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Morgan Stanley reaffirms 'Overweight' ratings on SK Hynix and Samsung, setting ambitious price targets with significant upside potential. The report sharply raises cloud capex forecasts, highlighting AI demand as a key structural driver, and projects the memory cycle to enter a late phase in Q4 2026.
Read MorePump.fun has rolled out a major social trading upgrade, enabling token alerts for followers, zero-fee transactions, and seamless cross-chain swaps with USDC. This move aims to boost community engagement and trading fluidity.
Read MoreOn August 7, SpaceX's stock price surged 11% to $127.525 per share, pushing its total market valuation to $1.68 trillion. This significant jump highlights growing investor confidence in the commercial space sector and SpaceX's expanding technological and business capabilities.
Read MoreThe US stock storage sector saw a broad sell-off on August 7th, with losses deepening. Industry leader Seagate Technology plunged over 10%, while SK Hynix fell more than 6%. Analysts suggest this reflects weak demand and inventory pressures, signaling potential cyclical downturn risks for investors.
Read MoreOn August 7, SpaceX's stock surged 8.3% intraday to $124 per share, pushing its market capitalization to a historic $1.63 trillion. Analysts attribute the rally to successful Starship tests, accelerated commercial deployment, and anticipated new government contracts.
Read MoreJapan's Finance Minister Sakamoto stated that Japan and the US agree the yen's weakness is driven by speculative carry trades, not real demand. Both sides are prepared to intervene in currency markets again if needed, with Japan's economic policies supporting the yen's fundamentals.
Read MoreA White House economic advisor highlighted that U.S. private sector employment grew by over 100,000 jobs after adjusting for temporary government hiring and World Cup-related fluctuations, offering a clearer view of underlying economic momentum beyond transient factors.
Read MoreSharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom opposes Ethereum's EIP-8363 proposal, which would increase the burn rate of issuance rewards as staking rises. He argues this could raise on-chain capital costs, weaken ETH's native yield advantage over Bitcoin, and trigger capital outflows, favoring network fee burns instead.
Read MoreOn August 7, the U.S. optical communication sector opened strong and climbed higher. Coherent led the rally with a gain of over 14%, followed by Lumentum up more than 10%, with Corning and Marvell Technology also posting notable increases. The sector displayed robust momentum.
Read MoreUS major indices opened higher, led by the tech-heavy Nasdaq. Semiconductor and materials stocks showed strength, while mega-cap tech names posted modest gains, indicating positive market sentiment.
Read MoreUBS raised Cloudflare's price target to $350, a 40% increase, while lowering Microchip's target. This highlights strong confidence in cybersecurity and edge computing growth, contrasting with caution toward traditional semiconductors, offering key insights for tech investors.
Read MoreThe latest U.S. jobs report delivered a surprise: nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July, starkly contrasting market expectations for an 80,000 gain. This significant miss against forecasts raises immediate concerns about the strength of the economic recovery and labor market momentum.
Read MoreEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin states that the open-source video model MiniMax H3 is the first to outperform Tencent's HunyuanVideo 1.5. He highlights this as a pivotal step toward openness in AI video generation, which has been dominated by closed models.
Read MoreAugust 7th saw key moves in macro policy and tech. China's central bank continued gold purchases, while weak US jobs data shifted rate expectations. In tech, US scrutiny of Chinese AI computing, SK Hynix's chip investment, and ByteDance/Unitree's AGI collaboration highlight intensified AI competition.
Read MoreBitwise CIO Matt Hougan suggests the Clarity Act's outcome will drive short-term crypto volatility. If delayed, markets may dip briefly but are positioning for a potential autumn rebound, highlighting how regulatory decisions interact with market cycles.
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