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Wall Street analysts at Truist, Evercore, and J.P. Morgan have each reiterated buy ratings on CrowdStrike, Dell Technologies, and SanDisk, citing AI demand, platform consolidation, and a structural shift in the NAND memory market as long-term catalysts.
Jay Goldberg · 27 DAYS AGO
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's debt buyback announcement signals a looming fiscal crisis, recommending investors hold 10%–15% in gold and a portion in bitcoin as U.S. debt surpasses $40 trillion.
TechEchelon Staff · 29 DAYS AGO
Micron, Sandisk, Seagate, and Western Digital have all surged on AI data center demand, but they serve distinct roles in the memory ecosystem — and face diverging outlooks as their stocks retreat from late-June peaks.
Sara Montes de Oca · 29 DAYS AGO
Bitcoin rose more than 5% Thursday to $72,383.99 — its highest level since June 1 — after President Trump hosted top crypto executives at the White House to push for passage of the Clarity Act, bringing the cryptocurrency's two-day gain to 12%.
Sara Montes de Oca · 30 DAYS AGO
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Thursday that settling the multistate antitrust lawsuit against the Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery merger would require "robust structural remedies," while leaving the door open to good-faith negotiations.
TechEchelon Staff · 30 DAYS AGO
Bitcoin surged 5.2% to $71,880 and ether climbed more than 9% after President Trump called on Congress to pass the crypto Clarity Act, with a Treasury bond buyback announcement adding further fuel to the rally.
TechEchelon Staff · 30 DAYS AGO
Travis Kalanick told a podcast audience that only 1% of venture capitalists are genuinely "helpful" to founders, even as his robotics company Atoms closes a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Jay Goldberg · 30 DAYS AGO
Google has signed a sweeping custom chip partnership with Marvell Technology, disclosed in a securities filing Wednesday, that includes $12.2 billion in stock warrants and deepens concerns that Broadcom could lose ground with its flagship AI chip customer.
Marc Sabatini · 31 DAYS AGO
Cantor Fitzgerald will broker block trades on Kalshi's event contracts for institutional clients, with Susquehanna International Group serving as market maker — marking one of the most significant Wall Street entries into regulated prediction markets to date.
Sara Montes de Oca · 31 DAYS AGO
Krak, a payments app affiliated with crypto exchange Kraken, launched a U.S. debit card Tuesday offering up to 2% cash or bitcoin back, entering direct competition with fintech super apps including Cash App, Venmo, SoFi, and Robinhood.
Sara Montes de Oca · 32 DAYS AGO
Einride said it will purchase 500 Tesla Semis over the next 24 months, tripling its current fleet and making the vehicles available to Amazon and other freight customers through its Saga AI platform.
TechEchelon Staff · 32 DAYS AGO
China's July economic data came in broadly below expectations, with retail sales rising just 0.6% year on year, urban fixed-asset investment contracting 6.7%, and the urban unemployment rate climbing to 5.2%, intensifying calls for additional policy support from Beijing.
Jay Goldberg · 33 DAYS AGO
Negotiations for Stripe and Advent International to acquire PayPal have intensified after an initial $53 billion offer was rejected in July, with sources saying a deal could come together within weeks.
Marc Sabatini · 35 DAYS AGO
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved a national trust bank charter for World Liberty Trust Co., an entity tied to the Trump family-backed crypto firm World Liberty Financial, drawing immediate criticism from Democratic lawmakers.
Marc Sabatini · 36 DAYS AGO
OpenAI revenue chief Denise Dresser and operating chief Brad Lightcap have both departed within days of each other, amplifying investor concerns about C-suite stability as the company pursues an IPO at an $852 billion valuation.
Jay Goldberg · 36 DAYS AGO
The price gap between U.S. COMEX copper futures and London Metal Exchange prices has become a real-time market gauge of Section 232 tariff risk, with Societe Generale estimating a 37% probability of a 30% duty on refined copper by January 2028.
Jay Goldberg · 36 DAYS AGO
Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran has declined reappointment after a six-month delay, triggering a leadership search at the conglomerate and raising questions about the future of its $11 billion semiconductor plant, iPhone assembly operations, and Air India turnaround.
Sara Montes de Oca · 36 DAYS AGO
Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18, replacing AvalonBay Communities and becoming only the second pure-play social media company in the benchmark index after Meta. Shares climbed 11% in extended trading on the news.
TechEchelon Staff · 37 DAYS AGO
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