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Bitcoin Breaks $100K on $1B ETF Surge
Technology
SEISMIC
Aug 288 min read

Bitcoin Breaks $100K on $1B ETF Surge

Bitcoin reclaimed the six-figure threshold for the first time since May 2026, as $1 billion-plus in August spot ETF inflows and a $1.5 billion short liquidation cascade produced the most…

Anthropic Eyes $2T Nasdaq Debut After Labor Day
Markets
SEISMIC
Aug 286 min read

Anthropic Eyes $2T Nasdaq Debut After Labor Day

Anthropic plans to file its S-1 after Labor Day, targeting a late-September Nasdaq listing at up to $2 trillion - potentially the largest IPO on record.

ESTC Jumps 18% After Q1 FY2027 Earnings Crush Estimates
Business & Earnings
MAJOR
Aug 286 min read

ESTC Jumps 18% After Q1 FY2027 Earnings Crush Estimates

Elastic N.V. shares surged as much as 18% after first-quarter fiscal 2027 results showed adjusted EPS of $0.70 crushing the $0.58 Wall Street consensus, with 37% of enterprise customers now…

Gap (GPS) Jumps 13.8% as Profit Beat Raises EPS Outlook
Business & Earnings
MAJOR
Aug 285 min read

Gap (GPS) Jumps 13.8% as Profit Beat Raises EPS Outlook

Gap Inc. surged 13.8% in after-hours trading after Q2 FY2026 adjusted earnings beat estimates and management raised its full-year profit forecast, even as headline revenue slipped 2% year over year.

Hormuz Toll Chokes Oil Flows as WTI Nears $130
Markets
SEISMIC
Aug 288 min read

Hormuz Toll Chokes Oil Flows as WTI Nears $130

Iran's $1-million-per-ship levy has collapsed Strait of Hormuz transits from 130 to fewer than 15 daily crossings, pushing WTI crude near $130 a barrel as Iran-Oman revenue-sharing talks offer the…

SK Hynix Breaks Ground on $4B Indiana HBM Plant
Technology
SEISMIC
Aug 287 min read

SK Hynix Breaks Ground on $4B Indiana HBM Plant

SK Hynix's $4 billion West Lafayette facility - the first U.S.-based HBM packaging plant - locks in American AI chip supply chain resilience with volume HBM4E production targeted for Q3 2029.

Warsh's Jackson Hole Shock Sends Rate-Hike Odds to 56%
Markets
SEISMIC
Aug 284 min read

Warsh's Jackson Hole Shock Sends Rate-Hike Odds to 56%

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh blindsided bond markets with a hawkish Jackson Hole speech, pushing September rate-hike odds from 35% to 56% in minutes.

Okta Surges 28% in Best Session in Years After Q2 Beat
Technology
MAJOR
Aug 286 min read

Okta Surges 28% in Best Session in Years After Q2 Beat

Okta's Q2 FY2027 EPS of $1.05 crushed the $0.96 consensus as agentic AI identity security demand drove a guidance raise and triggered eight simultaneous Wall Street upgrades.

PayPal Drops 15% as Advent-Stripe Bid Collapses
Business & Earnings
MAJOR
Aug 285 min read

PayPal Drops 15% as Advent-Stripe Bid Collapses

PayPal Holdings plunged 15% after Advent International and Stripe abandoned their $3 billion takeover approach, erasing the entire deal premium that had propelled the stock 40% higher this quarter.

Nvidia Q2 Blowout Fires Sharpest Chip Rally in Weeks
Technology
MAJOR
Aug 286 min read

Nvidia Q2 Blowout Fires Sharpest Chip Rally in Weeks

Nvidia's Q2 beat of $96.2B revenue and $108B Q3 guidance drove the sharpest chip sector rally since early August, with Marvell, Micron, and CoreWeave up 5-7%.

Consumer Confidence Falls to 89.4, Lowest Since January
Economy
MAJOR
Aug 286 min read

Consumer Confidence Falls to 89.4, Lowest Since January

August consumer confidence falls to 89.4, its lowest since January, as tariff costs squeeze households ahead of Fed Chair Warsh's Jackson Hole keynote.

Gold's 14% August Surge Is Biggest Monthly Gain Since 1999
Economy
SEISMIC
Aug 287 min read

Gold's 14% August Surge Is Biggest Monthly Gain Since 1999

Gold's advance to near $4,674 per ounce marks the metal's sharpest monthly gain in 27 years, as a $40 trillion US debt crossing, record central bank purchases, and Canada-US trade war collapse…

Meta's $6.7B Settlement Reshapes Social Media
Markets
SEISMIC
Aug 285 min read

Meta's $6.7B Settlement Reshapes Social Media

Meta Platforms agrees to pay up to $6.7 billion to settle a 29-state federal trial over teen addiction on Facebook and Instagram, with court-mandated platform redesigns directly targeting its…

Apple CEO Cook Yields to Ternus in Sept. Handoff
Technology
SEISMIC
Aug 286 min read

Apple CEO Cook Yields to Ternus in Sept. Handoff

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook hands leadership to hardware chief John Ternus September 1, raising investor questions about supply chain and retail continuity after a 14-year transformative tenure.

Nvidia's $2.9B Hugging Face Deal Raises Monopoly Alarm
Technology
SEISMIC
Aug 285 min read

Nvidia's $2.9B Hugging Face Deal Raises Monopoly Alarm

Nvidia's $2.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, its largest deal ever, hands the chip giant control of the world's dominant open-source AI model repository and sparks immediate antitrust scrutiny.

Technology
MAJOR
Aug 285 min read

IBM Mainframe Chip Runs Arm and Z Code Natively

IBM's 11-core, 5.7 GHz chip runs Arm and IBM Z instructions natively on every core, unlocking cloud-native AI software for enterprise mainframes by 2028.

July PCE at 3.3% Corners Fed Before September
Economy
NOTABLE
Aug 286 min read

July PCE at 3.3% Corners Fed Before September

Core PCE held at 3.3% in July - 130 basis points above the Fed's 2% target - as real spending flatlined, complicating the September 16 FOMC rate decision with no clear mandate to move in either…

Canada Declares Economic War on Washington
Geopolitics
SEISMIC
Aug 286 min read

Canada Declares Economic War on Washington

Canada will impose dollar-for-dollar mirror tariffs on $27.6 billion in US goods starting Sept. 8, after trade talks collapsed and Washington levied 50% duties on Canadian imports.

Warsh Opens Jackson Hole With Rate Stakes High
Markets
SEISMIC
Aug 287 min read

Warsh Opens Jackson Hole With Rate Stakes High

Fed Chair Warsh delivers his inaugural Jackson Hole keynote Friday with core PCE at 3.3%, September rate-hike odds near 40%, and bond markets braced for 1-3% multi-asset swings.

CrowdStrike's Best Day Ever: AI Agents Drive Record Q2
Technology
SEISMIC
Aug 285 min read

CrowdStrike's Best Day Ever: AI Agents Drive Record Q2

CrowdStrike (CRWD) surged 20% on August 27 - its best single session ever - after Q2 FY2027 delivered record $332.8M net new ARR, 25% total ARR growth to $5.84B, and a full-year revenue guidance…

Salesforce CRM Surges 23% on Anthropic Gain, Claudeforce
Technology
MAJOR
Aug 285 min read

Salesforce CRM Surges 23% on Anthropic Gain, Claudeforce

Salesforce CRM rallied 23% to its second-best session ever as a $2.6 billion Anthropic stake gain and the Claudeforce AI plugin launch powered an 80% earnings-per-share beat over consensus.

HRL Plunges 9% on Q3 Revenue Miss and Forecast Cut
Business & Earnings
MAJOR
Aug 285 min read

HRL Plunges 9% on Q3 Revenue Miss and Forecast Cut

Hormel Foods stock closed at $21.57 on Thursday, its worst single-session decline in years, after Q3 net sales of $2.96 billion missed the $3.04 billion consensus and management cut the fiscal…

Autodesk Q2 FY2027: Beats Estimates, Drops 5% on Guidance
Business & Earnings
NOTABLE
Aug 286 min read

Autodesk Q2 FY2027: Beats Estimates, Drops 5% on Guidance

Autodesk posted better-than-expected Q2 FY2027 earnings and revenue, but ADSK reversed a 6% intraday gain to fall 5% after hours as the company's full-year EPS guidance midpoint landed at the low…

HP Inc. Q3: PC Shipments Sink 16% Despite Revenue Record
Technology
MAJOR
Aug 285 min read

HP Inc. Q3: PC Shipments Sink 16% Despite Revenue Record

HP Inc. shares fell 7% after fiscal Q3 2026 PC unit shipments plunged 16%, signaling the AI-driven PC refresh cycle is stalling just ahead of the critical holiday quarter.

Burlington BURL Beats Q2, Lifts FY2026 Guidance
Markets
MAJOR
Aug 276 min read

Burlington BURL Beats Q2, Lifts FY2026 Guidance

Burlington Stores posted Q2 2026 adjusted earnings of $0.37 per share, nearly doubling the $0.19 consensus estimate, as tariff-driven consumer trade-down pushed wallet share toward the off-price…

Ulta Beauty Q2 2026 Beats Estimates, Raises Outlook
Business & Earnings
NOTABLE
Aug 275 min read

Ulta Beauty Q2 2026 Beats Estimates, Raises Outlook

Ulta Beauty beat second-quarter earnings and revenue estimates on 3.8% comparable-store sales growth and raised full-year guidance, lifting ULTA shares 2% after hours.

VEEV Surges 18% as Q2 FY2027 Earnings Crush Forecasts
Healthcare
MAJOR
Aug 276 min read

VEEV Surges 18% as Q2 FY2027 Earnings Crush Forecasts

Veeva Systems jumped as much as 19% after reporting Q2 FY2027 revenue and profit that surpassed Wall Street expectations, driven by Vault CRM wins at Biogen and Regeneron as the company displaced…

Bitcoin Tops $100,000 in Biggest Three-Day Rally Since 2023
Markets
SEISMIC
Aug 277 min read

Bitcoin Tops $100,000 in Biggest Three-Day Rally Since 2023

Bitcoin's 20%-plus surge pushed the leading cryptocurrency past $100,000 for the first time in months, as a historic short squeeze, Clarity Act momentum, and AI-driven institutional flows…

Affirm Q4 FY2026: GMV Beat Dims on Delinquency Signal
Business & Earnings
MAJOR
Aug 277 min read

Affirm Q4 FY2026: GMV Beat Dims on Delinquency Signal

Affirm beat-and-raised on gross merchandise volume and revenue for fiscal Q4 2026, but AFRM shares slipped in after-hours trading after BTIG flagged all-time-high early-stage delinquencies in its…

Workday Q2 FY2027: Earnings Beat, AI ARR Nears $500M
Technology
MAJOR
Aug 275 min read

Workday Q2 FY2027: Earnings Beat, AI ARR Nears $500M

Workday beat Q2 FY2027 EPS and revenue targets as agentic AI ARR nears $500 million with 200%-plus growth, while Silver Lake's take-private bid floor holds firm beneath WDAY.

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