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Circle Stock Is Down More Than 70% From Its All-Time High. Is It Time to Update the Investment Thesis for CRCL Stock? Dominic Basulto, The Motley Fool Sun, August 23, 2026 at 8:43 AM PDT 4 min read CRCL NVDA Back in June 2025, Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) made its stock market debut with much fanfare. At one point last summer, Circle stock traded as high as $299, and the sky seemed to be the limit for how much higher it might go. But flash forward one year, and the outlook does not look nearly as bright. Shares of Circle Internet Group currently trade for just $85, and a general malaise continues to hover over the crypto market. So is Circle stock a buy going forward, or is it best to look for other opportunities elsewhere? Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100...

Image source, Henry Nicholls - WPA Pool/Getty Images Image caption, Andy Burnham has refused to rule out tax rises in the autumn Budget By Rachel Clun Business reporter Published 34 minutes ago Andy Burnham has refused to rule out tax rises in the upcoming autumn Budget, saying he "won't be unrealistic" about the "challenging" state of public finances. The prime minister said he would take a "careful approach" to the economy, and defended his previously announced cost of living pledges as funded spending commitments. Burnham became prime minister in July promising to give people breathing space and help with the cost of living, but questions remain over how major policies such as social care reforms will be funded. Experts have previously warned that he and Chancellor John Healey will have little financial room to manoeuvre in their first Budget on 28 October. Speaking during his first visit to Ukraine , Burnham said the policies announced so far incl...

U.S. equity futures were little changed on Monday night after the S&P 500 posted a losing session as investors turned cautious ahead of Nvidia's earnings and a key inflation report due later this week. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 15 points, or 0.03%. S&P 500 futures inched higher by 0.03%, while Nasdaq 100 futures were near the flatline. In regular trading, the S&P 500 fell 0.28%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.76% as declines in chip stocks and other tech names weighed on the broader market. Meanwhile, the Dow gained 140.15 points, or 0.26%. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 0.55% on Tuesday, while the Topix was marginally lower. South Korea's Kospi dropped 2.37%, and the small-cap Kosdaq declined 1.23%. Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was 0.29% higher. U.S. bond yields were lower after CNBC reported that the Treasury Department could use its $1 trillion General Account to fund its plans to ramp up government bond purchases...

Walmart Fell 9%. I’m Not Sure This Is Just a Walmart Problem Jim Osman Sun, August 23, 2026 at 8:30 AM PDT 6 min read WMT Walmart fell more than 9% after reporting its slowest comparable-sales growth in six years. U.S. comparable sales rose 2.6%, below the 3.8% Wall Street expected, and the stock lost more than $80 billion of market value in a day. That looks like a (WMT) story. I think it may be a consumer story. (WMT) also raised its full-year sales and profit forecasts, which is why I would not treat the selloff as evidence that the business suddenly broke. The more revealing part of the quarter was what customers were doing inside the stores. Traffic held up reasonably well, but the average amount spent weakened. (WMT) also cut prices on roughly 11,000 items during the quarter. If you lower prices and customers become more selective about what goes into the basket, I pay attention. That tells me more about consumer behavior than about Walmart itself. More News from Barchart Soros ...

Nvidia Stock Is Treading Water Ahead of Earnings This Week - What's the Best NVDA Play? Mark R. Hake, CFA Sun, August 23, 2026 at 7:30 AM PDT 5 min read NVDA Nvidia, Inc. (NVDA) will release earnings on Wednesday, Aug. 26, after the market closes. NVDA stock has been treading water ahead of earnings, but expect volatility. Some investors may want to short puts after the results. NVDA closed at $214.72 on Friday, Aug. 21, down 4.70% from a recent closing peak of $225.30 on Aug. 13, but still up 13.0% from a recent trough of $190.01 on July 29. More News from Barchart Option Volatility and Earnings Report For Aug 24-28 Why the China-Led Weakness in NXP Semiconductors Stock Could Open Doors for Speculators Markets move fast. Keep up by reading our FREE midday Barchart Brief newsletter for exclusive charts, analysis, and headlines. However, it has been flat over the last 3 months. This shows up in Barchart's NVDA chart (below). NVDA stock - last 6 months - Barchart - Aug. 21, 2026...

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The Trump administration on Monday announced a plan to isolate Iran's economy by threatening to impose secondary sanctions on the "enablers" keeping the Islamic Republic afloat. "We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe," Treasury Scott Bessent said as he unveiled the new sanctions scheme, dubbed "Operation Economic Outcast." President Donald Trump is calling world leaders and making "specific requests to cease their interactions" with Iran, Bessent said at the Treasury Department. The promised sanctions have yet to be imposed. The U.S. will instead start by sending timelines to individual countries to "shut down activities we have identified," Bessent said. "Any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the U.S. dollar system," he said. "The clock just started ticking." The plan, which Trump had hyped as Iran's ...

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New combines now list for $1 million as farm income drops 2.6% forcing farmers to rely on 70s machines and scrap parts Godwin Oluponmile Sun, August 23, 2026 at 3:00 AM PDT 5 min read Slatan/Shutterstock A new top-end combine harvester for farmers in the U.S. now lists for as much as $1 million more than what most Americans will ever spend on a house. Dennis Kellogg, a farmer in Ithaca, Michigan, farms soybeans on a land his family has worked for six generations. His old combine dates to the 1970s, and he's planning to run it on his field again this fall, rather than spend down the cash the farm needs to operate. Must Read Jeff Bezos backs a platform that lets anyone invest in rental homes for as little as $100 6 ways to build wealth like a landlord without actually being one Dave Ramsey warns nearly 50% of Americans are making 1 big Social Security mistake. Here's what it is and 3 simple steps to fix it ASAP The tax breaks in Trump's 'big beautiful bill' expire af...

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is seeking to cap rising yields using a variety of tools at his department's disposal. However, traders on prediction market platforms think they won't lead yields to fall dramatically. Speculators on Kalshi think there's a 56% chance that the 10-year Treasury note yield will end 2026 above or at 4.75%, though they also place just 27% odds that it finishes the year above 5%. As of midday trading Monday, the 10-year yield was trading at about 4.70%. Traders on Kalshi are asked across a series of contracts about where they think the 10-year Treasury note yield will trade on Dec. 31. The contracts are resolved using data from the U.S. Treasury. Volume on the contracts are low, though, at just over $16,500 traded. On Polymarket , speculators place two-in-three odds that the 10-year Treasury note yield will cross 4.8% at some point in 2026, a level that it hasn't breached even amid a recent bonds sell-off. The contracts on Polymarket are ...

A Goldman Sachs partner leading one of the bank's flagship artificial intelligence projects warned that AI's spread across Wall Street risks hobbling the thinking capabilities of the next generation of financiers. "There's a huge danger here that in the era of AI, we outsource our reasoning to these models, and we have cognitive atrophy that stops us being able to reason from first principles ourselves," said Chris Churchman, who leads Goldman's digital platform for institutional clients called Marquee . The comments came during the latest episode of the firm's "Exchanges" podcast, according to a transcript provided exclusively to CNBC. Just as people lost navigation and memorization skills with modern inventions, bankers risk losing analytical abilities if algorithms handle all the heavy lifting, Churchman said. "Reasoning is still important," he said. "You still need to reason about [problems] and structure it into an argument, ...

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OpenAI’s CFO Just Told Employees the IPO Is Coming in 2027 or Sooner Omor Ibne Ehsan Mon, August 24, 2026 at 6:50 AM PDT 4 min read Quick Read Sarah Friar called OpenAI's planned 2027 IPO "another fundraise," signaling the listing serves employee liquidity and acquisition currency, not operational funding. Enterprise revenue growing 50% quarter-to-date outpaces the blended 35% rate, and that mix at filing determines whether OpenAI prices like infrastructure or a consumer app. Whichever frontier AI lab lists first sets the sector's comparable valuation multiple, making Anthropic's potential September 2026 IPO consequential for OpenAI's eventual pricing. Don't wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. See the full list FREE now . OpenAI's finance chief told the company's staff this week that a public listing is coming, and the message was unusually direct for a firm that has spent years signaling ambivalence abo...

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: BABA, MRVL, SNDK and more Skip Navigation Markets Business Investing Tech Politics & Policy Video Watchlist Investing Club PRO Livestream Menu Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Alibaba U.S.-listed shares of the Chinese technology company were off by 2% after the company announced it was issuing $10.2 billion of new shares to non-U.S. investors . Alibaba said all of the money it raises will be used to fund its AI projects, particularly on its AI infrastructure. Chipmakers After falling 5.5% last week, the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) was down almost 2% on Monday. Marvell Technology declined almost 3.5%, while Advanced Micro Devices and Intel fell about 2%. Memory stocks A slew of memory storage companies were also starting the week in the red before the bell. Sandisk was off more than 5%, while Western Digital and Seagate Technology declined almost 4%. Micron Technology slid 3.5%. Nucor , Steel Dynamics The st...

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Image source, Finn Gomez/Getty Images By Mitchell Labiak Business reporter Published 30 minutes ago The US treasury secretary has threated Iran with "the single greatest financial offensive ever", claiming the US-Israel war with Iran was "entering its endgame". Scott Bessent said the US would sever all economic ties with the country in "an economic D-Day" and that any nation partnering with Iran financially would also be isolated. Bessent's threat to the Iranian regime follows several U-turns and extended deadlines from US President Donald Trump's administration on previous threats. Iran dismissed Bessent's comments and said it would shut down all oil exports from the region "if the war continues", according to news agency Reuters. The Iranian regime has also issued a new warning to shipping not to pass through the Strait of Hormuz without its permission, the agency reported. One fifth of the world's oil and gas usually passes th...