Good MorningU.S. trading saw heavy activity in tech and small-cap names, with NVIDIA among the most active and trading near $174.39, down about $5.96 on the session. Media and information sectors grabbed attention as The Washington Post announced it is cutting roughly one-third of its staff across departments and eliminating its sports section and several foreign bureaus.
Commodities helped set the tone for markets: March crude rose about $1.93 to settle near $65.14 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while gold futures advanced across contracts. Agricultural and industrial metals futures showed mixed moves, underscoring continued investor focus on growth and inflation dynamics.
Policy and corporate developments added to the market backdrop. The U.S. extended the African Growth and Opportunity Act only through Dec. 31, creating short-term trade certainty. Vice President Vance said the administration is forming a trading bloc for critical minerals with price floors and financing. Meanwhile, Syria signed a memorandum with Chevron and a Qatari investor to develop its first offshore oil and gas field, a notable shift in energy geopolitics. Featured: Wall Street’s quietly buying these 3 AI infrastructure plays (Ad) 
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At the intersection of healthcare and cloud computing, Waystar Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: WAY) has built a reputation for its powerful software-as-a-service (SaaS), helping to integrate payer networks with electronic health records. However, as the AI and cloud field has become increasingly crowded ov... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | BlackRock, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Fidelity are reportedly accumulating a scarce blockchain asset - one that gets burned with every transaction on what analysts are calling America's new financial grid.
The Nasdaq has received SEC approval to move stocks onto blockchain rails, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink dedicated his entire 2026 annual letter to this infrastructure shift. Blockchain analyst Andy Howard is calling this asset 'Digital Oil' - and says institutional buyers are already positioned. | | Get the name, the ticker, and exactly how to buy it |
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Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) faces hurdles, but it appears on track to sustain and accelerate growth, setting its stock price up for a major reversal. Critical details from the Q4 release and conference call include the confident tone set by CEO Scott Boatwright and the 2026 strategy outline... Read the Full Story |
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Earnings season keeps sending the same signal: companies that beat expectations and raise guidance are being rewarded aggressively by the market. Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) and Woodward Inc. (NASDAQ: WWD) offered two recent examples of that dynamic—moves that help explain why inves... Read the Full Story |
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After a precipitous slide, artificial intelligence (AI) server giant Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) just got some much-needed good news. Since hitting its 52-week closing high near $61 back in July of 2025, Super Micro shares had fallen around 50% through the close on Feb. 3, 2026.
However, ... Read the Full Story |
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Investors are currently navigating a market field filled with landmines. Headlines are dominated by speculation about the Federal Reserve, Treasury yields that refuse to settle, and gold prices swinging wildly. The growth-at-all-costs mentality that powered the tech sector for the last decade has ... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | With OpenAI and Anthropic moving closer to the IPO spotlight, AI excitement could spill into several public-market sectors this summer - and most investors may chase the obvious names too late.
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Amid a strong year for the industrials sector, U.S. machinery giant Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) was among the most notable standouts of 2025. Using the Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA: XLI) as a proxy, the sector delivered a total return of around 19% last year. This ranked third among th... Read the Full Story |
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While the broader stock market has spent years fixated on the processors that allow artificial intelligence (AI) to think, a massive rotation is occurring into the hardware required to provide AI with a memory. Approximately one year ago, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) spun off its flash memory bus... Read the Full Story |
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The Trump administration may have unintentionally thrown a bone to the real estate investment trust (REIT) industry. President Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve provides more clarity, and more importantly, predictability to the course of rate cuts ... Read the Full Story |
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A Dutch semiconductor company reported strong Q4 2025 earnings early this week, but it’s not the one most investors think of first. ASML Holdings NV (NASDAQ: ASML) often captures market headlines due to its near-monopoly on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light systems, but NXP Semiconductors NV... Read the Full Story |
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With share prices rising nearly 107% in the last 12 months, electronic and fiber optic component manufacturer Amphenol Corp. (NYSE: APH) has increasingly presented valuation concerns for investors.
At the end of January, though, APH shares quickly reversed course following the company's latest ea... Read the Full Story |
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Thursday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day MP Materials Corp., together with its subsidiaries, produces rare earth materials. The company owns and operates the Mountain Pass Rare Earth mine and processing facility in North America. It holds the mineral rights to the Mountain Pass mine and surrounding areas, as well as intellectual property rights related to the processing and development of rare earth minerals. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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