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Fidelity Bitcoin Model Flags $56,000 Support Test as ETF Flows Waver

Fidelity strategist Jurrien Timmer says bitcoin is nearing a power law support line that has caught every major bottom since 2015 as fund flows turn choppy.

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Applied Digital Jumps as Leases Swell Backlog to $36 Billion

Applied Digital beat fiscal Q4 estimates with 407% revenue growth and disclosed 810 megawatts of new hyperscaler leases worth $20.2 billion.

27 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Morgan Stanley Draws $100 Line Under SpaceX Stock's Sinking AI Premium

Morgan Stanley says a $100 SpaceX share price would value the company's entire AI business at zero as the stock probes fresh lows before earnings.

27 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Bitcoin Price Steadies Near $65,000 as ETF Inflows Return Before Fed

Bitcoin steadied near $65,000 on Monday as US spot ETF flows turned positive for the first month since April, with the Fed's July decision looming.

26 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Big Tech Earnings Blitz and Fed Verdict to Test a Jittery Wall Street

Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Amazon report within 48 hours of a Fed rate decision, testing a market unsettled by AI spending doubts and an oil shock.

26 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Tesla Rout Forces Wall Street to Rethink the AI Spending Boom

Tesla's worst session in more than a year rippled through the Magnificent Seven, erasing $787 billion as investors demanded returns on AI outlays.

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CXMT IPO: Record $9.8 Billion Shanghai Debut Tests China's Chip Rally

China's CXMT begins trading in Shanghai after a record $9.8 billion offering, a listing that will gauge how much further the global memory boom can run.

26 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Wall Street Banks Deliver Blowout Second Quarter, Yet Traders Sell the Very Names That Beat

Five institutions holding more than $13 trillion in assets cleared Wall Street's Q2 estimates on July 14, but a familiar sell-the-news reflex left several of the biggest names lower even as Goldman Sachs surged on a record investment banking haul.

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Bitcoin Trades Like a Rates Bet as Warsh Fed and CLARITY Act Reshape the Tape

A weak payrolls print, a Warsh-led Federal Reserve tilting dovish and fresh legislative momentum behind the CLARITY Act combined to lift bitcoin roughly 15% in the first stretch of July, before profit-taking pulled the token back toward $62,550 by the fourteenth.

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When Speculation Runs Hot: BofA's Snapback Warning Meets a Softening Jobs Market

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