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Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have spun up separate businesses dedicated to deploying AI engineers to their customers' offices — a bet that assisting businesses in figuring out how to use their AI models is the next trillion-dollar category.
BX Blueprint for a Billion: Nebius Group Secures the AI Floor
The broader technology sector is currently navigating a sharp, liquidity-driven rotation. Recent macroeconomic shifts and tepid June payroll data have prompted institutional capital to lock in profits, triggering a broad sell-off across high-beta momentum equities.
NBIS Is the Bearishness Around Pfizer and Gilead Sciences a Contrarian Opportunity?
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE | PFE Price Prediction) trades at $24.25, against a Wall Street consensus price target of $28.79, which represents implied upside of almost 19%.
PFE Century Lithium advances Angel Island lithium through US Army-backed battery program
Century Lithium Corp. (TSX-V:LCE, OTCQX:CYDVF) announced that lithium carbonate produced from its 100%-owned Angel Island Lithium Project in Nevada was successfully converted into lithium metal and incorporated into battery cells as part of a US Army-backed research program. The company reported that Alpha-En Corp.
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Bitcoin Price Prediction: Breakout Puts $70,000 Within Reach
Bitcoin price prediction points to $70,000 as BTC holds key resistance and confirms an inverse head-and-shoulders breakout.
SCHD, JEPI, or VYM? Which ETF Fits 3 Different Types of Retirees
Retirement income planning used to mean picking the highest yield you could find and hoping it held up.
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B&M shares slide but analysts say quarter changes little
B&M European Value Retail SA (LSE:BME) shares fell after the discount retailer reported a decline in underlying UK sales, although analysts said the update was largely in line with expectations and did little to alter the investment case. Shares in the FTSE 250-listed group fell 5.8% to 192.1p by early afternoon on Wednesday.
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ArcelorMittal Shares Pop 105% in a Year: What's Behind the Surge?
MT stock has rallied 104.6% in the past year as higher steel output, record Liberia iron ore shipments and expansion projects support growth and capacity.
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IBM Stock Loses $67 Billion: Causes And Recovery Outlook
IBM stock suffered its worst single-day decline in history on Wednesday – losing $67 billion in market value. The cause was an extraordinary pre-announcement – a week before Big Blue's scheduled earnings report – which featured disappointing results.
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Stripe and Private-Equity Firm Advent Offer to Buy PayPal
The deal would value the fintech company at around $53 billion.
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Bitcoin: U.S. Demand Weakens for 50 Consecutive Days
Bitcoin has been trading cheaper in the United States than in the rest of the global market for 50 consecutive days. This rare signal comes from the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index, which remained negative until July 7–8.
BlackRock Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
BlackRock NYSE: BLK executives said the asset manager delivered record second-quarter results and its strongest first half on record, driven by broad-based client inflows, higher markets, acquisitions and continued demand for ETFs, private markets and technology offerings.
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Conagra Brands Q4 Earnings Call Highlights
Conagra Brands NYSE: CAG reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 results that were within its original full-year guidance ranges, while newly appointed CEO John Brase outlined a plan to restore margins, increase investment and simplify the packaged foods company's operations.
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Fractyl Health Says Revita Helped Patients Keep Weight Off After Stopping GLP-1s
Fractyl Health NASDAQ: GUTS reported one-year data from the randomized midpoint cohort of its REMAIN-1 study, saying its Revita procedure helped patients maintain a larger share of GLP-1-induced weight loss after discontinuing GLP-1 therapy compared with a sham procedure.
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PayPal Soars 19% on a Reported $53B Stripe-Advent Takeover Offer: What It Means for Visa, Mastercard, and American Express
PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL | PYPL Price Prediction) stock is up 19% to $56.60 in early Wednesday trading following a reported joint takeover offer from Stripe and private-equity firm Advent International valued at more than $53 billion, or $60.50 per share.
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Is Massive AI Spending Favoring Chip ETFs More Than Big Tech?
AI spending is boosting chipmakers' cash flows before Big Tech sees returns, keeping semiconductor ETFs like SMH, XLK and DRAM in focus.
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5 Things to Know Before the Stock Market Opens on Wednesday
Stock futures are pointing to a higher open as investors digest a flurry of earnings reports from major companies; oil prices are higher as the U.S. and Iran continue to trade strikes; PayPal shares are surging following a report that Stripe and Advent International have made a joint offer to buy the payments giant; ASML shares are gaining after the maker of chip manufacturing equipment reported strong results and lifted its sales forecast; and Morgan Stanley, Johnson & Johnson, Conagra and United are among the other big names reporting earnings today. Here's what you need to know today.
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Will Bittensor [TAO] hold $193 or sink to $186? Watch out for 2 signs!
If whales are buying below $200, why has the price yet to respond?
$932 Million in BNB Sent to Dead Wallets in Quarterly Burn Round
The BNB Foundation has announced the successful completion of the 36th quarterly BNB token burn by BNB Chain.
Here's the Clear Reason to Buy Intel Before Its July 23 Earnings Report
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC | INTC Price Prediction) reports Q2 earnings on July 23 before the closing bell.
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SK Hynix: Shortage Will Only Get Worse
I'm initiating SK Hynix (SKHY) with a buy at current levels due to strong HBM leadership and robust AI-driven memory demand. SKHY's dominant HBM position, multi-year supply contracts, and advanced EUV investments underpin its earnings insulation from typical DRAM cyclicality. Despite recent share erosion to Samsung and Micron, the rapidly expanding AI memory market supports absolute volume growth and pricing power.
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ASML Just Raised Guidance Again — Is This the Strongest AI Stock Story Nobody's Talking About?
The AI investment boom has created a sharp divide between companies benefiting from long-term demand and those merely riding short-term enthusiasm.
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Many Cryptocurrencies Try to Dethrone Bitcoin, but Will Any Succeed?
Monero survived 73 delistings, while stablecoins moved $33T. Here are some of the projects that have tried to improve on Bitcoin and how each attempt has gone.
AT&T and Verizon Look Beyond the Family Plan
New wireless service options may break up multiline plans and land carriers a bevy of long-term customers.
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CleanSpark: Multi-Year AI Deal Is A Strong Start, But Execution Is What Matters
CleanSpark maintains a Strong Buy rating, driven by its strategic pivot toward data centers and AI-powered operations. CLSK's diversification beyond Bitcoin mining aims to reduce crypto dependency and position the company for scalable revenue growth. A recently announced multi-year, multi-billion-dollar HPC deal is seen as a potential game-changer supporting long-term growth.
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Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) (SVNLY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) (SVNLY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
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Cloetta AB (publ) (CLOEF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Cloetta AB (publ) (CLOEF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
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BlackRock stock jumps 5% as Q2 earnings, AUM and inflows top estimates
BlackRock (BLK) shares climbed in premarket trading on Wednesday after the world's largest asset manager reported second-quarter earnings, revenue and assets under management that exceeded Wall Street expectations. The company reported adjusted net income of $2.3 billion for the quarter, up 22% from a year earlier, while assets under management (AUM) rose 22% year over year to a record $15.3 trillion, marking the first time the firm has crossed the $15 trillion milestone.
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BioHarvest lands $1.4M grant for AI-driven plant science
BioHarvest Sciences Inc (NASDAQ:BHST, FRA:8MV0) said on Wednesday it has received a 4.33 million NIS (about $1.4 million) grant from the Israel Innovation Authority to fund a new research initiative applying machine learning and computer vision to its plant cell culture programs. The non-dilutive funding, BioHarvest's second grant from the IIA this year, will support integration of data science, chemo-informatics and high-throughput digital sensing into the company's biological development workflows, aiming to move plant cell culture away from trial-and-error methods toward a data-driven optimization framework.
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The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc (PNC) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Top Estimates
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc (PNC) came out with quarterly earnings of $4.85 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.51 per share. This compares to earnings of $3.85 per share a year ago.
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