This preview of weekly data examines USOIL and XAUUSD, with economic data expected later this week as the primary market drivers of the near-term outlook. Highlights of the week: British inflation, FOMC minutes, UK manufacturing & Services PMIWednesday British Inflation rate at 06:00 AM GMT where the figure for July is expected to increase from 2.6%
The comparison everyone is making is wrong in a specific, checkable way. Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ: AAOI) is being pitched across retail feeds as “the next SanDisk” because both charts look the same — a sleepy component supplier that woke up and went vertical. But SanDisk’s move was a margin event and AAOI’s is a volume
The week of August 10–14 was relatively calm after the publication of US CPI for July. No panic or capitulation followed, as the number came in as expected or slightly cooler. Traders have observed a slow drift higher in equities. July CPI rose 0.1% month-on-month and 3.4% year-on-year, both in line with forecasts. Core CPI eased
NAND Flash contract prices were forecast to rise 70% to 75% quarter over quarter in Q2 2026 as AI-server demand redirected supply toward enterprise storage, according to TrendForce’s second-quarter memory pricing survey. The increase followed an 85% to 90% first-quarter forecast and left consumer-device manufacturers facing higher costs before substantial new production capacity can arrive.The
Updated 18 August 2026. MSFT $480.00 at the 17 August close, down 3.04% (-$15.40) from $495.40, on an intraday range of $478.41-$492.66. Verdict: Monday’s fall was a sell-side funding argument, not a change in the accounts. Nothing in the 10-K moved; what moved was the market’s willingness to fund a $190bn build with borrowed money.
Boston Scientific has lost more than half its value in eleven months, and almost every explanation you will read blames a slowdown. That is true but imprecise, and the imprecision is where the opportunity or the trap sits. The company’s June-quarter results were not weak: net sales rose 7.5% to $5.442bn, gross margin expanded 305
Fading Fed rate-hike odds, expired Hormuz diplomacy, and joint US-Japan currency interventions have driven down the US Dollar.. Collapse in September Rate-Hike Odds Drives DXY Below 200-Day EMA Expectations for monetary tightening by the United States central bank have cooled rapidly following a sequence of softer domestic economic reports. Disappointing figures—including a monthly contraction in
EURJPY currency pair can be expected to rise further to the next resistance level 185.30 – former support from the middle of July. EURJPY broke resistance zone Likely to rise to resistance level 185.30 EURJPY currency pair recently broke the resistance zone lying at the intersection of the resistance level 184.00 (former support which has
AST SpaceMobile has spent four years being valued on a single question: can it raise enough money to finish the constellation? As of last month, that question is answered. After a $1.15 billion convertible offering, management reported pro forma cash and liquidity of over $3.7 billion — against a remaining build that, on the company’s
For twenty years, the single most reliable fact about Alphabet was that it printed cash and handed a large slice of it back. In 2025 it repurchased $45.7 billion of its own stock. In the first half of 2026 it repurchased zero — and instead sold $30.5 billion of common stock, $19.1 billion of mandatory