sharpest leverage unwind. Bitcoin derivatives stayed comparatively balanced, while traders awaited U.S.
EUR/GBP Price Forecast: Neutral bias holds as 0.8600 caps the upside
EUR/GBP Price Forecast: Neutral bias holds as 0.8600 caps the upside
Agree Realty: This Monthly Dividend Opportunity Is Getting More Interesting
Agree Realty Corporation is reiterated as a Buy, supported by robust AFFO per share growth and increased investment guidance. ADC raised full-year AFFO per share guidance to $4.57–$4.59 and investment volume to $1.6–$1.8 billion as it continues the accretive acquisitions. Despite macro headwinds and rising treasury yields, ADC's disciplined balance sheet and high-quality tenant base underpin its resilience and margin of safety.
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Researchers and AI Agents Cut Quantum Resource Benchmark for Bitcoin, Ethereum Attack Step by More Than Half
A collaborative research effort involving more than 100 participants and AI coding agents has sharply lowered a widely cited measure of the quantum resources needed for a core arithmetic step in a theoretical attack on the elliptic-curve signatures used by Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Coinbase Global Maps ‘Everything Exchange' Push Beyond Crypto Trading
Coinbase Global NASDAQ: COIN executives outlined an expansion strategy centered on diversifying beyond spot cryptocurrency trading, adding new trading products, scaling stablecoin and tokenization offerings, and building infrastructure for on-chain transactions.
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Costco Price Prediction: A $1,200 Target Comes Into Focus
Costco just delivered a quietly excellent quarter and the stock pulled back anyway, which raises a question worth answering: does the selloff signal a structural crack in the warehouse giant's model or the kind of entry point that only appears
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Chime Finds Its Stride With a $590M Deal That Could Reshape Its Banking Model
Chime Financial TodayCHYMChime Financial$32.67 -1.88 (-5.44%) As of 09/10/2026 04:00 PM Eastern52-Week Range$15.88▼$35.55Price Target$35.00Add to WatchlistFor years, financial technology platforms operated with a structural vulnerability: they relied on third-party chartered banks to hold deposits and clear transactions. That software-wrapper era is drawing to a close.
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1 of These Companies Raised Its Dividend for 50+ Consecutive Years. All 3 Are Still Buys
One name in this trio has raised its dividend every single year since 1974, but the other two still make a compelling case for your income portfolio despite very different risks lurking beneath their payouts.
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What's Going On With Oil Prices Right Now?
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude reclaimed the triple-digit level Thursday, surging as much as 6.7% to $102.48 per barrel -- its highest level since May.
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It's About To Get Worse For Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation delivered a strong Q2 '27, with revenue of $96.22 billion and EPS of $2.22, both beating consensus estimates. NVDA management guided to 70% FY28 revenue growth, citing supply constraints versus 100% underlying demand, but flagged margin pressures from soaring memory costs. Gross margin is expected to bottom at 71-72% in 4Q before recovering to 72%-73% in FY28, with memory pricing a key risk.
NVDA -1.43% 
Capital One Financial Preferreds Update: COF-N Is The Buy
Capital One Financial Corporation preferreds offer attractive 7.1% yields, with strong dividend coverage and low call risk due to their low coupons. COF's robust financials—32x net income coverage and 9.8x par coverage—support preferred dividend security, even after the Discover acquisition. All five COF preferreds are rated BB and non-cumulative, and are past their Call dates.
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Oxford Lane Capital: Get $1 Billion, Only To Lose $925 Million In 12 Months
Oxford Lane Capital doubled its size by raising $1B in new equity, driven by high-yield demand in 2024. Over 90% of OXLC's raised capital evaporated within a year, with NAV dropping $925M due to unrealized and realized losses. OXLC's payout exceeds sustainable levels, distributing $2.40 annually versus a $1.19 effective yield, risking future NAV erosion.
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Update On Sunoco As The Stock Migrates From New York To Texas
Sunoco LP is reiterated as a Buy, driven by robust earnings, accretive acquisitions, and an attractive 5.25% dividend yield. SUN's refining margins have surged, with gasoline and distillate crack spreads reaching record highs, supporting strong revenue and profit growth. Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine have elevated oil prices, benefiting SUN but introducing significant volatility risk.
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Sterling Infrastructure: Now It's A Compelling Buy Again (Rating Upgrade)
Sterling Infrastructure is upgraded to 'Buy' after a 51% pullback from June 2026 highs, with valuation now attractive. STRL's Q2 2026 revenues surged 90% YoY, driven by E-Infrastructure Solutions growth of 192% YoY, now 78% of total revenue. Backlog visibility is robust, with signed backlog up 116% YoY to $4.33B and total addressable work pool exceeding $7B.
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QuantumCore Ltd (QNCR.CN) Stock: Avalanche Acquisition Expands Quantum Hardware Push
Avalanche PhotoniQ deal adds single-photon detectors to QuantumCore's growing quantum infrastructure portfolio.
XRP Ledger Lending Gets v1.1 Upgrade as Validator Support Still Trails 80%
XRPL 3.4.0 is set to introduce Lending Protocol v1.1 improvements while the network's native lending amendments still await validator approval.
How Much Dividend Income Can You Buy With $250,000?
A $250,000 rollover sounds like a clean starting point until you realize yield alone is not the whole story, and only one name on this roster actually clears the current Treasury rate.
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Your Bitcoin trade can now get liquidated because a stock crashed
Monthly volume on real-world-asset perpetual futures grew from $85 billion in January to an August record of $799.5 billion, with stocks accounting for 62.3% of that total on both DeFi and centralized venues, according to CoinMarketCap.
XRP's Sept. 15 Catalyst Is Here, but the CLARITY Act Still Has One Big Problem
A new 630-page CLARITY Act draft adds DeFi and credit-union changes, but an unresolved ethics fight threatens the Sept. 15 Senate vote.
BLCR Is Beating Active Growth ETFs By A Large Percentage, More Upside Is Ahead
iShares Large Cap Core Active ETF has outperformed peers and indices since late 2023, delivering a 105% price return and maintaining strong momentum. BLCR's strategy targets fundamentally sound, high-earnings-growth stocks at reasonable valuations, with a 60% tech allocation and sector diversification to manage risk. Top holdings like NVDA, MSFT, MU, GOOG, META, and AMZN drive performance, supported by robust earnings forecasts and attractive forward PEs versus historical averages.
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GMX disables v2.2b contracts, urges integrators to migrate to v2.2c before September 14 deadline
The migration to v2.2c highlights the critical need for developers to adapt swiftly to maintain seamless integration and avoid operational disruptions. GMX disables v2.2b contracts, urges integrators to migrate to v2.2c before September 14 deadline.
Blend Innovative Growth & Defense With Healthcare ETFs
All too often, when investors look at the healthcare sector, they mostly see its value for its defensive merits. However, that view may be shortsighted and miss the broader picture in today's market.
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Gold's Summer Surge Fueled by the Debasement Trade
The price of gold may have struggled a bit earlier this year, but the metal's spot price has gotten back on track in recent weeks. Key Takeaways: Gold has continued to do well as of late, with Sprott research showing the price of spot gold rose 9.67% over August.
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