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Google (Alphabet) GOOG stock rises as House tees up self-driving hearing; Waymo in focus

Google (Alphabet) GOOG stock rises as House tees up self-driving hearing; Waymo in focus

NEW YORK, Jan 7, 2026, 10:45 ET — Regular session Alphabet’s Class C shares rose about 1.7% to $319.98 in morning trade on Wednesday, outpacing a mixed U.S. market as investors digested fresh signals from Washington on self-driving rules. The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee plans a Jan. 13 hearing on draft proposals that would make it easier to deploy autonomous vehicles without human controls, including lifting the cap on exemptions to 90,000 vehicles a year from 2,500 now, a Reuters report said. Another draft would bar states from setting their own rules for autonomous driving systems, while a separate
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Crinetics (CRNX) shares jump as $350 million stock sale clears and early PALSONIFY revenue hits

Crinetics (CRNX) shares jump as $350 million stock sale clears and early PALSONIFY revenue hits

New York, Jan 7, 2026, 11:04 EST — Regular session Shares of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals rose about 16% to $53.40 on Wednesday, after the biotech priced a $350 million stock offering and detailed early U.S. launch metrics for its newly approved acromegaly drug. Crinetics said it generated preliminary, unaudited net product revenue of more than $5 million from PALSONIFY in the fourth quarter of 2025, with more than 200 enrollment forms and over 125 unique prescribers by the end of December. It also posted Phase 2 results for atumelnant in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), reporting a 67% mean reduction in androstenedione
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Strategy Inc stock pops after MSCI index reprieve as bitcoin slips — what’s next for MSTR

Strategy Inc stock pops after MSCI index reprieve as bitcoin slips — what’s next for MSTR

NEW YORK, January 7, 2026, 11:08 EST — Regular session Strategy Inc shares rose 3.6% to $163.63 by 11:08 a.m. EST on Wednesday after MSCI shelved a plan that could have pushed the bitcoin-heavy company and other crypto treasury firms out of its indexes. “It removes a material near-term technical risk,” said Owen Lau, an analyst at Clear Street, while JonesTrading chief market strategist Mike O’Rourke said he suspected the issue was “postponed until later in the year.” Reuters The call matters because MSCI’s benchmarks sit under a large pool of passive money, and an index exit can force funds
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Western Digital stock slides after CES-fueled rally; WDC shares swing in U.S. trade

Western Digital stock slides after CES-fueled rally; WDC shares swing in U.S. trade

New York, Jan 7, 2026, 11:09 EST — Regular session Western Digital (WDC) shares fell 7.9% to $201.99 in late morning trade on Wednesday, pulling back from Tuesday’s $219.38 close. The stock was down as much as about 11% earlier in the session. The swing shows how fast the market is repricing storage names as the AI trade widens beyond chips into the hardware that holds and feeds data. Western Digital has moved like a sentiment gauge this week, not a slow-and-steady industrial. That matters now because investors are trying to map big talk at CES into near-term demand, with
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Nvidia, AMD or Intel? CES 2026 AI chip rollouts sharpen 2026 stock callsLAS VEGAS,

Nvidia, AMD or Intel? CES 2026 AI chip rollouts sharpen 2026 stock callsLAS VEGAS,

January 7, 2026, 07:31 PST Nvidia’s next-generation Vera Rubin platform is now in “full production,” CEO Jensen Huang said at CES in Las Vegas, giving investors a sharper sense of when the hardware driving the AI boom is due to land. Why it matters now: CES has turned into a pit stop on the chip industry’s road map. Cloud firms and big AI developers show up looking for the next wave of data center gear, kicking the tires ahead of earnings season. But the stakes keep rising as companies move from training giant models to running them at scale for
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Strategy stock jumps on MSCI reprieve for bitcoin-treasury firms — but a key limit stays

Strategy stock jumps on MSCI reprieve for bitcoin-treasury firms — but a key limit stays

NEW YORK, Jan 7, 2026, 10:31 EST Shares of Strategy rose on Wednesday after MSCI shelved a plan that could have pushed the bitcoin-heavy company out of key stock indexes. The stock was last up about 3.2% in morning trading, trimming earlier gains as bitcoin slipped. https://www.reuters.com/business/strategy-rises-msci-shelves-plans-exclude-crypto-treasury-firms-indexes-2026-01-07/ The decision matters because index membership can translate into steady demand from funds that track benchmarks. Investors had worried a rule change would force passive portfolios to sell, turning a methodology debate into a near-term trading event. MSCI said it has decided “not to implement” the proposed exclusion of so-called digital asset treasury
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Palantir stock ticks higher as Truist starts coverage with $223 target, valuation stays in play

Palantir stock ticks higher as Truist starts coverage with $223 target, valuation stays in play

New York, Jan 7, 2026, 10:50 (EST) — Regular session Palantir Technologies shares rose on Wednesday, keeping a fresh bid in place after a new “buy” call from Truist put the data-analytics firm back on traders’ screens. The move matters now because Palantir is already priced like a winner. Any new sell-side support can pull in fast money, but it also tightens the market’s tolerance for a miss, especially with rate and growth bets getting reset in early January. Wall Street was mixed as investors digested labor-market data and waited for Friday’s U.S. jobs report, a release that can swing
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Applied Digital stock edges up ahead of earnings as new analyst targets reach $99

Applied Digital stock edges up ahead of earnings as new analyst targets reach $99

NEW YORK, Jan 7, 2026, 10:36 EST Applied Digital shares rose about 2% on Wednesday as the AI data-center builder headed into quarterly results later in the day and drew fresh analyst coverage. The earnings print matters because investors are watching for signs that big customers are locking in power-hungry AI capacity, and whether new sites can be financed without heavy dilution. For Applied Digital, the story has shifted from one-off construction and “fit-out” work to longer lease revenue that could smooth out the numbers over time. Freedom Capital initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $36 price target,
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Netflix stock dips after Warner rejects Paramount bid, with earnings two weeks away

Netflix stock dips after Warner rejects Paramount bid, with earnings two weeks away

New York, Jan 7, 2026, 10:52 EST — Regular session Netflix shares slipped on Wednesday after Warner Bros Discovery urged shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance’s $30-per-share hostile bid and reaffirmed Netflix’s $27.75-a-share cash-and-stock agreement, valued at about $82.7 billion. Netflix was down 0.3% at $90.42, while Warner rose 0.2% and Paramount Skydance fell 0.5%. Warner said walking away from the Netflix deal would cost about $4.7 billion, and Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters called their offer the “superior proposal,” Reuters reported. Reuters The moment matters because the Warner contest has started to trade like a referendum on Netflix’s
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GameStop dangles a $35 billion Ryan Cohen payday — but only if GME hits $100 billion

GameStop dangles a $35 billion Ryan Cohen payday — but only if GME hits $100 billion

GRAPEVINE, Texas, January 7, 2026, 09:30 CST GameStop on Wednesday granted CEO Ryan Cohen a performance-based stock option award that could be worth roughly $35 billion if he can lift the videogame retailer’s market value to $100 billion and meet profit targets, Reuters calculated. The package offers no guaranteed salary or cash bonus, the company said. Reuters The unusually steep targets land as GameStop tries to prove it can outgrow a business built around physical stores while players shift to online buying. GameStop’s annual revenue has fallen more than 35% since 2022 and the stock is down about 80% from
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Rocket Lab stock slips after $103 million insider sale; what RKLB investors watch next

Rocket Lab stock slips after $103 million insider sale; what RKLB investors watch next

New York, January 7, 2026, 10:39 EST — Regular session Rocket Lab shares slid 2.6% to $83.80 in mid-morning trade on Wednesday, a day after the space and defense contractor’s stock logged a sharp jump. The pullback came as recent regulatory filings showed two top executives sold a combined roughly $110 million of shares under preset trading plans. Google+1 The sales matter because Rocket Lab’s rally has turned the stock into a crowded trade, with investors leaning on big government work and a pipeline of new hardware to justify a steep valuation. When insiders sell into that kind of tape
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AT&T stock slips after fresh downgrade as traders brace for jobs data and Jan. 28 earnings

AT&T stock slips after fresh downgrade as traders brace for jobs data and Jan. 28 earnings

New York, Jan 7, 2026, 10:42 EST — Regular session AT&T Inc (T.N) shares fell 1.1% to $24.06 in morning trade on Wednesday after Arete Research cut the telecom stock to “sell” with a $20 price target, a list of analyst actions showed. Verizon (VZ.N) and T-Mobile (TMUS.O) also slipped, while the S&P 500 ETF was little changed. The Wall Street Journal The dip comes as traders weigh new labour-market signals that can shift rate expectations — a big deal for dividend-heavy sectors that often move with Treasury yields. ADP said U.S. private employers added 41,000 jobs in December, and
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Stock Market Today

Caterpillar stock price jumps 7% to $726 as Dow cracks 50,000 — what matters next week

Caterpillar stock price jumps 7% to $726 as Dow cracks 50,000 — what matters next week

7 February 2026
Caterpillar shares surged 7.1% to $726.20 Friday, driving the Dow above 50,000 for the first time. The move erased recent losses and followed insider selling by Group President Bob De Lange earlier in the week. Deere and CNH Industrial also gained as investors rotated into industrial stocks. Markets await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data.
Amazon stock slides as $200B AI spending plan meets cautious profit outlook

Amazon stock slides as $200B AI spending plan meets cautious profit outlook

7 February 2026
Amazon shares fell 9% Friday after the company announced plans for $200 billion in 2026 capital spending, mainly for AWS and AI, and issued a first-quarter profit outlook below estimates. The stock drop could erase $200 billion in market value. Fourth-quarter net sales rose 14% to $213.4 billion, while free cash flow declined due to higher spending on AI infrastructure.
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