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DIVO delivers a 6.4% monthly yield from 40 blue-chip dividend payers layered with covered-call premiums, returning 65% over five years.
JPM and CAT anchor DIVO's distribution, with JPM posting $21 billion in Q2 net income and CAT sustaining dividends uninterrupted for over 25 years.
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Amplify CWP Enhanced Dividend Income ETF (NYSEARCA:DIVO) pays a 6.4% distribution yield in monthly installments, with the latest payout of $0.18284 per share hitting accounts on June 30, 2026. DIVO attracts income investors seeking monthly distributions without relying entirely on options-income funds that sacrifice growth for yield. The core question is whether the distribution is backed by durable cash flow from blue-chip holdings or masks instability.
This is an actively managed portfolio of roughly 40 large-cap dividend payers, with the top 10 accounting for roughly 49% of **** ets. Sector weights lean toward financials at 24%, technology at 15%, and industrials at 13%. The manager collects ordinary dividends, then writes covered calls on selected positions when volatility makes premiums attractive, layering options income on top. The blended payout flows to shareholders monthly.

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NOBL's equal weighting across 70 holdings and a 44% fund-level payout ratio give its 2% yield a durable, compounding foundation.
CVX posted negative Q1 free cash flow and a 37% net income drop, but its 1.4% weight limits damage to ***** L's income stream.
JNJ and KO anchor the income story with 64 and 60-plus consecutive dividend raises and payout ratios comfortably below 65%.
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The ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (CBOE:NOBL) pays a roughly 2% dividend yield built on a portfolio of 70 holdings, each of which has raised its dividend for at least 25 consecutive years. Income investors buy ***** L for a specific promise: that the underlying companies are so entrenched in their markets that quarterly dividend growth continues through recessions, inflation shocks, and rate cycles. That promise faces a test in mid-2026, especially across the five holdings most investors watch as bellwethers for the group.

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The most talked about and market moving research calls around Wall Street are now in one place. Here are today's research calls that investors need to know, as compiled by The Fly.

Top 5 Upgrades:
Truist upgraded CoreWeave (CRWV) to Buy from Hold with a price target of $126, down from $131. As more enterprises move toward open models and sovereign AI, the firm believes demand for compute will only increase, benefiting CoreWeave, though shares trade at a significant discount to neoclouds despite the company's "leadership position."
Stifel upgraded DigitalOcean (DOCN) to Buy from Hold with a price target of $160, up from $135. The firm cites valuation for the upgrade with the shares down 30% from recent highs.
Wells Fargo upgraded Idacorp (IDA) to Equal Weight from Underweight with a price target of $154, up from $121. Wells' higher estimates indicate the shares are cheaper than it screens.
Wells Fargo upgraded NorthWestern Energy (NWE) to Equal Weight from Underweight with a price target of $62, up from $54. The pending merger with Black Hills (BKH) has cleared every hurdle except Montana, the firm tells investors in a research note.

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Spreading conversions below the $218,000 IRMAA threshold avoids Medicare surcharges reaching $6,900 per person, since any overage triggers the full cliff penalty.
Delaying Social Security to 70 adds 8% yearly to the benefit while keeping taxable income low, maximizing Roth conversion headroom during the window.
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A 63-year-old couple with $1.5 million in a traditional 401(k) and no earned income has just entered the most valuable tax planning window of their lives. From now until age 73, when required minimum distributions begin, they get to decide exactly how much taxable income to show each year. Most people fill that window with a few small IRA withdrawals and a delayed Social Security claim. That decision costs tens of thousands of dollars in avoidable taxes.

Stocks ended the week a long way from a bear market. But the "bear" word has started to crop up more in discussions among market ***** ysts. The Nasdaq ended below recent lows and leaning toward its next-nearest tests, the lows from June 26 and June 9. The S&P 500 finished ever-so-slightly below its 50-day moving average, equal to its last slip below the line from June 26.
On the downside, Sandisk (SNDK), Astera Labs (ALAB) and Marvell Technology (MRVL) booked the week's biggest losses on the Nasdaq 100, with an average drop of 25.3%. Paypal Holdings (PYPL), Cintas (CTAS) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) held the upside, showing a 15.3% average gain. Results were similar on the S&P 500, but adding IBM (IBM) on the downside and Valero (VLO) among the week's winners.
The market is not providing a whole lot in the way of clues as to what comes next. Both the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 continue to trade below their early June highs. And rather than test those highs, wanting to break resistance and move higher, the indexes are instead testing lows and breaking technical support. Sellers are quietly overpowering buyers.
"Look, we are a trend-following methodology," says IBD Market Research Director Justin Nielsen. "And it's pretty easy when you're in a downtrend: we just kinda stay out. It's pretty easy when you're in an uptrend — that's where we like to push it, where we like to make money. This sideways action, this is where it's really tough."
That, for the time being, prescribes a course of caution: build watchlists, don't buy; rotate to cash where feasible and manage your capital with the understanding that it is unclear, for now, just where the stock market may be headed next.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) delivered 64 commercial airplanes in June, bringing its second-quarter total to 171 jets and its first-half total to 314 -- the company's best first half since 2018. For a plane maker still working its way back to consistent profitability, that delivery pace is the single most important input into the second-quarter results Boeing will report on Tuesday, July 28.
Deliveries matter this much because of how Boeing gets paid. The company collects the bulk of an airplane's purchase price when it hands the jet to the customer, so every additional delivery brings in more cash.
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
The second quarter's 171 commercial deliveries included 129 737s and 25 787s. And output has been climbing for more than a year. Boeing delivered 130 airplanes in the first quarter of 2025, 143 in this year's first quarter, and now 171 in the second quarter.
Boeing's first-quarter report showed why the ramp matters. Revenue rose 14% year over year to $22.2 billion.

NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - A New York state judge dismissed a lawsuit by a former JPMorgan Chase banker who ‌in graphic terms said his former supervisor coerced him into ‌sex and demanded his submissiveness, though the lawsuit is expected to be refiled in federal court.
Chirayu Rana, the former banker, will pay some legal fees of JPMorgan and his onetime colleague Lorna Hajdini as a condition of the dismissal, Justice Dakota Ramseur wrote on Thursday.
The dismissal, which Rana had ‌requested, does not affect Hajdini's ⁠defamation countersuit against him. Her lawsuit remains in the state court in Manhattan.
Rana, who was a vice president ⁠in leveraged finance, accused Hajdini of using her seniority to coerce him into non-consensual ****** ual activity over several months.
The complaint said Hajdini used racially derogatory language to threaten Rana, who is of Asian descent. It also ‌said she raped and drugged him, claimed she "owned" him, and threatened to sabotage his career if he didn't fulfill her ****** ual demands.

July 15, 2026, 9:06 am EDT
U.S. stocks caught a break this week—and found a window in which to exploit it over the next two weeks—as inflation data suggest a taming of Federal Reserve rate-hike bets and the outlook from a key player in the market for artificial intelligence outpaced Wall Street’s forecasts.
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Mortgage recasting permanently lowers your monthly payment by applying a lump sum to principal while keeping your original rate and skipping closing costs.
FHA, VA, and USDA loans cannot be recast. Only conventional Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and most jumbo portfolio loans qualify for re-amortization.
A recast lowers your payment but not your loan term, and the lump sum immediately becomes illiquid equity, so you should only use funds you won't need.
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If you have a conventional mortgage, your lender is probably sitting on a ***** on that can shrink your monthly payment permanently. It is called a mortgage recast (or re-amortization), and it lets you lower your mortgage payment without refinancing, without closing costs, and without a credit check. Most banks will do it for a flat fee, often a few hundred dollars, and they almost never advertise it.

Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:RXRX) is one of the Best Penny Stocks to Invest In According to Billionaires. Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:RXRX) is a biotechnology company that is building an AI-native discovery platform to industrialize drug discovery. Although still in the clinical stage, the company generates much of its revenue from key partnerships and collaborations with companies such as Takeda Pharmaceutical Co, Roche, Genentech, and more.
The stock gained roughly 19% over the past month. The gains were driven by Cathie Wood's ARK Investment buying 260,000 shares of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:RXRX) on June 24.
In addition, the company also highlighted clinical progress in its fiscal Q1 2026 earnings, released on May 6. The company noted that REC-1245, which is an RBM39-targeting cancer drug, showed good early safety and predictable dosing in its first 16 patients. Moreover, the REC-4881, which is aimed at the genetic disease FAP, also posted strong Phase 2 results and prompted FDA talks towards approval; updates for this candidate are expected in late 2026.
Financially, the company reported $6.5 million in revenue for the quarter, which was down from $14.7 million a year ago, due to a phase of the Roche partnership that was completed last year, so there's less revenue to recognize now. Notably, Recursion was able to reduce its net loss to $117.5 million. This is roughly half of last year's $202.5 million.
The Street remains bullish on the stock, with ****** ysts expecting more than 76% upside from the current level.

Micron (MU) stock has surged nearly 8x over the past year, pushing its market capitalization above $1 trillion. The rally has been fueled by high-bandwidth memory (HBM), which sits alongside the AI accelerators from Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (AMD) that are at the heart of the AI infrastructure build-out.
Historically, memory has been one of the semiconductor industry's most cyclical businesses, with DRAM moving through boom-and-bust cycles every three to four years. Take a detailed look at how past memory cycles have played out for Micron
This time, however, several aspects of the market look different. AI customers are signing multi-year supply agreements, a handful of hyperscalers account for an outsized share of demand, and HBM is tightly integrated with AI accelerators rather than sold as a standalone commodity.
The obvious question is whether these structural shifts are enough to rewrite the industry's familiar playbook. That is what investors need to figure out.
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Tokenized equity trading climbed to a record $3.86 billion in June as demand for blockchain-based **** eX (NASDAQ: $SPCX) shares turned the aerospace company's public-market debut into the sector's biggest trading event by volume to date.
Onchain volume rose 145% from May, according to CoinDesk Data, with tokenized **** eX products generating $1.19 billion during the month. That represented roughly 31% of all tokenized equity trading and put a newly listed stock ahead of established names including Nvidia (NASDAQ: $NVDA), Tesla (NASDAQ: $TSLA) and major index products.
The activity followed **** eX's $75 billion initial public offering, the largest on record, which valued the company at about $1.8 trillion on a fully diluted basis. Crypto platforms had already been building products around the listing, giving onchain traders several ways to gain price exposure as the shares entered public markets.
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The DAX is singled out as the market most likely to see squeeze-driven gains in the weeks ahead
Citi has warned that European stock markets face a growing risk of short squeezes, as investors caught betting against rising prices are forced to buy back their positions.
The US bank said global equity positioning remained supportive of further gains, but that regional differences were becoming more **** ounced.
A short squeeze occurs when traders who have bet on falling prices are forced to buy shares to close their positions, pushing prices higher still.
In the United States, the bank said risk appetite and short covering were sustaining bullish positioning.

Braiin Limited (NASDAQ:BRAI) is one of the best new tech stocks to buy according to ****** ysts. On June 17, Braiin announced a landmark partnership with BillCentral Pty Ltd to deploy its full-stack Agentic AI customer experience platform. This agreement marks a major milestone for the company's CXaaS division and is expected to accelerate the rollout of its enterprise AI suite across Australia and international markets.
The company is positioning its AI-native infrastructure to capture a share of the global CXaaS market, which is projected to exceed $ 20 billion. By replacing fragmented legacy systems with a unified ecosystem for voice, messaging, and workflow automation, Braiin Limited (NASDAQ:BRAI) aims to improve operational efficiency and secure a scalable, recurring SaaS revenue model.
CEO Natraj Balasubramanian emphasized that the partnership validates the company's Agentic AI strategy and its ability to deliver enterprise-grade engagement tools. Utilizing over 15 years of industry experience, the platform is designed to automate complex workflows while reducing costs, further integrating AI into the company's broader PropTech and transaction infrastructure ecosystem.
Braiin Limited (NASDAQ:BRAI) is a multifaceted technology firm that integrates AI, automation, and various service sectors to manage connected consumer experiences and home infrastructure.
While we acknowledge the potential of BRAI 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.

By Sethuraman N R
NEW DELHI, July 3 (Reuters) - India's coal-fired power generation surged to a near-three-year high in June because of increased cooling demand ‌from higher temperatures from an extended heatwave and below-average monsoon rainfall, government ‌data showed.
India's total electricity generation in June rose 10.4% from a year ago to 178.31 billion kilowatt‑hours, according to Reuters calculations of daily data from federal grid regulator Grid-India.
Coal-fired power generation rose about 14% year-on-year to 120.20 billion kWh in June, the highest since November 2023, the data showed.
Last month, India logged its fifth-driest June since 1901 due to a ‌strong El Nino pattern, with ⁠searing heat driving demand for cooling, according to weather office data. The El Nino is a weather phenomenon caused by a warming ⁠of the Pacific Ocean waters off South America that tends to cause hot, dry weather in South and Southeast Asia.

There were only 1,000 more truck transportation workers being counted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in June compared to the number the agency counted in April.
In four of the last five months, the number of truck transportation jobs reported by the BLS fell, including a 1,300 decline for June, reported Thursday morning by the agency.
But in April, truck transportation jobs rose by 5,100. Combine that with changes earlier in the year and the end result is that the June figure of 1,466,600 jobs was just 1,000 higher than what was reported in January.
It also means that the number of workers in the truck transportation sector has not been able to recover from a brutal 2025, when the figure opened the year at 1,493,100 jobs and closed it at 1,467,200 jobs, slightly higher than where they stand today.
David Spencer, vice president of market intelligence at Arrive Logistics, said the slow growth in truck transportation employment has been several years in the marking.

Artificial intelligence has investors rethinking how companies create value. Businesses once judged by hardware or software alone are increasingly building entire ecosystems spanning chips, cloud infrastructure, applications, and distribution. Few companies illustrate that shift better than ****** eX (SPCX).
Consensus projections already call for extraordinary growth, but those estimates may underestimate how much the company is changing. At the same time, they may also underestimate the cost of getting there. For investors considering ****** eX's IPO, the real question is no longer whether revenue can grow, but whether profits can eventually catch up.
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Nvidia Is Still a Bargain. ****** ysts See 57% Upside in NVDA Stock.
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OpenAI's Jalapeño chip with Broadcom (AVGO) and its 40% DRAM wafer lock-up through 2029 make Micron (MU) a direct beneficiary.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Bill Gates jointly committed $500 million to Intercept, a new organization aiming to eliminate all respiratory viruses.
Sam Altman is transforming OpenAI from a model lab into a vertically integrated empire controlling silicon, memory, and now human biology.
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Three things happened to OpenAI last week. The company went from being a model lab to something closer to a vertically integrated empire that wants to design its own silicon, own a chunk of the world's memory supply, and cure the common cold.

Fermi Inc. (NASDAQ:FRMI) is one of the 10 Best New Stocks to Buy Other Than ***** eX.
On June 23, 2026, Stifel lowered its price target on Fermi Inc. (NASDAQ:FRMI) to $17 from $29 and kept a Buy rating. Stifel said Fermi has apparently made progress in the background after months of post-IPO uncertainty, but the continued wait for a firm contract with an initial tenant has "clearly delayed the story and rattled our valuation." The firm updated its forecasts and said Fermi remains "a high-risk, high-reward, pre-revenue story."
On June 11, Citizens said The Information's report that OpenAI is in talks to lease a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio through funding provided by Nvidia bodes well for Fermi. Citizens said the report improves the likelihood of a significant signed lease for Fermi as the company seeks its first lease for its developing 11 GW natural gas-powered complex. Fermi shares were up 13% to $6.35 following Citizens' note.
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Last month, Evercore ISI ***** yst Nicholas Amicucci downgraded Fermi to In Line from Outperform with a price target of $11, down from $20. Amicucci said the downgrade is "not a rejection" of the long-term scarcity value of Project Matador or the broader power-demand thesis, but reflects a changed underwriting standard. Amicucci said Fermi 2.0 is "credible evidence" that a reset has begun, but not yet proof that it has worked.

QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) is one of the best trending AI stocks to watch in 2026. BofA lifted the price target on QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) to $195 from $165 on May 23 and maintained an Underperform rating on the shares. The rating update came ahead of the company's investor day on Wednesday, June 24, with the firm stating that it is rolling forward in its valuation to calendar year 2028 estimates. However, it maintained an Underperform rating on the shares as it believes the company is re-entering a fast-growing but hyper-competitive AI market that is full of large incumbents as the company works to diversify away from handsets toward a broader AI compute platform spanning edge, auto/IoT, and data center.
In another development, Bloomberg reported on June 22 that according to people familiar with the matter, QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) is in advanced talks to acquire Modular Inc, the AI infrastructure software company, in a transaction valued at around $4 billion. It further reported that a transaction may be announced as soon as the upcoming week. Bloomberg added that the people asked not to be identified since the information is private.
QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) develops and commercializes foundational technologies for the wireless industry, including 3G, 4G, and 5G wireless connectivity and high-performance and low-power computing, including on-device AI. The company operates across various high-growth markets, including autonomous vehicles and smartphones. QUALCOMM's Snapdragon augmented reality technology is the next generation of mobile computing.
While we acknowledge the potential of QCOM 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.
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Enphase Energy (NASDAQ:ENPH) is one of the 15 AI Stocks ***** ysts Are Watching: Microsoft, Nvidia, and More.
The data center power market holds significant opportunity, and Enphase Energy is one name that could benefit from it. On June 18, Barclays ***** yst Christine Cho upgraded the stock from Underweight to Equal weight with a price target of $51.00 (from $30).
In particular, Barclays upgrade reflects opportunity for Enphase in solid-state transformers, or SSTs. The firm estimates that this could represent an estimated $2 billion annual US market by the late 2020s.
The investor note pointed out that hyperscalers are migrating to 800-volt direct-current power architectures to support denser server racks. This could make SSTs a core component of the power system and replace or displace traditional transformers.
Unlike legacy hardware, SSTs resemble inverters in functionality – leveraging active power conversion and control – which plays directly to ENPH's technical strengths.

Avalo Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVTX) is among the best low priced stocks to get rich in 2026. On June 12, BofA started coverage on Avalo Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVTX) with a Buy rating and a price target of $35. According to the firm, the company is a "cleaner, single-asset immunology story" following the positive Phase 2 data in hidradenitis suppurativa. If the company's lead product, abdakibart, is compared with alternative drugs, the former may provide a more convenient monthly dosing schedule and greater impact on disease outcomes, the firm added.
BofA views the investment case as "a differentiated IL-1β antibody in HS, a large undertreated market, and a balance sheet with runway through next major data readout into 2029e after ~$405M net proceeds."
The company's one-year return is what catches the eye, with an impressive 183% market outperformance. This doesn't stop here as the company's future looks equally promising. With a bullish stance from all 14 ****** ysts covering the stock, Avalo Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVTX) has a 1-year upside potential of 195.92%. No wonder AVTX is among the best low-priced stocks to get rich in 2026.
Avalo Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVTX), incorporated in 2011, is a Pennsylvania-based clinical-stage biotechnology company that provides solutions for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. The company's lead candidate is AVTX-009.
While we acknowledge the potential of AVTX 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.

September U.S. T-Bond (ZBU26) futures present a buying opportunity on more price strength.
See on the daily bar chart for September U.S. Treasury bond futures that prices are trending up and last week hit a nearly two-month high. The bulls have the near-term technical advantage as "the trend is their friend."
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The U.S. dollar is cracking—and the market knows it. After years of monetary excess, swelling deficits, and policy uncertainty, the world's reserve currency is losing its grip as a store of value. Capital is fleeing paper promises and piling into hard ***** ets at a pace not seen in decades.
Nowhere is this more visible than in precious metals: Gold has surged to above $4,100 per ounce, silver has ripped past $70, and palladium—once written off—has clawed its way back to $1,350. Add an unstable geopolitical backdrop stretching from war in the Middle East to Venezuela and the ongoing Ukraine War, and it's no surprise that traditional safe havens are looking increasingly crowded—and increasingly fragile.
But here's the twist: even as precious metals soar, the smartest money in the room is already looking past them.
Gold doesn't generate cash flow. Silver doesn't power economies. And when trades get crowded, volatility cuts both ways. The dollar debasement trade and overbought precious metals have pushed some institutional investors into something with steady, growing cash flows: generating power for the Data Centre boom.
This is something that Canadian billionaire investor Kevin O'Leary understands like no other.

Supermicro (SMCI) recently announced plans to raise $7 billion through an equity offering to purchase components needed to fulfill AI server orders worth $39 billion. Where otherwise a backlog would be considered positive for a company, raising money through equity issuance to fulfill that order has spooked investors. Accordingly, concerns about dilution have caused SMCI stock to fall 28% over the past five days.
This isn't the company's first experience with severe volatility. In 2024, after Supermicro was nearly delisted from the Nasdaq Exchange due to its auditor resigning over accounting irregularities, the stock dropped by 70%. Since then, sudden and large moves have become common with SMCI shares.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is admitting to missteps in a newly leaked memo, following the company's significant workforce changes over the past year as it pours billions of dollars into developing artificial intelligence infrastructure.
These changes include Meta's decision last year to axe roughly 3,600 jobs after Zuckerberg warned employees in a memo that he had decided to "raise the bar on performance."
Meta continued to cut jobs this year as it doubled down on its artificial intelligence investments. In January, the company laid off about 1,000 employees in its Reality Labs division after the department incurred $73 billion in losses since 2021.
By March, it had pink-slipped several hundred employees across multiple departments, including sales, recruiting, global operations, Facebook, and again, Reality Labs. The following month, it even began tracking employees' computer activity to help build its AI agents, according to a Reuters report.
Most recently, in May, Meta laid off 8,000 employees, which is 10% of its workforce, and pulled the plug on 6,000 open job positions to offset its massive AI investments. Additionally, over 7,000 employees were internally reassigned to roles that focus on AI initiatives.

MicroStrategy bought 1,587 Bitcoin (BTC) for $100 million between June 8 and June 14, paying an average of $63,024 per coin. To fund it, the company sold $209 million of common stock, more than twice what it spent.
The gap shows where the rest of the money went. MicroStrategy steered the surplus into a cash reserve set aside for dividends and debt, rather than into more Bitcoin.
MicroStrategy raised the full $209 million by selling 1,732,553 MSTR shares through its at-the-market program. It tapped none of its preferred stock lines during the period.
That marks a shift. The company has leaned on high-yield preferred issues such as STRC to fund buys for much of the past year. It still holds wide capacity, including a $21 billion common-stock program cleared in March.
Relying on common stock dilutes existing holders. The choice also signals which funding door stayed open while the share price sat under pressure.

June 14, 2026, 9:55 am EDT
Say it with me: Social Security isn’t running out of money. The retirement trust fund is running out of money. The distinction matters, because the mistaken belief that Social Security is going broke is prompting people to claim early, locking in lower benefits for life. For those born in 1960 and after, claiming at age 62 results in a permanent 30% haircut, compared to what you’d get at your full retirement age of 67.
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Terra Firma Equity has formed Averro Group, a controlled packaging entity focused on replacing selected conventional plastic products in high-use commercial settings.
The new entity has been established with Soluvia Australia.
Terra Firma said the venture combines its customer access, commercial links, logistics reach and supply chain planning with Soluvia’s capabilities in water-soluble, biodegradable and certification-based packaging.
The company is targeting markets where packaging is bought repeatedly by commercial and institutional users, rather than seeking to address the whole packaging sector.
Averro is being positioned as a packaging platform for established supply chains, not as a consumer-facing brand or a single-product operation.