Crypto Pulse

Overview Coinbase rose about 4.28% on August 25 to near $187, trading between $174.73 and $189.27 after closing at $179.48 the prior session. The immediate backdrop was Bitcoin clearing $80,000, Ethereum rebounding alongside it, and Goldman Sachs analyst James Yaro raising his price target to $196 from $173, citing growth in brokerage and prediction markets, stronger crypto trading activity and regulatory progress. Treating this stock as a simple leveraged proxy for Bitcoin, though, misses the m

Overview Strategy closed at $126.83 on August 25, up roughly 3.4% on the session after trading between $118.55 and $127.90 on volume of 41.3 million shares against a daily average near 28.4 million. Measured from the August 18 close of $92.52, the stock has gained about 37% in five sessions while Bitcoin moved from roughly $63,000 to above $80,000. The correlated advance looks like textbook leverage. But what determines how much further this stock can run is not Bitcoin's price. It is three more

Overview Two months ago, SK Hynix was the most valuable listed company in South Korea. Today the stock sits roughly 45% below its record high. On August 25, the production workers' union rejected a tentative wage agreement by a margin of 25 votes, and the shares fell sharply intraday before recovering to close down about 1.5% at 1,646,000 won, against a 0.2% gain in the broader KOSPI. Placed on a longer axis the picture changes entirely. TradingView data shows 000660 set an all-time high of 2,98

Overview AMD rose roughly 4.91% on August 25, breaking a run of declines. The trigger was a sell-side note: Raymond James analyst Simon Leopold upgraded the stock to Strong Buy from Outperform and raised his price target to $641 from $565, citing an attractive valuation and the long-term growth opportunity in server CPUs supporting AI workloads. Where the bounce occurred matters. On Monday, August 24, AMD fell about 3.5% as semiconductor stocks sold off broadly, with investors de-risking ahead o

Overview Nvidia reports fiscal second-quarter results after the U.S. close on August 26, with the conference call scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Pacific time. It is the single largest event on the global calendar this week, and the stock has set itself up for it in an unusual way. Bloomberg noted that NVDA fell for seven consecutive sessions into the print, its longest losing streak since 2022. On Tuesday, August 25, the stock finally rebounded 2.19% to close at $213.05. The market, in other words, pur

Executive SummaryIntuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU) fell as much as 11% after hours on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, despite beating fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and earnings estimatesThe selloff was driven entirely by weak fiscal 2027 guidance, with full-year adjusted EPS guided to $22.88 to $23.12, well below the roughly $27.30 analyst consensusFirst-quarter fiscal 2027 guidance of $2.44 to $2.48 adjusted EPS also missed the $4.02 consensus by a wide marginManagement cited softer Mailchimp growth, a decli

On August 25th, the US stock market closed with the three major indexes rising synchronously, with the Nasdaq leading the way by 0.66% and closing at 26,151 points. The most memorable sector that day was not the Constituent Stock index, but SMCI (Supermicro Computer) - it rose 9.35% in a single day and closed at $38.46, while the average value of the Nasdaq computer hardware industry on the same day was -1.71%. A sector of stocks went in the opposite direction to its own industry.Looking upstrea

I. Macro & Market Sentiment(Market Data)· BTC Price: $78,762 (24h -1.27%)· Funding Rate: +0.0067%· Fear & Greed Index: 80 (Extreme Greed)(Key Events Ahead)· No major macro events tonightII. Trading Signals / Hotspots(Bitcoin · Major Catalyst)· On August 19, the U.S. Treasury raised the maximum size of each buyback operation for 10- to 30-year Treasury securities from $2 billion to at least $4 billion. On the same day, the 30-year Treasury yield fell 14 basis points to 5.19%, Bitcoin surged towar

On August 24th Eastern Time, NVIDIA closed at $208.48, a decrease of 2.91%. This is the seventh consecutive trading day of decline in its stock price, with a cumulative decline of 7.5%, setting a record for the longest consecutive decline in four years since September 2022. From August 14th to August 24th, the market value evaporated by a total of $407 billion. Just two days later, after the US stock market closed on August 26th, NVIDIA will release its Q2 financial report for fiscal year 2027.

Overview Bitcoin pushed above $80,000 on August 25, reaching its highest level in more than three months. Reuters attributed the move to a soft U.S. dollar following Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's steps to calm the bond market, which revived what traders call the debasement trade. From roughly $63,000 on August 17, Bitcoin gained more than 20% in a week and is up about 27% over the past month. The question has therefore shifted from why it rallied to something harder: whether this is a bear