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Barclays Shares Slump 5% in FTSE 100 Rout – Is It a Golden Buying Opportunity?

Barclays Shares Slump 5% in FTSE 100 Rout – Is It a Golden Buying Opportunity?

FTSE 100 Turmoil Drags Barclays Down A wave of global banking jitters swept through markets in mid-October, and Barclays was caught in the undertow. On Friday, Oct. 17, the FTSE 100 index plunged roughly 1.5% at the open as investors reacted to trouble at two U.S. regional banks ts2.tech. Barclays (LON:BARC) shares tumbled about 5% in the sell-off – the steepest drop among blue-chip constituents proactiveinvestors.co.uk. The stock fell from around 379p to the mid-350s pence range intraday uk.investing.com, erasing about a month’s worth of gains in a single session. What spooked the market? The trigger was bad news across
17 October 2025
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OpenAI’s AMD Mega-Deal Sparks an AI “Mega-Blob” – 6GW of Chips, a 10% Stake, and a $100B Bet

AMD Stock Surges After AI Mega-Deals With OpenAI and Oracle – Could $300 Be Next?

Stock Hits Highs on AI Hype Advanced Micro Devices’ stock has been on fire in October 2025, reaching its highest levels in over a year. On Wednesday, Oct. 15, AMD surged over 8% and touched an intraday peak around $240.48, a new 52-week high ts2.tech. It closed that day near $238.7, capping roughly an 80% year-to-date gain for the chipmaker’s shares ts2.tech. By comparison, chief rival Nvidia’s stock is up about 40% in 2025, and Intel’s is flat-to-moderately higher after a rough 2024 ts2.tech. AMD’s market capitalization now sits around $350 billion, putting it in the upper echelon of chipmakers by
17 October 2025
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Bank of America (BAC) Stock Soars on Earnings Beat – Can It Keep Climbing?

Bank of America (BAC) Stock Soars on Earnings Beat – Can It Keep Climbing?

Real-Time Price Check: BAC Slips After Initial Rally After a mid-week surge on earnings, Bank of America’s stock has seesawed amid broader market swings. As of midday Friday (Oct. 17), BAC traded around the $50 mark, down about 1–2% on the day reuters.com. The stock opened at $50.38 and showed modest volatility through the morning marketbeat.com. This minor pullback comes on the heels of a sharp drop on Thursday, when BAC plunged 3.5% to close at $50.44 finviz.com. That decline essentially wiped out the gains from Wednesday, when shares jumped roughly 4–5% following the earnings announcement reuters.com. The choppy trading
17 October 2025
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INVO Fertility (IVF) Stock’s Wild 90% Surge Amid IVF Boom – What’s Behind the Frenzy?

INVO Fertility (IVF) Stock’s Wild 90% Surge Amid IVF Boom – What’s Behind the Frenzy?

Stock Price Surge and Aftermath INVO Fertility’s stock took Wall Street by surprise this week with a massive one-day surge. On October 16, shares of the micro-cap fertility clinic operator opened around $0.75 and skyrocketed nearly 90% by day’s end, closing at approximately $1.43 ts2.tech. Intra-day, the price briefly hit $2+ per share, a huge jump from the prior day’s close under $0.80 ts2.tech. To put this in perspective, such a single-day leap is virtually unheard of for most stocks – even in the volatile biotech space – and far outpaced broader market moves. Trading volume spiked astronomically during the
17 October 2025
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The $350B Shake-Up: How AI Summaries Rewire Publisher Traffic

Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock Soars on AI Boom & Ad Rebound – $3 Trillion Valuation in Sight?

GOOGL Stock Nears Record High on Rally Momentum The Google logo at the company’s headquarters. Alphabet’s stock has been flirting with record highs amid surging optimism in its core ads and AI businesses.Alphabet Inc.’s Class A shares (NASDAQ: GOOGL) have been on a tear this year, recently touching their highest levels in over a year. The stock closed at $251.03 on Oct. 16 – around a new 52-week peak of ~$256 ts2.tech – after jumping about 2% that day. As of Oct. 17, GOOGL traded just above $251, holding near that high-water mark. At these prices, Alphabet’s market value is roughly $2.97 trillion, putting
17 October 2025
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Dow Tumbles 400 Points on ‘Cockroach’ Credit Fears as Global Markets Shaken

Dow Tumbles 400 Points on ‘Cockroach’ Credit Fears as Global Markets Shaken

Market Selloff Deepens on Credit Fears A wave of credit-related jitters hit Wall Street, igniting a broad selloff led by financial stocks. On Thursday, the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all shed nearly 1% of their value ts2.tech. The selloff was concentrated in regional banks, where bad loan news triggered outsized damage. Zions Bancorp disclosed a surprise $50 million loan charge-off, sinking its stock by double-digits, while Western Alliance revealed it is suing a borrower over alleged fraud – news that sent its shares tumbling as well ts2.tech. Even Jefferies, an investment firm, saw its stock slide on concerns about
17 October 2025
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TSMC Stock Surges on AI Boom and U.S. Expansion: What to Know on Sep 23, 2025

TSMC Stock Rockets on AI Boom: Record Profit and $1T Valuation Stun Markets

Record Q3 Results Drive Rally TSMC’s latest earnings confirmed the AI-driven boom in semiconductors. July–September revenue jumped to NT$989.9 billion (≈$32.5 billion) reuters.com, about 30% above last year, and net income hit NT$452.3 billion economictimes.indiatimes.com – both well above analysts’ estimates. High-performance computing (HPC) chips – used in AI servers – dominated the quarter, with the HPC unit accounting for roughly 57% of sales economictimes.indiatimes.com economictimes.indiatimes.com. Counterpoint Research analyst William Li commented that the “strong traction at 3nm as well as high utilization at 4/5nm” from orders by AI GPU and data-center customers directly drove these robust earnings economictimes.indiatimes.com. CEO C.C. Wei echoed
17 October 2025
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Micron (MU) Stock Skyrockets to Record High on AI Frenzy – Analysts See More Upside

Micron (MU) Stock Skyrockets to Record High on AI Frenzy – Analysts See More Upside

AI Boom Lifts Micron to Record Highs Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) is on a tear as investors pile into AI-focused semiconductor stocks. Shares of Micron jumped about 5.5% on Thursday to $204+ intraday, notching a fresh 52-week high (recent peak $206.34) marketbeat.com investing.com. Even on a down day for the broader market, Micron was among the top gainers in the S&P 500, boosted by bullish analyst calls investopedia.com investopedia.com. The stock has now more than doubled year-to-date, vastly outperforming the tech sector, after starting the year near multi-year lows. (Micron’s 52-week low was just $61.54 marketbeat.com.) Its market capitalization has
17 October 2025
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SoFi Stock Skyrockets 230% in 2025 – Will This Fintech Rally Last or Crash?

SoFi Stock Skyrockets Amid Fintech Frenzy – What’s Driving SOFI as Q3 2025 Looms?

2025’s Blistering Rally and Recent Price Moves SoFi’s stock price has been on a blistering tear in 2025, vastly outperforming the broader market. Shares have surged roughly 230% year-over-year, driven by exploding user growth and improving financial results ts2.tech. The stock reached a 52-week high of about $30.30 on September 22, 2025, before momentum finally cooled. A subsequent pullback – including seven straight down sessions in early October – brought SOFI down to the mid-$20s ts2.tech. By October 16, the stock was hovering around $27 per share, roughly 8–10% below its recent peak ts2.tech. Despite this volatility, SOFI remains up
16 October 2025
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Uranium Boom Propels Denison Mines (DNN) to New Highs as Analysts Weigh Rally

Uranium Boom Propels Denison Mines (DNN) to New Highs as Analysts Weigh Rally

Toronto, Ontario – October 16, 2025: Denison Mines Corp. (NYSE American: DNN) is riding a wave of uranium market optimism, with its stock surging to multi-year highs this week. The Canadian uranium developer’s shares have spiked amid soaring uranium prices and a string of positive company milestones. Investors are abuzz over Denison’s progress on key projects and what it means for the future of nuclear energy. Below are the key takeaways from the latest developments: DNN Stock Rockets on Uranium Optimism Denison Mines’ U.S.-listed shares have been on a tear in October. The stock is up roughly 15% in the
16 October 2025
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Quantum Rocket or Bubble? RGTI’s Stunning Surge Explained—And How It Stacks Up to IonQ, D‑Wave, and QUBT

Rigetti’s Quantum Leap: Stock Skyrockets 5,000% Amid Deals & Hype – Bubble or Breakthrough?

Stock Price Skyrockets to Record High Rigetti Computing’s stock has exploded in 2025, reaching new highs as investors bet big on quantum computing. Rigetti’s share price has soared exponentially this year, reflecting frenzy around pure-play quantum computing stocks. At the start of 2025, RGTI traded under $1; by mid-October it rocketed into the mid-$50s, marking a +259% year-to-date gain and roughly 50-fold increase from a year ago markets.financialcontent.com. The stock closed at a record $56.34 on October 15, 2025 macrotrends.net – its highest ever – before settling just below that level. In the span of a few trading days, Rigetti
16 October 2025
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Up 150% YTD: Navitas Semiconductor (NVTS) Rides the GaN Power Wave into AI’s Future

Navitas (NVTS) Stock Hits All-Time High on NVIDIA AI Chip News – Will the Rally Continue?

Stock Soars to Record High on AI News Navitas shares have been on a tear in mid-October, riding a wave of AI enthusiasm. The stock closed at $15.63 on Oct. 16 (up +3.1% for the day) marketbeat.com, marking its fifth straight daily gain and a new all-time high. In the span of a week, NVTS nearly doubled in price, skyrocketing from the ~$8 level to the mid-$15s. This explosive move caps a year of extraordinary gains – over 330% year-to-date – amid intense investor interest in any company tied to the AI hardware boom finviz.com. For context, Navitas has vastly
16 October 2025
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