AMD (AMD) Stock Surges 6% Following Massive Bond Offering and BofA’s Bullish Outlook
Key Highlights
- Shares of AMD surged 6.19% on Friday, finishing the session at $512.93
- The company successfully completed a $4.75 billion debt offering, marking its largest investment-grade bond issuance to date
- BofA Securities increased its server CPU market projection for 2030 to more than $210 billion,
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August 17, 2026 / 11:57 IST
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Mutual funds boost IT allocation to 6.6% in July
Mutual funds raised their investment in IT stocks to 6.6% this July, bouncing back from a record low of 5.9% in June.
This shift comes as worries about AI shaking up the industry start to fade and IT stock prices look more attractive.
Still, the allocation hasn’t quite reached the 8% recorded in July 2025.
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Read More2 Best Nuclear Power Stocks Right Now
Key Points
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Constellation has several long-term service agreements to provide nuclear power to hyperscalers.
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Cameco Corporation benefits from the U.S. ban on Russian uranium.
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Constellation is close to restarting the Crane Clean Energy Center.
Nuclear power is experiencing a structural global renaissance,
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Read MoreMeet the Newest Member of the S&P 500. It’s Up 365% Since Its IPO, and It Can Keep Climbing From Here.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.43%) is widely regarded as the most important U.S. stock index. To be included in the index, a U.S.-based company must meet a set of criteria, including demonstrating consistent profitability. While the committee typically adds and removes constituent companies from the index quarterly, it occasionally needs to add a new company mid-quarter.Such is the case with the most recent addition.
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1 No-Brainer Stock to Buy Now with $360
If you were going to buy just one stock, you would want it to have some key characteristics, and among the best is a share price that increases with the market but holds steady when markets fall.
In 2022 when the market fell by 20%, Berkshire Hathaway treaded water, essentially beating the market by 20%.
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You’re About To Spit Out Your Coffee
While the market has generally been trending higher this year with various bumps in the road, Starbucks has had an altogether different journey and remained largely flat over the past 12 months. Worse still, until its recent CEO switchover, it had been decidedly under water.
The fundamentals have been fairly underwhelming for some time as earnings reports have revealed.
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