World Liberty Financial (CRYPTO: $WLFI) has moved closer to bringing its USD1 (CRYPTO: $USD1) stablecoin under a federally supervised banking structure after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency conditionally approved a national trust bank charter for World Liberty Trust Company.
The approval would allow the Trump family-backed crypto company to issue USD1 directly and custody the U.S. dollar ****** ets backing the stablecoin. Those functions are currently handled through BitGo (NASDAQ: $BTGO).
Unlike a traditional commercial bank charter, the national trust structure generally does not permit deposit-taking or lending. It would instead give World Liberty a single federal framework for custody, ****** et servicing and settlement, areas the company has said are central to its plans for institutional clients such as exchanges and investment firms.
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Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) has returned to the spotlight after reports from China, first appeared on chinastarmarket.cn, suggest Tesla (TSLA) has started testing its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model, Qwen, inside the company's infotainment system. Although neither company has verified the reports, investors embraced the conjecture, with Alibaba's shares up 9% in the last five trading sessions.
The software reportedly handles voice commands, navigation and basic vehicle functions. The reported roadmap extends well beyond voice ****** istance. Qwen could process complex voice requests, manage multiple tasks simultaneously, support end-to-end services such as ordering and payments, and power content, lifestyle, and commerce features through a cloud-based architecture.
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Corn prices are down 3 to 4 cents on Monday morning. Futures posted losses of 1 ½ to 5 cents on the Friday session, as September and December both closed the week with a 23 ½ cent loss. Spillover weakness from wheat, rains, and month end pressure is a factor. December was still up 28 cents on the week. Open interest was down 3,693 contracts on Friday, suggesting some long were exiting. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was down 6 cents at $4.10.
CFTC data released on Friday afternoon showed managed money adding 75,490 contracts to their net long in corn futures and options in the week of July 28. The net long was at 168,399 contracts as of Tuesday.
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The S&P 500 has hit an all-time high roughly 23 times in 2026, according to Creative Planning's Chief Market Strategist Charlie Bilello, per Yahoo Finance (1). At the same time, Bilello wrote on X (2) that consumer sentiment "is at an all-time low."
"We've never seen a gap this wide between Wall Street and Main Street," he added.
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Performance was driven by distribution and transmission rate increases and the absence of prior-year customer relief costs, offset by higher credit loss expenses at BGE and increased interest costs.
Management attributes sustained reliability performance to disciplined grid investment, noting that ComEd restored 90% of customers within 48 hours following the most severe storm activity in two decades.
The PJM market is under extreme strain, evidenced by capacity prices clearing at the FERC-approved cap for three consecutive auctions and a widening 6.8-gigawatt reliability shortfall.
Exelon is pivoting toward an 'all-of-the-above' strategy—including transmission, storage, and utility-owned generation—to mitigate scarcity that would have otherwise driven prices to $777 per megawatt-day in ComEd.

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Just before last weekend kicked off, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and SK Hynix (NASDAQ: SKHY) finished some business, signing the largest memory deal in history. As part of the partnership, SK Hynix's subsidiary, SK Telecom, will build a 2-gigawatt AI cloud data center in Korea using Nvidia's Vera Rubin Platform. Meanwhile, SK Hynix will supply Nvidia with high bandwidth memory (HBM) going forward, while the two companies will work together to co-develop future generations of AI memory.
One of the biggest bottlenecks in the AI infrastructure build-out right now is memory, especially HBM. To reduce latency and improve power efficiency, graphics processing units (GPUs) and other AI chips need to be packaged with HBM. Meanwhile, the need for HBM is only growing as inference increasingly focuses on fast memory access rather than raw compute power.
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However, increasing HBM capacity is a challenge. It requires access to the same EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography) machines that manufacture GPUs and other advanced logic chips, and the supply for these machines is limited, since the only company that makes them is ASML. At the same time, HBM needs upward of 3 times the wafer capacity of regular DRAM, adding another challenge if one wants to rapidly increase supply. HBM also must be manufactured in massive clean rooms, which can take years to build.
My prediction is that this deal will play an important role in both stocks being big winners over the next few years.

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Super Micro Computer says that business is booming and profitability is improving. Investors like the sound of that.
Shares of Supermicro (SMCI), as the company is commonly known, jumped 22% to $31 in early trading Wednesday after the server maker said it expects to report gross margins of between 15% and 17% for its fiscal fourth quarter, which ended on June 30. That's a steep increase over the company's previous guidance of 8.2% to 8.4%.
In a preliminary business update released late Tuesday, Supermicro estimated that revenue for the quarter will be closer to the low end of its previous forecast range of $11 billion to $12.5 billion. However, the company said that new orders in the period exceeded $60 billion, putting its backlog at a record level, indicating that the outlook for the coming quarters is strong.
The rosy view on margins from Supermicro gave shares of rival server makers a boost in early trading Wednesday. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) rose 5%, while Dell Technologies (DELL) jumped 8%, on an otherwise sluggish morning for U.S. stocks.
Coming into Wednesday's session, Supermicro shares had lost nearly 50% over the past year. The stock, which traded above $110 in early 2024 amid optimism about the role the company would play in the AI data center boom, has slumped in recent years amid investor concerns about accounting irregularities and corporate governance.

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Charles Schwab’s second-quarter earnings topped Wall Street’s estimates, and its revenue set a record. The financial services giant also increased its revenue guidance for 2026.
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MicroStrategy CEO Phong Le says Wall Street's largest banks are locked in a tight race for second place on the company's Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index.
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Citi each score within three points of one another. Fidelity, however, still holds a commanding lead.
The Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index grades 25 major banks on Bitcoin (BTC) trading, custody, and product depth.
Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, published the initial 32% score, drawing on public data through July 10.
Fidelity topped the list at 71%, built on Fidelity Digital ******* ets, the custody arm it launched back in 2018.

Taysha Gene Therapies Inc. (NASDAQ:TSHA) is one of the 10 affordable biotech stocks to buy right now.
On June 24, Taysha Gene Therapies Inc. (NASDAQ:TSHA) disclosed the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 32.5 million of its common stock, priced at $6 per share. The offering also involved prepaid warrants to buy 833,333 shares at $5.999 per warrant.
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The company anticipates gross proceeds of around $200 million before accounting for underwriting commissions, discounts, and expenses, not including any underwriters' option exercise. The company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to buy up to an additional 5 million common shares.
On June 23, Bank of America Securities increased its target price on Taysha Gene Therapies Inc. (NASDAQ:TSHA) from $9 to $10, leading to an adjusted upside potential of more than 57%. The firm maintained a Buy rating on the stock following the company's update regarding the Part A REVEAL study to evaluate TSHA-102 in Rett syndrome.

Mercedes-Benz has completed a €1bn ($1.14bn) expansion of its Kecskemét plant in Hungary.
The upgrade forms part of Mercedes-Benz Business Plan 2022–2026 that is aimed at "sustainably strengthening the competitiveness, efficiency and future viability of its entire production network".
The site has grown from 200 to 440ha, making it Mercedes-Benz's biggest plant in Hungary and one of the largest globally, the group noted.
Mercedes-Benz Group member of the board of management of production, quality and supply chain management Michael Schiebe said: "With the plant extension in Kecskemét, we are increasing the resilience and flexibility of our global production network. This site defines the future of our manufacturing: intelligent, connected, digital and consistently focused on efficiency, quality and sustainability.
"This enables us to competitively produce models such as the GLB and the new electric C-Class while at the same time strengthening the entire production network. I would like to express my sincere thanks to the team on site for their exceptional and passionate commitment."

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The South Korean wave is coming, and we're not talking about BTS.
SK Hynix, South Korea's second most valuable company, will begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker SKHY. You've probably never heard of it, but you've certainly used its products. The company makes memory chips found in phones and laptops from Apple and Dell.
But the real story, of course, is AI.
SK Hynix builds the high-performance chips that power Nvidia, via a multiyear partnership announced in June. South Korean-listed shares of SK Hynix are up more than 222% since January 1 and 636% over the last 12 months, driven by voracious demand for memory. Revenue tripled between 2023 and 2025, hitting nearly $65 billion, per CNBC. ****** ysts polled by LSEG see it nearly tripling again this year to $235 billion.

Getting added to the Nasdaq-100 is usually a good day for a stock. Funds that track the benchmark have to own it. And for ******* eX (NASDAQ: SPCX), that meant billions of dollars of forced buying into a company whose public float is only a few percent of its shares.
On paper, that is a lot of demand chasing very little stock.
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Yet a day after joining the index on July 7, ******* eX trades about 35% below its high of $225.64, changing hands for less than $147 as of this writing. That is below where the stock started when the company went public in June, in the largest U.S. initial public offering on record. It slipped about 6% in the session right after inclusion, giving back nearly all of its post-IPO gains.
So is the drawdown a chance to buy one of the most talked-about companies in the world at a discount? Or is the slide telling investors something?

With a 5-year EPS growth forecasted at 37.88%, Backblaze, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLZE) is among the 12 Best Cybersecurity Stocks to Buy and Hold for the Long Term.
On June 24, Lake Street ***** yst Eric Martinuzzi raised the firm's price target on Backblaze, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLZE) to $14 from $11 while maintaining a Buy rating after the company announced a $335 million total contract value agreement with CoreWeave to provide hard-disk-drive cloud storage for AI workloads. The firm described the agreement as a significant validation of Backblaze's AI storage strategy, highlighting the company's competitive positioning and its ability to support large-scale AI infrastructure customers.
On the same day, B. Riley raised its price target on Backblaze, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLZE) to $16 from $7 while reiterating a Buy rating on the shares. The firm believes the multi-year cloud storage agreement with CoreWeave represents a meaningful endorsement of Backblaze's neocloud strategy to become a leading provider of hard-disk-drive storage for AI cloud infrastructure. B. Riley estimates that the CoreWeave partnership could account for approximately one-quarter of Backblaze's B2 business by the end of fiscal 2027, with the potential for further expansion beyond that period.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Backblaze, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLZE) provides essential ransomware protection, data immutability, zero-knowledge encryption, and automated disaster recovery, ensuring businesses and individuals can securely store and recover their critical data. The company is one of the best cybersecurity stocks to buy and hold for the long term.
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To me, being "long" volatility is the key feature of these ETFs. It allows me an alternative to S&P 500 Index ($SPX) put options.
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Trane Technologies (TT) has been on a tear, climbing +21.9% in three months to trade just shy of its all-time high. The engine here is a gusher of new business, with the company sitting on a record backlog after posting what it called "exceptional" new orders. For shareholders who've enjoyed the ride, it raises a question: what if you could get paid a meaningful income right now, an income you keep no matter what, just for agreeing to sell your shares at an even higher price down the road?
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Vltava Fund, a value-focused investment management company, published its investor letter for the second quarter of 2026. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The letter explores the growing role of AI and how certain facets of human intelligence may become less valuable economically, while other skills become more important. The author emphasizes that despite AI's expanding capabilities in information collection and basic modeling, qualities like sound judgment, good taste, patience, original thinking, strategic skepticism, and the ability to recognize significance will continue to hold their value. Despite the excitement around A.I., fundamental investment principles remain unchanged. Please review the Fund's top five holdings to gain insights into their key selections for 2026.
In its second-quarter 2026 investor letter, Vltava Fund highlighted Visa Inc. (NYSE:V). Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is a multinational financial services company known for its payment technology network that offers credit, debit, and prepaid card products and other services. On July 2, 2026, Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) closed at $351.08 per share. One-month return of Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) was 11.92%, and its shares gained 0.91% over the past 52 weeks. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) has a market capitalization of $688.68 billion.
Vltava Fund stated the following regarding Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) in its Q2 2026 investor letter:
"We bought shares in Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) and Kaspi.kz. Visa probably needs little introduction. Nevertheless, I'll describe the company briefly, as people are often surprised by just how complex and sophisticated its business is. Visa is not a "card company" in the simple sense of the word. It is a global technology infrastructure for electronic payments that connects banks, merchants, consumers, payments processors, governments, and companies. Its main role is to ensure that payments between two parties are processed quickly, securely, reliably, and with minimal risk without regard to the country, currency, bank, card type, or sales channel involved.
The sophistication of Visa's business lies in the fact that it is not just about forwarding the payment itself. Visa operates an extensive payment network full of rules, technologies, and security standards. It also handles transaction authorization, fraud prevention, settlement, tokenization, data ***** ytics, and risk management. Every payment looks simple to the customer. A person taps with a card or clicks in an online store, but behind all of this lies a highly complex system coordinating among many participants in the financial ecosystem…" (Click here to read the full text)

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the best growth stocks to buy according to billionaire Dan Loeb. On June 24, the Financial Times reported that NVIDIA Corporation's (NASDAQ:NVDA) AI chips that are banned from export to China under US controls have more than doubled in price on China's black market over the past six months. The FT attributed the price spike to American enforcement actions, which have progressively choked off the illegal channels through which these chips were flowing into the country.
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According to the FT, the standout price jump is in Nvidia's DGX B300 server. This is a high-end system containing eight Blackwell GPUs. On China's black market, the price has climbed to over 8 million yuan, roughly $1.1 million, up from 4 million yuan just six months ago, said the report. For context, the same system retails in the US for around $400,000.
Separately, the RTX 6000 Pro has surged from around 50,000 yuan at the start of 2026 to as much as 130,000 yuan. This is a workstation chip widely used by Chinese AI startups to run large language models.
The FT noted that the price explosion reflects the basic economics of a constrained supply. It added that Chinese tech companies and AI startups, many of which are locked out of legal purchasing channels, have been relying on these grey and black market routes to access the computing power needed to develop and train AI models. Despite the US restrictions, Chinese demand for these chips has not diminished; if anything, it has intensified, noted the FT.

PayPay Corporation (NASDAQ:PAYP) is one of the Most Promising New Technology Stocks to Buy According to ****** ysts. Recently, on June 8, Yoshitaka Nagao from Bank of America Securities maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a price target of $26.
The firm noted the recent acquisition of T&D Financial Life as a strategically sound move that strengthens its long-term positioning. On June 4, PayPay Corporation (NASDAQ:PAYP) acquired a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life at just over 1.0x embedded value. Nagao views the price as full but fair, and notes that it is funded entirely from existing cash, suggesting no equity dilution and no strain on balance sheet flexibility.
The ****** yst sees the addition of a savings-focused life insurer as a meaningful expansion of PayPay's digital financial platform. The firm noted that with over 74 million users already on the platform, the company is well placed to offer end-to-end financial services across different life stages. In terms of profitability, ****** yst Nagao believes that internalizing ****** et management and optimizing reinsurance arrangements should improve spread-based earnings over time.
PayPay Corp. (NASDAQ:PAYP) is a financial technology company that serves users and merchants in ****** an. The company facilitates mobile Payments via its app, as well as banking & lending, investment & securities, CFD trading, ****** et management, and credit & financing services. It also offers value-added services, such as insurance and marketing, with the option to subscribe.
While we acknowledge the potential of PAYP as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock.

The choice between the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT:VOO) and the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT:SPY) often comes down to cost for long-term investors.
Both funds serve as foundational building blocks, providing exposure to the 500 largest U.S. companies. While they track the same underlying index, structural differences and expense ratios can influence total returns for those holding these ETFs over several decades.
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After softball-sized hail was reported in Colorado this week, thousands of homeowners will be ******* sing their homes and cars for damage.
Those who find extensive damage to their roofs might be stuck between two options: filing an insurance claim, which could trigger a premium increase, or coughing up the cash for the necessary repairs or replacement.
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What began nine years ago as a dinner gathering of roughly 20 people at a restaurant in Laredo, Texas, has grown into the largest U.S.-to-Mexico logistics event in the country. On June 9, 2026, the 9th Annual Modernization of Cross-Border Trade (MCBT) convened at the Laredo Country Club, drawing representatives from more than 500 logistics companies eager to navigate a rapidly shifting cross-border landscape.
"The event started with only 20 people," said Mark Vickers, founder of Borderless Coverage and Executive Vice President and Head of International Logistics at Reliance Partners, which hosts the event. "Now this is the largest U.S. to Mexico logistics event in the U.S."
That growth mirrors the trajectory of Borderless Coverage itself. Vickers developed the company as an entrepreneurial venture. It was the first program to offer per-load, per-project, per-client cargo insurance coverage for shipments into Mexico.
Reliance Partners, the largest privately held transportation and logistics insurance agency in the country, acquired Borderless Coverage in 2021. The MCBT event grew right alongside this acquisition, evolving from an insurance-focused gathering into a premier forum for shippers, freight brokers, carriers, customs professionals, and technology providers operating across both sides of the border.
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We recently published David Tepper Stock Portfolio: 10 Long-Term Stock Picks. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the long-term stock picks.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is another stock that has featured in Appaloosa's 13F holdings since 2010. This period is divided into two stints. The first started from Q4 2010, when the fund held six million shares worth $168 million, and ended in Q2 2013, when it held 1.4 million shares worth $48 million. The second period started from Q1 2020, when the fund held 90,000 Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares. The stake peaked in Q4 2023 when Appaloosa held 1.7 million shares that were worth $639 million. Since then, it has been on a downward trend, with the latest stake being worth $33 million.
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s shares have been among the weakest performers in 2026 as they are down by 22% year-to-date. June was an important month for the firm as it announced a slew of new AI initiatives. These include a new AI model, agents for its Copilot platform and APIs to bring work-specific context to AI agents. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has also collaborated with NVIDIA to announce Windows PCs powered by the latter's products.
While we acknowledge the potential of MSFT as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock.