The US dollar has held around familiar areas with July’s inflation matching the consensus precisely. American inflation, headline and core, on 12 August was as expected, generating relatively little volatility as markets are seasonally less active around the middle of August. This article summarises the latest news affecting the US dollar then looks briefly at
The market did not sell Micron because a Chinese company started making high-bandwidth memory. It sold Micron because a Chinese company listed. ChangXin Memory Technologies closed its first session on Shanghai’s STAR Market on 27 July 2026 at 49 yuan, up 465.8% from an 8.66 yuan offer price, after raising 57.92 billion yuan — about
Riot Platforms has signed a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of data-center capacity at its Rockdale campus in Texas, turning power once developed for bitcoin mining into $9.1 billion of expected contract revenue. Riot called the customer a “leading frontier AI lab” in its 10 August filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, while Bloomberg
Nebius is not being valued on the quarter it reports on Wednesday. It is being valued on a promise it has to keep by December, and the arithmetic of that promise is the most under-discussed number in the AI-infrastructure complex. Nebius exited the first quarter of 2026 with annualised run-rate revenue of roughly $1.92bn. Management
Gold can be expected to rise further to the next resistance level 4400.00 (former top of wave iv from the start of June and the target for the completion of wave 3). Gold broke resistance area Likely to rise to resistance level 4400.00 Gold recently broke the resistance area between the key resistance level 4200.00
Updated 7 August 2026, 9:15am ET. Oklo (NYSE: OKLO) traded at $44.05 in Friday pre-market, up 4.27% (RTTNews quote, 8:02am ET) after reporting its first-ever quarterly revenue before the open. Verdict: the revenue line arrived — $1.2 million — but it is rounding error against a $48.5 million quarterly loss, and the stock is defending
The most common mistake in any Texas Instruments TXN price prediction is treating the stock as a broken analog name finally staging a recovery. It isn’t broken, and the recovery is already in the price. TXN trades at $276.15 as of 6 August 2026, up 56% year-to-date and 90% off its April 2025 low of
For most of the past two years, investors concentrated almost exclusively on the companies designing AI chips or building the large language models consuming them. Now, according to Wells Fargo equity strategist Ohsung Kwon, the investment opportunity is beginning to spread much further through the economy. In a note reported by Bloomberg this week, Kwon
The most revealing detail of the first joint US-Japan yen-buying operation since 1998 is not the size — it is the funding. The US Treasury bought yen by selling euros, not dollars, per Yahoo Finance’s account of the operation — an intervention engineered to strengthen the yen without Washington technically selling its own currency. That
Updated 3 August 2026. WDC last close $544.84 (31 July 2026, +2.21% on the day), trading around $520 in Monday pre-market — down roughly 4.6% at 9:08am ET — per StockAnalysis. Q4 FY26 results land Wednesday 5 August after the close, with the call at 4:30pm ET. Our call: $638 base (the 26-analyst consensus), $1,050