As of December 18, 2025, the global semiconductor landscape has reached its most pivotal moment in a decade. The long-anticipated "2nm Foundry Battle" has moved from the laboratory to the factory floor, as Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) (NYSE: TSM) race to dominate the next era of high-performance computing. This transition [...]
According to a Bloomberg report, OpenAI has sold over 700,000 ChatGPT licenses to approximately 35 public universities, allowing students and staff access for tasks such as writing, research, and data analysis.
As the global demand for artificial intelligence reaches a fever pitch in late 2025, the semiconductor industry is undergoing its most significant transformation since the invention of the integrated circuit. The era of "performance at any cost" has officially ended, replaced by a mandate for "Green Chip" manufacturing. Major foundries are now racing to decouple [...]
As of December 18, 2025, the global semiconductor landscape is witnessing a seismic shift. Reports from Beijing and industrial hubs in Shenzhen confirm that China is on track to execute its ambitious "Triple Output" AI Strategy—a state-led mandate to triple the nation’s domestic production of artificial intelligence processors by the end of 2026. With 2025 [...]
Globe Life has outperformed the broader S&P 500 index over the past year. Moreover, Wall Street analysts remain strongly optimistic about its prospects.
As of December 2025, the semiconductor industry has reached a historic inflection point. For decades, the primary metric of progress was the "node"—the relentless shrinking of transistors to pack more power into a single slice of silicon. However, as physical limits and skyrocketing costs have slowed traditional Moore’s Law scaling, the focus has shifted from [...]
Nvidia remains a high‑growth AI infrastructure leader, but after a $4 trillion valuation and recent volatility, the setup looks best as a hold with a buy‑the‑dip bias rather than an all‑in bet.
As of December 18, 2025, the landscape of global technology has reached a historic inflection point. What began three years ago as a legislative ambition to reshore semiconductor manufacturing has manifested into a sprawling industrial reality across the American Sun Belt and Midwest. The implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act has moved beyond the [...]
Uniform and facility services provider Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) reported Q4 CY2025 results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, with sales up 9.3% year on year to $2.8 billion. The company expects the full year’s revenue to be around $11.19 billion, close to analysts’ estimates. Its GAAP profit of $1.21 per share was 1.3% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
As we close out 2025, the landscape of artificial intelligence infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift. For years, the industry’s reliance on NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) was absolute, with the company’s H100 and Blackwell GPUs serving as the undisputed currency of the AI revolution. However, the final months of 2025 have confirmed a new reality: [...]
As of late 2025, the global semiconductor landscape has reached a definitive tipping point. Driven by increasingly stringent US export controls that have severed access to high-end proprietary architectures, China has executed a massive, state-backed migration to RISC-V. This open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) has transformed from a niche academic project into the backbone of [...]
Range Resources (RRC) presents a value investing opportunity, trading at attractive earnings multiples with strong profitability and a positive growth outlook.
The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly sent the company a civil investigative demand and is seeking information about Instacart's Eversight pricing tool.
Williams-Sonoma has underperformed the Nasdaq index over the past year. However, Wall Street analysts remain moderately optimistic about its prospects.
As of December 18, 2025, the artificial intelligence industry has reached a critical inflection point where the physical limits of electricity are no longer sufficient to sustain the exponential growth of large language models. For years, AI clusters relied on traditional copper wiring and pluggable optical modules to move data between processors. However, as clusters [...]
As 2025 draws to a close, the semiconductor landscape is bracing for its most significant transformation yet. NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has officially moved into the sampling phase for its highly anticipated Rubin architecture, the successor to the record-breaking Blackwell generation. While Blackwell focused on scaling the GPU to its physical limits, Rubin represents a fundamental [...]
Soybeans are steady to down 1 ½ cents so far on Thursday morning. Contracts posted Wednesday losses of 3 to 4 ½ cents at the close. Open interest dropped 939 contracts on Wednesday. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price was 5 cents lower at...
Live cattle futures saw losses of 85 cents to $1.15 on Wednesday. Open interest was up 2,348 contracts. There were another 20 deliveries tendered on Wednesday. Cash trade has been slow this week, with a few early sales at $229. The Wednesday Fed Catt...
Cotton prices action is down 10 to 15 points early on Thursday. Futures closed the Wednesday session with contracts up 20 to 33 points on the day. Crude oil futures were $1.63 per barrel higher at $56.90. The US dollar index was $0.201 higher to $97....
Wheat is showing mostly higher trade on Thursday morning. The wheat complex posted mixed action on Wednesday, with HRW holding higher. Chicago SRW futures were down 2 to 3 ¼ cents on the day. Open interest was up 6,457 contracts, suggesting new selli...
Lean hog futures posted losses of $1.45 to $1.80 on the Wednesday session. OI dropped 10,642 contracts. USDA’s national base hog price was up 15 cents in the Wednesday afternoon report at $69.71. The CME Lean Hog Index was up 31 cents on December 15...
Corn price action is steady to up 1 ¾ cents so far. Futures posted gains of 2 to 4 ½ cents on Wednesday. Preliminary open interest was up 2,852 contracts. Demand continues to be solid, with record ethanol and exports. The CmdtyView national average C...
As the calendar turns to late 2025, the artificial intelligence industry is standing at the precipice of its most significant hardware transition since the dawn of the generative AI boom. The arrival of High-Bandwidth Memory Generation 4 (HBM4) marks a fundamental redesign of how data moves between storage and processing units. For years, the "memory [...]
As of December 18, 2025, the semiconductor industry has reached a historic inflection point. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has officially confirmed the successful acceptance testing and validation of the ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ: ASML) Twinscan EXE:5200B, the world’s first high-volume production High-NA Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system. This milestone signals the formal beginning of the [...]
Birkenstock projected a muted sales growth for FY26, and its adjusted profit estimate came below analyst expectations, as U.S. tariffs continue to impact its business.
Inflation rose 3.1% in November, its highest since May 2024, causing concerns about the central bank's easing cycle. Core CPI remained stubborn at 3.0%.
Tax collection from the wealthiest individuals and corporations has fallen worldwide since World War 2, while government subsidies, bailouts, and support programs favouring the wealthiest constituents have soared.
As we await the opening of the US market on Thursday, let's delve into the pre-market session and discover the top gainers and losers shaping the early market sentiment.
