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XRP's network will become faster and more efficient, but will that upgrade move the needle?

The AI server maker's record orders came with a $7 billion bill for shareholders.

Shares of SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) are up 14% to roughly $1,873 in midday trading Thursday, while Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) stock is climbing 6% to around $520. The bounce snaps a rough stretch for memory and storage names that had pulled back hard from last week’s highs. Both moves arrive alongside a broader rebound across the memory ... SanDisk Jumps 14%, Western Digital Climbs 6% as Memory Stocks Rebound on SK Hynix’s Capacity Plan

Elon Musk will be the real winner of the IPO.

The semiconductor sector has taken a beating of late, but that is good news for investors looking to buy top chip stocks at attractive valuations.

Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) reported Q1 2026 results that pulled the GLP-1 duopoly apart. Lilly grew revenue 55.5% and raised guidance. Novo posted a 4% adjusted sales decline at constant currency and is cutting 9,000 jobs. Both call obesity the prize, but their quarters tell very different stories about who ... Eli Lilly vs Novo Nordisk: The Battle for Obesity Drug Supremacy

Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) beat both lines last week and still got punished, which shows how this AI cycle now grades the report card. Broadcom is the second-largest AI chip franchise behind NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), supplying custom accelerators and networking silicon to hyperscalers. CEO Hock Tan has been guiding the Street toward $56 billion in AI semiconductor revenue this ... Broadcom’s Selloff Shows the New Rule of AI Stocks: Great Isn’t Good

Most people know Vanguard for its low-cost index funds. This smaller, actively managed ETF has been able to beat the S&P 500 for more than eight years.

The launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States in January 2024 did more than simply make cryptocurrency easier to access. It also created a regulated ecosystem around Bitcoin that could support options trading and a variety of derivative-based income strategies. Since then, ETF issuers have experimented with all kinds of products. Some use ... The Roundhill Bitcoin Covered Call ETF Paying 30 Percent Yields Without Holding a Single Satoshi

Shares of Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) are up 8% today, trading at around $273 in midday action on Thursday, June 11. The move extends a remarkable run that has the stock up 57% over the past month heading into its scheduled index debut. The catalyst is well known. S&P Dow Jones Indices confirmed in its June ... Marvell Just Ripped 57% in a Month. Will the June 22 S&P 500 Listing Be a Sell-the-News Event?

Be careful when following this common guidance.

Backed by KKR, Kuwait's sovereign fund, NVIDIA and Vistra, a new private-capital platform aims to be a one-stop builder for hyperscaler AI infrastructure, signaling that dedicated third-party delivery vehicles are…

Neura Robotics, backed by Qualcomm, Nvidia and Amazon, has secured funding of up to US$1.4b to scale AI-powered humanoid and cognitive robots across multiple industries. Qualcomm’s automotive partner QCraft is preparing global mass-market deployment of autonomous driving solutions built on Qualcomm’s SA8650P platform. These developments highlight Qualcomm’s push beyond smartphones into robotics and intelligent vehicles through its wider AI and hardware ecosystem. For investors tracking...

NVIDIA (NasdaqGS:NVDA) has launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, a $10b-backed joint venture with KKR and others to build AI data center and power infrastructure globally. The company is expanding its alliance with SK Group to work on AI supercomputing, CPUs, and robotics, with an eye on semiconductor and memory supply constraints. NVIDIA has also entered an exclusive partnership with Abridge to develop healthcare focused AI models for clinical use. NVIDIA (NasdaqGS:NVDA), trading at...

Broadcom and ASML are better buys than SpaceX's massive IPO.

XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) has dipped below $1.20 for the first time in over a year, and the token trades around $1.12 today after losing more than 10% in a week amid a market-wide selloff. The drop comes despite a year in which XRP got nearly everything holders had been waiting for: spot ETFs, a settled ... Is It Safe to Hold XRP Right Now? What Holders Should Be Watching

Agentic AI Shockwave Sends Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Arm Sharply Higher

At $475.51, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) is a Hold. The stock has roughly doubled in five months on accelerating AI demand, and the gap between the operating story and the multiple has rarely been wider. AMD designs the CPUs and GPUs powering hyperscale AI factories, with EPYC server chips and Instinct accelerators now the company’s ... Up 129% Year-to-Date: 1 Flashing Red Light That Makes AMD Stock a Dangerous Buy Above $475

Oracle is raising cash, and much of it may end up flowing to ASML.

Costco (NASDAQ:COST) is structured for multi-decade compounding because its membership fee engine turns a low-margin grocery business into a recurring-revenue compounder that gets stronger every cycle. If you are in your 50s or 60s and tired of being whipsawed by trend trades, this is the kind of holding you can buy, file away, and let ... Forget Volatility: 1 Core Portfolio Cornerstone to Buy Hand Over Fist

Wages get taxed before they hit your account, raises rarely keep pace with shelter and grocery inflation, and a single layoff cycle can erase years of careful budgeting. Passive income from dividends sidesteps all of that. The cash arrives whether the market is green or red, whether you are at your desk or asleep, and ... Want $1,000 a Month in Dividends? Here’s How Much of This Stock You’d Need

Shares of Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) are down 5% in Thursday midday trading, slipping to roughly $222.60 and pressing against a 52-week low of $220.17. The latest leg lower extends a brutal stretch for the creative-software giant. Year to date, Adobe stock is down 37%. The trailing-12-month P/E ratio sits near 13x, an unusually compressed multiple for ... Adobe Is Now Down 37% in 2026. Should Value-Trapped Investors Switch to Alphabet?

Historically, a strong start to the year for the S&P 500 often leads to a strong second half of the year.

If you are building a portfolio you intend to never touch again, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B) warrants a central role, because it is engineered to compound capital across decades regardless of who is in the White House, what the Federal Reserve is doing, or which sector is in fashion. Pillar One: A Business Built to Outlast ... History Says This Unstoppable Cash Cow Is the Single Best “Set-It-and-Forget-It” Stock on the Planet

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) just delivered the kind of quarter that should have sent shares to new highs. Revenue of $81.6 billion grew 85.2% year over year, Data Center clocked $75.2 billion at 92% growth, and Jensen Huang told investors “the buildout of AI factories, the largest infrastructure expansion in human history, is accelerating at extraordinary speed.” ... Prediction: Nvidia Set to Hit $250 on This Date

The biggest IPO in history will be too hot to handle.

Artificial intelligence (AI) companies will tap the capital markets for hundreds of billions of dollars over a very short time span.

Expanded partnership targets enterprise AI deployment across cloud and devices.

Jensen Huang recently praised another artificial intelligence (AI) chip stock during his trip to South Korea.

Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) is the ticker every retail trader keeps tweeting about, riding an AI government-software narrative into one of the richest valuations in large-cap software. But here’s what you should actually be watching: the unloved data platform that just printed its strongest sequential growth quarter in company history while the headline name was busy cracking. ... Forget Palantir: As Sticky Macro Volatility Hits Tech, This Stock Is A Better Buy