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Technology News 10 October 2025 - 11 October 2025

Rare Earth Goldmine? MP Materials Stock Skyrockets on Pentagon Deal & China Tensions

Rare Earth Goldmine? MP Materials Stock Skyrockets on Pentagon Deal & China Tensions

Spectacular Rally Fueled by Strategic Deals MP Materials’ stock performance in 2025 has been nothing short of remarkable. Shares have exploded higher on the back of transformative deals and the prospect of a secure American rare-earth supply chain. The stock is up nearly 4-fold this year, recently trading around $75–$80 per share ts2.tech. In late August, MP hit an all-time high near $82 before a brief pullback ts2.tech. Even after cooling slightly, shares remain ~350% above where they started the year. Elevated trading volume accompanied this rally (e.g. 13+ million shares on one day in late September, ~42% above average),
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Qualcomm (QCOM) Stock at a Crossroads: Will 5G & AI Ignite a 2025 Breakout or Stall Out?

Qualcomm (QCOM) Stock at a Crossroads: Will 5G & AI Ignite a 2025 Breakout or Stall Out?

Overview: Qualcomm’s Business & Core Technologies Qualcomm is an American multinational semiconductor company founded in 1985 and headquartered in San Diego, CA. It pioneered wireless communication technologies, notably the CDMA cellular standard in the 1990s, and today its inventions underlie many 3G/4G/5G standards en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org. The company operates a fabless model (designing chips which are manufactured by partners like TSMC) and has two main segments: Qualcomm’s core technologies center on wireless connectivity (from 3G to 5G modems and now 6G research), mobile processing (high-performance, low-power chips with integrated CPU, GPU, AI engine, etc.), and an increasing focus on on-device AI.
11 October 2025
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Rare Earth Shockwave: China’s Metal Curbs Jolt Tech Industry as Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs

Rare Earth Shockwave: China’s Metal Curbs Jolt Tech Industry as Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs

China’s Rare Earth Bombshell: What Happened? On October 9, Beijing dropped a bombshell announcement that sent tremors through the global tech and manufacturing sectors. China’s Ministry of Commerce unveiled new export controls on rare earth elements, vastly expanding an earlier round of curbs from Aprilreuters.comreuters.com. Five additional rare-earth metals – holmium, erbium, thulium, europium, and ytterbium – were added to China’s restricted list, which already included seven key rare earths from prior controlsts2.techreuters.com. In effect, 12 out of the 17 rare-earth elements are now subject to Chinese export licensing and quotas, covering well over half of the rare-earth periodic tablets2.tech. These metals might sound obscure, but
11 October 2025
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High-Flying Tech ETFs See $14 Billion Exodus – Why Investors Are Bailing on TQQQ & SOXL’s Rally

High-Flying Tech ETFs See $14 Billion Exodus – Why Investors Are Bailing on TQQQ & SOXL’s Rally

Record Rally Meets Record Outflows Tech stocks have been on fire in 2025 – yet investors are yanking money out of some of the hottest funds. TQQQ, which delivers triple the daily return of the Nasdaq-100, and SOXL, a 3× play on semiconductor stocks, have both posted stellar gains this year. TQQQ is up roughly 37% year-to-date and recently hit a new 12-month high around $107–$109 per sharemarketbeat.com. SOXL has fared even better on paper, soaring about 53% in 2025. By comparison, their non-leveraged counterparts – the regular Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ) and iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) – are up ~20%
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Bitcoin vs NYSE 100 vs NASDAQ 100 – 2025’s Epic Market Showdown Reveals Surprising Winner

Seasonal Secrets: Why Gold and Tech Stocks Could Shine in a Q4 2025 Rally

Understanding Stock Market Seasonality What if the best trades of the year were already marked on the calendar? This intriguing idea lies behind market seasonality – the tendency of certain assets to perform better (or worse) during particular times of the year. Rather than basing trades purely on hunches or headlines, some investors look at decades of data to identify recurring monthly patterns in prices. Historical seasonality can reveal when gold prices typically soar or when tech stocks often stumble, for example, providing a statistical edge in decision-makingfarmersgrainelevator.comfarmersgrainelevator.com. Seasonality on its own isn’t a crystal ball, but it serves as
10 October 2025
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Tawana Resources (TAWNF) 2025 Stock Skyrocket: Lithium Revival or Mirage?

China’s Rare Earth Clampdown Sparks Trade War Shockwaves in Tech and Stocks

China’s New Rare Earth Export Controls China’s latest restrictions on rare earth exports mark a major escalation in the strategic trade standoff with the United States. On October 9, 2025, Beijing’s Ministry of Commerce unveiled “Announcement No. 61”, dramatically tightening export controls on a range of critical rare-earth elementsaljazeera.com. Five additional rare-earth metals – holmium, erbium, thulium, europium and ytterbium – were added to China’s export control list, on top of seven elements already restricted since Aprilaljazeera.com. In effect, 12 out of the 17 rare earth elements are now subject to Chinese export licensing and quotasaljazeera.com. These metals might sound obscure,
10 October 2025
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Nvidia’s $4 Trillion Juggernaut vs AMD’s OpenAI Jackpot – Inside 2025’s Epic AI Stock Showdown

Nvidia’s $4 Trillion Juggernaut vs AMD’s OpenAI Jackpot – Inside 2025’s Epic AI Stock Showdown

Stock Performance & Financial Snapshot (YTD 2025) After a turbulent 2024, both Nvidia and AMD have staged massive rallies in 2025 amid the AI frenzy. Nvidia’s share price has climbed roughly 30% year-to-date (on top of a 171% surge in 2024)ts2.tech, while AMD’s stock has risen a similar ~30% YTD (after an 18% drop last year)ts2.tech – and much more if measured from its early-2025 lows. In fact, AMD’s late surge in the first week of October pushed it to about +50–60% for the year overallts2.tech. As of Oct 10, 2025, Nvidia (NVDA) trades around $192–$193 per shareinvesting.com, and AMD (AMD) around $230–$233macrotrends.net – both near their highest levels ever. Nvidia briefly hit $195.30 this week
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Qualcomm (QCOM) Stock: Poised to Soar on 5G/AI, or Falling Behind? Analysts Weigh In

Qualcomm (QCOM) Stock: Poised to Soar on 5G/AI, or Falling Behind? Analysts Weigh In

Recent Stock Performance and News (Oct 2025) Qualcomm’s stock has been volatile in early October. On Oct 10, it opened sharply lower (≈–2.8%) after China’s regulator announced an antitrust probe into Qualcomm’s planned acquisition of Israeli chipmaker Autotalks reuters.com reuters.com. (QCOM shares slid further in pre-market on Oct 10 reuters.com.) Also on Oct 6, a UK court began hearing a £480M ($647M) consumer lawsuit (filed by Which? magazine) alleging Qualcomm forced inflated patent royalties on phone makers reuters.com. These legal and regulatory risks have grabbed headlines this week. On the product front, Qualcomm has been busy innovating. At its late-September
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IREN Stock Skyrockets 500% as Bitcoin Miner Reinvents Itself as AI Cloud Powerhouse

IREN Stock Skyrockets 500% as Bitcoin Miner Reinvents Itself as AI Cloud Powerhouse

Business Model & Industry IREN began as Iris Energy, a clean-energy Bitcoin miner, and has pivoted sharply into data centers for AI/HPC workloads. Its model is vertically integrated: it owns land, power contracts, and facilities (Canada, Texas) all run on 100% renewable hydro and wind power ts2.tech. This “green” setup gave IREN some of the lowest mining costs in the industry (around $0.03–$0.038 per kWh) ts2.tech ts2.tech. By mid-2024 it had ~20 EH/s of hashpower, making it a top-tier miner. Starting in 2024, management began aggressively re-purposing idle capacity to AI computing ts2.tech. In August 2025 it became an Nvidia “Preferred
10 October 2025
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Lyft Stock Rockets 30% After Waymo Robotaxi Deal — What’s Next?

Lyft Stock Rockets 30% After Waymo Robotaxi Deal — What’s Next?

Chart: Lyft Inc. (LYFT) share price (1-year). The stock jumped sharply in mid-September (after the Waymo news) and has since pulled back into early October. The 50-day moving average (dotted) remains well above the 200-day (solid), indicating overall bullish momentum directorstalkinterviews.com. Stock Performance and Chart Lyft’s share price has shown volatile swings in late 2025. In September, LYFT rallied sharply – fuelled by positive news – but in early October it gave back much of that gain. On Sept 17 (when the Waymo partnership was announced), LYFT jumped over 13%. By Oct 9 the stock closed ~$19.72 stockanalysis.com. The 1-year
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Quantum-Powered Pop! SEALSQ Corp (LAES) Stock Rockets on Latest Breakthroughs and Deals

Quantum-Powered Pop! SEALSQ Corp (LAES) Stock Rockets on Latest Breakthroughs and Deals

Recent Surge: LAES stock closed at $6.09 on Oct. 9, 2025, up 39.7% that day stockanalysis.com. Its market capitalization is roughly $970 million tradingview.com after this jump. (It had been around $4–5 per share just a week earlier.) Stock Price Performance (as of Oct 10, 2025) LAES stock has surged dramatically in early October 2025. After trading around $4–5 in late Sept, shares jumped 27% over four trading days through Oct 4 ts2.tech. The rally continued: on Oct 6 it opened near $5.03 (closing 8.4% up) stockanalysis.com, dipped briefly Oct 7–8, and then spiked 39.7% on Oct 9 to $6.09
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Stock Market Today

Carnival stock price jumps 8% as SEC filing flags possible CFO share sale next week

Carnival stock price jumps 8% as SEC filing flags possible CFO share sale next week

7 February 2026
New York, Feb 7, 2026, 05:17 EST — Market closed. Carnival Corp & plc shares closed up 8.1% on Friday at $33.99, riding a broad risk-on move into the weekend as a regulatory filing flagged a possible executive share sale early next week. The timing matters. The stock’s sharp run leaves it sensitive to any fresh supply when Wall Street reopens Monday, and traders are already looking at a handful of near-dated corporate markers. One of them landed late Friday. A Form 144 notice listed Carnival executive officer David Bernstein as planning to sell 361,790 shares, with an aggregate market
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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