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Stop Fighting the AI Trade. You Will LOSE (opens the original)
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Trump and the biggest names in AI signed a deal at the White House Tuesday.Plenty of people will call it theater: nothing in the accord can be enforced, and rising interest rates are the real test for chip stocks.I see an incredible moment in history. And rates already tested this rally all month.The rally held.No Law, No Penalty. The AI Bosses SIGNED AnywayJensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai and Greg Brockman signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence
Buy Every NVDA Dip Before Nvidia BEATS You to It (opens the original)
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Nvidia is buying Nvidia.The board said so Monday before the open. It added $150 billion to the company's buyback. A buyback is a company spending its own cash to buy its own shares back from the market.Nvidia calls it the largest buyback increase in history.The Street heard one message. CNBC's Tuesday headline said the stock was too cheap for Huang to resist.Nvidia made the move Tim Cook made at Apple.Nvidia Just SMASHED Apple's Buyback RecordApple held the old record. It authorized $110 billion
Wednesday's Chip Selloff Is a Bear Trap. BUY It. (opens the original)
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The Nasdaq-100's new record lasted one day.Chip stocks carried the index to a record close on Tuesday, Sept 22. On Wednesday, chips gave it all back.Is this a real record, or a bull trap built on six days of chip buying? A bull trap is a rally that lures buyers in right at a top.It's a real record, and Wednesday's drop is a bear trap. A bear trap is a pullback that tempts investors to bet on a drop right before the market keeps climbing.Chip Stocks DRAGGED the Nasdaq-100 Back to a RecordThe Nasd
Don't CHASE META's AI Rally Yet (opens the original)
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Meta's new AI app just knocked ChatGPT off the top of the App Store.The stock jumped 11% on Monday. No source ties that rally to the ranking.The problem is that Meta has not released one number showing that people keep using the app.And Meta has seen this before. It launched Threads, an app everybody downloaded, and then most of them walked away.Wall Street PAID UP Before Meta Showed One NumberMuse launched Sept 8 in the US on iPhone, Android and the web. It is an AI agent app. An AI agent is so
Washington Just Turned Crypto Headwind Into a TAILWIND (opens the original)
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Washington hit crypto twice in two days last week.First the Senate killed the bill the industry had waited on. Then the Fed raised rates.Coinbase lost 10% in a single session.By Friday it was back above where it started. A third agency in Washington granted the industry an exemption, and the market rallied after it.The Senate and the Fed HAMMERED COIN Back to BackThe bill is the CLARITY Act. Congress wrote it to set the rules for how crypto gets regulated in this country.On Tuesday, September 15
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