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Lingyi debuted strongly after raising HK$8.3 billion as it expands into AI hardware and humanoid robotics.
<body><p>STORY: From Micron's mega market cap to Apple's price hikes...</p><p>...this is the Week in Numbers.</p><p>:: The Week in Numbers</p><p>:: $1.4 trillion.</p><p>About $1.4 trillion was Micron's market cap after it briefly blew past the value of Meta and Tesla for the first time.</p><p>It came after the firm forecast quarterly profit and revenue well above expectations.</p><p>Micron is a major memory-chip maker and a key supplier to AI titan Nvidia.</p><p>The company's shares have more than tripled in value so far this year, and soared close to a fifth following its results.</p><p>:: 5%</p><p>Almost 5% is how far Apple shares fell after it announced price hikes.</p><p>The tech giant said its cheapest laptop will jump from $599 to $699, with iPad prices also rising - although the iPhone won't jump for now.</p><p>Apple says it can no longer avoid passing on rising costs to consumers.</p><p>The price of memory chips jumped by around 98% in the first quarter, and has kept soaring due to the AI boom.</p><p>:: 42% </p><p>42% was how much shares of Wendy's soared as retail traders bought up the beaten-down stock in the latest meme-like rally.</p><p>Trading on the heavily shorted stock was paused multiple times due to volatility..</p><p>Shares briefly hit a more than seven-month high.</p><p>The fast food chain is battling weak sales and pressure from an activist investor, with its stock down more than 78% from record highs five years ago.</p><p>:: $648 billion</p><p>Almost $648 billion is how much Samsung plans to invest in South Korea over 10 years.</p><p>That's according to the Maeil Business Newspaper, which said the firm will announce its intentions on Monday.</p><p>The investment includes a potential $194 billion to build chip factories in the country's southwest, as well as plans for AI data centers, batteries and displays.</p><p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Samsung.</p><p>:: $606.5 million</p><p>And $606.5 million was H&M's operating profit during its fiscal second quarter.</p><p>That was smaller than expected for the Swedish fashion retailer.</p><p>H&M blamed weaker consumer demand and inflation made worse by the Iran war.</p><p>CEO Daniel Erver said Europe, particularly the western part of it, had gone through a difficult quarter.</p></body>
June 25 (Reuters) - Nasdaq futures jumped 2% on Thursday after upbeat forecasts from chipmakers Micron and Qualcomm pointed to strong demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, lifting
Investors are now watching Starlink's growth and Starship's R&D spending ahead of its first public earnings report.
The companies are combining to create what they called the largest distributed power plant in the country.
Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home entered into an agreement to deliver more than 16 gigawatts of flexible energy capacity to hyperscalers and utilities.
The solar-energy company is partnering with home energy platform Renew Home and electric car maker Tesla to power data centers.
SpaceX isn't likely to generate the mammoth returns that Tesla has since going public.
Wolfe expects Tesla to deliver 420,000 vehicles in Q2, above the 400,000-unit consensus.
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Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX rose more than 10% in premarket trading on Tuesday, putting the company on course to overtake Amazon.com in market value to become the world's fifth‑largest company, as it extended a post-IPO rally. The stock, which surged more than 19% on Monday, was last up 10.1% at $211.8, giving the company a market capitalization of nearly $2.8 trillion if gains hold. Amazon was last valued at $2.66 trillion.
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Cathie Wood's firm ARK Invest staked a large position in Elon Musk's SpaceX on Friday. The firm already has a huge chunk of Tesla stock.
It makes Tesla and X owner Mr Musk – already a billionaire – the world’s first paper trillionaire.
Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX) rallied 19% on Friday as the rocket and satellite company debute
Alex Sacerdote, founder of Whale Rock Capital, dropped a line on a recent Invest Like the Best episode that stopped listeners cold: “When we were buying Nvidia in 2023, we were paying 4 times earnings. When we bought Tesla in 2019 for the car S-curve, we were paying 5 times earnings. When we were owning ... Prominent Tech Investor: ‘When We Were Buying Nvidia in 2023, We Were Paying 4 Times Earnings’
Tesla retail sales in China grew 22% year-over-year in May, ending a two-month decline. Tesla stock rose modestly early Monday after diving last week.
Tesla bear JPMorgan revised its view on Elon Musk's electric vehicle company. The stock is down about 4% this week.
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The IPO may happen as soon as June 12.
Elon Musk-led SpaceX‘s upcoming IPO could trigger retirement funds, including 401 (k) accounts, worth trillions to invest in the commercial space flight giant following its June public listing. $30 Trillion Worth Of Retirement Funds In a post on X on...
