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A 30% surge left short sellers facing about $3 billion in paper losses.

Palantir's Huge Rally Turns the Tables on Short Sellers: $3 Billion Loss

Wall Street analysts reshuffled their ratings on Wednesday, sending some familiar names higher while punishing others with sharp target cuts. Find out which stocks got surprise upgrades and which ones analysts are now walking away from.

The "Big Short" investor said all his short positions remain profitable except his bet against Nvidia stock

While the S&P 500 just hit a record high and the AI trade roars back to life, one famous short seller is keeping his bearish bets intact and warning that the market's own mechanics could turn a celebration into a collapse.

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Palantir's CEO climbed the Forbes ranking as the stock rally hit 30%. Here is what changed for Alex Karp today.

The most-talked-about stocks in the Reddit subforum Wallstreetbets were mixed hours before Wednesday

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Burry’s trades come just as Big Tech delivered a robust set of quarterly earnings.

Stocks were on track to break more records on Wednesday, as the AI trade and hopes of an Iran peace deal continued to power the broader market higher. S&P 500 futures rose 0.3%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 130 points, or 0.2%.

Palantir turned in another terrific quarter, with huge U.S. commercial revenue growth.

Zeta Global Holdings Corp. has reported past second-quarter 2026 results showing sales rising to US$442.77 million with net income of US$8.17 million, alongside higher full-year revenue and GAAP EPS guidance. The company also marked its 20th consecutive beat-and-raise quarter, underpinned by growing AI adoption and partnerships with OpenAI and Palantir that are reshaping how it wins and serves enterprise clients. Next, we’ll examine how this stronger guidance, underpinned by AI-driven...

The Morning Bull - US Market Morning Update Wednesday, Aug, 5 2026 US stock futures are slightly higher this morning, with E-mini S&P 500 contracts up around 0.1%, as investors weigh stronger factory activity against the risk of higher borrowing costs. The ISM Manufacturing PMI jumped to 55.6 in July, its best reading since May 2022, which signals factories are busier, hiring is improving and cost pressures are easing. At the same time, the 10 year Treasury yield sits near 4.69%, which keeps...

Palantir barely moved over the past year, yet the leveraged ETF built to amplify its gains somehow lost a third of its value. The math behind that gap is stranger and more punishing than most investors expect.

Michael Burry warns of a 1987-type crash and keeps Nvidia and Tesla shorts as the S&P 500 hits a record high.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest sold 39,233 Palantir shares across ARKK and ARKF, worth $6.38 million at Tuesday’s close.

Palantir’s tech is “differentiated and hard to reproduce with frontier model solutions or cloud platforms today,” Morningstar said.

Asian equities climbed again Wednesday, tracking another record on Wall Street, as tech firms continued to enjoy a revival after a month-long rout, with confidence also boosted by the prospect of an imminent deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.Crude tumbled more than five percent Tuesday -- and are down more than 10 percent this week -- after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a deal could be reached imminently with Tehran on re-opening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping traffic. 

Palantir's 30% stock surge wiped out $3 billion in short seller gains after a strong earnings beat and raised guidance.

Notable earnings came from Palantir (PLTR), which took some air out of the short seller’s narrative that AI is going to replace all software stocks. For a while, that worry hurt Microsoft (MSFT). But between Microsoft's recent beat from monetizing OpenAI and Palantir's phenomenal beat following two ...

The Dow and S&P 500 closed at record highs as AI-linked earnings lifted stocks leaving questions about when the bubble will burst.

Investors typically gravitate toward several market strategies, including income, growth, or value, but each style caters to different investor profiles.

REVIEW PREVIEW NEWSLETTER Good Vibes and Blue Skies. Summer heat and humidity may be setting in, but markets are showing no signs of wilting. The gains keep piling up in the first few days of the August as strong earnings, hopes of a sustained ceasefire in the Middle East and a renewed optimism in AI drove major indices higher on Tuesday.

↗️ Palantir Technologies (PLTR): Shares in the software company jumped, closing up 29% after it reported strong earnings on Monday after the close. The stock recorded its largest one-day percentage gain since Feb.

President Donald Trump discussed efforts to de-escalate US-Iran tensions with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

Korean memory-chip manufacturer SK Hynix late last month booked roughly $65 billion in profit for the quarter ended June 30, a 13-fold increase from last year. Hynix earned almost as much money in 90 days as it had in the prior 29 years since its IPO, total. The reports, though outstanding on basically every measure, still fell short of Wall Street’s sky-high expectations for chip companies.

Crude oil retreated amid diplomatic optimism over the Strait of Hormuz, as earnings strength lifted equities, today, Aug. 4, 2026.

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Palantir Technologies stock wiped out entire year-to-date profits for short sellers following strong earnings and elevated full-year forecasts, S3 data showed.