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Brent (BZ=F) fell 1.8% as Trump waived Russia sanctions while drones hit a St. Petersburg terminal
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Brent (BZ=F) fell 1.8% as Trump waived Russia sanctions while drones hit a St. Petersburg terminal

They Said Buy tracks stock calls from YouTube creators, pairing exact quotes and links to the precise video moment with what happened to the share price afterward. Revisit the original statement, see the outcome, and put memorable predictions in context.

Swiss biotech Nouscom raised a €120M Series D for its cancer-prevention immunotherapy for Lynch syndrome.
5:00What actually happens between clicking 'buy' and owning a share? A short walkthrough of the five stages every stock order travels through - order creation, your broker's best-execution duty, routing across exchanges and market makers, the matching engine, and T+1 settlement at the clearinghouse - that demystifies the hidden machinery behind a 'one-click' trade.

OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $50B, not the $70B figure circulated, and its IPO has slipped into 2027, rattling AI stocks and funding assumptions.

Datadog (DDOG) trades near $260 as Bernstein lifts its target to $350 on faster AI software demand.
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Datadog (DDOG) shares rose about 3% premarket after Bernstein upgraded the cloud monitoring group to Outperform on strong AI demand, lifting its target to $350.
Silgan Holdings (SLGN) will own 60% of a $7.3B metal packaging firm and use $2.3B in cash to cut debt.
Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) posted $612M EBITDA, above its $575M forecast, and guided higher on steel prices.

Nasdaq Amazon shares rose after Morgan Stanley named AMZN a top pick, citing faster AWS growth, the Bedrock AI platform and robotics efficiency gains.
Japan's 1,000 km Type 25 missiles leave base for the first time; Mitsubishi Heavy (7011.T) rose 5.4% Friday.

Israeli cyber startup Rein Security raised a $25M Series A to help companies control their AI agents. Its revenue has grown eightfold since January.

Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) rose about 12% premarket after Q3 2026 adjusted EPS of $0.28 topped estimates and management guided 2027 EBITDA above $4 billion.

Amazon (AMZN) trades near $262 after Morgan Stanley lifted its target to $350 on faster AWS cloud growth

Houthi missile and drone strikes on Saudi airports and Aramco sites have killed 20 and ended the 2022 truce, pushing Brent to a five-month high near $110.
4:00Why do stock prices swing so wildly from one day to the next? A short breakdown of the four forces behind market volatility - the emotional engine of fear and greed, the order-book mechanics that translate sentiment into price moves, the amplifying role of algorithmic and high-frequency trading, and how the VIX measures the market's mood in real time.

Brent crude (BZ=F) slipped from a five-month high as Rheinmetall (RHM.DE) fell 3.8% on Ukraine peace hopes.

Asian chip stocks fell to their lowest since July after DeepSeek said V4.1 needs far less HBM, with Samsung and SK Hynix among the biggest drags on Monday.

Cohere is acquiring AISLE, a startup building autonomous systems that find and fix software vulnerabilities.

Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its shares, about $48 billion, to a public benefit fund for workers displaced by AI, ahead of a Nasdaq IPO as soon as November.

Intel (INTC) is 36% below its June peak, and JPMorgan now sees balanced risk after a long Underweight call.
5:00The practical toolkit every new investor needs before placing their first trade - market orders, limit orders, and stop-loss orders explained in plain English, plus how index funds and ETFs let you own a diversified slice of the entire market in a single product.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs shed nearly $1 billion in two weeks as Bitcoin holds near $82,500 while gold at $4,165 trails its January record high of about $5,608.
Palantir (PLTR) slipped into a correction, 11% below its record, as $260B left software stocks.
Netflix (NFLX) is cutting about 1,000 jobs, 6% of staff, and named a new content chief before earnings.

Taiwan will make unlicensed shipments of AI servers and advanced chips to China a crime, a commitment under its US trade deal that cut tariffs to 15%.

Brent crude (BZ=F) slips from a five-month high after Trump suspends 100% tariffs on big Russian oil buyers.

Paris biotech and AI company Rivercell emerged from stealth with a €22M seed round, led by HV, for AI-powered drug-discovery infrastructure.

China's economy grew 4.5% in the third quarter of 2026, beating forecasts as AI-linked chip exports offset weak consumer demand and a deepening property slump.
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of how the stock market actually works - what stocks and shares are, the role of exchanges, brokers and regulators, how to open and fund your first brokerage account, and the foundational concepts of assets, liabilities, risk and return, inflation, interest rates, and compounding. Distilled from Pomegra's full 'The Absolute Basics' chapter to take complete newcomers from zero to confident.

Borrowing costs near a 2002 high as the euro and CAC 40 (^FCHI) slip on weekend unrest and budget deadlock.

Nasdaq 100 futures rose about 1.3% Monday after a 5.5% weekly drop as investors bought the dip ahead of Meta, Tesla and Netflix earnings in a packed week.

JPMorgan upgraded Intel (INTC) to Neutral from Underweight with an $85 price target, citing the CEO's turnaround and better chip yields; shares rose 4% premarket.

SpaceX (SPCX) shares sank to $146.03 as AI spending worries grew before Tuesday's expected first profit.

London spacetech startup Foundational exited stealth with €9.6M in pre-seed funding to track satellites and debris with millimetre-level precision.
6:00What to actually look at before buying a stock - the three financial statements every company publishes (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement), the valuation ratios that turn those numbers into a verdict (starting with the P/E ratio), and the macro indicators that shape the backdrop your stock has to perform in: GDP growth, the unemployment rate, and inflation.

France's 10-year yield rose to about 4.86% and the CAC 40 fell about 1.2% after nationwide riots, as investors question whether the 2027 budget can pass.

Shanghai Composite (000001.SS) fell 1.6% Thursday to a 14-month low, prompting Beijing to lean on state funds

TSMC's record third-quarter profit rose 68.7% on AI demand, yet US-listed shares slipped as margins narrowed and Terafab talks with Elon Musk stayed unresolved.

Strategy (MSTR) closed at $136.83 as MSCI's new rules, due November 30, may drop it from global indexes.
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