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Stock Market News 23 August 2025 - 1 September 2025

AI Stock Whiplash: Alibaba’s $50 Billion Surge, Nvidia’s Reality Check & More (Aug 31–Sep 1, 2025)

AI Stock Whiplash: Alibaba’s $50 Billion Surge, Nvidia’s Reality Check & More (Aug 31–Sep 1, 2025)

Key Facts AI Mega-Caps: Hype vs. Reality in Late-August Markets The final days of August saw a tug-of-war between AI-fueled optimism and growing caution among the market’s most valuable tech companies. Nowhere was this more evident than with Nvidia, the poster child of the AI boom. The GPU giant reported another quarter of blowout earnings, far exceeding analyst expectations. Demand for its AI chips (like the coveted H100) has been so overwhelming that CEO Jensen Huang likened the current AI build-out to “a new industrial revolution” with customers “buying everything [we have] – the buzz is: everything sold out” reuters.com
1 September 2025
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AI Stocks Whipsaw as Nvidia Stumbles, Alibaba Soars – Key News Aug 30–31, 2025

AI Stocks Whipsaw as Nvidia Stumbles, Alibaba Soars – Key News Aug 30–31, 2025

Wall Street’s AI Rally Hits a Speed Bump After months of euphoria, U.S. equity markets stumbled into the weekend, led by a pullback in AI-focused stocks. On Friday, Aug. 29, the Nasdaq Composite sank about 1.2% and the S&P 500 fell 0.6%, snapping a streak of gains as traders locked in profits on this year’s AI-fueled winners ts2.tech ts2.tech. The sell-off was broad-based: Nvidia slid 3.4% Friday (its third down day in a row), Tesla and Broadcom dropped over 3%, and even mega-caps like Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet gave back 1–2% ts2.tech. High-flying tech names had risen to records
31 August 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy Peaks Then Falters: Nvidia Wobbles, Alibaba Soars as Global AI Boom Faces Reality Check

AI Stock Frenzy Peaks Then Falters: Nvidia Wobbles, Alibaba Soars as Global AI Boom Faces Reality Check

Key Facts Wall Street’s AI Rally Hits a Speed Bump After months of euphoria, U.S. markets took a breather as August closed out, led by weakness in AI-focused stocks. On Friday, Aug. 29, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq retreated from all-time highs amid a tech sell-off investopedia.com investopedia.com. The Nasdaq Composite sank 1.2% while the S&P 500 lost 0.6%, breaking a streak of gains as traders locked in profits on this year’s AI-fueled winners investopedia.com investopedia.com. Tech mega-caps were mostly lower: Nvidia slid 3.4%, extending a 3-day decline; Tesla and Broadcom fell over 3%; even giants like Meta and Amazon
30 August 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia’s Record Rally, Surprise Surges & Setbacks Rock Markets (Aug 28–29, 2025)

AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia’s Record Rally, Surprise Surges & Setbacks Rock Markets (Aug 28–29, 2025)

Key Facts August 28, 2025 – AI Hype Hits New Heights Nvidia’s Big Beat and Market Rally: Thursday brought a euphoria of AI-driven gains on Wall Street. Nvidia’s blowout earnings (revenue up 56% year-on-year) confirmed that “demand related to AI technology remains strong,” even though Nvidia’s forecast excluded China due to export uncertainties reuters.com reuters.com. The chip leader’s shares dipped just 0.8% on those cautious forecasts reuters.com, but investors seized on the bigger picture: AI spending is still surging. The S&P 500 jumped 0.3% to a record high (Nasdaq +0.5%), extending a rally that has repeatedly driven indexes to new
29 August 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia’s $54 B Forecast Fuels Rally as Snowflake & MongoDB Surge; Governments & Giants Double Down on AI Boom

AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia’s $54 B Forecast Fuels Rally as Snowflake & MongoDB Surge; Governments & Giants Double Down on AI Boom

In-Depth Report Nvidia’s Blockbuster Earnings Test the AI Trade AI-chip bellwether Nvidia delivered another blowout quarter, underlining the extraordinary scale of the ongoing AI boom. The company’s fiscal Q2 results (reported Aug 27) easily beat estimates, and management issued an even higher forecast for Q3 revenue — about $54 billion, plus/minus 2% reuters.com. That guidance edged past Wall Street’s ~$53.1 billion consensus and implies astonishing 170%+ growth year-on-year, cementing Nvidia as the de facto arms dealer of the AI era. Behind the numbers is “robust demand” from cloud providers expanding generative AI infrastructure reuters.com. Hyperscalers like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta – many
28 August 2025
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AI Stocks Soar Worldwide as Nvidia’s Big Test and China’s ‘AI Plus’ Plan Ignite a Frenzy

AI Stocks Soar Worldwide as Nvidia’s Big Test and China’s ‘AI Plus’ Plan Ignite a Frenzy

Wall Street Rallies Ahead of Nvidia’s AI ‘Moment of Truth’ U.S. markets climbed on Aug. 26 as investors braced for Nvidia’s highly anticipated earnings release, which has been likened to an economic event in its significance reuters.com. The Dow Jones rose about 0.3%, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each gained ~0.4%, finishing near session highs investopedia.com. Nvidia – now the world’s most valuable company at roughly $4.4 trillion market cap – has become the de facto bellwether of the AI era reuters.com. Its results “transcend the company, becoming a barometer of macroeconomic activity, a talisman for the artificial intelligence
27 August 2025
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FiiO JM21 Review & 2025 Audiophile DAP Showdown: The $199 Hi‑Fi Player Shaking Up Astell&Kern and Sony

FiiO JM21 Review & 2025 Audiophile DAP Showdown: The $199 Hi‑Fi Player Shaking Up Astell&Kern and Sony

Design & Build The FiiO JM21 breaks from the chunky designs of past FiiO players, offering a sleek, smartphone-like form factor. It measures about 120.7 × 68 × 13 mm and weighs only 156 g headfonia.com – roughly half the weight of FiiO’s higher-end M23 player. Reviewers note this is one of FiiO’s first truly “pocketable” DAPs in years, calling it “refreshing” in its compactness headfonia.com. The chassis uses a two-tone sky blue scheme: an aluminum alloy front frame for rigidity and a textured plastic back for grip headfonia.com stuff.tv. The build may not feel as tank-like as all-metal flagships,
26 August 2025
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Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable Review: The Laptop That Literally Grows On You 🚀

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable Review: The Laptop That Literally Grows On You 🚀

Key Facts Meet the Laptop That Grows: Design & Display Revolution The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable looks like a normal sleek 14-inch laptop—until you hit the magic button. With a whir of tiny motors, the OLED screen glides upward inside the lid, stretching the display from 14″ to 16.7″ tall Theverge. In an era of foldables and dual-screens, this rollable design is truly one-of-a-kind. “Push a button and get more screen,” writes The Verge, calling it “one of the coolest and most futuristic-looking laptops I’ve ever used.” Theverge Theverge The extended screen is like having a portable dual-monitor
26 August 2025
AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia’s ‘Robot Brain’, Cloud Mega-Deals & Tesla’s Autopilot Shock (Aug 25–26, 2025 Roundup)

AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia’s ‘Robot Brain’, Cloud Mega-Deals & Tesla’s Autopilot Shock (Aug 25–26, 2025 Roundup)

Nvidia launched the Jetson AGX Thor on August 25, 2025, a $3,499 developer kit marketed as a ‘humanoid robot brain’ with 128GB memory and 7.5x higher AI compute than the Orin, used by Amazon Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Caterpillar, Medtronic and Meta. Nvidia shares rose about 1.96% on August 25, 2025 to $181.48, are up over 35% year-to-date, and Nvidia is the world’s most valuable chipmaker at roughly 8% of the S&P 500 by weight. Nvidia will sell Thor T5000 production modules for $2,999 each when customers move from prototyping to deployment. In China, Cambricon Technologies jumped 11.4% to ¥1,384.93, Hygon
26 August 2025
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AI Stock Whiplash: Nvidia’s $4 Trillion Test, Intel’s Shocking Deal & a Global Tech Rollercoaster

AI Stock Whiplash: Nvidia’s $4 Trillion Test, Intel’s Shocking Deal & a Global Tech Rollercoaster

Nasdaq Composite slid nearly 0.7% mid-week while the S&P 500 tech sector fell about 2.5% as investors rotated out of AI-fueled gains. Nvidia became the first-ever $4 trillion U.S. company last month, underscoring its central role in the AI rally. Analysts forecast Nvidia’s fiscal Q2 EPS rising 48% on revenue of $45.9 billion. Options markets were bracing for roughly a 6% post-earnings swing in Nvidia’s stock due to its outsized index impact. Nvidia’s revenue-sharing deal with Washington directs 15% of its China sales to the U.S. Treasury as part of export controls. The U.S. government announced a deal to buy
25 August 2025
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AI Stock Shake-Up: Tech Selloff, $10B Cloud Deal & Intel’s $9B Lifeline (Aug 23–24, 2025)

AI Stock Shake-Up: Tech Selloff, $10B Cloud Deal & Intel’s $9B Lifeline (Aug 23–24, 2025)

Nvidia’s stock has climbed 30%+ in 2025, a 1,400% rally since late 2022, and became the first-ever $4 trillion company last month. Nvidia’s Q2 results are due on Aug. 27, with expectations of 48% EPS growth on about $46 billion in revenue. Palantir Technologies fell nearly 10% this week after being dubbed the AI darling of 2025. Analog Devices rose 4% this week after reporting a 25% revenue surge and raising its outlook thanks to booming AI-chip demand in factory automation and autos. Meta Platforms agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google Cloud services over six years to
24 August 2025
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AI Stocks Whipsaw as Tech Titans Unleash Big Moves – Aug 22–23, 2025 Roundup

AI Stocks Whipsaw as Tech Titans Unleash Big Moves – Aug 22–23, 2025 Roundup

Apple is reportedly in early talks to use Google’s Gemini AI to power Siri, a Bloomberg leak that sent Alphabet stock up 3.7% and Apple up 1.6%. Meta Platforms signed a deal with Midjourney to license its image-generation tech for Meta’s future AI products, linking Meta and Midjourney’s research teams under Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs. Waymo received its first permit to test self-driving robotaxis in New York City, enabling limited testing with safety drivers in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Nvidia revealed six brand-new chips on TSMC lines for its Rubin supercomputer architecture, including a new GPU and a silicon-photonics processor, with
23 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

Walmart stock jumps to $131 as traders brace for CPI and Feb. 19 earnings

Walmart stock jumps to $131 as traders brace for CPI and Feb. 19 earnings

7 February 2026
Walmart shares rose 3.3% Friday to $131.18, up 10% since Jan. 30, as the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. The retailer’s market value crossed $1 trillion this week. Investors await January inflation data on Feb. 13 and Walmart’s quarterly results on Feb. 19 for signs of continued momentum.
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