Intel spent most of 2023 and 2024 as one of the most beaten-down chip stocks on Wall Street. Frank Lee, an HSBC semiconductor analyst, was among the skeptics. In late 2025 he had the company on reduce with a $24 price target and a straightforward message: time to bail out. On July 2, Lee published
Gold prices seemed to be mounting a comeback, but JPMorgan just made the rally harder to trust. Investors expected the shiny yellow metal to continue pushing higher into year’s end, buoyed by rate-cut hopes, central-bank buying, and safe-haven demand. Reuters reported that spot gold was up over 2% for the week, even as JPMorgan recently
Southwest Airlines has spent the past year and a half tearing up its own playbook. For a company that built its identity on being different from every other airline, that is a big deal. Now Wall Street is starting to agree the bet is paying off. Morgan Stanley just gave Southwest Airlines (LUV) a fresh
Wall Street spent most of 2025 convinced that Federal Reserve rate cuts were the unlock for the next leg of the stock market rally. That thesis did not play out the way most strategists expected. On June 30, Wells Fargo put a number on what the market has actually been running on instead. Wells Fargo
Even after President Donald Trump toned down his earlier rhetoric around annexing Canada and calling what was once a friendly ally “the 51st state,” Canadian travel to the U.S. has remained at record lows. The latest travel numbers released by the Canadian government and crunched by the University of Toronto show that border crossings in
I have covered Micron more times lately than any other stock on my beat. The Q3 earnings beat was historic. The guidance was historic. The HBM4 shipment disclosure was historic. And yet the stock is now trading near $970, down from a 52-week high of $1,255 reached June 25, as investors wrestle with a question
Shares of Meta Platforms (META) have struggled in 2026, despite the company’s aggressive push into artificial intelligence. The stock is down 11.7% year to date through July 2, trailing the S&P 500‘s roughly 9% gain over the same period. On July 2, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the company’s AI reorganization has not delivered
On June 12, Amazon engineers handed a report to the U.S. Commerce Department. Within hours, two of Anthropic’s newest AI models went offline for every user on the planet. Nineteen days later, Anthropic got them back. The return of Claude Fable 5 to global availability on July 1 is the result of two weeks of
Benchmark raised its price target on Datadog to $330 from $260 on Thursday, July 2, a Street high, while keeping its buy rating unchanged. The stock was already up more than 90% year to date before this call landed, meaning Benchmark is not calling a bottom, but arguing the rally still has room to run.
OpenAI is now worth $852 billion. The people who built that valuation are a small group of venture capitalists, early employees, and institutional investors. A much larger group of workers had their jobs, wages, and industries reshaped to help get it there. Most of them have no financial stake in the outcome. On July 2,