The quantum computing sector is running.
Nine firms got a nice boost on Thursday after the Trump Administration announced $2 billion in grants, reports WSJ.
$IBM $QBTS $RGTI
Nvidia reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday that topped Wall Street expectations, with revenue jumping 85% from a year earlier to $81.6B.
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Microsoft $MSFT is still the worst-performing Magnificent Seven stock of 2026, down nearly 12% year-to-date.
Meanwhile, Alphabet $GOOG has surged nearly 27%, leading the group alongside Nvidia $NVDA and Amazon $AMZN.
🔴 Consumer prices rose 3.8% over the past year, the fastest pace since May 2023
📉 Meanwhile, real wages fell 0.5% on the month.
Prices went up, but paychecks went down.
Moderna stock jumped another 5% early Monday, extending its 12% rally from Friday on reports that the company is researching a Hantavirus vaccine.
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Nvidia is partnering with Corning on three new optical manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Texas, a multiyear deal that will 10x Corning's U.S. optical capacity and create at least 3,000 jobs.
$GLW jumped 14%, $NVDA added roughly 4%.
UnitedHealth Group stock is running on Tuesday after the health insurance giant beat Wall Street estimates for the first quarter and updated its profit forecast for this year.
$UNH is up over 8% and climbing as of mid-day.
Some great stuff from @srvdyak on how China's pigs are basically going on a MAHA diet to lower the Middle Kingdom's reliance on U.S. soybeans
https://t.co/RXzuWjXBgq
According to a recent poll from Pew Research, 61% of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of the conflict in Iran.
But views are sharply divided along party lines: 90% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning respondents disapprove, compared with 30% of Republicans and Republican-leaning respondents.
According to a recent Pew Research poll, about 1-in-3 adults under the age of 30 say being extremely wealthy is “morally wrong.”
Just 19% say it’s acceptable, and another near-50% don’t think it’s a moral issue.
The Pentagon has been burning through roughly $1.2 billion a day on Operation Epic Fury, and nobody's even sent Congress the bill yet.
That works out to about $50 a week for every American taxpayer.