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Apple Unleashes M5 Chip: The AI Powerhouse – Will AAPL Stock Soar?

Apple Unleashes M5 Chip: The AI Powerhouse – Will AAPL Stock Soar?

Apple’s M5 Chip and Product Announcements On October 15, Apple officially announced the M5 chip, a next-generation system-on-a-chip designed specifically for AI and graphics, and introduced new hardware that uses itreuters.comnasdaq.com. The launch came via press releases (no public keynote) – just as industry leaks and insiders had predictedts2.tech. The first M5-powered device is a 14-inch MacBook Pro (base model) starting at $1,599, which goes on sale Oct. 22reuters.comreuters.com. Apple also updated the iPad Pro (11″ and 13″ OLED models) with the M5 chip (these start at $999) and released a second-generation Apple Vision Pro headset with M5 (still $3,499)reuters.combenzinga.com.
16 October 2025
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SpaceX’s Starship Launch Sends Space Stocks Soaring – Historic Test Closes Block 2 Chapter

SpaceX’s Starship Launch Sends Space Stocks Soaring – Historic Test Closes Block 2 Chapter

Historic Starship Flight 11 Mission On Oct 13 SpaceX executed the 11th test flight of its fully-reusable Starship rocket from its Starbase launch facility. The 400‑ft tall rocket roared to life under 33 Raptor engines, lifting its upper-stage (Ship 38) above the pad ts2.tech. Two and a half minutes after liftoff the Super Heavy booster (B15) separated and began a carefully controlled descent. SpaceX ran a sophisticated landing burn (firing 13 engines then throttling to 5) and the booster made a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about 8½ minutes after launch ts2.tech. This marked SpaceX’s third successful Super Heavy recovery
16 October 2025
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Powell’s High-Stakes Speech Spurs Markets – Fed Signals More Rate Cuts in 2025

Fed Cuts Rates — But Mortgage Rates Refuse to Fall, Tech Stocks Surge to New Highs

Fed Policy and Mortgage Rates The Fed’s pivot to easier policy has not yet translated into cheaper mortgages. In September the Fed delivered its first rate cut of 2025 (bringing the federal funds target to 4.00–4.25%) and Fed officials like Governor Michelle Bowman signal more cuts are comingreuters.com. Futures markets now imply a roughly 95% chance of another 25 bp cut at the Oct. 28–29 meetingts2.tech. Despite this, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is holding around 6.2%, slightly higher than a year agothedailyeconomy.orgreuters.com. Economists like Paul Mueller explain why: mortgages track the 10-year Treasury yield, which isn’t falling because supply/demand in
16 October 2025
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Power Play: PSEG’s Long Island Grid Deal Extends Contract – Could Stock Hit $90+?

Power Play: PSEG’s Long Island Grid Deal Extends Contract – Could Stock Hit $90+?

Long Island Contract Extension On Sept. 25, 2025 the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) board voted to extend the contract with PSEG Long Island by five yearsprnewswire.com. This keeps PSEG as the operator of the 1.2+ million–customer electric grid on Long Island and the Rockaways through 2030. PSEG’s CEO Ralph LaRossa praised the decision: “Since 2014, PSEG Long Island has become the No. 1 overhead electric service provider in the State of New York in reliability and customer satisfaction.”prnewswire.com. The agreement was touted as cost-saving (about $17 million less to ratepayers over five years) and performance-based (tying more than half of
16 October 2025
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Shocking CFO Departure Sends BDX Stock Tumbling — But Growth Remains Strong

Shocking CFO Departure Sends BDX Stock Tumbling — But Growth Remains Strong

Leadership Change and Growth: BD’s CFO Chris DelOrefice surprised the market by resigning in mid-Octoberprnewswire.com. According to the official release, DelOrefice is pursuing an outside opportunity, and Roque will cover the CFO role through the transition. Polen emphasized DelOrefice’s contributions to BD’s strategic overhaul and said Roque — a 20-year finance veteran at BD — is “well positioned” to keep executing the company’s plansprnewswire.comreuters.com. The leadership news coincided with a positive earnings update: BD reported that Q4 sales hit $5.89 billion (a +8.3% increase)finimize.com and full-year revenue about $21.8 billion. On a constant-currency, organic basis growth was more modest (~4% for Q4),
16 October 2025
Vivakor (VIVK) Stock Surges 75% After $40M Oil Trading Deal – Bulls & Bears Weigh In

Vivakor (VIVK) Stock Skyrockets 75% on $40M Oil Deal – Bulls and Bears Debate What’s Next

Oil Deal Sparks Surging Stock Price Vivakor’s mid-October rally was ignited by news of a major funding deal aimed at boosting its oil trading business. On October 15, the Dallas-based energy services firm revealed it had signed a term sheet for a $40 million commodity intermediation credit facility with an undisclosed wholesale credit providerts2.tech. The facility is designed to support Vivakor Supply & Trading, LLC, the company’s crude oil purchasing unit, by providing letters of credit, surety bonds, and cash guarantees to back its physical oil purchasests2.tech. In essence, this credit line would allow Vivakor to buy and move much
16 October 2025
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MIRA Pharma Stock Skyrockets 100% Overnight as New Pain Drug Outshines Morphine

MIRA Pharma Stock Skyrockets 100% Overnight as New Pain Drug Outshines Morphine

Stock Soars on Breakthrough Announcement MIRA Pharmaceuticals’ stock price skyrocketed overnight on the back of surprising good news. The relatively obscure biotech – which trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market under ticker MIRA – closed Wednesday, Oct. 15 at $1.32 per sharebenzinga.com. That modest close (up less than 1% on the day) gave little hint of what was to come. After the market shut, MIRA stunned investors with a press release detailing remarkable lab results for its lead drug candidate. The reaction was immediate: shares surged 68.94% in after-hours trading, reaching $2.23benzinga.com. And the rally didn’t stop there. By Thursday
16 October 2025
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NIO Stock Rollercoaster: Record EV Sales, Lawsuit Shock, and What’s Next for the Tesla Rival

NIO Stock Rollercoaster: Record EV Sales, Lawsuit Shock, and What’s Next for the Tesla Rival

Stock Price: Volatile Climb in 2025 NIO’s stock has experienced a wild ride this year. After starting 2025 near multi-year lows (around $4–5), the Chinese EV maker’s New York-listed shares surged over 40% in July 2025 alone ts2.tech. The rally was fueled by optimism around NIO’s new affordable models and aggressive cost-cutting efforts. By September, NIO traded in the mid-$7 range – near the top of its 52-week range of ~$3.02 to $7.64 ts2.tech. Year-to-date, the stock was up about 50% as of mid-October Com, reflecting renewed investor confidence after a brutal 2022–2023 for Chinese EV stocks. However, volatility remains
16 October 2025
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Sea Limited (SE) Stock Tumbles Nearly 10% as Analysts Debate Shopee’s Growth vs. High Valuation

Sea Limited Stock’s Wild Ride: SE Surges 300% Then Plunges – What’s Next for Shopee’s Tech Giant?

Stock Surge and Recent Price Movement Sea Limited’s stock has been on a rollercoaster in 2025. After a brutal 2022–2023 downturn, SE staged a stunning comeback – by August 2025 the share price had more than quadrupled from its early-2024 lows, even briefly overtaking DBS Bank as Southeast Asia’s most valuable public companyfintechnews.sgfintechnews.sg. Optimism about Shopee’s profitability and a regional tech rebound propelled Sea’s stock to a 52-week high of ~$199 in early October. However, this week the momentum snapped: on October 15, SE plunged ~10% intraday, falling from about $184 in the morning to close at $163.42ts2.tech. This one-day
16 October 2025
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Microvast Stock Skyrockets 19% on $125M Equity Raise & Battery Breakthroughs

Microvast (MVST) Stock Hits New High on Battery Breakthroughs and $125 M Funding – What’s Next?

Stock Performance: Rally to Multi-Year Highs Microvast’s stock price has seen a spectacular run-up in October, far outpacing the broader market as investors pile in on growth hopes. Volume spiked to nearly 20 million shares on Oct. 15, about three times the monthly average, reflecting surging interest. Microvast’s shares have been on a tear, skyrocketing in mid-October to levels not seen in years. The stock broke out of its recent trading range last week – it was around $4.33 on Oct. 10, then $5.25 by Oct. 14ts2.tech – before exploding ~19% higher on Oct. 15 to close around $6.25ts2.tech. Early
16 October 2025
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Inside Salesforce’s Generative AI Revolution: How Marketing GPT and Einstein GPT Are Reshaping CRM

Salesforce Stock Soars on Bold $60B 2030 Target; Analysts See Big Upside

Stock Price and Recent Trends After a bumpy September, Salesforce shares have steadied in the mid-$230s. TechStock² reported that CRM rebounded from a ~$235 low on Oct. 1 to about $241 by Oct. 6ts2.tech. As of Oct. 15’s close the stock was $236.58investing.com. In early Oct. 16 trading it was up around 5% (≈$248) as investors absorbed the latest newsinvesting.com. For 2025 to date, CRM is roughly 27–28% below its January levelsreuters.comts2.tech, reflecting both company-specific concerns and a general tech sector pause. (Salesforce’s beta is above 1, meaning it tends to magnify market swingsts2.tech.) Dreamforce Unveils $60B 2030 Goal The
16 October 2025
Omeros Stock Explodes 146% on Surprise $2.1B Novo Nordisk Deal – What Comes Next?

Biotech Bombshell: Omeros Stock Skyrockets on $2.1B Novo Nordisk Deal – What’s Next?

Stock Performance: Recent Surge and Volatility Omeros shares were trading around $4–$4.60 through early October, then exploded on Oct. 15. Data from the company’s IR site show OMER jumped from $4.10 (Oct 14 close) to $10.42 by Oct 15 closeinvestor.omeros.com. Intraday on Oct 15, it even hit a high around $12.10. This roughly 150% one-day surge was driven by the Novo Nordisk deal (see below). Trading volume was staggering: Benzinga reports ~89.2 million shares traded (vs. a ~1.1M daily average) during the rallybenzinga.com. By mid-October 16 pre-market, OMER was around $9–10 per share – still far above levels seen just days
16 October 2025
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Menopause Launch Sends Hims & Hers (HIMS) Stock Soaring – What’s Next?

Menopause Launch Sends Hims & Hers (HIMS) Stock Soaring – What’s Next?

Figure: Hims & Hers markets a broad telehealth platform for men’s and women’s healthts2.tech. Its stock has surged with the boom in telehealth and weight-loss treatments. Women’s Health Expansion Sparks Rally On Oct. 15, Hims & Hers stunned the market by launching a dedicated menopause/perimenopause care program on its “Hers” telehealth platform. The company said the new service would connect women with personalized hormone therapies (estradiol, progesterone, etc.) to ease symptoms like hot flashes and sleep issuests2.tech. This push into a historically underserved sector (roughly 1.3 million U.S. women enter menopause each year) met eager investor demand. As Benzinga and
16 October 2025
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RYOJ Stock Rockets 180% Overnight – What’s Fueling the Surge?

RYOJ Stock Rockets 180% Overnight – What’s Fueling the Surge?

Market Performance & Recent Moves Shares of rYojbaba have been on a roller-coaster since its Nasdaq debut. After peaking at $3.75 on debut day (Aug 14), RYOJ plunged to an intraday low of $1.81 on Sept 4tradingview.com. SimplyWallSt flagged sentiment “deteriorates” when the stock fell 19% on Sept 4 and another 16% on Oct 3simplywall.st. Last week’s rally flipped the script: trading volume spiked as investors piled in, pushing the pre-rally price up by ~2.5% for the weektradingview.com. The blockbuster Oct 15 move (and after-hours surge) appears to have been driven by heavy trading and momentum rather than any company
16 October 2025
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Wall Street Feels the Heat (and Thrill): Fed Cuts, Tariffs & Mega-Mergers Set NYSE Buzz

Stock Market Today 16.10.2025

ENDEDLive coverage has endedEnded: October 18, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT Centerspace (CSR) Crosses Above 200-Day Moving Average, Signals Bullish Momentum October 16, 2025, 11:07 PM EDT. Centerspace (CSR) shares climbed to as high as $61.16 Thursday, rising above the 200-day moving average of $60.64. The move comes as CSR trades about +1.5% on the session, with a last trade near $60.75. The breakout above the 200 DMA suggests a potential shift in near-term momentum. Over the past year, CSR has traded between a low of $52.76 and a high of $75.92, framing the current price within the 52-week range. The
16 October 2025
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SHOCKING: Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Will Buzz Earth TODAY (Closer Than the Moon) – What Experts and Investors Are Saying

SHOCKING: Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Will Buzz Earth TODAY (Closer Than the Moon) – What Experts and Investors Are Saying

Close Call with Asteroid 2025 TP5 Astronomers have identified Asteroid 2025 TP5 as a very close but safe Earth flyby. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab data, 2025 TP5 will swoop by at 4:09 p.m. EDT (2009 UTC) on Oct. 15, 2025, at ~60,328 miles (97,089 km) from Earth’s centerspace.com. By comparison, the Moon orbits ~238,855 miles away. After the Earth flyby, JPL reports that 2025 TP5 will come as close as 74,616 miles to the Moon on Oct. 16space.com. At an estimated 54 ft (16 m) diameterspace.com, it is a medium-sized near-Earth asteroid. Notably, 2025 TP5 was undetected until Oct. 13, just two days
16 October 2025
Amazon’s Finance Teams Unleash AI for Complex Tasks – Transforming Corporate Finance

Amazon Stock Shock: MacKenzie Scott Sells $12.6 Billion Stake — What’s Next?

Scott’s Big Stake Sale Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott (former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos) has significantly cut her Amazon.com (AMZN) holdings. A Bloomberg report on Oct. 14 noted that Scott reduced her stake by 42% over the past year, citing a new SEC filingbloomberg.com. The filing (dated Sept. 30) shows Scott now owns about 81.1 million Amazon shares, down roughly 58 million from a year earlier. At Amazon’s market price, that divestment is worth about $12.6 billionbloomberg.comtipranks.com. It isn’t clear whether those shares were sold on the open market or donated to charity – Scott’s filings simply report the lower share counttimesofindia.indiatimes.com.
16 October 2025
TSMC Stock Skyrockets on AI Boom — Analysts See More Upside

TSMC Stock Skyrockets on AI Boom — Analysts See More Upside

Earnings and Outlook TSMC’s latest results have been outstanding. In Q2 2025, the company reported revenue of US$30.1 billion, a 44% jump year-over-yearts2.tech, with net profit of roughly T$398.3 billion. Demand for TSMC’s most advanced nodes (5nm/3nm) is exceptionally strong: cutting-edge chips now account for about 60% of revenuets2.techts2.tech, and high-performance computing/AI wafers made up roughly 60% of Q2 sales. TSMC’s pricing power and scale have kept margins very high (Q2 gross margin ~55%ts2.tech), underpinning its profit growth. Looking ahead, Q3 is expected to be even stronger. On Oct 9, TSMC announced preliminary Q3 sales of NT$989.9 billion (≈$32.5 billion), up ~30% from a year
16 October 2025
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Bull Run or Bubble? Investors Eye New Highs as EUR/USD Rallies and Fed Prepares Cuts

Bull Run or Bubble? Investors Eye New Highs as EUR/USD Rallies and Fed Prepares Cuts

Global markets were buoyed this week by better-than-feared news on several fronts. After a rough September, U.S. bank earnings beat estimates: Morgan Stanley and Bank of America both delivered upside surprises, which helped calm trade-war jittersreuters.com. European stocks likewise rallied, led by luxury companies: LVMH reported positive third-quarter sales and its shares surged as much as 14%, the biggest one-day rise since 2001reuters.comreuters.com. European indices (Stoxx 600, FTSEurofirst 300) closed higher by ~0.6%reuters.com. As Stefan Bauknecht of DWS observes, the luxury data “surprised investors positively and are likely to keep the sector’s share price momentum alive”reuters.com. In Asia, stock markets
16 October 2025
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Data Center Stocks Surge Into the Weekend: Digital Realty, Equinix and Vertiv Set Up a Big Week Ahead

Data Center Stocks Surge Into the Weekend: Digital Realty, Equinix and Vertiv Set Up a Big Week Ahead

7 February 2026
Digital Realty, Equinix, and Vertiv shares surged Friday, with Vertiv up 10% and Digital Realty rising 4.1%, as investors rotated back into AI-linked data center stocks. The move followed Amazon’s $200 billion and Alphabet’s $175–185 billion 2026 capex targets. Digital Realty set 2026 core FFO guidance at $7.90 to $8.00 per share. Wall Street ended the week broadly higher, led by chipmakers.
Quantum computing stocks bounce hard: IonQ, Rigetti, D‑Wave rally as traders reset for a data-heavy week

Quantum computing stocks bounce hard: IonQ, Rigetti, D‑Wave rally as traders reset for a data-heavy week

7 February 2026
IonQ, Rigetti, D‑Wave, and Quantum Computing Inc shares surged 15–21 percent Friday, erasing losses from the previous session. The rebound followed a Wall Street rally that sent the Dow above 50,000 for the first time. IonQ remains under scrutiny after a short-seller report questioned its Pentagon contract revenue. Investors await delayed U.S. jobs and inflation data next week.
Defense and space stocks rally, but Trump’s buyback-dividend squeeze is the next test

Defense and space stocks rally, but Trump’s buyback-dividend squeeze is the next test

7 February 2026
U.S. space and defense stocks rose Friday, with sector ETFs gaining up to 4.8% and Lockheed Martin up 2.4%. Investors are awaiting a Pentagon list that could restrict buybacks and dividends at underperforming contractors under a Trump executive order. Companies named would have 15 days to submit remediation plans. Lockheed’s board approved a $3.45 per share dividend for Q1 2026.
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