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TSMC Stock Surges on AI Boom and U.S. Expansion: What to Know on Sep 23, 2025

TSMC’s AI-Fueled Rally: Stock Hits Record High, Earnings Soar Amid Global Chip Race

Breaking out: Taiwan’s TSMC has ridden a wave of AI demand to record results. The company’s stock and revenues are surging as it churns out advanced chips for customers like Nvidia and Applebloomberg.comreuters.com. Q3 sales (~$32.5B) beat estimates, and management expects ~30% growth for all of 2025ts2.tech. “We have fully booked production lines in the U.S. for the next three years,” CEO C.C. Wei told reporters, even as he vowed to keep investing heavily at home (“continue to build [fabs] in Taiwan because it is still not enough”reuters.com). Industry analysts note TSMC’s unique position: IDC’s Mario Morales says “TSMC will
14 October 2025
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Quantum Leap: D-Wave (QBTS) Stock Skyrockets 2000% Amid Fed Rate Cuts and AI-Fueled Quantum Breakthroughs

Quantum Gold Rush: D-Wave (QBTS) Stock Skyrockets on Breakthroughs, Partnerships & Hype

Stock Soars on Quantum Hype D-Wave’s stock has gone parabolic in 2025. After languishing near $1/share in late 2024, QBTS jumped to all-time highs above $39 (intraday) in early Octoberts2.tech. Heavy trading volume and momentum pushed it still higher: on Oct 13 alone the stock climbed almost 24% intraday to about $41ts2.tech. This rally reflects a broader quantum stock frenzy, as pure-play quantum firms like IonQ and Rigetti also soared by hundreds or thousands of percentts2.techts2.tech. Several catalysts combined to ignite the rally. The U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cut in mid-October sparked a broad tech upturnbenzinga.com. That same week, JPMorgan’s
14 October 2025
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Oil Prices Rollercoaster: Trade War Fears & OPEC Moves Spark 5-Month Lows

Oil Prices Rollercoaster: Trade War Fears & OPEC Moves Spark 5-Month Lows

Trade War Volatility Hits Oil Oil markets this week have been buffeted by the ebb and flow of US-China trade developments. On Oct 10, Trump’s threat of massive new tariffs on Chinese imports sent Brent and WTI tumbling over 4%, to lows not seen since Mayreuters.com. The sell-off reflected a broader shift to “risk-off” sentiment, as UBS’s Giovanni Staunovo noted that Trump’s announcement drove oil downreuters.com. However, reports that a Trump-Xi meeting was back on track (tentatively planned for late October in South Korea) sparked a relief rally on Monday (Oct 13). Brent jumped nearly 1% to $63.32 as Washington
14 October 2025
Vanguard’s Crypto U-Turn: $10T Giant Opens Doors to Bitcoin ETFs

Bitcoin Rockets to $125K Then Crashes on Trade-Tariff News – What’s Next?

Bitcoin Today: Market Snapshot As of mid-morning on October 14, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $112–113K, down roughly 1–3% over the past 24 hourscryptonews.com. This follows a volatile few days: Bitcoin hit a new record high (~$125,000) on Oct. 3–5 (a roughly 12–15% jump in a weekts2.tech), before reversing course sharply. On Friday Oct. 10, Bitcoin plunged ~8–10% after news of steep U.S. tariffs on Chinese tech exportsreuters.com. By that evening it briefly dipped to about $104,782reuters.com. The market has since stabilized. By Oct. 11, BTC had bounced back above $110Kts2.tech. Today’s price near $112K is still well above August
14 October 2025
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U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yield Surges to Highest Since 2007 – What It Means for You

U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yield Surges to Highest Since 2007 – What It Means for You

Latest Yield Trends After spiking at the end of September, the 10-year Treasury yield has eased slightly. It stood around 4.03% on Oct. 13, essentially unchanged from the prior sessionnuveen.com. By Oct. 14 it was roughly 4.02% (market data show it down a few basis points from Oct. 10’s 4.05%nuveen.comts2.tech). This pullback follows a sharp selloff in bonds earlier in the week: 10-year yields had climbed from ~4.23% at end-September to near 4.78% on Oct. 6cashfinancialllc.com. Treasuries rallied into mid-October, however, as investors shifted back into bonds. As one market report noted, yields “ticked down” as gold topped $4,000/oz and
14 October 2025
BLS International Faces Govt Ban: Shares Plunge 18% – Analysts See 100% Upside?

MEA’s Shocking 2-Year Ban on BLS International – Visa Outsourcer’s Future in Doubt

MEA Ban Details and Reasoning Late on Oct 9 the Indian government quietly issued the order debaring BLS International from new MEA contractsts2.tech. The company disclosed this in an Oct 11 exchange filing. The MEA order cites “complaints and legal proceedings” by visa applicants but gives no specificsts2.techbusinesstoday.in. BLS is banned from bidding on any fresh tenders from the External Affairs Ministry or Indian missions abroad until late 2027businesstoday.inndtvprofit.com. In practice, all existing visa/passport processing centers run by BLS will keep operating normally – they remain governed by their original contractsts2.techbusinesstoday.in. Industry watchers note BLS competes with global outsourcing firms
14 October 2025
Ethereum Surges Past $4K After $19B Tariff Shock – Is $5K Next?

Ethereum Surges Past $4K After $19B Tariff Shock – Is $5K Next?

Technical Analysis: RSI, MACD and Key Levels Ethereum’s technical picture is mixed. In mid-October, ETH sits back within its long-term uptrend, but short-term momentum has faded. On the RSI oscillator, ETH cooled from overbought to neutral (~50) after the crash. The MACD (momentum) indicator also crossed down, reflecting weaker upside energyts2.tech. Still, ETH remains above many moving averages. Chartists note that reclaiming $4,141 and then $4,580 are pivotal (one report named those as key pivotsts2.tech). The $4,000–4,100 zone is viewed as crucial support (buyers stepped in here on Oct. 10coindesk.com). If $4,000 holds, bulls argue the uptrend is intact –
14 October 2025
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Stock Market on Edge: U.S. Futures Slide as US-China Trade War Heats Up

Stock Market on Edge: U.S. Futures Slide as US-China Trade War Heats Up

Market Update – Futures and Indices U.S. stock futures opened sharply lower on Tuesday, Oct. 14, after an overnight escalation in U.S.–China trade tensions. By early trading, CME Dow mini futures were down about 208 points (–0.45%), S&P 500 e-minis off 49.75 points (–0.74%), and Nasdaq 100 futures down 1.2%reuters.comeconomictimes.indiatimes.com. This slide erased much of Monday’s gains. On Oct. 13, Wall Street had rebounded from Friday’s selloff: the Dow jumped +1.29%, the S&P +1.56% (to ~6,654), and Nasdaq +2.21% (to ~22,695)reuters.comts2.tech, fueled by tech and easing trade fears. But fresh news—China’s announcement of retaliatory tariffs and port fees on American
14 October 2025
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XRP Price Primed for Breakout? Whales and ETF Hype Fuel Rally as Ripple Aims to Become a Bank

XRP Price Surges 8% to $2.60 After 40% Flash Crash – Will ETF Hype Push It Beyond $3?

Current Price and Volatility XRP has been highly volatile this week. CoinMarketCap data confirm it is trading in the low $2’s on Oct. 14, a sharp rebound from last week’s lowscrypto.newsts2.tech. After briefly plunging to $1.64 on Oct. 10 – the biggest one-day drop in years – traders saw XRP recover above $2.50 within dayscoindesk.comts2.tech. The crash was fueled by rapid deleveraging: CoinDesk reports futures liquidations wiped out roughly $150 million in long bets, and 320 million XRP were moved to exchanges as whales offloaded holdingscoindesk.comcoindesk.com. Remarkably, late-session buying stabilized XRP around $2.35–$2.40 on Oct. 10, suggesting deep-pocketed investors were
14 October 2025
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EasyJet Stock Skyrockets on Takeover Rumours – MSC Denies Interest

EasyJet Stock Skyrockets on Takeover Rumours – MSC Denies Interest

What’s Happening? On Oct 14 an Italian newspaper (Corriere della Sera) reported that MSC, the world’s largest container-ship operator, is exploring a bid for EasyJet. The report said MSC might team up with an investment fund to buy a stake or even full control of the UK airlineproactiveinvestors.commarketscreener.com. In early London trading EasyJet stock soared (hitting 11.5% gains) on the newsreuters.com. By late morning the jump had eased to mid-single digits, especially after MSC publicly denied the rumours. MSC’s emailed statement – “MSC denies any involvement in this matter” – was picked up by Reuters and dampened some of the
14 October 2025
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Market Shock: Dow & Nasdaq Futures Plunge Amid Trade War Fears; Gold Hits Record, Crypto Slumps

Market Shock: Dow & Nasdaq Futures Plunge Amid Trade War Fears; Gold Hits Record, Crypto Slumps

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange monitor screens as futures opened lower on Tuesdayreuters.com. U.S. stock-index futures fell on trade-war jitters despite a tech-fueled rebound on Monday. U.S. Markets and Fed Watch Wall Street futures opened lower on Tuesday as investors fretted over renewed trade tensions with China. U.S. stock-index futures dipped – Dow futures were off about 0.5%, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures off ~0.7–1.0%reuters.com. This followed a strong Monday rebound: the Nasdaq gained ~2.2% and the S&P 500 ~1.6% as President Trump tweeted a conciliatory message on China (saying “it will all be fine” with Beijing)reuters.com. Analysts
14 October 2025
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Google’s $15B India AI Bet: First-Ever AI Hub Launched in Vizag – Market Reacts & Experts Weigh In

Google’s $15B India AI Bet: First-Ever AI Hub Launched in Vizag – Market Reacts & Experts Weigh In

Google’s Record AI Investment and India Hub On Oct 14, 2025, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Indian officials unveiled Google’s first AI hub in India – a massive investment of about $15 billion over five years blog.google investing.com. Google calls it its “largest investment in India to date” blog.google. The centerpiece is a 1‑gigawatt data center campus in Visakhapatnam, planned to scale to multiple gigawatts. This will be backed by new power lines, clean energy plants, and a major subsea cable landing station. In Kurian’s words, this will be “the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing
14 October 2025
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Dalal Street in Turmoil: Sensex Plunges 2,500 Points in a Week – Should You Buy the Dip or Brace for More?

Sensex Tumbles Amid Global Jitters: Top Gainers & Losers Revealed

What Is the Sensex Index? The Sensex (Sensitive Index) is a flagship stock-market index for India’s Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). It tracks the performance of 30 large, well-capitalized companies listed on the BSEinvestopedia.comen.wikipedia.org. These companies are selected to broadly represent the Indian economy’s major sectors. Established on Jan. 1, 1986, with a base value of 100 (base year 1978–79)en.wikipedia.orginvestopedia.com, the Sensex is widely used by investors to gauge market trends. The term “Sensex” itself is a blend of “sensitive” and “index,” coined in 1989 by analyst Deepak Mohonien.wikipedia.org. The Sensex is float-adjusted, market-cap weightedinvestopedia.comen.wikipedia.org. In other words, each company’s stock
14 October 2025
Momentus (MNTS) Stock Skyrockets on NASA & Solstar Deals – Breakthrough or Bubble?

Momentus (MNTS) Stock Skyrockets on NASA & Solstar Deals – Breakthrough or Bubble?

Stock Performance & Recent Moves Momentus shares have been highly volatile. In early October 2025, MNTS popped to $1.93 on Oct 9 before crashing to $1.45 that day stockanalysis.com (a ~15% intraday drop). By Oct 13 it recovered to $1.43 stocktitan.net. The uptick on Oct 13 coincided with press releases about new NASA and Solstar contracts (see below). In pre-market trading Oct 14, MNTS was trading around $1.82, up roughly +27% on heavy volume stockanalysis.com (likely reflecting investor reaction to the news). Over the past 2 weeks (as of Oct 13), the stock rose ~6.7%, but year-to-date it is still
14 October 2025
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GWAV Explodes 100% Pre‑Market: Can Greenwave’s Tiny Float + 50% Metal Tariffs Turn a Micro‑Cap Recycler Into a Breakout Story—or a Bull Trap?

GWAV Explodes 100% Pre‑Market: Can Greenwave’s Tiny Float + 50% Metal Tariffs Turn a Micro‑Cap Recycler Into a Breakout Story—or a Bull Trap?

Two‑sentence takeaway: GWAV is a tiny‑float, high‑volatility micro‑cap recycler spiking on momentum and macro tailwinds (50% U.S. metal tariffs, Nucor ramp). But it carries material execution and financing risk (heavy 2024 losses, repeated splits, delinquent filings). 1) What Greenwave does—and where it makes money Greenwave runs a cluster of scrap yards that buy, process, and sell recycled metal to mills and industrial customers. In FY2024, the 10‑K reports $33.3M revenue (metal $23.3M; hauling $9.9M), $13.0M gross profit, and a $100.4M net loss, with $26.1M total liabilities at year‑end. Sites span VA/NC/OH (mix of owned and leased), and the company highlights
14 October 2025
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PMGC Holdings (ELAB) Shares Skyrocket 230% Amid Acquisition Spree – What’s Next?

PMGC Holdings (ELAB) Shares Skyrocket 230% Amid Acquisition Spree – What’s Next?

Company Overview PMGC Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ELAB) is a diversified holding company that grows by acquisitions. Its profile describes it as managing a portfolio of subsidiaries through strategic deals Reuters. Notably, one subsidiary – NorthStrive Biosciences – is a biopharma/medtech firm developing aesthetic and obesity-related treatments (e.g. an engineered probiotic “EL-22” for muscle retention) Reuters. The other arms (PMGC Research, PMGC Capital) provide R&D and investment vehicles. However, PMGC’s recent focus is industrial: it seeks cash-flow positive U.S.-based manufacturing businesses (CNC machining, packaging, etc.) to bolt onto its platform Sec Tipranks. In Jan 2025 the company sold its former skincare
14 October 2025
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Energy Fuels (UUUU) Stock SKYROCKETS on Rare-Earth Breakthrough – Uranium Bull Run Ignited?

Energy Fuels (UUUU) Stock SKYROCKETS on Rare-Earth Breakthrough – Uranium Bull Run Ignited?

Rare-Earth Export Controls Fuel Rally This month’s headlines were dominated by China’s rare-earth clampdown. On Oct. 9, Beijing expanded export curbs to five more rare-earth elements and tightened oversight on high-tech users reuters.com. The move came right before a planned Trump–Xi summit and was widely seen as a geopolitical play. “We’re likely entering a period of structural bifurcation,” says Benchmark Mineral Intelligence analyst Neha Mukherjee – with China “localizing its value chain and the U.S. and allies accelerating their own” reuters.com. As China produces over 90% of processed REEs globally reuters.com, U.S. miners immediately benefit. Indeed, in early Oct. U.S.-listed
14 October 2025
HP’s New $2,000 Omen 16 Laptop is an Epic Love Letter to League of Legends Fans

HP’s New $2,000 Omen 16 Laptop is an Epic Love Letter to League of Legends Fans

Eye-Catching Design and Specs HP’s new Omen 16 League of Legends Edition is essentially the existing 16-inch Omen gaming laptop dressed up for LoL fans. As NotebookCheck reports, the laptop’s black-and-gold chassis echoes LoL iconography, complete with Runeterra-inspired artwork and keyboard legends in an exclusive LoL fontnotebookcheck.nethp.com. HP’s press materials highlight custom touches – for example, the Q, W, E, R and D, F keys (core LoL hotkeys) are subtly called out in the designhp.com. There are reportedly “plenty of easter eggs to discover” in the aesthetics (per HP) as a nod to the game’s lorewindowscentral.com. Performance-wise, this is a
14 October 2025
RRP Semiconductor Stock Skyrockets 57,000%; Sachin Tendulkar Link Debunked

RRP Semiconductor Stock Skyrockets 57,000%; Sachin Tendulkar Link Debunked

Stock Market Frenzy Around RRP Semiconductor RRP Semiconductor’s share price rally has defied fundamentals and caught investors off guard. As Business Today notes, the stock has become a “multibagger counter”, climbing another 2% on Oct 14 to ₹8,584 and delivering an “exceptional 4,527.84% year-to-date” returnbusinesstoday.in. Moneycontrol reports that the company’s stock has risen “a whopping 57,000% since April 2024”moneycontrol.com. In practical terms, a ₹10 lakh investment at the start of 2025 would have ballooned to well over ₹100 crore by September – on papermoneycontrol.combusinesstoday.in. This meteoric rise triggered wild speculation on social media. Rumors spread that star investor Sachin Tendulkar
14 October 2025
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Stock Market Today

Energy stocks set for a geopolitical week after Iran warning and oil rebound

Energy stocks set for a geopolitical week after Iran warning and oil rebound

7 February 2026
U.S. energy stocks rose Friday, with the S&P 500 energy sector up 1.88% and Exxon Mobil gaining 2.03%. Brent crude settled at $68.05 a barrel after Iran threatened U.S. bases if attacked. Saudi Aramco cut March Arab Light crude prices to a five-year low for Asia. Kazakhstan’s CPC Blend exports may drop 35% this month due to Tengiz oilfield disruptions.
Financial services stocks rally as XLF jumps, Dow hits 50,000 — what to watch next week

Financial services stocks rally as XLF jumps, Dow hits 50,000 — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
U.S. financial stocks rose Friday, with the XLF fund up 1.8% and the Dow closing above 50,000 for the first time, gaining 2.47%. Goldman Sachs jumped 4.3%, JPMorgan 3.9%, and Citigroup 6.0%. The Federal Reserve held rates steady, and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly signaled possible cuts this year. Investors await January jobs and inflation data next week.
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