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Inside the charts, indicators, and key levels traders are watching after INTC's post-earnings reversal Intel just had one of its roughest single sessions in recent memory. Shares closed at $92.32, down $7.91, or 7.89%, in a single day. That kind of move doesn't happen in a vacuum: it landed in the days following Intel's Q2 2026 earnings report on July 23, where the company beat estimates on both revenue and EPS, with AI-driven data center revenue up 59% year-over-year. The post-earnings pop that

Overview On July 26, BitMart, a cryptocurrency exchange that operated for nine years, announced an orderly wind-down of its trading platform, putting millions of users on a hard clock: all spot and futures trading stops on August 26, and the platform fully closes on January 31, 2027. Per CoinDesk, the platform's BMX token crashed about 58% within 24 hours of the notice. For users who relied on BitMart to trade small and mid cap altcoins, this is not a decision to mull over slowly: the withdrawal

Overview Markets are questioning the corporate Bitcoin treasury model because the financing conditions that supported its expansion have changed. Falling Bitcoin prices, shrinking premiums to net asset value, weaker preferred stock prices and rising dividend obligations are forcing investors to distinguish between companies that are increasing Bitcoin per share and companies that are merely expanding their balance sheets through repeated securities issuance. There is no single answer for the ent

Overview Ethereum's staking data shows a seemingly contradictory combination: locked supply is hitting record highs while the staking yield falls to historic lows. Per Crypto Economy citing on-chain analysts, as of late July about 41.04 million tokens were staked on the Ethereum network, roughly 34% of circulating supply, an all-time high worth about $77.7 billion at current prices. At the same time, the annual staking yield fell to 2.62% from 3.05%, among the lowest lockup returns the network h

Microsoft will report its fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 earnings after the U.S. market closes on Wednesday, July 29. The earnings call will begin at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time, or 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time, according to Microsoft’s official announcement.Microsoft enters the report with strong Azure growth, rising Copilot adoption and a large commercial backlog. However, the market’s main question has changed. Investors already know that demand for cloud computing and AI infrastructure is strong. They now

Meta Platforms will report its second-quarter 2026 earnings after the U.S. market closes on Wednesday, July 29. The earnings call is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time, or 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The headline numbers are expected to remain strong. However, Meta’s Q2 2026 earnings report is no longer only about Facebook and Instagram advertising growth.Wall Street will also be looking for evidence that Meta’s rapidly expanding AI infrastructure budget can create new revenue, improve its adverti

Overview On July 27, the military conflict between the United States and Iran that had run for nearly two weeks paused, and global markets reacted sharply. Per CNN, Brent crude closed at $85.87 a barrel that day, down 11.3%, its largest drop since April 8, while US crude fell about 7% to $82.61. Stocks rose in tandem, and Bitcoin briefly reclaimed $65,000. The market watches this conflict because it drives the pricing logic of three asset classes at once: oil sets inflation expectations, inflati

Overview On July 28, Bitcoin pulled back on the opening day of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Per TradingKey's market data, Bitcoin traded near $63,316 early in the US session, down about 2.49% over 24 hours and about 4.61% over seven days. The pre-decision volatility is not the result of a sudden piece of bad news but of the market positioning in advance for a binary outcome. The Fed releases its rate decision on July 29, and per the CME FedWatch tool, the probability of no c

Executive Summary:Alphabet NASDAQ:GOOGL fell as much as 7% on July 23 despite revenue growing 24% to $119.8 billion, well above the $116.9 billion consensusAdjusted EPS came in at $9.11 against a $2.88 estimate, though roughly $99 billion of that figure came from paper gains on Anthropic and SpaceX stakes, not operationsGoogle Cloud revenue surged 82%, with operating income roughly tripling year over year, and its backlog nearly doubled to as much as $514 billionFull-year 2026 capex guidance was

Executive Summary:Apple NASDAQ:AAPL hit an all-time high of $334.99 on July 17, 2026, its 15th intraday record of the year, lifting market value to nearly $5 trillionThe stock is up 20% year to date, adding more than half a trillion dollars in market value in July aloneHSBC upgraded Apple from Hold to Buy on July 17, raising its target from $260 to $366, calling the company at "an operational turning point"Citi separately raised its target to $365, citing record $31 billion Services revenue, whi