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Overview Lam Research holds its September quarter earnings call at 5:00 p.m. Eastern on October 21, which is 05:00 on October 22 in Singapore. Unlike most previews, the disagreement here is not about whether results will be strong but about what strong results are worth. The company set a high bar itself. Per the June quarter release, September quarter guidance calls for revenue of $8.10 billion plus or minus $400 million, gross margin of 52.0% plus or minus one point, operating margin of 39.5%

Overview Sophon has told users to move their on-chain assets off its network and claim outstanding rewards before November 25. Per Cointelegraph, the project begins shutting down key infrastructure and related websites after that date, and assets left on Sophon Chain risk becoming permanently inaccessible, covering SOPH, ETH, USDC and other tokens held on the chain. There are in fact two dates to track. Per KuCoin's relay of the project's announcement, November 25 is the deadline for user action

Overview BNB Chain completed its 37th quarterly burn on October 19. Per the official announcement, 1,646,196.44 BNB were removed at an estimated value of roughly $1.197 billion at the time of the burn, leaving total supply at 131,512,085 BNB, with the transaction verifiable on chain. The comparison with last quarter is where it gets interesting. The 36th burn removed about 1.6158 million BNB worth roughly $932 million, leaving supply at 133.17 million. The token counts differ by only about 1.9%,

3M (NYSE: MMM) shares jumped more than 5% in after-hours trading on October 19, 2026, after the industrial technology company disclosed an expanded strategic commercial relationship with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) involving optical connectivity and other data center products.Under the agreement, 3M granted an Amazon subsidiary the right to purchase up to 3.16 million shares of MMM stock at $164.89 per share over seven years. Most of those rights are tied to Amazon's payments for 3M data center produc

Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE: CLF) stock surged 16.34% to $14.10 on October 19, 2026, after the U.S. steelmaker reported its strongest quarterly performance in three years and projected that adjusted EBITDA could exceed $4 billion in 2027.The company reported Q3 revenue of $5.6 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $612 million, and adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.28. More importantly, its 2027 earnings outlook substantially exceeded Wall Street expectations of approximately $2.5 billion in adjusted EBI

SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) will report its third-quarter 2026 earnings after the U.S. stock market closes on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, with a management webcast scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. PT).The results will mark SpaceX's second quarterly earnings release since its June 2026 IPO. Wall Street expects revenue of approximately $12.7 billion to $12.9 billion, with attention shifting toward the company's rapidly expanding AI infrastructure business, Starlink revenue growth, and the capital sp

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Overview Strategy disclosed in a Form 8-K filed on October 16, 2026 a conditional schedule of daily cash dividends on its STRC preferred stock for November, at an annualised rate of 12.00%. The board declared a dividend for each calendar day from November 1 through November 30, at $0.03 or $0.04 per share per day, totalling $1.00 for the month, with each payment made on the business day immediately following its record date. Two conditions govern the whole arrangement. Stockholders must approve

On October 16 NiSource (Ticker: NI) signed an agreement with Microsoft (Ticker: MSFT) for about 1100MW of new generation on a 20-year term, serving Microsoft's data center campus in northwest Indiana from 2028, with Microsoft funding all of the generation and transmission. A separate 600MW storage tolling agreement signed the same day put about $2.20B of payments over 20.5 years on the record in an 8-K, the only value this issue that is both disclosed and filed. The weekend added two larger but

Overview Summing the daily figures published by Farside Investors, US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded net outflows of roughly $320.1 million across the full trading week of October 12 to 16, against roughly $228.4 million for spot Bitcoin ETFs over the same days. A product line holding about one seventh the assets lost more money in absolute terms. Two points on methodology come first. This is the complete week through October 16 and should not be described as October 19 flow data, since Farside upd