Diplomacy in the Middle East eases energy prices, reduces Federal Reserve rate-hike expectations, weakens the dollar, and boosts gold and equities. US-Iran Strait of Hormuz Talks Drive Energy Correction Markets are currently experiencing a wave of optimism driven by productive talks between the United States and Iran, alongside reports of an emerging interim agreement mediated
For most of the past two years, investors concentrated almost exclusively on the companies designing AI chips or building the large language models consuming them. Now, according to Wells Fargo equity strategist Ohsung Kwon, the investment opportunity is beginning to spread much further through the economy. In a note reported by Bloomberg this week, Kwon
Reddit (RDDT) just produced the widest post-earnings split on Wall Street this season: within two trading days of the stock’s worst drop since its IPO, Wells Fargo cut its target to $143 — below the market — while Truist raised its own to a Street-high $275, per GuruFocus’ tally of the analyst moves. The same
The most revealing detail of the first joint US-Japan yen-buying operation since 1998 is not the size — it is the funding. The US Treasury bought yen by selling euros, not dollars, per Yahoo Finance’s account of the operation — an intervention engineered to strengthen the yen without Washington technically selling its own currency. That
The lazy read on Klarna (NYSE: KLAR) is that it is a fading buy-now-pay-later brand that went public into a hostile tape and has traded like it ever since — down from a $45.48 post-IPO high to $18.94 as of the July 31, 2026 close, per stockanalysis.com. The read the price is missing: on July
Updated 3 August 2026. WDC last close $544.84 (31 July 2026, +2.21% on the day), trading around $520 in Monday pre-market — down roughly 4.6% at 9:08am ET — per StockAnalysis. Q4 FY26 results land Wednesday 5 August after the close, with the call at 4:30pm ET. Our call: $638 base (the 26-analyst consensus), $1,050
Binance Coin cryptocurrency can be expected to fall further to the next support level 560.00 (which has been reversing the price from the start of July – stopping earlier waves a, b and ii). Binance Coin recently reversed from resistance zone Likely to fall to support level 560.00 Binance Coin cryptocurrency recently reversed down from
BoJ held rates as geopolitical tensions, AI-driven inflation, and currency interventions fueled global market volatility. Bank of Japan Maintains Interest Rates Amid Economic Growth and Currency Intervention The Bank of Japan (BoJ) kept its key short-term interest rate steady at 1.00% following its July policy meeting. While leaving rates unchanged, the central bank revised its
The best-performing stock in the S&P 500 just fell 37% in a month, and the reason was not in its order book — it was in someone else’s margin account. SanDisk (SNDK) closed July 30 at $1,280, down from a June 25 record of $2,335, after printing $1,016 on July 29 — the day Leopold
CoreWeave spent July absorbing two different catastrophes, and the market has not yet separated them. The first was fundamental: on July 17, Meta announced Meta Compute — the biggest AI capex spender turning compute vendor — and struck directly at the GPU-cloud business model. The second was mechanical: CoreWeave was a $697 million position in