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The Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:SOXL) made a 160%-plus move in thirty days, and the fund added another 15% today to trade near $146. Returns like that show up when the most volatile sleeve of the market reverses sharply and a triple-leveraged ETF amplifies the bounce. The reason for the rip is simpler ... Up 160% in One Month, This AI ETF Can Still 5X

CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) reports first-quarter results Thursday after the close. Critics have called the AI cloud provider’s foundation circular financing on shifting sand. A month-long run of contract wins has started to flip that script. Critics Said It Was Built on Sand CoreWeave borrows heavily, buys NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) GPUs, and rents them to a concentrated ... Here’s Where CoreWeave Proves the Doubters Wrong Once and For All

Nvidia faces its most legitimate challenger since the AI boom kicked off.

Merck (NYSE:MRK) delivered its fourth consecutive earnings beat, but shares slipped on the earnings report. With acquisition charges clouding the quarter, here is where the stock heads next. The 24/7 Wall St. Price Target for Merck Is $135.70 Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for Merck is $135.70 over the next 12 months, implying 24.29% ... Merck Stock Looks Undervalued as KEYTRUDA Growth and Pipeline Offset Near-Term Headwinds

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Bloomberg reported Intel is in talks with Apple to potentially become the consumer tech giant's main chip manufacturer for devices in the U.S.

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The Morning Brew Daily hosts handed Brian Niccol a nickname this week: “the retail Messi.” The label arrived after Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) reported a 6.2% increase in same-store sales. This ended a streak of 7 quarters of flat or declining sales and sending the shares up nearly 6% after hours. This was on top of a ... Brian Niccol Earned the ‘Retail Messi’ Nickname: Starbucks Same-Store Sales Jump 6.2% After 7 Quarters of Decline

Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) trades around $6.25, while Wall Street has an average price target of about $12.77, implying that analysts see about 104% for the stock today. Lucid is the Newark, California luxury EV maker behind the Lucid Air sedan and the ramping Lucid Gravity SUV, with a midsize program and a robotaxi partnership with Uber ... Wall Street Sees 104% Upside for Lucid Despite 48% Polymarket Bankruptcy Odds

Last week’s tech earnings put investors’ attention back on AI spending and whether it’s actually paying off. One megacap stands out, surging nearly 10% over the past five trading days, the best five-day performance among the Magnificent 7 stocks. That’s Alphabet. The stock is up 22% year to date as ...

The e-commerce platform provider says it's running into a growth headwind. It may be overstating its challenge.

PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) and Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) just delivered first quarter results that expose a widening gap between the two beverage giants. Coke leaned on Zero Sugar momentum and a near pure-play concentrate model. Pepsi leaned on snacks, international resilience, and an affordability reset to nudge North American volumes back to life. Zero Sugar Lifts ... PepsiCo vs Coca-Cola: A Decade-Long Fight for Dominance

Memory chip stocks are ripping higher again this morning, with Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) shares up 12% and SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) shares climbing 10% in mid-morning trading on Tuesday. MU stock is changing hands near $644, while SNDK shares are pushing through $1,380. The synchronized rally extends what’s already been a parabolic year for memory names. Micron ... Micron Rockets 12%, SanDisk Leaps 10% as Tight Memory Supply Fuels Parabolic AI Trade

Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) points to $502.88 over the next 12 months, which would take shares well past the $500 mark. With GOOGL trading at $383.25, that implies 31.21% upside. The model’s rating is buy with a high confidence reading of 90%. Cloud is compounding, Gemini usage is scaling ... Alphabet Stock: I See a Path to $500 by 2027

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Investors are watching Dutch Bros (NYSE: BROS) ahead of first-quarter results due tomorrow after the bell. The stock is down 7.15% year to date but has rallied 12.89% over the past month. This report needs to justify that bounce. A Quiet Year, A Loud Comeback The setup is interesting. After Dutch Bros closed 2025 at ... Can Dutch Bros. Keep Brewing Up Gains?

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is up over 93% in the past year, though it is up less than 2% in the past six months. On the other hand, Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) is up a massive 717% in the past year and up 151% in the past six months alone. As of this writing, the stock has surged over 15% in ... The Best-Performing AI Stock Nobody Is Talking About Has Outrun Nvidia by a Mile

IonQ (NYSE:IONQ) reports Q1 2026 results tomorrow after the close. After a string of contract wins, an acquisition spree, and the first $100M revenue year in public quantum history, this report could validate a rally that has lifted shares 56.14% in the last month. A Quantum Leader Pulling Away From the Pack Last quarter, IonQ ... Hold On Tight! Quantum Computing Leader IonQ Is About to Rocket Higher

Investors are watching Disney (NYSE:DIS) ahead of fiscal Q2 2026 results due before the bell tomorrow, May 6. Shares are barely holding $100 at $100.69, down 10.95% YTD. This is new CEO Josh D’Amaro’s first real test. D’Amaro Inherits a Crowded To-Do List Last quarter, Disney beat with adjusted EPS of $1.63 on revenue of ... Can Disney Keep Treading Above $100 After Earnings Tomorrow?

Shares of Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) are riding a wave of Wall Street enthusiasm following a stronger-than-expected Q1 2026 earnings report. At least seven sell-side firms raised their price targets on May 5, with PINS stock trading up 11% intraday to $23 and change. The takeaway for prudent investors: the worst may be behind Pinterest, but firms ... Pinterest Just Got a Wall Street Pile-On: Six Firms Hike Price Targets After Q1 Beat Crushes Estimates

Alphabet is on the cusp of overtaking Nvidia as the world's most valuable company, riding on a record stock rally fueled by its artificial intelligence efforts and booming cloud business. The potential ‌reshuffling would put the Google parent at the No.1 spot for the first time in more than a decade. ‌It last held that position briefly in February 2016 before Apple reclaimed the spot. The move reflects a dramatic shift in sentiment as Alphabet emerges as both a ​major AI services provider with its cloud platform and a key rival to Nvidia in chips through custom processors that have won customers such as Anthropic.

While the bull thesis for Intel (INTC) centers on foundry ramp and 18A process leadership by 2H 2026, the stock's 5x run has priced in execution that hasn't materialized. At over 85x forward earnings against 10% expected growth over two years, investors are paying a premium multiple for a narrative, not fundamentals. The margin for error is razor-thin.

Concentrated bets on a handful of mega-cap technology names drove most of the S&P 500’s returns over the past three years, and Roundhill built MAGS to deliver that exposure in one ticker without forcing investors to guess which name will lead next. The Single-Decision Mega-Cap Tech Sleeve The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (NYSEARCA:MAGS) holds seven ... MAGS Is Up 181% Since Launch, but 2026 Reveals Its Hidden Weakness

State Street’s own 2026 ETF outlook called active fixed income the “global product center of gravity”, which is a striking concession from the firm that built the largest passive high-yield ETF on the market. That backdrop frames the case for Vanguard High-Yield Active ETF (CBOE:VGHY), Vanguard’s first actively managed high-yield bond ETF. Launched in September ... Credit Spreads Are the Signal That Will Make or Break VGHY in 2026

Shares of Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) are catapulting 14% in Tuesday morning trading, changing hands near $109.60 after Bloomberg reported that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is exploring Intel’s foundry services for future U.S. chip production. The move extends a stunning run. Intel stock is up 118% over the past month and up roughly 197% year to date (YTD), breaking ... Intel Rips 14% Higher: Apple Foundry Reports Crush Bears in Massive Short Squeeze