Shares of athletic apparel company Under Armour (NYSE:UAA)
jumped 4.7% in the afternoon session after investment firm Guggenheim initiated coverage on the company with a "Buy" rating and a $6 price target.
Shares of casual restaurant chain Brinker International (NYSE:EAT)
jumped 4.6% in the afternoon session after Wells Fargo analyst Zachary Fadem raised the price target on the company's stock to $175 from $160, while keeping an "Overweight" rating.
Shares of aerospace and defense company Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB)
jumped 9.5% in the afternoon session after the company successfully launched a mission for the U.S. Space Force five months ahead of schedule.
Shares of infrastructure construction company MasTec (NYSE:MTZ)
jumped 3.1% in the afternoon session after Truist Securities raised its price target on the infrastructure construction company's stock from $253 to $270.
Shares of industrial conglomerate GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE)
jumped 3% in the afternoon session after the company announced that its CT7-2E1 engine surpassed 500,000 in-service flight hours.
Shares of general contracting company Tutor Perini (NYSE:TPC)
jumped 2.6% in the afternoon session after the company announced two significant contract awards through its subsidiary, Rudolph and Sletten, bolstering its project backlog.
Shares of fintech mortgage provider Rocket Companies (NYSE:RKT) jumped 2.8% in the afternoon session after an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods raised the company's price target to $20 from $18.
Shares of online marketplace Etsy (NASDAQ:ETSY)
jumped 2.9% in the afternoon session after the company announced its board of directors approved a new $750 million share repurchase authorization.
Shares of electricity storage and software provider Fluence (NASDAQ:FLNC)
jumped 3.9% in the afternoon session after a Goldman Sachs analyst raised the company's price target by 30% to $26 and maintained a "Buy" rating on the stock.
Shares of materials and photonics company Coherent (NYSE:COHR) jumped 3.8% in the afternoon session after Morgan Stanley raised its price target on the stock to $180 from $150.
Shares of specialty insurance provider Kinsale Capital Group (NYSE:KNSL) jumped 4.4% in the afternoon session after a director disclosed significant open-market purchases of company stock, signaling strong insider confidence.
In a move that has sent shockwaves through both the energy and technology sectors, Trump Media & Technology Group (NASDAQ:DJT) has announced a definitive merger agreement with TAE Technologies, a pioneer in the field of nuclear fusion. The $6 billion all-stock transaction, announced today, December 18, 2025, marks a radical strategic shift for the parent [...]
In a move that signals a deepening alliance between the creators of artificial intelligence and the traditional media industry, OpenAI officially launched the "OpenAI Academy for News Organizations" on December 17, 2025. Unveiled during the AI and Journalism Summit in New York—a collaborative event held with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Hearst—the Academy [...]
Let's have a look at what is happening on the US markets one hour before the close of the markets on Thursday. Below you can find the top S&P500 gainers and losers in today's session.
The skies over Edwards Air Force Base have long been the testing ground for the future of aviation, but in late 2025, the roar of engines is being matched by the silent, rapid-fire processing of artificial intelligence. The U.S. Air Force’s X-62A Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA) has officially entered a transformative new [...]
As the artificial intelligence industry closes out 2025, the narrative of "bigger is better" regarding compute power has shifted toward a more fundamental physical constraint: the "Memory Wall." For years, the raw processing speed of GPUs has outpaced the rate at which data can be moved from memory to the processor, leaving the world’s most [...]
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As the global demand for artificial intelligence reaches a fever pitch, the semiconductor industry is facing an existential reckoning: how to produce the world’s most advanced chips without exhausting the planet’s resources. In a landmark shift for 2025, the industry’s two most critical growth hubs—Texas and Gujarat, India—have become the front lines for a new [...]
COMEX copper futures have been in a bullish trend, making higher lows and higher highs since the low of 60.40 cents per pound in 2001. In 2025, the red nonferrous metal reached nearly $6 per ounce before correcting. However, the pattern of higher low...
Stay up-to-date with the latest market trends one hour before the close of the markets on Thursday. Explore the top gainers and losers during today's session in our detailed report.
Taiwan Semiconductor is set to begin moving chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab around summer 2026, positioning the plant to start 3-nanometer production in 2027
The global semiconductor landscape has reached a historic turning point. As of late 2025, the multi-year effort to diversify the world’s chip supply chain away from its heavy concentration in Taiwan has transitioned from a series of legislative promises into a tangible, operational reality. With the United States successfully bringing its first advanced "onshored" logic [...]
As of December 18, 2025, the semiconductor industry is basking in the glow of a historic year, marked by a "perfect storm" of cooling inflation and monumental technological breakthroughs. This convergence has propelled the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index to all-time highs, driven by a global race to build the infrastructure for the next generation of artificial [...]
For years, Buffett’s family members would get envelopes stuffed with hundred-dollar bills every Christmas. Now, Buffett’s holiday gifting strategy is more aligned with his iconic investment style. It’s something we should all strive to emulate.
SAN FRANCISCO — December 18, 2025 — OpenAI is currently navigating a transformative period that is reshaping the global technology landscape, as the company enters the final stages of a historic $100 billion funding round. This massive capital injection, which values the AI pioneer at a staggering $750 billion, is not merely a play for [...]
As of December 18, 2025, the global technology landscape is witnessing a seismic shift as India’s "Silicon Desert" in Gujarat transitions from a vision of self-reliance to a tangible manufacturing reality. Just months after CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd (NSE: CGPOWER) produced the first "Made in India" semiconductor chip from its Sanand pilot line, [...]
The semiconductor industry has reached a historic inflection point in late 2025, marking the definitive end of the "Big Iron" era of monolithic chip design. For decades, the goal of silicon engineering was to cram as many transistors as possible onto a single, continuous slab of silicon. However, as artificial intelligence models have scaled into [...]
As of late 2025, the artificial intelligence revolution has reached a critical inflection point where the speed of silicon is no longer the primary constraint. Instead, the industry’s gaze has shifted to the "Memory Wall"—the physical limit of how fast data can move between a processor and its memory. High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) has emerged [...]
The artificial intelligence revolution has reached a precarious crossroads where the digital world meets the physical limits of the global economy. The "Big Four" hyperscalers—Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META)—have collectively pushed their annual capital expenditure (CAPEX) toward a staggering $400 billion. This [...]
As of late 2025, the global technology landscape has shifted from a race for software dominance to a high-stakes battle for "Sovereign AI." No longer content with renting compute power from a handful of Silicon Valley giants, nations are aggressively building their own end-to-end AI stacks—encompassing domestic data, indigenous models, and, most critically, homegrown semiconductor [...]
As of December 18, 2025, the semiconductor landscape is grappling with a paradox: Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is reporting record-breaking demand for its artificial intelligence infrastructure, yet its stock has plummeted more than 20% from its December 9 all-time high of $414.61. This sharp correction, which has seen shares retreat to the $330 range in [...]
While much of Wall Street's focus over past recent years has been on the AI hyperscalers, there are an increasing number of seismic developments happening internationally investors need to be aware of.
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