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Mar 2024
10m 37s

Strong risk appetite boost meme stock tr...

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Yesterday was a strong day in terms of meme trading and speculation; Donald Trump’s Truth Social flew with its own wings for the first time yesterday and rose up to 60% under the ticker DJT before settling 16% higher at the end of the session, Reddit also saw some nice intraday volatility. Appetite for meme stocks and cryptocurrencies is back and ... Show More
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Tech and gold at ATH levels
Tech stocks continue to lead major US and Japanese indices toward fresh ATHs anud Elon Musk's xAI securing a significant $20 billion funding round, and buying ABB's robotics division. Companies like Dell are also revising growth forecasts upward, attributing this optimism to the ... Show More
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Oct 8
AI - maybe in a bubble that's surely expected to grow bigger
Investors took a breather as Oracle’s surprisingly thin profit margins cooled the post–OpenAI and AMD euphoria. The company made roughly $900 million in revenue by renting servers powered by Nvidia chips, but only $125 million in gross profit — a reminder that the AI infrastructu ... Show More
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OpenAI rises above political chaos
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