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Gold $4K vs Bitcoin $125K: Inside the Epic 2025 Safe-Haven Showdown

Gold $4K vs Bitcoin $125K: Inside the Epic 2025 Safe-Haven Showdown

2025 – A Year of Record Highs for Gold and Bitcoin Gold bars – the classic safe-haven asset – soared to record prices in 2025 as investors worldwide sought stability amid economic storms. Gold’s ascent in 2025 has been nothing short of historic. By October 8, gold broke above $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever, hitting an intraday peak around $4,078ts2.techts2.tech. Just a year or two ago, $4k gold seemed far-fetched, but mounting economic worries turned that milestone into reality. The metal started 2025 near $2,800/oz and then shattered record after record, rising almost 50% in under a yearts2.tech. Even after
10 October 2025
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Lyft Stock Rockets 30% After Waymo Robotaxi Deal — What’s Next?

Lyft Stock Rockets 30% After Waymo Robotaxi Deal — What’s Next?

Chart: Lyft Inc. (LYFT) share price (1-year). The stock jumped sharply in mid-September (after the Waymo news) and has since pulled back into early October. The 50-day moving average (dotted) remains well above the 200-day (solid), indicating overall bullish momentum directorstalkinterviews.com. Stock Performance and Chart Lyft’s share price has shown volatile swings in late 2025. In September, LYFT rallied sharply – fuelled by positive news – but in early October it gave back much of that gain. On Sept 17 (when the Waymo partnership was announced), LYFT jumped over 13%. By Oct 9 the stock closed ~$19.72 stockanalysis.com. The 1-year
10 October 2025
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Precious Metals Mania: Gold Smashes $4,000, Silver Soars Past $50 – What’s Driving the Frenzy?

Precious Metals Mania: Gold Smashes $4,000, Silver Soars Past $50 – What’s Driving the Frenzy?

Record-Breaking Gold and Silver Prices Gold’s latest high (~$4,059/oz on Oct 8) shattered the previous record and caps a nearly 50% rally year-to-date reuters.com ts2.tech. (Gold began 2025 in the high $2,700s.) Silver’s spike is even more dramatic: after languishing in the low $30s at the start of the year, it rocketed above $50 — briefly touching $51.22 — in mid-October reuters.com ts2.tech. That represents well over a 70% gain in 2025 for silver, significantly outpacing gold. To put this in perspective: silver’s run has re-tightened the gold/silver ratio (ounces of silver per ounce of gold) to historically low levels
10 October 2025
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Quantum-Powered Pop! SEALSQ Corp (LAES) Stock Rockets on Latest Breakthroughs and Deals

Quantum-Powered Pop! SEALSQ Corp (LAES) Stock Rockets on Latest Breakthroughs and Deals

Recent Surge: LAES stock closed at $6.09 on Oct. 9, 2025, up 39.7% that day stockanalysis.com. Its market capitalization is roughly $970 million tradingview.com after this jump. (It had been around $4–5 per share just a week earlier.) Stock Price Performance (as of Oct 10, 2025) LAES stock has surged dramatically in early October 2025. After trading around $4–5 in late Sept, shares jumped 27% over four trading days through Oct 4 ts2.tech. The rally continued: on Oct 6 it opened near $5.03 (closing 8.4% up) stockanalysis.com, dipped briefly Oct 7–8, and then spiked 39.7% on Oct 9 to $6.09
10 October 2025
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NUAI Stock Skyrockets: Tiny Permian Data Center Bet Surges 84% on AI Hype

NUAI Stock Skyrockets: Tiny Permian Data Center Bet Surges 84% on AI Hype

Company Background & Strategy New Era Energy & Digital, Inc. (formerly New Era Helium) is a Midland, TX–based developer of “next-generation digital infrastructure and integrated power assets” businesswire.com. In August 2025 it rebranded to emphasize its pivot from helium extraction to AI data centers ts2.tech. The core strategy is to vertically integrate power and compute: it owns Permian Basin land and gas resources to power a proposed AI/ML data center campus. The flagship venture is Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC), a 50/50 JV with Sharon AI. TCDC is designing a campus of ~438 contiguous acres (expanding to 1+ GW) dedicated
10 October 2025
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AI Data-Center Gold Rush: Applied Digital Rockets on $11B Contracts and Blows Past Q1 Forecasts

AI Data-Center Gold Rush: Applied Digital Rockets on $11B Contracts and Blows Past Q1 Forecasts

Overview: Dallas-based Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) designs and operates high-performance data centers and cloud colocation – recently pivoting from crypto-mining hosting to AI and HPC (high-performance computing) workloads ts2.tech. Its flagship Polaris Forge campus in North Dakota was even named “Best Data Center in the Americas 2025” by Datacloud ts2.tech. In an AI-driven cloud boom, demand for such specialized capacity is running far ahead of supply, giving APLD a unique niche reuters.com ts2.tech. Q1 Results (Aug 31, 2025): Applied Digital’s Q1 (fiscal) was nothing short of a breakout quarter. Revenues jumped 84% YoY to $64.2 million stocktitan.net, thanks largely to tenant
10 October 2025
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Power Bill Bombshell: Synergy’s $40 Million Overcharge Scandal Shakes WA Customers

Power Bill Bombshell: Synergy’s $40 Million Overcharge Scandal Shakes WA Customers

Synergy’s $40 Million Billing Blunder – What Happened? Synergy, WA’s largest electricity retailer, has been caught overcharging customers by a staggering $40 million over 16 yearsabc.net.au. The revelation, made public on 10 October 2025, sent shockwaves through Western Australia. It turns out that nearly 174,000 customers who had closed their electricity accounts continued to unknowingly send payments to Synergy – payments the company accepted into those closed accounts instead of returning themabc.net.au. This went on from 2009 until now, unnoticed as a systemic issue. Synergy’s CEO Kurt Baker explained the root cause: a flaw in the billing system allowed automatic or mistaken payments to closed accounts to slip throughabc.net.au. For example, if
10 October 2025
Sam’s Club Shocker: Warehouse Giant Extends Sunday Hours – Members Thrilled as Shopping Windows Expand

Sam’s Club Shocker: Warehouse Giant Extends Sunday Hours – Members Thrilled as Shopping Windows Expand

Why the Change Now Sam’s Club says members “overwhelmingly” asked for longer weekend hours economictimes.indiatimes.com. In practice, extending Sunday hours helps spread out crowds and gives big-shopping members more flexibility. Plus members keep their 8–9 am head start, preserving that perk for a higher fee tier economictimes.indiatimes.com. The move also simplifies scheduling: most clubs will now run 8 am–8 pm every day (except a few local exceptions) economictimes.indiatimes.com. Walmart spokesman Steven Zapata confirmed to reporters that customer feedback prompted this shift economictimes.indiatimes.com. Analysts see this as a savvy member-driven strategy. A TechSpace2 analysis notes warehouse clubs are gaining share amid retail headwinds, with
10 October 2025
Gold’s Jaw-Dropping $4,000 Rally: Bubble Alert or Ultimate Safe-Haven?

Gold’s Jaw-Dropping $4,000 Rally: Bubble Alert or Ultimate Safe-Haven?

Why Investors Are Flocking to Gold On Oct. 6–8, gold ran through its all-time highs. Spot gold briefly hit about $4,078/oz (intraday) on Oct. 8 ts2.tech, after closing ~2% higher on Oct. 7 ts2.tech. As one Reuters report noted, gold’s surge was driven by growing uncertainty: “investors are seeking safety from mounting economic and geopolitical uncertainty, alongside expectations of further Fed rate cuts” reuters.com. In Asia, a plunge in the Japanese yen (after an election of a dovish finance minister) left one less currency safe haven, “and gold was able to capitalise,” said Tim Waterer of KCM Trade ts2.tech. Meanwhile
10 October 2025
First Brands Group Files for Chapter 11, Discloses $10–$50 Billion in Liabilities

First Brands’ Implosion Rips Through Private Credit: $2.3 B Disappears, Wall Street Scrambles

How a Hidden Financing Scheme Brought Down First Brands In hindsight, red flags were mounting at First Brands Group well before its spectacular implosion. The Ohio-based auto-parts supplier had become an industry heavyweight by gobbling up rivals with debt-fueled acquisitions, amassing an enormous debt load in the processreuters.com. By mid-2025, the company’s finances were growing increasingly murky: in August, First Brands abruptly halted a $6 billion refinancing deal after lenders demanded independent audits of its booksts2.tech. Rumors swirled of large off-the-books loans, late supplier payments, and frustrated investors asking to see invoices backing their loans. Yet few outsiders grasped the full picture of the trouble lurking
10 October 2025
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Quantum Leap: SEALSQ Corp (LAES) Rockets on Post-Quantum Breakthroughs and Bold Global Moves

Quantum Leap: SEALSQ Corp (LAES) Rockets on Post-Quantum Breakthroughs and Bold Global Moves

Detailed Analysis Rally Fueled by Post-Quantum Breakthroughs SEALSQ Corp’s stock (NASDAQ: LAES) has been on a tear in early October 2025, coinciding with major post-quantum technology announcements. The share price climbed for four sessions straight, culminating in a +7.7% jump on Oct 4alone and a 27% cumulative gain over that weekainvest.com. This surge propelled LAES to its highest levels since its listing, with the market cap swelling past half a billion dollarsinvesting.com. For context, in mid-September the company was valued around $493 millioninvesting.com, and by October 8 its market cap had crossed $630 milliontipranks.com – a reflection of the exuberance around SEALSQ’s recent milestones. Trading volumes have spiked as
10 October 2025
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APLD Stock Skyrockets on AI Deals: Applied Digital’s Big 2025 Rally, Earnings Blowout & What’s Next

APLD Stock Skyrockets on AI Deals: Applied Digital’s Big 2025 Rally, Earnings Blowout & What’s Next

Stock Price Surge and Recent Performance Applied Digital’s stock has delivered eye-popping returns in 2025, emerging as one of the market’s hottest tech plays. Year-to-date, APLD shares have climbed roughly +280%247wallst.com, reflecting investors’ enthusiasm for companies tied to the AI infrastructure boom. The rally intensified in late September and early October: between Sept 30 and Oct 2 alone, APLD stock jumped about 19% (from ~$22 to over $27) on heavy trading volumets2.tech. This surge was fueled by buzz around new capacity leases and speculation that Applied might ink deals with a major cloud “hyperscaler”ts2.tech. By Oct 3, the stock closed at $26.53, marking a record high and capping an
10 October 2025
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Levi Strauss Shocks Wall Street: Denim Demand Soars, Forecast Raised – Why LEVI Stock Still Slipped

Levi Strauss Shocks Wall Street: Denim Demand Soars, Forecast Raised – Why LEVI Stock Still Slipped

Blockbuster Q3 Earnings – Sales Beat and Outlook Raised Levi Strauss & Co. delivered strong third-quarter 2025 results, topping estimates and defying retail sector headwinds. Revenue for Q3 (June–August 2025) hit $1.54 billion, up 7% year-on-year and slightly above analyst expectations of ~$1.50 billionreuters.comtipranks.com. Adjusted earnings were $0.34 per share, a penny higher than a year ago and beating the $0.31 consensus estimatetipranks.com. The company achieved broad-based growth across channels, regions, and product categories. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales – through Levi’s own stores and website – surged +11%(organically +9%), now making up 46% of total revenuebenzinga.combenzinga.com. Notably, e-commerce sales jumped 16% as Levi’s leaned into online and full-price sellingreuters.com. This quarter showcased improving profitability. Gross margin expanded 61.7% (up
10 October 2025
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New Era Energy & Digital (NUAI) Stock Skyrockets on AI Data Center Dreams – Key Updates & Outlook

New Era Energy & Digital (NUAI) Stock Skyrockets on AI Data Center Dreams – Key Updates & Outlook

Latest Developments & October Stock Surge After a quiet summer, New Era Energy & Digital’s stock exploded in early October 2025 on the back of major project news and aggressive investor outreach. On October 9, NUAI shares nearly doubled intraday – a one-day jump of roughly 80% – following fresh updates on its West Texas data center ventureau.investing.com. The rally took the stock from around $1.54 to roughly $2.8–$2.9, on extraordinarily heavy volume. This kind of move echoed the late-September spike when NUAI announced completion of Phase One engineering; at that time, the stock closed +49.8% in a single session (Sept. 25) as retail traders piled
9 October 2025
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Costco Stock Surges Amid Retail Gloom – Will $900+ Shares Keep Climbing?

Costco Stock Soars Amid Retail Gloom – What’s Driving the Rally and Will It Last?

Stock Price & Recent Performance Costco’s stock has been on a long-term upward climb, and 2025 is no exception – though it hasn’t been a smooth ride. After a strong rally in the first half of the year, Costco (COST) shares reached an intraday record high around $1,078earlier in 2025ts2.tech. Enthusiasm was fueled by robust sales growth and a broader market rally. However, by late summer the stock had pulled back into the mid-$900s amid some profit-taking and market volatilityts2.tech. As of October 9, 2025, COST trades in the $914–$928 rangets2.tech – essentially back to where it started the year (roughly flat year-to-date
9 October 2025
USA Rare Earth Stock Skyrockets on Rare Earth Boom and White House Buzz – What’s Driving USAR’s Record High?

USA Rare Earth (USAR) Stock Soars on Rare Earth Boom and White House Buzz – What Investors Need to Know

Company Background & Operations USA Rare Earth, Inc. is a U.S.-based critical minerals company focused on establishing a fully domestic rare-earth supply chain – from mining and processing raw rare earth elements to manufacturing finished rare-earth magnets. The company’s flagship asset is the Round Top Mountain rare-earth deposit in Texas, which contains a broad range of critical rare earth elements (including heavy REEs like dysprosium and terbium)ts2.tech. Through a joint venture (with Texas Mineral Resources), USAR controls the Round Top deposit, which is still under development but is central to securing the raw materials for its magnet production plansts2.tech. On the downstream side, USA Rare Earth
9 October 2025
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BULLISH BREAKOUT: Google’s $3B Backstop Rockets TeraWulf (WULF) Stock to Multi-Year High

BULLISH BREAKOUT: Google’s $3B Backstop Rockets TeraWulf (WULF) Stock to Multi-Year High

Recent Developments Google-Backed AI Deals: In mid-August 2025 TeraWulf unveiled two 10-year co-location agreements with Fluidstack for AI workloads investors.terawulf.com investors.terawulf.com. These contracts (200+ MW at Lake Mariner) anchor ~$3.7 B of initial revenue (up to $8.7 B with extensions) investors.terawulf.com. Google Inc. agreed to backstop $1.8 B of Fluidstack’s lease obligations and took warrants for ~41 M shares (~8% equity) investors.terawulf.com. Shortly after, Google deepened its commitment: on Aug.18 it provided an additional $1.4 B backstop, gaining warrants for ~32.5 M more shares (bringing its total commitment to $3.2 B and stake to 14%) ts2.tech bitget.com. The new funding secures project debt financing for the CB-5
9 October 2025
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Snowflake Stock Rockets to Record High on AI Surge – Can $300 Targets Be Next?

Snowflake Stock Rockets to Record High on AI Surge – Can $300 Targets Be Next?

Snowflake’s shares have been on a tear through late 2025. After soaring on its strong Q2 report, SNOW traded near $247 on Oct 9 – close to its year‑high ts2.tech. That represents triple‑digit gains versus a year ago ts2.tech. The uptrend is driven by accelerating revenue growth and the cloud/AI hype cycle. Technically, the stock is extended (above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages around $216 and $197 marketbeat.com) but momentum remains strong. In the near term, investors will watch whether SNOW can sustain this pace or needs to consolidate around $250. On the fundamental side, Snowflake’s Q2 results underscore
9 October 2025
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Bitfarms Stock Explodes on Crypto & AI Boom – 148% YTD Rally

Bitfarms Stock Explodes on Crypto & AI Boom – 148% YTD Rally

Business Model and Operations Bitfarms is a “vertically integrated” Bitcoin miner: it builds, owns and operates its mining farms end-to-end investor.bitfarms.com. The company operates about 13 data centers (10 owned farms plus hosting agreements) across four countries investor.bitfarms.com. These facilities house thousands of ASIC miners powered mostly by hydro-electric and other long-term renewable contracts – Bitfarms boasts 82–90% renewable energy use investor.bitfarms.com ainvest.com. In-house teams handle electrical engineering, installation, and repairs investor.bitfarms.com. As of mid-2025, Bitfarms had ~17–19 EH/s of operational hashing capacity (after acquiring Stronghold Digital Mining, which added ~1 GW of U.S. projects cantechletter.com). This makes it one of North
9 October 2025
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AtlasClear (ATCH) Stock Skyrockets 50% on $20M Financing – Fintech Underdog Poised to Soar?

AtlasClear (ATCH) Stock Skyrockets 50% on $20M Financing – Fintech Underdog Poised to Soar?

Business Model & Market Position AtlasClear is a niche B2B fintech aiming to offer a one-stop clearing, brokerage and banking platform for smaller financial firms. According to the company, it is “building a cutting-edge, technology-enabled financial services platform to modernize trading, clearing, settlement and banking” globenewswire.com. Through its subsidiary Wilson-Davis & Co. (a full-service broker-dealer since 1968) AtlasClear provides correspondent clearing and trade execution. Management’s strategy is to expand this platform organically and via acquisitions: for example, it plans to acquire Commercial Bancorp of Wyoming (Farmers State Bank), a Federal Reserve member bank streetinsider.com, to gain FDIC/banking capabilities. The combined
9 October 2025
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