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Wall Street News 20 October 2025 - 4 November 2025

Astera Labs Stock Skyrockets on AI Buzz and Photonics Deal – Can ALAB Keep Climbing?

Astera Labs (ALAB) Stock Surges on AI Boom – What Wall Street Says

Stock Price and Recent Performance Astera Labs has been volatile lately. After peaking above $225 in early October 2025, shares plunged on Oct.14–15 amid news of AMD’s big Oracle GPU deal (raising concerns about competition) finviz.com. For example, on Oct 15 ALAB fell 19.0% to close $161.55 finviz.com after the AMD/Oracle announcement, which analysts feared could dampen demand for Astera’s products finviz.com. The stock bounced back slightly afterward, trading around $170–$190 in late Oct. By Nov 3 it closed at $191.56 (up ~2.6% that day) stockanalysis.com, then pulled back to $179.31 on Nov 4 stockanalysis.com (–6.4%). The 2025 YTD chart
4 November 2025
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Dave Inc. (DAVE) Stock – Fintech Underdog Turned Wall Street Rocket

Dave Inc. (DAVE) Stock – Fintech Underdog Turned Wall Street Rocket

Current Stock Price & Recent Performance Dave Inc.’s stock has been on a tear in 2025. Shares currently trade around $264 as of November 4, 2025, after spiking nearly 10% on the morning of its earnings release stockanalysis.com. This jump extended an already strong uptrend – DAVE has rallied over 500% in the past 12 months finviz.com, making it one of the market’s top performers (outperforming ~98.5% of all stocks) chartmill.com. By contrast, the S&P 500 is up only ~18% in the same period. DAVE’s meteoric rise has come after a prolonged slump in 2022–2023; the stock hit a low
4 November 2025
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AI Darlings at Record Highs – Why Wall Street Fears a Frothy Stock Bubble

AI Darlings at Record Highs – Why Wall Street Fears a Frothy Stock Bubble

Record Highs Mask a Narrow Rally Wall Street’s major indexes have been on a tear, recently hitting record highs on the back of blockbuster tech gains. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite ended October at fresh peaks after a meteoric climb fueled by enthusiasm for artificial intelligence reuters.com. The broad S&P 500 index rose modestly again on Monday, up 0.3% by afternoon and holding near its all-time high set last week cheddar.com. The Nasdaq – dominated by tech giants – likewise ticked higher (+0.6%) cheddar.com. But underneath those glittering index levels, market breadth has been surprisingly weak. In fact, most
4 November 2025
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Tech Titans Turbocharge Stock Rally – Amazon & Apple Light Up Wall Street

Tech Titans Turbocharge Stock Rally – Amazon & Apple Light Up Wall Street

Amazon’s Blowout Quarter Fuels Rally Amazon smashed expectations in its third-quarter report, igniting a relief rally. The e-commerce and cloud giant posted $180.2 billion in revenue (+13% YoY) and earnings of $1.95/share (vs $1.58 expected) ts2.tech. Crucially, Amazon Web Services (AWS), its cloud division, saw growth re-accelerate to +20% YoY – the fastest since 2022 – calming fears of a cloud slowdown ts2.tech ts2.tech. “AWS is growing at a pace we haven’t seen since 2022,” CEO Andy Jassy noted, as businesses ramp up AI workloads on the cloud ts2.tech. The strong cloud and ads revenues helped offset rising costs, and operating
31 October 2025
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Asia Stocks Rally as Gold Smashes Record Highs and IPO Frenzy Grips Markets

Wall Street Hits Record Highs as ASX Slumps – Gold Crashes, CSL Plunges 15% in Shock Divergence

ASX Sinks Amid Global Cheer Global markets are riding high on hopes of a U.S.–China trade truce and easier monetary policy, but Australia’s share market didn’t get the memo. On Tuesday (Oct 28), the S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.5%, surrendering about 43 points to finish near 9,012 abc.net.au. This retreat stands in stark contrast to Wall Street’s overnight rally – U.S. indices surged to record peaks on Monday, buoyed by optimism that President Trump and China’s President Xi will strike a trade deal at an upcoming summit wdio.com. The S&P 500 jumped 1.2% to a historic 6,875, the Dow hit 47,544 (+0.7%) and Nasdaq 23,637
28 October 2025
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Wall Street Hits Record Highs as Tech Stocks Soar and Shutdown Worries Melt

Wall Street Rockets on China Trade Deal News – Here’s What’s Fueling the Rally

Stocks Surge on U.S.-China Trade Optimism Global stocks opened sharply higher as U.S. and Chinese negotiators reported progress on a trade agreement reuters.com. On Sunday, officials “hashed out the framework of a trade deal” for Presidents Trump and Xi to decide on later this week reuters.com. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the talks achieved a “very substantial framework” that could avert punitive tariffs ts2.tech. Chinese negotiator Li Chenggang echoed the upbeat tone, saying both sides reached a preliminary consensus ts2.tech. With fears of a renewed trade war easing, U.S. stock futures surged. According to Reuters, Nasdaq futures rose ~1.4%
27 October 2025
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GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

OpenAI Hires 100 Ex-Bankers at $150/Hour to Train an AI to Replace Wall Street Analysts

OpenAI’s “Project Mercury” – Bankers Training Their Replacement Wall Street’s junior bankers may have just met their future replacement – and it’s a chatbot armed with Excel macros and finance textbooks. In a move that grabbed industry attention this week, OpenAI (the firm behind ChatGPT) has been secretly recruiting over a hundred former Wall Street analysts to train an AI system how to do their old jobs timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Dubbed Project Mercury, the initiative invites ex-bankers from elite firms like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley to act as AI tutors, teaching OpenAI’s models to build the kind of intricate financial
26 October 2025
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AbbVie Stock Skyrocketing? Analysts Say This $230 Biotech Giant Is Just Getting Started

AbbVie (ABBV) Stock Up 28% YTD as New Drug Wins and Analyst Upgrades Fuel Optimism

Key Facts (as of Oct. 23, 2025): Stock Price and Recent Performance AbbVie’s stock has been a standout in 2025. Shares currently hover around $228–$229, up roughly 28% since January and near their highest levels on record directorstalkinterviews.com. By comparison, the S&P 500 healthcare index is up only around half that, so AbbVie is outperforming its sector. The stock’s 52-week high was about $244.8 (reached on Oct. 1) ts2.tech, and its low in the past year was ~$163.8. Notably, AbbVie surged to a record high in mid-September after the company announced a patent settlement ensuring no U.S. generics for its
23 October 2025
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Axon Stock Rockets 420% Overseas as Wall Street Targets $1,000 – Should You Buy the Dip?

Axon Stock Rockets 420% Overseas as Wall Street Targets $1,000 – Should You Buy the Dip?

Axon’s Wild Ride: From Plunge to 420% Pop Abroad Axon’s stock has been on a rollercoaster in late October. Last week, shares suddenly plunged ~8.5% in one day, falling from the $700s to about $645 ts2.tech. Notably, this dive occurred despite no major negative news from the company – a stark contrast to the modest uptick in the broader market that day ts2.tech. Market watchers suggest the drop was triggered by technical trading: the sell-off pushed AXON below a key support (its 200-day average), likely triggering stop-loss orders and momentum selling ts2.tech. Indeed, analysts at TheStreet “do not see any
23 October 2025
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Billionaire Blowup: NYC’s Catsimatidis Tells Rival to Quit – Pershing Square’s Ackman Admits He “Hates Wasting Money”

Billionaire Blowup: NYC’s Catsimatidis Tells Rival to Quit – Pershing Square’s Ackman Admits He “Hates Wasting Money”

Catsimatidis vs. Sliwa: Divided GOP in NYC John Catsimatidis (often described as a “grocery and radio magnate” cbsnews.com) has been a longtime supporter of conservative causes. In recent days he threw his weight behind a unified effort to defeat Mamdani by clearing the Republican field. Catsimatidis – who employs Sliwa as a radio host on his WABC station – told reporters that Sliwa should “love New York more than anything else” and drop his mayoral bid to boost Cuomo’s chances abc7ny.com foxnews.com. Catsimatidis claimed New Yorkers would view Sliwa as a hero for “doing the right thing” by quitting abc7ny.com.
21 October 2025
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Netflix Stock Soars: Wall Street Targets $1,500 as Earnings Loom

Netflix Stock Soars: Wall Street Targets $1,500 as Earnings Loom

Macroeconomic Backdrop Investors also consider the broader economy. After a year of volatility, the U.S. Federal Reserve began easing in 2025. By mid-October, the Fed’s benchmark rate was 4.00–4.25% investopedia.com. Economists say Fed officials are trying to gently “take the foot off the brake” on policy to avoid a sharp slowdown investopedia.com. In this environment (lower rates, contained inflation), stocks like Netflix have generally been supported. As one analyst notes, Netflix’s recent gains occurred “in a favorable macroeconomic context, with expectations of monetary easing in the U.S. and relative stability in bond markets” ideal-investisseur.fr. However, rising U.S.–China trade tensions and
21 October 2025
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Nasdaq Rally Hits Speed Bump as Tech Stocks Wobble – Fed Warning and AI Jitters Shake Markets (Sept 24–25, 2025)

Wall Street Rally Meets “Cockroach” Fears: Stocks Soar as Credit Jitters Loom

Key Facts – October 20, 2025: Wall Street at Record Highs, But on Edge After a roller-coaster week, U.S. stocks enter the new week riding near record highs. All three major indexes notched gains last week, capping an extraordinary 2025 rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly crossed 46,500 and closed around 46,190 on Friday – an all-time high ts2.tech. The S&P 500 likewise hit a record ~6,664 ts2.tech. The Nasdaq Composite ended at 22,680, within a few percent of its peak ts2.tech. This resilience came despite a flurry of mid-week scares that sent volatility soaring. “Intraday swings grew sharper
20 October 2025
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