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Elon Musk Smashes Records by Hitting $500 Billion Net Worth—How He Got There and What It Means

Elon Musk Smashes Records by Hitting $500 Billion Net Worth—How He Got There and What It Means

Musk’s $500 Billion Milestone: Context and Implications Elon Musk’s climb to a $500 billion net worth illustrates how a sprawling tech empire can create unprecedented personal wealth. On October 1 2025, Musk became the first person ever to amass a half‑trillion dollars. Reuters calculated that at 3:55 p.m. ET his wealth reached $499.5 billion, as Tesla stock jumped nearly 4 % during trading reuters.com. Forbes’ real‑time tracker, which uses a slightly different methodology, pegged him at exactly $500 billion nypost.com. Either way, he ended the day roughly $150 billion ahead of the world’s second‑richest person, Oracle founder Larry Ellison nypost.com. How Tesla, SpaceX and xAI Propelled the Fortune The
1 October 2025
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Georgia Power Taps the Bond Market with $1.5B Debt Sale – What It Means for Customers and Investors

Georgia Power Taps the Bond Market with $1.5B Debt Sale – What It Means for Customers and Investors

Deal Structure: Three New Bond Tranches Georgia Power’s SEC filing (Form 8-K) details the three offerings sec.gov. The Series 2025B “tap” adds $250M at 4.85% interest (due Mar 15, 2031) to the tranche originally issued in March 2025, bringing that series to $750M in total sec.gov. The new Series 2025D consists of $750M of 4.00% notes due Oct 1, 2028, and Series 2025E is $500M of 5.50% notes due Oct 1, 2055 sec.gov investing.com. All three are unsecured senior obligations, ranking pari passu with Georgia Power’s other bonds. The offerings were made via its shelf registration (No. 333-285111) for faster
30 September 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?

Dalal Street in Turmoil: Sensex Plunges 2,500 Points in a Week – Should You Buy the Dip or Brace for More?

Key Facts: Indian equity benchmarks slumped sharply last week. The BSE Sensex gave up roughly 2,587 points (3.2%) and the Nifty 50 fell about 672 points (2.7%) over six trading days upstox.com livemint.com. This was the worst weekly decline in nearly six months, erasing about 90% of the recent rally from early September upstox.com livemint.com. Markets were roiled by external shocks: U.S. President Trump announced 100% tariffs on imported branded/pharma products and hiked H-1B visa fees to $100,000 per worker. These policy moves hit India’s tech and pharma stocks hard. Sectorally, IT was the biggest laggard (down ~8% on the
27 September 2025
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Tata Stock Split Frenzy: Tata Investment Shares Soar 25% in Two Days, Record Date Set – What Investors Should Know

Tata Capital’s $2 Billion IPO: Dates, Valuation, Risks – What Everyone’s Talking About

IPO Details: Structure and Timeline Tata Capital’s draft prospectus (filed Sep 26, 2025) confirms the offer opens Oct 6 and closes Oct 8, with anchor bids on Oct 3 timesofindia.indiatimes.com moneycontrol.com. The issue is being managed by a consortium of banks (including Kotak Mahindra, Axis, HDFC Bank, etc.) bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com. Per regulatory filings, the fresh issue is up to 210 million shares and the OFS up to 265,824,280 shares moneycontrol.com (equivalently 21.0 cr and 26.58 cr). Tata Sons is divesting 23.0 cr, IFC 3.58 cr in the OFS bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com. The combined IPO size (fresh + OFS) is about $1.85–1.9 billion (₹16,400–17,200
27 September 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s AI-Fueled Quarter Stuns Wall Street Oracle’s latest earnings quarter shocked Wall Street and sent its stock soaring on an AI-fueled wave of optimism. Shares of Oracle jumped as much as 35–40% intraday and closed up about 36% on Wednesday, marking the company’s largest one-day gain in over three decades startupnews.fyi. This remarkable rally added roughly $250 billion to Oracle’s market capitalization and briefly vaulted Larry Ellison – who owns about 40% of Oracle – to the top of global wealth rankings startupnews.fyi. Ellison’s net worth climbed by nearly $100 billion in a day to around $393 billion, putting him neck-and-neck with (or even briefly ahead of) Tesla’s Elon
11 September 2025
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AI Stocks Shake Markets: Big Tech Surges, Mega-Deals, and Bubble Warnings (Sept 7–8, 2025)

AI Stocks Shake Markets: Big Tech Surges, Mega-Deals, and Bubble Warnings (Sept 7–8, 2025)

AI Stock Market Performance: Rallies, Slumps & Record Volume The past few days highlighted just how volatile – and influential – AI-focused stocks have become across global markets. In the U.S., major “AI winner” companies saw mixed fortunes. On Friday, Broadcom (AVGO) stunned the market with a +9.4% surge after revealing a massive new $10 billion order for its AI chips and hiking its sales outlook reuters.com. That blockbuster order (from an unnamed customer) reinforced Broadcom’s status as a backbone of AI data centers, and its stock jump helped lift tech indexes even as broader markets wobbled. The company’s quarterly results
8 September 2025
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Weekend Crypto Whirlwind: DeFi Hack Reversed, NFT Revival, Trump’s $100M Bet & More

Weekend Crypto Whirlwind: DeFi Hack Reversed, NFT Revival, Trump’s $100M Bet & More

Key Facts Market Overview: Fed Hopes Turn to Fears Crypto markets experienced a rollercoaster at week’s end as macroeconomic news whipsawed traders. Early on September 5, a surprisingly soft U.S. jobs report (just 22,000 jobs added in August) bolstered bets that the Federal Reserve would finally cut interest rates ts2.tech. Bitcoin and Ethereum initially rallied on the rate-cut optimism, with some traders even speculating a larger 50 basis-point Fed cut could be on the table ts2.tech. However, the euphoria was short-lived. As U.S. equities opened lower and broader sentiment turned cautious, crypto reversed course sharply. Ether plunged nearly 4% within
7 September 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy: $10 B Deals Ignite Rally as Big Tech Sounds Alarm

AI Stock Frenzy: $10 B Deals Ignite Rally as Big Tech Sounds Alarm

Key Facts Broadcom’s $10 B Order Ignites AI Stock Rally Broadcom became the week’s biggest AI stock story after disclosing a $10 billion order for custom AI chips from an unnamed “new customer” – widely presumed to be OpenAI – and projecting above-consensus sales next quarter. Its shares soared 9.4% on Friday in response, buoying the broader tech sector even as overall indexes ended slightly down. The mega-deal validates the explosive demand for AI infrastructure, given that training advanced models like ChatGPT requires enormous compute power. Analysts cheered Broadcom’s fortunes as a sign that the AI boom is far from peaking. CEO
7 September 2025
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Crypto Turmoil and Triumph: Ether’s Plunge, Trump’s $105M Token Bet & Stripe’s New Blockchain (Sep 5–6, 2025)

Crypto Turmoil and Triumph: Ether’s Plunge, Trump’s $105M Token Bet & Stripe’s New Blockchain (Sep 5–6, 2025)

Key Facts Market Whiplash Amid Fed Hopes and Fears Cryptocurrency prices saw sudden whiplash on Friday (Sep. 5) as macroeconomic news rattled traders. Early in the day, markets rallied on a soft U.S. jobs report – only 22,000 jobs added in August – which cemented bets that the Federal Reserve would finally cut interest rates coindesk.com. But euphoria was short-lived. Following the U.S. stock market open, crypto reversed course violently, led by a sharp plunge in Ethereum. Ether (ETH) collapsed nearly 4% within minutes, falling below a key bull-trend support coindesk.com. Bitcoin proved slightly more resilient, dipping about 2.5% to
6 September 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy: Google’s $210 Billion Win, Nvidia’s Trillion-Dollar Boom, Microsoft’s Mega AI Deal & Tesla’s Bold Pivot in 48 Hours

AI Stock Frenzy: Google’s $210 Billion Win, Nvidia’s Trillion-Dollar Boom, Microsoft’s Mega AI Deal & Tesla’s Bold Pivot in 48 Hours

Alphabet Soars on Antitrust Victory Fueled by AI Alphabet Inc. – Google’s parent – saw its stock rocket 9% to a record high on Sept 3 after a U.S. judge refused to break up the company in an antitrust case reuters.com. The ruling lifted a huge regulatory cloud and explicitly cited the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT as emerging search competition undermining monopoly concerns reuters.com. Judge Amit Mehta opted for targeted remedies (like data-sharing with rivals) over drastic measures, a decision analysts called “pragmatic” and a clear win for Google reuters.com reuters.com. The outcome preserves Google’s control of Android and
4 September 2025
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AI Stocks’ Wild Start to September: Mega-Rallies, Billion-Dollar Deals & Hype Under Fire

AI Stocks’ Wild Start to September: Mega-Rallies, Billion-Dollar Deals & Hype Under Fire

Key Facts Market Overview: AI Stocks Face September Reality Check The week opened with a notable cool-down in the red-hot AI trade, as investors returned from summer break and took profits in crowded tech positions. On September 2, U.S. indices fell roughly 0.7–0.8%, led by the previously high-flying “AI beneficiary” stocks reuters.com. This pullback followed a massive year-to-date rally in AI names and coincided with broader risk-off sentiment (amid worries over tariffs, inflation, and rising bond yields) reuters.com reuters.com. Analysts and fund managers indicated that the selling was broad-based and largely driven by risk management rather than a fundamental crack
3 September 2025
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