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IBM already sank 20%. This week's earnings from Alphabet, Tesla, Intel and four more decide if AI spending is real
IBM already sank 20% on a warning. Now Alphabet, Tesla, Intel and four more of our tracked stocks report earnings within 48 hours, the clearest test yet of whether AI spending is paying off.
Rocket Lab (RKLB) won a $266 million Space Force contract, the third defense headline for the stock in two weeks
Rocket Lab (RKLB) landed a $266 million Space Force contract for suborbital launches out of Kodiak, Alaska on July 21, the third defense headline for the stock in two weeks. Shares closed up 5.16% and kept climbing after hours.
Micron (MU), SK Hynix and AMD just gave chip stocks their first back-to-back gain in two weeks (July 21, 2026)
Micron (MU) closed up about 12 percent, SK Hynix's ADR about 14 percent, and AMD 8 percent Tuesday, chip stocks' first back-to-back gain in two weeks. A Bank of America upgrade on memory demand and a new AMD-Microsoft Azure deal did the heavy lifting.
Cipher Digital (CIFR) is up 39% in two sessions, and its own AI news hasn't landed yet
Cipher Digital (CIFR) gained 39% in two trading sessions, but most of the credit belongs to Hut 8 and IREN's AI infrastructure deals. Cipher's own catalyst, its first AWS rent payment, doesn't land until August.
Rep. Laurel Lee's spouse sold Nokia three times this year. One sale landed on the stock's exact peak, three days before its worst day of the year.
Rep. Laurel Lee's spouse sold Nokia three separate times in 2026, and the stock has fallen from every single price he sold at. One of the three sales landed on the exact day Nokia peaked, three trading days before its sharpest single-day drop of the year. Two of the three trades were also disclosed past the STOCK Act's 45-day deadline.
Jim Cramer's tech calls are still lagging the rest of his book. Intel is 1 for 5, and IBM crashed the day after his second buy call.
Jim Cramer's tech calls are still his weak spot. Intel is 1 for 5 since June, IBM is down nearly 30% since his back-to-back buy calls, and his tech picks trail the Nasdaq-100 by more than three points a call even after Tuesday's chip bounce.
Korea's top ETF manager sells leveraged Samsung and SK Hynix funds for a living. This week, he told investors to stop buying them. (July 21, 2026)
Bae Jae-kyu, the CEO known as the father of Korea's ETF market, posted on Facebook that investors should stop buying single-stock leverage ETFs, then deleted it. His own firm sells the exact products, and the same day, lawmakers held a forum on a market where the sell sidecar has triggered 38 times this year.
Jim Cramer says Chinese AI models are run by the PLA and US companies must stop using them. Microsoft is already testing one.
Jim Cramer posted a four-part warning on X that US companies must stop using Chinese AI models, calling the companies PLA-run. The claim lands a day after Microsoft was reported testing Kimi K3, and Moonshot AI's actual ownership is more complicated than he suggests.
Kospi's 3.56% rise triggered a buy-side sidecar. Korea's chip exports just surged 180%.
Kospi closed up 3.56% Tuesday and briefly triggered a buy-side sidecar, but the real driver was a 180.6% rise in Korea's semiconductor exports, not a fresh JPMorgan call. That call is nearly a month old, and it landed in the middle of a rough stretch for Samsung's foreign ownership specifically.
IREN signed $2.8 billion in AI contracts, and bitcoin miner stocks rallied with it
IREN closed up 19.6% after announcing $2.8 billion in new AI cloud contracts. Hut 8 and CleanSpark had data center lease news of their own, while CIFR, SLNH and KEEL rallied in sympathy. The fuel: Moonshot AI is turning away paying Kimi K3 subscribers because it ran out of GPU capacity.
Hedge fund Millennium added a million shares of Perspective Therapeutics (CATX) in three weeks and crossed the 5% line
Hedge fund Millennium Management filed its second ownership disclosure on Perspective Therapeutics (CATX) in a month: 5.3% as of July 13, up from 4.3% in June. What the passive 13G filing shows, and what it leaves out.
Penguin Solutions (PENG) is down 40% since its best quarter ever, and none of it is about the business
Penguin Solutions (PENG) is down about 40% from the 52-week high its best quarter ever bought it, thanks to its own $750 million convertible notes deal. The stock fell again Monday even as chip stocks like Broadcom and Micron rebounded and the broader market closed roughly flat.
Microsoft (MSFT) is testing Moonshot's Kimi K3 for Copilot to cut its Azure AI bill by $600 million
Microsoft is testing Moonshot's Kimi K3 for Azure and Copilot, hoping to cut AI costs by $600 million, the same week the model's launch gave chip stocks a rough ride and its maker began prepping a $30 billion Hong Kong IPO.
Kospi's one-month drop is the worst of 46 major economies. Even Russia did better. (July 20, 2026)
Kospi fell 28.02% in one month, the worst return among 46 major economies tracked, even below Russia's own sanctions-driven slide. It is still up 54.63% since the end of last year, but analysts say leverage and semiconductor concentration made the drop worse than plain profit-taking.
I own SharonAI (SHAZ) at $65. It signed a $1.32 billion deal four days ago and dropped anyway
SharonAI (SHAZ) is down slightly while every other neocloud stock rallies hard, four days after a $1.32 billion cloud deal. I bought SHAZ at $65 and dug through SEC filings to find out why.
Michael Burry cut his Oracle (ORCL) short in half, and says reports he closed it are fake news
Michael Burry sold half his Oracle (ORCL) puts on July 17 after a 63% stock plunge, then called reports that he'd fully exited the short "fake news." The same post added Nvidia (NVDA) puts, more DraftKings (DKNG), and a skeptical read on Netflix (NFLX).
Nvidia (NVDA) and Microsoft (MSFT) don't just sell OpenAI chips and cloud time. They also fund the bill.
Nvidia, Microsoft, Oracle, Broadcom, AMD, and CoreWeave have promised OpenAI close to a trillion dollars combined, and some of them are OpenAI's investors as well as its vendors. Here's how the money actually loops, and where it's already showing strain.
I let Claude AI trade $100 on Robinhood, week 4: It's 0 for 4, then it passed on IREN's 17% jump, and watched it run higher
Claude AI is 0 for 4 with my $100 and the account is down to $74.59. On Monday it built an order for IREN at $39.45, then found that the same stock had popped on the same news back on July 6 and given back 23%, and walked away. IREN ran higher without it.
Google is baking Gemini's blueprint directly into a new chip. The stock jumped 3%, and earnings land Wednesday
Alphabet shares jumped about 3% Monday on a report that it's building a new AI chip called Frozen v2, one that bakes Gemini's own architecture into the silicon. The real test comes Wednesday, when Alphabet reports Q2 earnings.
SK Hynix in Korea moved from down 5.8% to up 2.7% to down 4.2%. Here is why a leveraged bet on that day would have hurt even more
SK Hynix's Korea-listed shares and the Kospi moved through a huge range and still closed down more than 4% on Monday. Here is the math on why a 2x leveraged position on a day like that is more dangerous than it looks, even after a partial recovery.
Alibaba owns 36% of Kimi's parent company. Here's why I'm still not sure BABA is a buy
Alibaba owns about 36% of Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi, plus stakes in MiniMax, Zhipu AI, and Kling AI. It has also taken two unrelated hits to the stock in three weeks. I break down whether that adds up to a buy.
FuelCell Energy (FCEL) director bought $495,000 in stock on the day it fell 15%
FuelCell Energy (FCEL) director John Livingston made his first stock purchase on July 16: $494,967 in the open market, on a day shares fell 15%, about a week after a $225 million offering diluted existing shareholders.
Retail investors say Korea's new Samsung and SK Hynix leverage ETF rule punishes the wrong people. Two professors agree.
Korea's deposit hike for Samsung and SK Hynix leverage ETFs takes effect July 31. Retail investors and two professors argue the rule punishes buyers while leaving the brokerages that issue these products untouched.
About 300 companies on South Korea's Kosdaq are a month away from being delisted. The index just cannot get back above 800.
About 307 companies on Korea's Kosdaq exchange, close to 17% of the board, are sitting below the price or size thresholds that can lead to delisting, some with as little as a month left to fix it.