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Investors have largely shifted their attention away from the Magnificent 7 companies as enthusiasm has moved toward semiconductor stocks and the broader artificial intelligence trade. The Roundhill Magnificent 7 ETF (MAGS) has gained just 0.68% this year, significantly underperforming the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indices. With earnings from the biggest names in technology approaching, the key question is whether this pullback presents a golden opportunity to buy these market leaders before a potential rebound.Magnificent 7 stocks have underperformed the marketMagnificent 7 is a group made up of the biggest American companies, including popular names like Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms,…
Escalating Middle East conflicts drive oil supply shocks, fueling inflation worries, central bank policy divergence, and demand for safe-haven assets. Escalating Middle East Conflict & Energy Supply Shock Risks The global macroeconomic backdrop is currently being reshaped by a rapid escalation of geopolitical hostility in the Middle East, where an intensifying standoff between the United States and Iran has crossed into its eleventh consecutive day of military exchanges. With strikes expanding toward critical infrastructure and threats emerging against nuclear facilities, Tehran has warned of a wider regional war targeting American assets across the Middle East. This kinetic conflict has rapidly…
Oil climbed to a six-week high on Wednesday as a threatened Houthi naval blockade of Saudi Arabia pushed a second Middle East shipping chokepoint into the market’s risk calculation. Brent crude futures rose 4.2% to $94.83 a barrel at 09:38 GMT after touching a session high of $95.24, according to Reuters, while West Texas Intermediate gained 4.33% to $87.99. Both benchmarks reached their highest levels since 11 June. Brent had eased to $93.92, up 3.20% on the day, by press time, per OilPrice.com data. What Moved, and What Didn’t The US military carried out an eleventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran,…
Why Is Brazil Reviewing Tokenized Securities Now? Brazil’s securities regulator, the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, has created a working group to draft an experimental framework for tokenized securities, adding another layer to the country’s fast-moving digital asset rulebook. The regulator said the framework will cover the registration, custody, trading and settlement of securities using distributed ledger technology. The scope points to a practical concern for regulators: not whether blockchain can be used in capital markets, but how existing investor protection, recordkeeping and market infrastructure rules should apply when securities move on distributed ledgers. The working group must send its first…
BitMine’s stock price has rebounded over the past few days, hovering near its highest level in more than a month. BMNR has surged 32% from its year-to-date low, with the recovery gaining momentum as investors anticipate the company’s transition from a cash-burning business into a potential free cash flow machine.BitMine has continued to accumulate ETHTom Lee’s BitMine stock has done relatively well in the past few weeks, helped by Ethereum’s resilience. Ethereum price jumped to $1,933 today, its highest level since June 2nd. https://twitter.com/BitMNR/status/2079184628414382391 Data shows that spot Ethereum ETF inflows have continued rising. These funds added $38 million in…
BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) closed at $2.82 on July 20, 2026, having set a fresh 52-week low of $2.77 earlier in the month and shed roughly 63% of its value over the past year. The standard explanation is that the AI trade cooled and BBAI went with it. That is not what the filings show. BigBear.ai’s revenue barely moved — Q1 2026 came in at $34.44 million, down about 1% year over year. What moved was the share count, which grew 65.68% to 478.95 million. Revenue held roughly flat while the number of claims on it rose by two-thirds. Run that…
FinWise Bancorp has acquired the technology platform behind its co-branded credit card programs, ending a nine-month arrangement in which a third party ran the infrastructure and shared the economics. The Murray, Utah lender, listed on Nasdaq as FINW, said the deal gives it end-to-end ownership of card issuing from application through servicing. The move is small in dollar terms and unannounced in price, but it reverses the model that has defined bank-fintech relationships for a decade, in which banks supply the charter and fintechs supply the technology. What FinWise bought, and what it did not Precisely, FinWise acquired the technology…
Fireblocks has integrated Circle’s Gateway and Circle Payments Network into its institutional digital asset platform, giving trading firms, payment providers and banks access to unified USDC treasury management and cross-border payment infrastructure under a single operational and compliance framework. The integration comes as institutional stablecoin adoption continues accelerating. According to Fireblocks, stablecoins accounted for 69% of all digital asset transaction volume processed on its platform during the second quarter of 2026, while USDC has overtaken USDT as the most-used stablecoin among Fireblocks customers. The company also cited industry data showing global stablecoin settlement volume reached US$33 trillion in 2025, up…
General Motors stock has retreated in recent days, falling from its year-to-date high of $87 in February to about $76 today. The pullback could continue in the near term after the stock formed a bearish double-top pattern ahead of its second-quarter earnings report.General Motors to publish earnings on July 21GM stock will be in the spotlight this week as it releases its financial results. These numbers come after the company published a soft deliveries report. It sold 714,896 vehicles in the second quarter, down by 4% from the same period last year.GM blamed the decline on its decision to deprioritize…
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock is pushing higher on Monday morning after the chipmaker announced a major, full-stack expansion of its strategic partnership with Microsoft (MSFT).The centerpiece of the new deal is MSFT committing to deploy AMD Helios Rackscale Solution “at scale” within its Azure cloud infrastructure.AMD shares have been a blockbuster investment in 2026, currently up more than 100% versus the start of this year.What we know about the Microsoft dealMicrosoft is locking in the Helios platform specifically to power “heavy-duty”, frontier-class AI inference workloads – both for its internal services and for its external Azure enterprise and AI…