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Nvidia enters the second half of 2026 facing growing pressure to defend both its market leadership and investor confidence.While the company remains the world’s largest by market capitalisation, its stock has lagged several semiconductor peers this year as investors broaden their focus across the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain.The company continues to benefit from strong demand for AI processors. However, questions are emerging over whether Nvidia can sustain its dominance as its largest customers increasingly develop competing technologies and as Apple closes the gap in market value.Apple closes the gap in market valueNvidia has remained the world’s most valuable listed…

The Hang Seng Index retreated by over 10% in the first half of the year as some of the biggest Chinese technology companies lagged behind their global peers like the Nikkei 225 and Kospi, which jumped by 34% and 85%, respectively. Top Hang Seng Index stocks have retreated this yearHong Kong’s Hang Seng Index has dived this year because its biggest constituent companies have underperformed the market. Trip.com, China’s biggest player in the travel industry, has slumped by 42% this year amid concerns about its business. It recently released a weak earnings report, which came a few months after Beijing launched an…

Investor Michael Burry, best known for his successful bet against the US housing market portrayed in The Big Short, has reportedly opened a short position in Micron Technology (MU), arguing that the memory chip maker’s recent rally has been driven by speculative enthusiasm rather than fundamentals.According to a post published on his Substack, Burry shorted Micron shares at $1,051.87 on July 1 while simultaneously adding to five existing long positions. The move comes as Micron remains one of the best-performing semiconductor stocks of 2026 despite a recent pullback.Micron shares have gained more than 240% since the start of the year,…

Weaker payrolls fade Fed hike bets, pressuring the Dollar; diverging ECB path and geopolitical risk premiums complicate the moves. A Dovish Repricing of Fed Expectations Is Undercutting the Dollar The dominant force across markets right now is a sharp downward revision in expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes, triggered by a weaker-than-expected Nonfarm Payrolls report. The Dollar is bearing the brunt of this shift, sliding broadly as the tightening premium that had supported it gets stripped out. The knock-on effects are visible everywhere: EUR/USD is poised for its first weekly gain in three weeks, GBP/USD is grinding higher though still…

The European Securities and Markets Authority has proposed a major redesign of EU transaction reporting, saying a new “Report Once” framework could save market participants between €250 million and €1 billion a year while reducing recurring reporting costs by 22% to 24%. In its final report, ESMA said transaction reporting under MiFIR, EMIR and SFTR has become fragmented, duplicative and expensive because requirements have expanded through separate regulatory regimes. The regulator now wants a single modular framework that allows firms to report transaction data once and make that information reusable across multiple supervisory mandates. The reform is more than a…

The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) stock has pulled back in the past seven consecutive days and is hovering at its lowest level since June 11. There is a risk that the recent stock market rally is about to take a breather. S&P 500 Index has fallen despite some major good newsThe S&P 500 Index and its top ETFs, like VOO and SPY have pulled back despite some good news, including the recent US-Iran deal that has pushed crude oil pricesmuch lower than where they were a few months ago. Brent has dropped to $70, while the West Texas Intermediate (WTI)…

Micron Technology’s MU shares fell sharply on Friday, giving up part of the gains recorded earlier in the week despite the memory chipmaker reporting stronger-than-expected quarterly results.The stock declined nearly 5% in premarket trading as weakness spread across the broader semiconductor sector. Other US chipmakers also traded lower, with Intel down just over 3%, Sandisk falling 5%, Arm shedding 4%, and Marvell declining 3.7%.The decline came as investors remained cautious about the rising costs associated with artificial intelligence infrastructure, triggering a broader sell-off across global semiconductor stocks.Semiconductor stocks under pressure worldwideThe weakness extended beyond the United States.In Europe, ASML fell…

Forget the reflex that says memory chips are dumb commodities doomed to boom and bust. The single most important number in Micron Technology’s (NASDAQ: MU) fiscal third quarter is not the record $41.5 billion in revenue or the roughly 85% non-GAAP gross margin — it is the $22 billion in customer cash deposits the company has already collected against memory it has not yet shipped (TechTimes). Customers do not pre-pay billions for a commodity. They pre-pay for something they are terrified of not getting. With MU trading near $1,048 after a roughly 700% one-year run that pushed its market capitalisation…

A Northern California trader has pleaded guilty to operating a years-long spoofing scheme that manipulated thinly traded U.S. securities through more than 3,000 deceptive trades, marking another significant enforcement action against market manipulation in U.S. equity markets. Mingran Wang, 52, of Fremont, California, admitted in federal court that he orchestrated thousands of instances of manipulative trading between 2021 and 2024 by placing large orders he never intended to execute, creating false market signals that allowed him to profit from genuine trades placed on the opposite side of the market. The guilty plea highlights the Justice Department’s continued focus on sophisticated…

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