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Beyond Meat Stock CRASH: 60% Plunge After Shocking Debt Swap Stuns Investors

Beyond Meat Stock CRASH: 60% Plunge After Shocking Debt Swap Stuns Investors

$2.01 marketbeat.com – opened Oct 13 near $0.84 after a 60%-plus selloff marketbeat.com marketscreener.com. – Recent performance: ~–44% over 1 year investing.com; 52-week high was ~$9.24 investing.com (now far below). – Financials (Q2 2025): Revenue $75M vs $83.8M expected, EPS –$0.40 vs –$0.38, net loss $33.2M investing.com investing.com. Cash ~$117M, debt ~$1.2B investing.com. – Debt deal (Oct 2025): ~96.9% of existing $1.15B convertible notes were tendered, triggering early settlement (issuing ~316M new shares and ~$196M of new notes) globenewswire.com tipranks.com. – Market cap: ~ $150M (falling from multi-billion highs) marketbeat.com. – Analyst view: Consensus “Strong Sell”; 12‑mo target ~$3.00 (≈49%
13 October 2025
Solidion Technology (STI) Stock Skyrockets 100% on Game-Changing AI Battery News

Solidion Technology (STI) Stock Skyrockets 100% on Game-Changing AI Battery News

Company Overview and Background Solidion Technology (NASDAQ: STI) is an advanced battery technology company founded in Dallas, Texas. It manufactures battery materials and prototypes next‑generation batteries for energy storage and electric vehicles prnewswire.com. The company emerged via a 2023 SPAC merger (Nubia Acquisition Corp.) and began trading publicly in Feb 2024. Solidion boasts 550+ issued patents in areas like silicon‑carbon anode manufacturing (non‑silane gases, graphene-enabled silicon), biomass‑derived graphite, and high‑energy chemistries (Li–S, Li–metal) prnewswire.com. Its stated product lines include advanced anode powders ready for production, and three “Gen” solid‑state battery designs (Gen1: Si‑rich solid Li‑ion; Gen2: anode‑less Li‑metal; Gen3: Li–S cells)
13 October 2025
Broadcom’s $10B AI Chip Deal Ignites Stock Surge – What’s Powering This Tech Giant’s Boom

Broadcom (AVGO) Stock Surges on AI Chip News – What Investors Must Know

Metric Broadcom (AVGO) NVIDIA (NVDA) Qualcomm (QCOM) Intel (INTC) Price (Oct ’25) $324.63companiesmarketcap.com $183.04companiesmarketcap.com $153.52companiesmarketcap.com $36.33companiesmarketcap.com Market Cap ($) $1,533Bcompaniesmarketcap.com $4,456Bcompaniesmarketcap.com $165.6Bcompaniesmarketcap.com $172.8Bcompaniesmarketcap.com P/E (TTM) 80.8companiesmarketcap.com 51.7companiesmarketcap.com 14.7companiesmarketcap.com N/A (low/negative) Dividend Yield 0.7%ts2.tech ≈0.1% (minimal) ≈2.3% (est.) ~3.9%companiesmarketcap.com 1Y Return ~+90%ts2.tech +60–70% (est.) +10–20% (est.) +20–30% (est.) The table shows Broadcom’s stock has soared on its AI custom-chip strategy, giving it a much higher valuation (P/E) than legacy peers. Nvidia remains the AI leader (market cap >$1 trillionts2.tech with ~80–90% share in AI GPUs), Qualcomm dominates wireless semis (now under a Chinese antitrust probe), and Intel lags in AI (its chips
13 October 2025
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Bloom Energy’s Big Break: $5B Brookfield AI Deal Sends Stock Surge – Experts Weigh In

BLOOM Energy Soars 30% on $5B AI Deal – Fuel-Cell Stock’s 700% Rally

Stock Performance & Trading Activity Bloom Energy stock has surged dramatically in 2025. After closing at $86.87 on Oct 10 (its pre-news level), BE jumped roughly 26–31% on Oct 13 premarket following the Brookfield announcementts2.techreuters.com. By mid-morning, the stock was trading around the low-$110s. This rally comes atop an astonishing one-year gain: BE is up about 700% over the past 12 monthsts2.technasdaq.com. Daily trading volume has spiked, far exceeding its ~14 million share averagegoogle.com, reflecting frenzied interest. Over the last few weeks, BE has repeatedly hit new 52-week highs. The stock briefly traded near $95 in late Sept before consolidating,
13 October 2025
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Bloom Energy’s Big Break: $5B Brookfield AI Deal Sends Stock Surge – Experts Weigh In

Bloom Energy’s Big Break: $5B Brookfield AI Deal Sends Stock Surge – Experts Weigh In

$5B Brookfield Partnership Details Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) – a $1+ trillion alternative asset manager – unveiled this strategic AI-infrastructure investment on Oct 13, 2025. According to Brookfield and Bloom’s joint announcement (via BusinessWire and Nasdaq): Brookfield will invest up to $5 billion to “deploy Bloom’s advanced fuel cell technology” at AI data centers businesswire.com nasdaq.com. The partnership marks Brookfield’s first move in its dedicated “AI Infrastructure” fund, which already includes investments in data centers and renewable energy globally. Brookfield’s Sikander Rashid explained that Bloom’s fuel cells give Brookfield “the unique capability to design and construct modern AI factories with
13 October 2025
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Tech ETFs Explode (and Implode) After Trade Truce: QQQ Rockets as TQQQ Traders Cash Out – What’s Next?

Tech ETFs Explode (and Implode) After Trade Truce: QQQ Rockets as TQQQ Traders Cash Out – What’s Next?

Market Recap: Trade Truce Sends QQQ Higher QQQ, the Nasdaq-100 ETF, tracks the 100 largest non-financial companies on Nasdaq (heavy in Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) azat.tv. On Friday Oct 10, QQQ plunged ~3.5% as President Trump announced plans to double tariffs on Chinese imports and restrict rare-earth exports, renewing trade war fears tipranks.com reuters.com. This knocked major tech shares lower (for example, Friday’s Nasdaq Composite lost ~820 points) and dragged QQQ to a 5-day decline of about 2.9% tipranks.com. Over the weekend Trump backpedaled, tweeting that he didn’t want to “hurt” China and that things would be fine, which soothed
13 October 2025
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SpaceX’s Starship Ignites Moon-Race Drama: Will NASA Beat China?

SpaceX’s Starship Ignites Moon-Race Drama: Will NASA Beat China?

SpaceX’s next Starship test (Flight 11) is set for Oct. 13, 2025 (7:15 pm ET), marking the final launch of the current “Block 2” version ts2.tech. Flight 11 will replicate Flight 10’s profile (booster splashdown in Gulf, ship to Indian Ocean) but test new landing techniques and a reinforced heat shield ts2.tech space.com. NASA is betting Artemis III (by ~2027) on Starship for crewed lunar landings, even as China pushes for its first moonwalk by 2030 krgv.com reuters.com. Experts warn NASA’s plan is “extraordinarily complex” krgv.com and may slip; former NASA chief Jim Bridenstine remarked “it doesn’t make a lot of sense… if you’re trying
13 October 2025
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Markets in Limbo: Stocks Soar on Trade Truce Hopes – But Is a Pullback Imminent?

Markets in Limbo: Stocks Soar on Trade Truce Hopes – But Is a Pullback Imminent?

Market Snapshot and Reactions Last Week’s Close: U.S. indices ended sharply lower on Friday, Oct 10 (the last trading day). The Dow Jones Industrials fell 878.82 points (−1.9%) to 45,479.60 nasdaq.com. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite plunged 820.20 points (−3.6%) to 22,204.43 nasdaq.com — its steepest drop since April 10. The S&P 500 lost 182.60 points (−2.7%) to 6,552.51, its largest single-day slide since April 10 nasdaq.com. Only one of the 11 S&P sectors managed a gain. Market breadth was weak: for example, the XLK technology ETF fell 4.1%, and most stocks declined nasdaq.com. The VIX “fear gauge” jumped to 21.66
13 October 2025
Nvidia-Backed AI Data-Center Stock APLD Rockets on $11B Deal – Too Late to Buy?

Nvidia-Backed AI Data-Center Stock APLD Rockets on $11B Deal – Too Late to Buy?

Business & Market Context Applied Digital (APLD) started as a crypto-hosting company but has aggressively pivoted into AI and cloud infrastructure. Its flagship “Polaris Forge” projects in North Dakota are purpose-built AI data-center campuses: ultra-efficient facilities cooled by closed-loop liquid systems (Design PUE ~1.18) and powered by abundant local hydro power. These campuses will serve “hyper-scale” AI workloads, primarily training large language models and other machine learning tasks. As Motley Fool explained, APLD “designs, builds, and operates high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers and colocation services for artificial intelligence, cloud, networking, and blockchain workloads.” nasdaq.com. In practice, the company is effectively
13 October 2025
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Mega Metal Rally! Gold Rockets Past $4,000 as Silver Nears $52 on Debasement Fears

Mega Metal Rally! Gold Rockets Past $4,000 as Silver Nears $52 on Debasement Fears

Market Context: While metals are surging, U.S. equities have wavered. On Oct. 13, 2025, the Dow Jones fell ~1.9% to 45,480, the S&P 500 slid ~2.7% (≈6,552), and the Nasdaq plunged ~3.6% (≈22,204) investing.com investing.com. Tech giants saw steep losses (e.g. Nvidia, Amazon down ~5%). The contrast underscores a classic flight to safety: amid geopolitical turmoil (Middle East ceasefire, Ukraine war, trade wars) and U.S. policy gridlock (government shutdown), investors are hedging with “hard” assets. Why Prices Are Climbing: According to market experts, gold and silver are rallying on broad macro factors, not just short-term news investing.com theguardian.com. Investors worry that
13 October 2025
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Stocks Surge as Trump Eases China Tariff Threats – Fed Rate-Cut Hopes Ignite Rally

Stocks Surge as Trump Eases China Tariff Threats – Fed Rate-Cut Hopes Ignite Rally

U.S. stock futures roared higher Monday as traders seized on softer trade rhetoric. Trump had threatened on Friday “massive” new tariffs on China, briefly sparking the Nasdaq’s worst single-day drop in months investopedia.com. He warned of 100% levies and cutting a summit with China’s Xi Jinping, which sent Friday’s S&P 500 down 2.7% and Nasdaq down 3.6% investopedia.com. But over the weekend Trump posted on Truth Social that “it will all be fine” with China and the U.S. did not want to “hurt” its economy investopedia.com. This reprieve calmed markets. Dow futures added +1.0%, S&P futures +1.3%, Nasdaq +1.9% by
13 October 2025
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Apple Shake-Up: Cook’s Successor, Vision Air Axed & Stock Price Soars?

Apple Shake-Up: Cook’s Successor, Vision Air Axed & Stock Price Soars?

Who’s Next at the Top of Apple? All signs point to an upcoming CEO transition. Tim Cook (age 64) will turn 65 next month, sparking speculation he may begin winding down his tenure benzinga.com macrumors.com. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman – quoting anonymous Apple insiders – reports that Cook’s hardware-engineering chief John Ternus has been groomed as the “most likely heir apparent” macrumors.com. Ternus joined Apple in 2001 and rose to SVP of Hardware Engineering in 2021 macrumors.com. He has led the design of iPhones, iPads and Macs, and was prominently featured as the public face of the recent “iPhone Air” launch
13 October 2025
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MicroStrategy Stock Skyrockets on Bitcoin Frenzy – Will Saylor’s $70B Crypto Bet Pay Off?

MicroStrategy Stock Skyrockets on Bitcoin Frenzy – Will Saylor’s $70B Crypto Bet Pay Off?

A Bitcoin-First Business Model Originally an enterprise analytics software firm, MicroStrategy has become essentially a bitcoin treasury. As of late September 2025 the company held about 640,000 BTC on its balance sheet mitrade.com ts2.tech. Those coins were bought over years at an aggregate cost of ~$46B (≈$70–73K per coin) ts2.tech. At today’s bitcoin prices (well above $120K), that stash is valued around $70–$75B – far eclipsing the ~$97B equity market cap of MSTR ts2.tech. In fact, Strategy (MSTR) now holds more Bitcoin than any other public entity, even exceeding the U.S. government’s ~198,000 BTC mitrade.com reuters.com. This massive pile of
13 October 2025
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Stocks Retreat as AI Hype Meets Shutdown and Trade Fears – What’s Next?

Stocks Retreat as AI Hype Meets Shutdown and Trade Fears – What’s Next?

Market Update: Rally Pauses, Tech Leads Losers U.S. stocks gave back early gains as investors “paused to assess the optimism around AI and interest-rate cuts” x.com. On Friday Oct. 10, the Dow closed around 45,480 (down ~1.9%), the S&P 500 about 6,552 (–2.7%) and the Nasdaq roughly 22,204 (–3.6%) reuters.com nasdaq.com. Over the week, the S&P and Nasdaq had their worst weeks in months as global trade fears resurfaced. The declines were broad-based: 10 of 11 S&P sectors fell, with big drops in tech and consumer discretionary nasdaq.com. Volatility spiked – the VIX fear index jumped 32% to ~21.7, its highest since
13 October 2025
Microsoft Stock Set to Explode: AI Boom & Cloud Growth Propel MSFT to New Highs

Microsoft Stock Set to Explode: AI Boom & Cloud Growth Propel MSFT to New Highs

Stock Price & Recent Performance Microsoft’s stock price reached a record high of about $555.45 on July 31, 2025 tradingview.com. Since then it has pulled back modestly, closing around $510.96 on Oct 10, 2025 stockanalysis.com. Over the last week MSFT dipped ≈–1.2%, though it remains +23.1% higher than a year ago tradingview.com. (In extended trading on Oct 13, the stock was up sharply, reflecting early optimism, trading near $518.4 stockanalysis.com.) MarketBeat notes the average 12-month target is about $618 marketbeat.com (21% above current levels), while some analysts’ top targets approach $650–$700 marketbeat.com. Trading metrics remain high: market cap ~$3.8 trillion tradingview.com,
13 October 2025
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Walmart’s 470% Rally: Is a $1 Trillion Market Cap Next?

Walmart’s 470% Rally: Is a $1 Trillion Market Cap Next?

Walmart’s Trillion-Dollar Potential In 2018 Apple became the first U.S. company to breach a $1 trillion market cap, with tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Tesla – and most recently Nvidia – joining the club. Brick-and-mortar giant Walmart could be next. Motley Fool analyst Jon Quast points out that Walmart’s current $820B market cap would only need a ~22% jump to hit $1T nasdaq.com. He notes the company has delivered a 470% total return in 15 years (680% with dividends) nasdaq.com, thanks to its scale and diversification. This dramatic run, driven by repeat store visits and steady online growth,
13 October 2025
$100B in Crypto? How Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) Stocks Became the Hottest Trend in Finance

Bitcoin Price Booms Past $115K – Bullish Forecasts Clash With Crash Fears

Bitcoin Price and Recent Movements On October 13, 2025, Bitcoin is trading around $115,000 USD. This marks a sharp recovery from last week’s sharp selloff: as recently as Friday (Oct 10), BTC dipped near $104–105K before buyers stepped ints2.techeuropeanbusinessmagazine.com. Over the past few days, the price has bounced back by roughly 10–15% from that low. According to Coinpedia, “Bitcoin is leading the recovery, rising over 3% to approach $115,000” on the morning of Oct 13coinpedia.org. Similarly, FXEmpire notes BTC has “rebounded above $115,000 after a brutal sell-off” driven by U.S.–China trade tensionsfxempire.com. Earlier this month, Bitcoin surged to fresh record
13 October 2025
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XRP Crashes 40% as Whales Sell Off – Can Ripple’s Token Rally to $4?

XRP Price Forecast: Will Ripple Rocket to $5 or Crash to $2? October 2025 Update

Key Facts (as of Oct 13, 2025): Current XRP Price & Recent Movement XRP opened October 2025 at roughly $3.0 and climbed earlier in the month (the “Uptober” rally) as macro investors piled into cryptots2.tech. On Oct 6, Bitcoin set a new record near $125Kreuters.com, and XRP was trading around $3.3–3.6. However, a surprise policy shock – the announcement of 100% tariffs on Chinese goods – ignited a sharp sell-off on Oct 10. Within minutes, XRP plunged about 42% to ~$1.64ts2.techts2.tech, one of the deepest flash crashes of 2025. This wipeout coincided with a crypto-wide $19 billion liquidationcoindesk.com, triggered partly by
13 October 2025
Ethereum Price Rollercoaster: Will ETH Hit $5,000 After Mid-October Flash Crash?

Ethereum Price Rollercoaster: Will ETH Hit $5,000 After Mid-October Flash Crash?

Ethereum Price Today (Oct 13, 2025) As of Oct 13, 2025, Ethereum is trading in the mid-$4,000 range. Investing.com reports ETH closed around $4,148.11 on Oct 13investing.com (with an intraday high ~$4,208 and low ~$4,118) after rebounding from earlier weakness. CryptoNews likewise notes ETH at about $4,152 on Monday morningcryptonews.com, roughly 8.7% higher than 24 hours prior. This jump followed a painful weekend sell-off; over the past week ETH is down about 15–16%ts2.tech. By comparison, BTC has also recovered (up ~2.9% on Oct 13cryptonews.com) but with a smaller move than ETH. In broad terms, Ethereum (the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency) remains
13 October 2025
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IREN’s 500% Rally: How a Bitcoin Miner Became an AI Cloud Juggernaut

IREN’s 500% Rally: How a Bitcoin Miner Became an AI Cloud Juggernaut

IREN’s AI-Cloud Strategy IREN started as Iris Energy, a clean-energy Bitcoin miner, but is now aggressively pivoting to AI data centers. It owns hydro- and wind-powered sites in Canada and Texas, giving it some of the industry’s lowest power costs (~$0.03–$0.038/kWh) ts2.tech ts2.tech. Management has redeployed idle mining capacity into AI compute. In August 2025 IREN was named an “NVIDIA Preferred Partner,” granting it privileged access to high-end GPUs bitget.com. The late-September GPU order added 7,100 Nvidia Blackwell B300s, 4,200 Nvidia Blackwell B200s and 1,100 AMD MI350X cards theminermag.com. This brings the fleet to ~23,000 units (including the existing ~1,900
13 October 2025
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Stock Market Today

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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