AMD Turned $10,000 Into More Than $700,000 in a Decade. The S&P 500 Turned It Into About $42,000.
AMD closed at $6.73 a share ten years ago this week; the stock is worth more than 70 times as much today.
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BiggerZ: Building a Fairness-First Crypto Casino, Sportsbook, and Prediction Markets Platform
BiggerZ is strengthening its position as a fairness-first betting platform, bringing casino gaming, sports betting and prediction markets together under one account while making transparency, verifiability and clearly d…
Ripple (XRP) ETFs Remain in the Green, But the Actual Inflows Tell a Different Story
In a rather interesting week in terms of reveals of who owns shares of the spot XRP ETFs, the funds actually ended it in the green, but only one day saw any action.
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Secret outperformer: Dispelling the 'myths' about an unloved stock market
European equities have historically struggled to ignite the kind of investor enthusiasm enjoyed by U.S. stocks and certain fast-growing Asian markets. The continent has fewer high-growth companies, shallower capital mar…
These 5 AI Stocks Have Returned 300%-Plus Over the Past 3 Years -- and 1 Still Looks Dirt Cheap
Semiconductor stocks have soared in recent years as AI data center infrastructure spending has spiked.
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF Flows Shifted Last Week: Here’s What You Missed
The spot exchange-traded funds tracking the performance of the largest cryptocurrency by market cap turned red once again in the past five trading days, with just one day recording more net inflows than outflows.
Biggest Weekly Alt Gainers and Losers Revealed as BTC Stalls at $63K: Weekend Watch
As it happened during the past few weekends, bitcoin’s price volatility has essentially disappeared once Saturday and Sunday come, with the asset remaining stuck at $63,000 for roughly 36 hours now.
We Asked ChatGPT: Is XRP’s Bottom Finally In After the Crash Below $1?
After several months of flirting with the psychological support level at $1.00, Ripple’s XRP finally dipped below it on a couple of occasions in the past week, which aligned with many analysts’ expectations for such a m…
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Why Data Centers Are Turning Energy Stocks Into AI Plays
U.S. data center power usage is projected to increase from 540 kWh per capita in 2024 to 1,200 kWh by 2030.
Is Dogecoin About to Go Parabolic? These DOGE Signals Suggest So
The meme coin mania is long gone and perhaps forgotten, as evidenced by the substantial decline in the price of its leader. DOGE recently slumped below $0.07 for the first time in almost three years, a level that it’s s…
Binance Research: Gen Z Lifted ETFs to 25% of Its Equity Volume in August
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) took 25.0% of Gen Z equity trading volume on Binance in the first days of August, up from 14.6% in June.
Wheat Rallying as Russia Rejects Ukraine’s Proposal
The wheat complex is rallying across the three markets on Friday following more Black Sea news. Chicago SRW contracts are up 23 to 25 cents on Friday. KC HRW futures are leading the rally, with contracts up 35 to 36 cen…
Bank Leumi Taps Galaxy to Launch Israel’s First Bank Crypto Trading in Early 2027
Bank Leumi will offer Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL) trading to roughly 2.5 million retail customers from early 2027 through a partnership with Galaxy Digital (GLXY), the two companies said on August 14…
Wheat Rallying as Russia Rejects Ukraine’s Proposal
The wheat complex is rallying across the three markets on Friday following more Black Sea news. Chicago SRW contracts are up 23 to 25 cents on Friday. KC HRW futures are leading the rally, with contracts up 35 to 36 cen…
Ethereum Price Analysis: Is $2K Still Possible After ETH Drops Below $1.9K?
Ethereum remains trapped in a difficult consolidation phase, with weak liquidity and subdued trading activity preventing either side from establishing control. While ETH is holding near $1.88K, the latest short-term str…
XRP Is Flashing Two Contradictory Signals: Which One Should Ripple Traders Trust?
The past few weeks (and months, and almost a year) haven’t been kind to the popular cross-border token, which dipped below the coveted psychological level of $1.00 at least twice for the first time in nearly two years.
Reddit Joins the S&P 500 Tuesday. Here's What History Says Could Come Next -- and What Investors Should Know.
S&P Dow Jones Indices said Reddit will replace AvalonBay Communities in the S&P 500 before the open on Tuesday, Aug. 18.
Trump to Meet Ripple, Coinbase, SEC, and CFTC Leaders as CLARITY Act Hangs in Balance
US President Donald Trump will reportedly attend a high-profile gathering at the White House next week, as Washington’s efforts to establish a comprehensive digital asset framework remain unfinished.
Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage to caverns, operations
The caverns that hold the U.S. strategic oil reserves could get damaged by the rapid release of stockpiles in response to the Iran war, experts warned this week as inventories hit a four-decade low.
Major Pi Network Update Introduced as PI Fights for Key Support
While the vast Pi Network community anticipates an official confirmation of the successful deployment of protocol version 26, the Core Team actually surprised them by announcing that the Pi Node version 0.6.2 has been r…
WLFI Pumps and Dumps as Trump-Backed World Liberty Gets Green Light for US Bank Charter
The Trump-family-backed World Liberty Financial has joined other cryptocurrency projects in receiving conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank in t…
Chainlink (LINK) Is Breaking Out, Bitcoin (BTC) Sluggish at $63K: Weekend Watch
Bitcoin’s week-long correction drove the asset to a new local low of $62,500, where it finally found some support and now sits at around $63,000.
Bitcoin price holds below $63,000 as selling pressure offsets regulatory progress
Crypto stocks are in flux since Bitcoin (BTC) was rejected by its 200-day moving average and slowly staggered dangerously close to $60,000. That sector weakness has Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) on i…
The AI Compute Boom Isn’t Peaking — It’s Just Getting Started
We’re taking The Argument to San Francisco! On May 13, Kelsey Piper and I are debating a question that feels unavoidable right now: Is AI actually changing how science gets done, or are we in the middle of a very expens…