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AAPL 1-year price chart, up 57.01% over the period. Chart from TradingView.A high volume breakout candle meets a price target that has not caught up.Apple closed at $333.02, up 3.53% ($11.36) on the day, after a sharp intraday move pushed the stock to a fresh all time high. That is a notable reversal in tone. Over the five sessions before today, AAPL had actually drifted 0.11% lower, trading in a tight, listless range. Today broke that pattern in one candle.🚀 The Breakout CandleThe intraday cha

TSM 1-year price chart, up 68% over the period despite the recent pullback. Chart from TradingView. Short term signals have flipped bearish, but the long term trend has not broken yet.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company closed at $403.41, down 2.93% ($12.17) on the day. That single session loss is not an isolated event. Zoom out to the past month and TSM is down 7.2% ($31.32), a meaningful pullback for a stock that spent most of the year grinding steadily higher. Zoom out further, to the

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

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

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

Executive Summary:Reddit NYSE:RDDT fell 9.18% on July 23 after the Wall Street Journal reported the company is reconsidering its AI content licensing deal with GoogleShares are trading near $170, having broken below the 50-day EMA ($186.05) and 200-day EMA ($175.92), with a daily low of $166.1314-day RSI sits near 31, close to oversold, while support levels stack at $166.10, $152.62, and $139.88Wall Street's price target range is unusually wide, from $110 to $300, averaging around $221, even as

US Stock Earnings This Week: Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Amazon Face the AI Spending Test as the Fed DecidesFour of the largest U.S. technology companies will report earnings within two days this week. Microsoft and Meta report after the market closes on Wednesday, July 29. Apple and Amazon follow after Thursday’s close. The Federal Reserve will also announce its interest-rate decision on Wednesday afternoon. That combination makes this one of the most important weeks of the second-quarter earnin

Executive SummaryIntel reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter 2026 earnings as demand for data center CPUs, AI infrastructure and higher-end client processors supported its fastest revenue growth in more than 15 years. Revenue increased 25% to $16.1 billion, while adjusted earnings reached $0.42 per share. Intel also issued Q3 revenue and profit guidance above Wall Street estimates. However, investors still need to watch rising capital spending, foundry economics and whether external cus