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Analysts have cut price targets on the athletic apparel maker, and even a longtime skeptic says the pace of the decline caught them off guard.
Analysts are cutting Lululemon price targets as the retailer's business deteriorates faster than even its bearish critics anticipated.
A Seeking Alpha analysis says the coming Federal Reserve decision faces unusually sharp internal disagreement over the path of interest rates.
The Federal Reserve is heading into its next policy vote with what one analysis calls its most divided committee in ten years.
The concentration figure highlights how gains among the very richest have outpaced the broader billionaire class even as markets have rallied broadly.
A group of just 29 billionaires now controls 27% of all billionaire wealth combined, and the report says that gap is widening.
A cluster of insider sales spanning Illumina, Krystal Biotech, CrowdStrike, Warner Bros. Discovery and NMI Holdings raises the question of whether executives see limited upside from here.
Illumina director Keith Meister sold $57.2 million in stock, the largest of at least seven insider sales disclosed in the period, together totaling well over $80 million across unrelated sectors.
Ambarella, Asana, eGain and Lululemon all beat estimates yet still fell — while Zscaler and Smith & Wesson climbed on similar beats, showing investors are now grading the outlook, not just the quarter.
Ambarella fell 11% after beating Q2 2027 estimates, and Asana, eGain and Lululemon all posted beats that failed to lift their shares, while Zscaler and Smith & Wesson rose on beats of their own.
A monopoly finding against Google and a delayed Gemini flagship are combining to weigh on Alphabet shares.
Alphabet shares are on their worst run since 2015, a stretch that coincides with an unresolved illegal-monopoly finding against Google and a Gemini AI flagship that has yet to ship the way CEO Sundar Pichai promised in June.
Alphabet's CEO says even Google can't build AI infrastructure fast enough, while Anthropic locks up 5 gigawatts of Nvidia-backed cloud capacity.
Anthropic signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda, a contract a source says secures roughly 5 gigawatts of AI capacity at a moment when Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says demand is outstripping what even Google can build.
Insider sales at Cabot, Brinker International and Synopsys each topped $5 million in disclosures filed around the same period.
Cabot Corp CEO Sean Keohane sold $11.4 million in stock, Brinker International director DePinto sold $5.76 million, and Synopsys executive chair Aart de Geus sold $11.1 million, according to separate disclosures.
A Seeking Alpha analysis argues investors chasing Marvell's pullback after Q2 results are moving too fast.
An analysis published after Marvell's fiscal Q2 report argues that buying the stock's dip is premature, even as other coverage floats Marvell as a potential $100 billion AI stock.
Deere, CNH Industrial, AGCO and Titan Machinery all received rating upgrades from Baird on the same day, citing margin recovery and a turn in the North America crop outlook.
Baird upgraded its ratings on Deere, CNH Industrial, AGCO and Titan Machinery in a single day, pointing to margin recovery potential and improving inventory conditions across the farm-equipment sector.
August factory activity improved slightly but remained below the growth threshold for a second straight month, while China's three largest carriers reported steep first-half losses on fuel costs.
China's factory activity contracted for a second consecutive month in August even as it improved slightly, while the country's three biggest airlines posted heavy first-half losses driven by a fuel-price shock.
The pipeline operator's growing role feeding gas-fired power to data centers positions it as a lesser-known beneficiary of AI infrastructure spending.
Energy Transfer is emerging as one of the largest natural gas suppliers to AI data centers, according to Motley Fool analysis, positioning it as an overlooked AI infrastructure play.
Strategy's chairman hints at his company's first bitcoin purchase in two months just as bitcoin dominance climbs above 60%, even as analysts keep warning about treasury-company structures.
Bitcoin's rebound toward $79,000 has coincided with bitcoin's share of total crypto market value climbing above 60%, but coverage from The Motley Fool says bitcoin treasury companies still carry serious red flags.
CEO Hock Tan has not changed his forecast of more than $100 billion in AI revenue by 2027, but the market is now paying a quarter less for it.
Broadcom stock trades 25% below its high even though Hock Tan's 2027 AI revenue guidance of over $100 billion has not moved since June, while the market prices AMD's less-certain AI chip challenge very differently.
The billionaire investor's move suggests a bet on different links in the artificial intelligence hardware supply chain rather than on AI broadly.
Stanley Druckenmiller sold his Broadcom position and moved into other artificial intelligence companies, a shift framed as a rotation within the AI compute supply chain rather than a retreat from the theme.
The equipment maker's power-generation segment has grown to nearly match its traditional construction unit, a shift that could reshape how investors value the stock.
Caterpillar's power-generation segment has grown large enough to nearly match its construction-equipment business, a structural shift that analysts say could change how the market values the stock.
H.C. Wainwright reiterated a Buy rating and $90 price target on AI revenue growth, even as analysts flag the strategy shift as high-risk.
H.C. Wainwright reiterated its Buy rating on IREN with a $90 price target, citing growing AI revenue, while independent analysis calls the stock's pivot from bitcoin mining to AI cloud computing a high-risk, high-reward bet.
South Korea's won hit a 13-month high after the Bank of Korea's rate hike, even as broader currency markets stayed quiet awaiting Warsh's remarks.
Asia FX and the dollar traded in a narrow range ahead of Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech, with South Korea's won the standout mover after a Bank of Korea rate hike pushed it to a 13-month high.
SpaceX's $100 billion spaceport plan and warnings that AI spending is propping up US growth point to the same funding strain.
Analysts flagged that SpaceX will need to raise significant debt to fund its $100 billion spaceport plan, the same week a separate analysis argued AI spending is one of the few things keeping the US economy growing.
Kohl's, Abercrombie & Fitch, Walmart and Williams-Sonoma reported this cycle, but their headroom to expand margins looks very different.
This earnings season is drawing a line between retailers analysts say still have room to expand margins and those seen as near their ceiling.