Since mid-May, Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest has liquidated almost all of its position in Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA). That included a $54 million sale of the Chinese e-commerce and artificial intelligence (AI) stock in a single day in late June.
Wood, who is both the CEO and the public face of the company,
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Trump previously announced that the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over after the United States struck Iranian targets on Tuesday night.
He also expressed his dissatisfaction with Iranian negotiators, saying that while the two sides would discuss Iran’s denuclearization, the negotiators would deny any discussion on this aspect afterward.
ASML is the only company that sells advanced chipmaking equipment used to fabricate chips for AI data centers, smartphones, and PCs.
The company upgraded its guidance last quarter, and it won’t be surprising to see that trend continue when it releases its Q2 report.
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Nvidia has tumbled to its lowest market cap since early 2019, before the generative AI boom lifted the chipmaker to the top of Wall Street. Since peaking on May 14, shares have shed about 16%, wiping out roughly $1 trillion in market capitalization.
At 18 times forward earnings,
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The U.S. economy entered the second half of 2026 with a mixed but encouraging picture. Easing tensions in the Middle East helped improve market sentiment. Home prices remained resilient as the Case-Shiller 20-city index rose 1.1% in April, beating expectations, even with mortgage rates hovering between 5.99% and 6.25%. June consumer confidence edged up to 91.2 from a downwardly revised 90.6 in May.
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Nuclear energy stocks like Oklo (NYSE: OKLO), NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR), and Cameco (NYSE: CCJ) surged last year, but this volatility cuts both ways. Advanced reactor start-ups Oklo and NuScale Power have had a tough go of it, with the stocks down 27% and 30%, respectively, since the start of the year.
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XRP ETF inflows have dropped from about $132 million in May to under $5 million so far in July, with no new money at all on two of the last three trading days.
The slowdown is a market-wide pullback,
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For a few weeks, Wall Street treated Ford Motor (F 0.59%) like a Silicon Valley darling. The legacy automaker launched Ford Energy, a new business pivoting into battery energy storage systems (BESS) for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, utilities, and industrial hubs.
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