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And who, you may wonder, is responsible for this newfound enthusiasm? The esteemed Stifel, of course, a firm that, while not exactly known for their hyperbole, has nonetheless chosen to lavish a considerable amount of ink on this particular stock. Their analysis suggests that despite the company’s already stellar performance, the real growth story lies ahead, particularly in the emerging hyperscaler segment-those grandiose customers poised to drive the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.

By closing time, EchoStar had climbed nearly 4%, while the S&P 500 sulked at 0.3%. The market’s basically saying, “Sure, why not? At least this one’s not owned by a toaster.”

Before the market opened, Shao-armed with spreadsheets and caffeine-raised his price target for Alibaba from $145 to $190 per ADR. An “overweight” recommendation followed. The man knows numbers, not necessarily the chaos that follows them. So it goes.

It is said that great events cast long shadows, and so it was with AST SpaceMobile. The day prior, news emerged of a transaction between two titans: Elon Musk’s SpaceX and satellite operator EchoStar. In this deal, SpaceX acquired two blocks of 5G spectrum for its Starlink phone service-a move akin to planting a flag upon contested ground. This act reverberated across the markets, shaking confidence in AST’s ability to compete against such formidable foes.

TeraWulf-a miner of Bitcoin‘s ghostly gold, a weaver of high-performance computing’s gossamer threads-announced a pact with an AI data center operator, its promise sealed by the shadow of Alphabet‘s Google. A deal as vast as a prairie fire, it promised 360 megawatts of compute capacity, $6.7 billion in pledges, and a backstop from Google worth $3.2 billion. But what is a backstop, if not a noose woven with another’s thread?