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Financial News News 11 October 2025 - 12 October 2025

MP Materials (MP) Stock Skyrockets 380% on U.S. Rare-Earth Push – Boom or Bust?

MP Materials (MP) Stock Skyrockets 380% on U.S. Rare-Earth Push – Boom or Bust?

Company Background & Strategic Importance Figure: Mountain Pass rare-earth mine in California (MP Materials’ principal asset) reuters.com. MP Materials Corp (NYSE: MP) owns and operates the Mountain Pass rare-earth mine in California, the only large-scale rare-earth production and processing facility in the U.S. reuters.com nasdaq.com. The company’s vertically integrated model spans mining, refining, and making magnets: its Mountain Pass site produces neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) oxides, and its Texas Fort Worth Independence” plant (Stage II/III) is building NdFeB magnet capacity. NdPr magnets are critical to everything with motion” – from wind turbines and EV motors to smartphones and defense systems abc7.com ts2.tech. Rare-earth
12 October 2025
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BlackRock’s Mega Bets Pay Off: Bitcoin ETF Soars, AI Fund Rallies & $40B Data-Center Deal Stuns Markets

BlackRock’s Mega Bets Pay Off: Bitcoin ETF Soars, AI Fund Rallies & $40B Data-Center Deal Stuns Markets

Delving deeper, experts emphasize that BlackRock’s ecosystem is threading together AI, crypto and energy. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has explicitly linked high interest rates and a weaker dollar to crypto adoption, warning that without policy changes the dollar could lose ground to digital currencies. In fact, in late 2024 BlackRock’s own analysts suggested investors consider up to a 2% Bitcoin allocation reuters.com. GIP’s deals are seen as strategic pivots: Aligned Data Centers gives BlackRock land and power capacity for hyperscale AI; AES would supply green power to Microsoft, Meta and Google data centers. Bitcoin and Crypto: Record Highs & ETF
12 October 2025
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Crypto CARNAGE: $20B Vanishes as Bitcoin Plummets – Will It Rebound?

Crypto CARNAGE: $20B Vanishes as Bitcoin Plummets – Will It Rebound?

Crash Overview The crypto meltdown unfolded late on Oct. 10, 2025. In a posting on Truth Social, President Trump threatened a massive increase” in tariffs on Chinese goods and new controls on technology exports ts2.tech ts2.tech. The announcement reignited trade-war fears, spooking all risk assets. U.S. stock markets fell (Nasdaq -3.6%, S&P 500 -2.7% on Oct. 10) ts2.tech, but crypto was hit even worse. Traders exploiting high leverage were caught off guard: Bitcoin collapsed from ~$122K to below $119K within minutes, as panic-selling cascaded through auto-liquidations ts2.tech ts2.tech. Joshua Duckett of crypto forensics firm CryptoForensic told Fox Business that a
12 October 2025
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JP Morgan’s Dimon Sounds Alarm: 30% Crash Risk Looms Amid AI Frenzy and Trade Wars

JP Morgan’s Dimon Sounds Alarm: 30% Crash Risk Looms Amid AI Frenzy and Trade Wars

Forecast: In short, the bull run may have farther to go if earnings remain strong and monetary conditions stay loose. But risk is asymmetric: everything is priced for perfection,” as one investor put it reuters.com, so the next bad news could trigger a rapid downturn. Investors are advised to monitor earnings closely, watch interest-rate signals, and diversify into safe havens or defensive sectors. As Dimon warned, the odds of a big drop are higher than what I think is priced in the market” theguardian.com – so prudent risk management is key in these turbulent times. Sources: Recent news and analysis from The Guardian, Reuters,
12 October 2025
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Trump’s Tariff Tsunami: 100% Drug Tax and New Import Levies Rock Global Trade

Market Meltdown: Trump’s 100% Tariff Threat Wipes Out $2 Trillion – Stocks & Crypto in Chaos

Trade War 2.0 Sparks Market Chaos On Friday Oct. 10 markets melted up” for the week – then suddenly crashed after Trump’s announcement. Traders described a classic sell first, ask questions later” reaction ts2.tech. The president’s unheralded post on Truth Social threatened to hike tariffs on all Chinese imports (reportedly to 100% starting Nov. 1) and rescind a planned Xi-Trump meeting. Within hours, U.S. indices erased recent gains: the tech-heavy Nasdaq saw its worst day since April, and even defensive sectors barely held ground ts2.tech. In dollar terms, Wall Street lost on the order of $2 trillion in market capitalization
12 October 2025
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Wall Street Feels the Heat (and Thrill): Fed Cuts, Tariffs & Mega-Mergers Set NYSE Buzz

Stock Market Today 12.10.2025

Sorkin warns: Stock market shows 1929-like signs amid AI boom October 12, 2025, 7:53 PM EDT. Financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin warns that today’s Wall Street mirrors the 1929 era, where highs preceded a devastating crash. He credits an AI- and technology-driven boom for recent gains but cautions it may be a temporary sugar rush rather than a durable recovery. Valuations, he suggests, could be overpriced and markets may be riding a fragile buoyancy. The piece contrasts today’s surge with the 1920s’ rapid credit expansion, including buying on margin, that helped fuel speculative excess. Sorkin says a crash is likely,
12 October 2025
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Tariffs Fail to Derail European Stock Rally as Markets Bounce Back

Wall Street Braces as Big Bank Earnings Kick Off: Are Markets in for a Surprise?

Banks Kick Off Earnings Season Amid Data Fog With traditional economic reports on hold due to the U.S. government shutdown, Wall Street is zeroing in on banks’ third-quarter results as a proxy for the economy’s pulse. Reuters notes that investors will look to major banks’ quarterly earnings” to gauge growth, since other data have been interrupted reuters.com. Indeed, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Citigroup are scheduled to unveil results this Tuesday (Oct. 14), followed by Bank of America and Morgan Stanley on Wednesday reuters.com. This cluster of big-bank reports effectively kicks off earnings season. Jim Cramer and other analysts have highlighted these financial results as especially important given the lack of
11 October 2025
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Visa (V) Stock Poised for a Surge? Crypto Pilot and Travel Deals Fuel Optimism

Visa (V) Stock Poised for a Surge? Crypto Pilot and Travel Deals Fuel Optimism

Stock Price and Recent Performance Visa trades under the ticker V on the NYSE. After markets closed on Friday, Oct 10, 2025, Visa was about $343.65 investor.visa.com per share, down ~$3 (roughly 1%) on the day. (Its intraday range was roughly $343–$350.) Earlier in the week, the stock dipped to a new 2025 low when the DOJ antitrust news broke ainvest.com. Year-to-date (Jan–Oct 2025), Visa’s stock is up on the order of 10–12%. For context, Reuters reported that by late July Visa was up ~13% for the year, versus +8% for Mastercard and –10% for AmEx reuters.com. By late July,
11 October 2025
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3M Stock Set to Soar! PFAS Settlement and Dividends Spark Rally (Oct 2025)

3M Stock Set to Soar! PFAS Settlement and Dividends Spark Rally (Oct 2025)

Stock Price & Recent Performance 3M’s stock has been trading in the low-to-mid $150s this autumn. As of Oct 10, 2025, it closed near $148.75 tradingview.com. That day’s drop (~–2.7%) came amid broad market pullback. Over the past week MMM has slid roughly –6.4% tradingview.com, reversing part of its earlier gains. (Year-to-date MMM was up ~10.6% tradingview.com, roughly in line with the S&P 500.) The 52-week trading range is about $122–$164, with 50-day and 200-day moving averages near $154 and $149 respectively marketbeat.com. Technical indicators show MMM recently lost some momentum. Chart analysis highlights a support zone around $146–147 and resistance near $156–167. For example, AI-driven
11 October 2025
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Merck (MRK) Stock Could Skyrocket: Key Drug Approvals & Analyst Targets Unveiled

Merck (MRK) Stock Could Skyrocket: Key Drug Approvals & Analyst Targets Unveiled

Metric Merck (MRK) Last Price (10/10/25) $86.02 marketbeat.com Market Cap $215B marketbeat.com P/E (TTM) ~13× marketbeat.com Yield 3.8% marketbeat.com 52-Week Range $73.31 – $111.58 marketbeat.com YTD Total Return -11.07% financecharts.com Q2 2025 Sales $15.8B investing.com 2024 Sales $64.2B merck.com 2024 R&D Spend $17.9B merck.com Analyst PT (avg) $104 (12-mo) marketbeat.com Consensus Rating Hold marketbeat.com Company Overview Merck & Co. (MRK, called MSD outside North America) is a global healthcare company (75,000 employees merck.com) organized in Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines and Animal Health. It focuses on oncology/immunology, infectious disease (including vaccines), cardio-metabolic, and hospital specialty medicines merck.com. Its blockbuster product KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) – a PD-1 checkpoint
11 October 2025
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Robinhood’s Wild 2025 Ride: HOOD Stock Skyrockets 200%, Plunges 9% in a Day – What’s Next?

Robinhood’s Wild 2025 Ride: HOOD Stock Skyrockets 200%, Plunges 9% in a Day – What’s Next?

HOOD Stock Price and Recent Performance Robinhood’s stock has been on a rollercoaster in 2025. After starting the year at much lower levels, HOOD nearly tripled in value by early October. On October 6, shares hit a record intra-week high around $153. But by the week’s end, the stock pulled back sharply, closing at $138.96 on Oct 10 after an 8.9% single-day plunge ts2.tech. (The Oct 10 drop coincided with a broader market selloff sparked by renewed U.S.–China trade war fears, which particularly hit high-growth tech stocks ts2.tech.) Even after the pullback, Robinhood remains up over 200% year-to-date, vastly outperforming
11 October 2025
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Crypto Carnage: Tariff Bombshell Triggers $200B Crash as Ethereum Leads Liquidation Bloodbath

Crypto Carnage: Tariff Bombshell Triggers $200B Crash as Ethereum Leads Liquidation Bloodbath

Trade War Bombshell Sinks Crypto Markets The crypto market’s abrupt downturn in mid-October was triggered by a major geopolitical surprise. On October 10, President Trump revealed via social media that China had taken an extremely hostile” stance on trade (limiting exports of critical rare-earth minerals) – and in response, he was preparing a massive increase” in tariffs, including a 100% tariff on all Chinese imports effective Nov. 1 ts2.tech ts2.tech. This unexpected escalation of U.S.–China trade tensions hit markets like a shockwave. Almost immediately after Trump’s post, risk assets went into freefall. Bitcoin (which earlier that day hovered around $122K)
11 October 2025
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