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As the cognoscenti know, Samsung has, with characteristic lack of consideration, decided to slash prices for HBM3E memory chips. These little marvels, designed for AI and machine learning, were meant to be the crown jewels of semiconductor seduction. Yet Samsung, ever the impetuous suitor, now finds itself with surplus inventory and a distinct lack of Nvidia’s attention. The solution? A sale, darling—complete with bargain basement energy.
According to some data from CryptoQuant (which I assume is run by people wearing lab coats and saying things like “innovative blockchain synergy”), new investors are flooding in—but not *too* fast. Their dominance is currently at 30%, which apparently means we’re safe from the kind of euphoria-induced mania where people start naming their kids Satoshi. For context, when this number hit 60-70% earlier, Bitcoin prices peaked faster than my enthusiasm for free snacks at a networking event. But don’t worry, old-timers are still selling coins slowly enough to keep the whole thing from collapsing under its own absurdity.
Consider the arithmetic: BigBear’s order backlog of $385 million, a sum twice its annual revenue, is a ledger of unfulfilled promises. The U.S. Army and international airports, those pillars of global infrastructure, have signed contracts with this entity. Yet, as any seasoned analyst knows, a contract is but a parchment, and parchment does not guarantee profit. The company’s guidance for 2025—a meager 7% revenue growth—reveals a truth too often buried under the noise of headlines: the machine grinds forward, but its wheels are rusted.
Two weeks past, distant thunder rolled from the Netherlands. ASML, that colossus of photolithography, had published figures so lean you’d think the bones would show through. Growth had slowed to a crawl, bookings thinner than soup in a famine year, and the old fear returned—was the hunger for artificial intelligence chips, those glimmering promises of the digital future, ebbing at last?
Highlights from the quarter reveal underlying resilience, juxtaposed with emerging concerns regarding revenue velocity and margin durability:
Forget chasing shiny meme coins with dogs, frogs, or pineapple pizzas—here are three cryptocurrencies with real staying power. Picture them as pillars holding up the roof, so when the crypto circus tent catches fire—hypothetically, of course—you’ve got a blueprint for survival. So if you’ve scraped together $1,000 and want to invest, let’s stroll through the big top of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Chainlink. No popcorn required—but you might want a helmet, just in case.
The Sonic (S) token, that fleeting dream of the crypto masses, soared to a high of $0.3555 on Thursday—a 25% leap from its weekly low. But, like a worker’s wage after rent, it pared some gains, settling at $0.3300. 😢
On July 21, 2025, Strategy casually dropped another preferred stock — this one, aptly named Stretch. Less than two months after launching its sibling, Stride, because apparently, Strategy believes in keeping things hot and happening. And just to keep us all on our toes, they’ve also tossed in Strike and Strife for good measure. It’s like the stock market’s version of ‘Pie, Pie, Pie!’
