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Essential Critical Thinking Skills for Financial Advisors

Posted on October 13, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Critical thinking allows a Financial Advisor [FA] to analyze information and make an objective judgment. By impartially evaluating the facts related to a matter, Financial Planners [FPs] can draw realistic conclusions that will help make a sound decision. The ability of being able to properly analyze a situation and come up with a logical and reasonable conclusion is highly valued by employers, as well as current and potential clients.

Now, according to Indeed, we present the six main critical thinking and examples that will help you evaluate your own thought process as a FA, FP or Wealth Manager, etc.

What is critical thinking?

Critical thinking is the ability to objectively analyze information and draw a rational conclusion. It involves gathering information on a subject and determining which pieces of information apply to the subject and which don’t, based on deductive reasoning. The ability to think critically helps people in both their personal and professional lives and is valued by most clients and employers.

Why do employers value critical thinking?

Critical thinking skills are a valuable asset for an employee, as employers, brokerages and Registered Investment Advisors [RIAs] typically appreciate candidates who can correctly assess a situation and come up with a logical resolution. Time is a valuable resource for most managers, and an employee able to make correct decisions without supervision will save both that manager and the whole company much valuable time.

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Six main types of critical thinking skills

There are six main critical thinking skills you can develop to successfully analyze facts and situations and come up with logical conclusions:

1. Analytical thinking

Being able to properly analyze information is the most important aspect of critical thinking. This implies gathering information and interpreting it, but also skeptically evaluating data. When researching a work topic, analytical thinking helps you separate the information that applies to your situation from that which doesn’t.

2. Good communication

Whether you are gathering information or convincing others that your conclusions are correct, good communication is crucial in the process. Asking people to share their ideas and information with you and showing your critical thinking can help step further towards success. If you’re making a work-related decision, proper communication with your coworkers can help you gather the information you need to make the right choice.

3. Creative thinking

Being able to discover certain patterns of information and make abstract connections between seemingly unrelated data helps improve your critical thinking. When analyzing a work procedure or process, you can creatively come up with ways to make it faster and more efficient. Creativity is a skill that can be strengthened over time and is valuable in every position, experience level and industry.

4. Open-mindedness

Previous education and life experiences leave their mark on a person’s ability to objectively evaluate certain situations. By acknowledging these biases, you can improve your critical thinking and overall decision process. For example, if you plan to conduct a meeting in a certain way and your firm suggests using a different strategy, you should let them speak and adjust your approach based on their input.

5. Ability to solve problems

The ability to correctly analyze a problem and work on implementing a solution is another valuable skill.

6. Asking thoughtful questions:

In both private and professional situations, asking the right questions is a crucial step in formulating correct conclusions. Questions can be categorized in various forms as mentioned below:

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* Open-ended questions

Asking open-ended questions can help the person you’re communicating with provide you with relevant and necessary information. These are questions that don’t allow a simple “yes” or “no” as an answer, requiring the respondent to elaborate on the answer.

* Outcome-based questions

When you feel like another person’s experience and skills could help you work more effectively, consider asking outcome-based questions. Asking someone how they would act in a certain hypothetical situation, such as a stock market correction, can give you an insight into their perspective, helping you see things you hadn’t thought about before.

Reflective questions

You can gain insight by asking a client to reflect and evaluate an experience and explain their thought processes during that time. This can help you develop your critical thinking by providing you real-world examples.

* Structural questions

An easy way to understand something is to ask how something works. Any working system results from a long process of trial and error, and properly understanding the steps that needed to be taken for a positive result could help you be more efficient in your own endeavors.

CONCLUSION

Critical thinking is like a muscle that can be exercised and built over time. It is a skill that can help propel your career to new heights. You’ll be able to solve workplace issues, use trial and error to troubleshoot ideas, and more.

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Revolutionizing Patient Scheduling in Healthcare

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Efficient New Patient-Scheduling Models

[By Staff Writers]

Most doctors follow a linear (series-singular) time allocation strategy for scheduling patients (i.e., every 15 or 20 minutes). This can create bottlenecks because of emergencies, late patients, traffic jams, absent office personal, paperwork delays, etc.

Therefore, as first proposed by Dr. Neal Baum, a practicing urologist in New Orleans, one of these three newer scheduling approaches might prove more useful.

Customized Scheduling

The bottleneck problem may be reduced by trying to customize, estimate or project the time needed for the patient’s next office visit.

For example: CPT #99211 (15 minutes), #99212 (25 minutes), #99213 (35 minutes), or #99214 (45 minutes). Occasionally, extra time is need, and can be accommodated, if the allocated times are not too tightly scheduled.

Wave Scheduling

Most patients do not mind a brief 20-30 minute wait prior to seeing the doctor. Wave scheduling assumes that no patient will wait longer than this time period, and that for every three patients; two will be on time and one will be late.

This model begins by scheduling the three patients on the hour; and works like this. The first patient is seen on schedule, while the second and third wait for a few minutes. The later two patients are booked at 20 minutes past the hour and one or both may wait a brief time. One patient is scheduled for 40 minutes past the hour. The doctor then has 20 minutes to finish with the last three patients and may then get back on schedule before the end of the hour.

Bundle Scheduling

Bundling involves scheduling like-patient activities in blocks of time to increase efficiency.

For example, schedule minor surgical checkups on Monday morning, immunizations on Tuesday afternoon, and routine physical examinations on Wednesday evening, or make Thursday kid’s day and Friday senior citizens day. Do not be too rigid, but by scheduling similar activities together, assembly-line efficiency is achieved without assembly line mentality, and allows you to develop the most economically profitable operational flow process possible for the office.

Patient Self Scheduling (Internet Based Access Management)

New software programs allow patients to schedule their own appointments over the internet. The software allows solo or individual group physicians with a practice to set their own parameters of time, availability and even insurance plans. Through a series of interrogatories, the program confirms each appointment. When the patient arrives, a software tracker communicates with office staff and follows the patients from check-in, to procedures, to checkout.

Today, many hospitals have even abandoned the check-in or admissions, department. It has been replaced by Access Management.

Assessment

The traditional inear patient scheduling system is slowly being abandoned by modern medical practitioners; an all venues (medical practices, clinics, hospitals and various other healthcare entireties).

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HAPPY: Labor Day 2025

Posted on September 1, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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HISTORY OF LABOR DAY

The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Sept. 5th, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. President Grover Cleveland signed a law on June 28th, 1894, that made the first Monday in September of each year a national holiday, according to the Department of Labor.

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MY SEPTEMBER HEALTH RE-SET

To give my health a boost after Labor Day, I’m taking a complete break from alcohol, sugar, cookies, ice cream, coffee and tea for the entire month of September. Besides that, I’ll also prioritize sleep and increase my exercise from 7 to at least 10 times [hours] a week. This will allow me to focus on my diet and mental well-being. It’s essentially a month of health and wellness rejuvenation.

I’ve chosen to focus on alcohol and sugar because I want to challenge the idea that moderate drinking is part of a healthy lifestyle. In reality, only those who maintain a healthy lifestyle can afford to enjoy alcohol in moderation. But, sugar is everywhere and must be minimized for Type II diabetes and weight control.

Moreover, the long-term and excessive intake of sugary beverages and refined sugars can negatively impact your overall caloric intake and create a domino effect on your health. For example, excess sugar in the body can turn into fat deposits and lead to fatty liver disease.

A low sugar diet can help you lose weight and also help you manage and/or prevent diabetes, heart disease and stroke, reduce inflammation, and even improve your mood and the health of your skin. That’s why the low sugar approach is a key tenet of other well-known healthy eating patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet.

QUESTION: And so, do you also commit to such “factory resets” now and then? Please comments.

Do, enjoy the Labor Day Weekend, Bar-B-Ques with friends, family and colleagues. And, I hope you continue to find the Medical Executive-Post useful!

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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: Economic Risk Management Classification for Medical Professionals

Posted on July 28, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND CLASSIFICATION OF RISKS

DEFINITION EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Emotional intelligence [EI] refers to the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. Emotional intelligence is generally said to include a few skills: namely emotional awareness, or the ability to identify and name one’s own emotions; the ability to harness those emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving; and the ability to manage emotions, which includes both regulating one’s own emotions when necessary and helping others to do the same.

DEFINITIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of how individuals, groups, and organizations interact and influence one another. Though it is largely used within the field of business management as means to understand–and more effectively manage–groups of people. The reason businesses look to OB is because it can help organizations increase employee performance, while also creating a positive working environment.

CITE: Eugene Schmuckler; PhD MBA MEd CTS®

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And so, as we review the concept of Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Behavior, it is possible to set up five EI/OB risk classes, based on the economic consequences of the occurrence of specific individual risks:

1. Prevented risks: Risks whose cost of occurrence is higher than their cost of management and whose occurrence may invoke additional legal sanctions. This class would include intentional torts and injuries caused by gross negligence.

2. Normally prevented risks: Risks whose cost of occurrence is greater than the cost of their management but whose occurrence will be considered only as negligent. This class includes most negligent injuries
and most types of product liability actions.

3. Managed risks: Risks whose cost of occurrence is only slightly greater than their cost of management. The plaintiff usually has the burden of showing that the defendant owed the plaintiff a special duty to recover for one of these risks.

4. Un-Prevented risks: Risks whose cost of occurrence is less than their cost of management. The classic example of this class is the cost of railroad crossing barriers compared to the cost of people being hit by
trains.

5. Un-Preventable risks: Risks whose occurrence is unmanageable. The assignment of a risk to one of these classes is a major problem in medical and healthcare quality control, because the class of a risk determines how much effort must be expended to prevent the risk. The misclassification of a prevented or normally prevented risk as a managed or un-prevented risk can result in large financial losses.

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For example: A medical clinic that does not update obsolete equipment, such as inaccurate oxygen monitors, would be liable for any injuries attributable to the obsolete equipment. The classifications of risk must be reviewed periodically to determine if the cost of the risk-taking behavior has changed, thereby altering the classification.

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For example: A small hospital in a rural area would not be expected to have the sophisticated equipment as a major hospital in a city. If an accident victim is brought into the rural facility, the hospital’s duty may be to transfer the patient to a better-equipped facility. The patient will face the risk of dying because of the delay in treatment, but the risk of insufficient treatments outweighs the risk of transfer. If the same victim were brought into a hospital in a major metropolitan center, the duty would be to treat the patient without a transfer. The risk of transfer has not changed, but the risk of insufficient treatment has disappeared.

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DAILY UPDATE: United Health Investigated as Stock Markets Climb

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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UnitedHealth confirmed it’s being investigated. The healthcare giant said in a securities filing that it’s cooperating with the Justice Department in civil and criminal investigations following recent reports from the Wall Street Journal that the DOJ was looking into the company’s Medicare billing practices. WSJ reported that UnitedHealth had added unnecessary diagnoses to Medicare patients’ records that increased payments. It’s the latest setback for a company that ousted its CEO in May after its stock price cratered.

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What’s up

Tesla arrested its latest decline and gained 3.52% on the news that it will roll out its new robotaxi program in San Francisco as soon as this weekend.
Palantir rose 2.54% to become the 20th most valuable company in the country by market value.
Deckers Outdoor, the maker of Hoka and Ugg shoes, soared 11.35% on the back of stronger-than-expected earnings thanks to impressive international sales.
Newmont climbed 6.89% after a quarter of surging gold prices helped propel the miner’s earnings to new heights.
Managed care provider Centene added 6.09% despite marked declines in its Medicaid and Medicare membership, as well as soaring costs.
Boston Beer rose 6.54% as shareholders raised a toast to management’s effort to keep tariff costs low.

What’s down

Intel fell 8.53% on the news that it’s cutting costs by laying off 15% of its workforce and scaling back its chip foundry plans.
Puma plummeted 15.67% after the European footwear company warned of the high cost of tariffs.
Charter Communications plunged 18.49% in its worst day of trading ever after reporting that it lost 117,000 broadband subscribers last quarter. It was so bad that other cable stocks like Comcast sank 4.78% and Altice lost 9.46%.
Lyft announced it’s rolling out new autonomous shuttles, but shares still fell 0.56% as shareholders realized it’s just trying to keep up with Uber.

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DAILY UPDATE: Medicare Advantage Payment Delays as Stock Markets Split

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stat: $3+ million. That’s how much Medicare and Medicare Advantage drug plans have been ordered to pay for “inappropriately delaying or denying” services in the first four months of this year—more than the past four years combined, one analysis finds. (Healthcare Dive)

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What’s up

Las Vegas Sands added 4.31% after crushing analyst estimates last quarter.
Deutsche Bank rose 7.83% to a decade high after shareholders applauded the financial firm’s turnaround efforts.
T-Mobile US gained 5.8% thanks to a better-than-expected quarter for the telecom giant.
Bloom Energy popped 22.95% on the news that it made a deal with Oracle to provide the tech company’s AI data centers with power.
Enterprise software maker ServiceNow jumped 4.16% on management’s promise of more AI growth ahead.
West Pharmaceutical Services soared 22.78% on the news that demand for GLP-1 products remains strong.

What’s down

IBM dropped 7.62% despite beating analysts expectations on the top and bottom lines last quarter. Shareholders didn’t like to hear management warn of slowing software sales.
UnitedHealth Group fell 4.76% on reports that the health insurer is cooperating with the DOJ’s investigation into its Medicare billing practices.
Tough day for airlines: American Airlines sank 9.62% after lowering its forward guidance, and Southwest Airlines lost 11.16% after missing analyst earnings estimates.
Luxury goods maker LVMH sank 3.66% after sales fell 4% last quarter as the high-fashion industry gets hit with tariff turmoil.
Union Pacific fell 4.43% after it confirmed it’s in talks to acquire smaller rival Norfolk Southern, which also lost 0.81%.
Honeywell International beat-and-raised earnings last quarter, but the stock still stumbled 6.18% lower.

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DAILY UPDATE: Both ACA Premiums and Stock Markets Rise

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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What’s up

Krispy Kreme and GoPro got caught up in the new meme stock craze—the donut maker jumped 4.60%, while the wearable camera company leaped 12.41%.
Nintendo rose 2.36% after the company’s new Switch 2 console sold 1.6 million units in June, making it the fastest-selling console in US history.
GE Vernova gained 14.58% thanks to an impressive beat-and-raise earnings report for the power equipment manufacturer.
USANA Health Sciences soared 12.37% after the nutritional supplement maker crushed earnings estimates.
Cal-Maine Foods, the biggest egg producer in the country, added 13.80% after profiting from the high cost of eggs over the previous quarter.
Lamb Weston sizzled 16.31% higher as shareholders applauded the french fry giant’s strong earnings report and new cost-cutting program.

What’s down

Texas Instruments tumbled 13.34% after the semiconductor company revealed a disappointing third-quarter earnings forecast.
Enphase Energy plunged 14.16% thanks to weak earnings guidance, with the solar company’s management blaming tariffs for squeezing its margins.
SAP lost 5.03% after the enterprise software company missed Q2 revenue estimates.
Fiserv may have beaten analyst forecasts last quarter, but the fintech still sank 13.85% due to weaker-than-expected financial guidance.
Going down: Otis Worldwide dropped 12.38% after the elevator manufacturer lowered its fiscal guidance due to weak demand.

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Insurers selling plans on ACA exchanges are expected to hike premiums next year as subsidies on them are set to expire, with the average person expected to be paying 75% more, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan research group KFF.

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DAILY UPDATE: “Crypto-Week” as Stock Markets End Mixed

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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“Crypto Week” got back on track after House GOP lawmakers convinced the holdouts in their party to help advance a series of crypto-friendly bills.

Crypto: Although bitcoin fell after the president signed the GENIUS Act into law, ether rose to its highest price in six months today, while enthusiasm for the new legislation pushed total crypto assets above $4 trillion.

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What’s up stocks

Talen Energy soared 24.48% on the news that the independent energy producer is acquiring two new power plants.
Interactive Brokers surged 7.77% after the broker increased the number of customer accounts by 32% last quarter as traders played market volatility.
Speaking of trading, Charles Schwab gained 2.87% after opening more than 1 million new brokerage accounts last quarter gave it a 23% boost in trading revenue.
Burberry popped 4.42% thanks to a turnaround in the luxury goods maker’s business, including a 4% increase in American sales last quarter.
Quantumscape continued to climb yet again, rising another 7.65% as investors pour money into the battery maker.
Invesco jumped 15.28% on reports that the asset manager is asking shareholders of its popular QQQ fund to let it revamp its fund structure to increase fee revenue.
Crypto companies continued to have a great week as key legislation passed its final barrier in Congress. Coinbase climbed 2.2%, Robinhood Markets rose 4.07%, and Galaxy Digital gained 4.19%.

What’s down stocks

Netflix fell 5.1% after the streaming giant reported a strong quarter but warned that its operating margin will take a hit in the second half of the year.
Sarepta Therapeutics plunged 35.94% after the biotech reported a third patient death during its Phase 1 study of its new gene therapy.
American Express sank 2.35% despite a strong quarter of spending among cardholders that helped the credit card company notch record quarterly revenue.
3M also fell 3.65% in spite of beating Wall Street’s forecasts and raising its earnings guidance.

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DAILY UPDATE: Private Market Investment Retirement Plans Up Along with Stock Markets

Posted on July 18, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stocks up

Lucid exploded 36.24% higher on the news that the EV maker is partnering with Uber to roll out the ridesharing company’s new robotaxis.
PepsiCo popped 7.45% thanks to a strong quarter for the snack and soda giant, while shareholders cheered the details of its turnaround plan.
United Airlines may have missed Wall Street’s revenue forecast, but its profits were enough to impress investors. Shares rose 3.11%.
Reports that Union Pacific is thinking about acquiring a rival sent shares of fellow train operators CSX and Norfolk Southern up 3.73% and 3.65%, respectively.
Sarepta Therapeutics soared 19.53% after the biotech announced it will lay off 500 employees and restructure its entire business.
Quantumscape continued its hot streak, rising yet another 19.82% thanks to its recent battery breakthrough.
Speaking of hot streaks, OpenDoor Technologies rose another 10.74% as retail traders pour into what is quickly becoming the next big meme stock.

Stocks down

GE Aerospace crushed earnings expectations and raised its fiscal guidance, but it still wasn’t enough to impress investors, who pushed shares of the engine maker down 2.10%.
US Bancorp sank 1.03% after revenue and net interest income missed forecasts last quarter.
Abbott Laboratories beat on both top and bottom line guidance, but still fell 8.53% after the pharma company narrowed its fiscal forecasts.
Elevance Health tumbled 12.22% af

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President Trump is expected to sign an executive order in the coming days designed to help make private-market investments more available to U.S. retirement plans, according to people familiar with the matter. The order would instruct the Labor Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to provide guidance to employers and plan administrators on including investments like private assets in 401(k) plans.

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DAILY UPDATE: Medicaid Cuts as Stock Markets Rise

Posted on July 17, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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US measles cases have reached a 33-year high. A little more than halfway into 2025, the US has reported 1,288 measles cases, marking the highest yearly total since 1992, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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What’s up

VC powerhouse and diehard Tolkien fan Peter Thiel revealed he’s taken a 9% stake in bitcoin miner BitMine Immersion Technologies. Shares popped 12.11%, while fellow miners that have also recently invested in ether soared in tandem: SharpLink Gaming added 29.03%, and Bit Digital gained 19.45%.
In fact, most crypto stocks had a good day thanks to renewed optimism that Crypto Week isn’t over in Congress. MicroStrategy climbed 3.07% and MARA Holdings jumped 3.62%.
Johnson & Johnson rose 6.19% after the consumer goods giant reported impressive earnings last quarter and raised its forward guidance.
BrightHouse Financial popped 6.23% on reports that the insurer may be bought by private equity firm Aquarian Holdings.
Tesla gained 3.50% after the EV maker revealed the new six-seat Model Y it will begin selling in China this fall.

What’s down

ASML dropped 8.33% after the chipmaker warned that growth might be completely flat next year.
Ford fell 2.85% on the news that the automaker is recalling nearly 700,000 crossover SUVs due to fuel leaks.
GrabAGun Digital Holdings, the online gun seller backed by Donald Trump, Jr., made its market debut today. Investor reception was scathing, and the stock slid 24.19%.

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Though Medicaid cuts in the Trump administration’s budget bill shocked hospitals, providers may start singing its praises after learning they’re due for a pay bump next year. On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shared its proposed 2026 physician fee schedule, which determines Medicare payments based on the amount of resources in provider services like office visits, hospice, diagnostic testing, ambulance care, and more.

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DAILY UPDATE: Big Pharma Payouts as Stock Markets Eke Out Rise

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Drug and medical device companies paid at least $13.2 billion to medical professionals in 2024, according to CMS data released June 30th. There’s been steady growth in these payments over the last few years, which include everything from research payments to free meals to promotional or conference fees. Drug and medical device companies paid out $13.1 billion in 2023, $13.1 in 2022, and $12.6 in 2021. If you’re a medical provider, you’ve probably gotten one of those perks from a drug or medical device company and thought it wouldn’t affect your decision-making.

But research suggests physicians are more likely to prescribe drugs from companies that pay them, with some studies specifically associating this with drugs that are costlier to patients. “Really well-trained people who affirm an oath to do no harm can be influenced, and are,” Neil Jay Sehgal, associate professor of health systems and population health at the University of Washington School of Public Health, told Healthcare Brew.

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Stocks Up

Bitcoin is booming, and crypto stocks climbed along with it. MicroStrategy rose 3.86%, Robinhood Markets added 1.67%. and Coinbase gained 1.80%.
Boeing rose 1.64% on preliminary reports that investigators have found no evidence of malfunction in the plane that crashed in India last month. Engine-maker GE Aerospace also gained 2.71%.
Warner Bros Discovery climbed 2.39% thanks to a strong opening weekend for the new Superman movie.
Autodesk popped 5.05% on the news that it is not pursuing an acquisition of rival software maker PTC. PTC fell 1.25%.
Kenvue, the company behind Band Aids and Listerine, gained 2.18% after kicking its CEO to the curb.
PayPal climbed 3.55% despite the news that JPMorgan will start charging the fintech fees for access to customer data.

Stocks Down

Starbucks sank 1.60% on news that employees will have to return to the office four days a week. Shareholders were also unimpressed with the coffee giant’s new secret menu.
Synopsys stumbled 1.74% after getting regulatory approval from Chinese authorities to acquire software designer Ansys for $35 billion. Ansys rose 3.03% on the news.
Waters plunged 13.81% on the news that it will merge with Becton Dickinson’s bioscience and diagnostic solutions business in a $17.5 billion deal.
Rivian Automotive lost 2.15% thanks to a downgrade from Guggenheim analysts, who forecast soft sales for the automaker’s latest models.

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HEALTH CARE SPENDING: Projected to Exceed $8.5 Trillion by 2033

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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On June 25th, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its forecast on U.S. healthcare spending through 2033. The analysis, published in Health Affairs, estimated healthcare spending growth in 2024 and projected the growth into 2033. CMS found that overall healthcare spending growth has decreased slightly but is still elevated compared to pre-pandemic levels, and is expected to continue to moderately grow.

This Health Capital Topics article examines the factors underlying the forecasts. (Read more…)

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DAILY UPDATE: CVS & Merck as Stock Markets Struggle

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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CVS has threatened to close 23 pharmacies in Arkansas after the state passed a law banning companies that own pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from also operating pharmacies starting in 2026.

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What’s up stocks

Kraft Heinz jumped 2.53% following a WSJ report it was preparing to break itself up (but not back to Kraft and Heinz).
Companies in the drone sector rose after the Pentagon introduced measures to supercharge production and deployment. Red Cat rose 26.40%, AeroVironment 11.04%, and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions 11.76%.
Performance Food Group jumped 4.84% to a record after reportedly being eyed by US Foods Holding for a takeover. A combined company would become the top foodservice distributor in the US with combined sales of ~$100 billion.
AMC Entertainment popped 11% on an upgrade from Wedbush. It’s tired of IMAX hogging the Brew Markets spotlight…

What’s down stocks

Delta (-0.23%) and United (-4.34%) took a breather after their big celebration on Thursday post-Delta earnings.
Penn Entertainment got hit 7.62% when gaming revenue for Iowa and Indiana came in soft.
Sunrun’s up-and-down week ended…down, with the solar stock falling 7%.

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Stat: $10 billion. That’s how much Merck is paying to buy UK-based biopharmaceutical Verona Pharma. (CNBC)

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DAILY UPDATE: Measles Cases Up as Stock Markets Rise

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stocks up

Cereal legend WK Kellogg popped 30.57% after chocolate giant Ferrero agreed to acquire it for north of $3 billion.
Tesla (+4.73%) continued to rebound from its plunge on Monday. Elon Musk said that Tesla’s robotaxi service would expand into the Bay Area “probably in a month or two” and that his AI chatbot Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles by next week.
Estée Lauder gained 6.32% after Bank of America slapped a buy rating on the stock, implying a 27% upside from Wednesday’s closing price.
ProKidney continued its remarkable rally, rising another 19.35%, after the biotech announced positive trial results for its diabetes treatment. It’s gone from a penny stock to a $1.55 billion market cap in the past four days.
Copper companies Freeport-McMoRan (+3.51%) and Southern Copper (+2.34%) gained thanks to Trump’s announcement that copper tariffs would begin on August 1.

Stocks down

Biotech partners Ultragenyx (-25.11%) and Mereo BioPharma Group (-42.52%) plunged after issuing a disappointing update on their trial of a treatment for a rare genetic bone condition.
Vertiv, the maker of liquid cooling equipment, declined 5.96% when Amazon said it was rolling out a new liquid cooling system for its AI servers.
Hydro Flask owner Helen of Troy tumbled 22.71% after reporting a $450 million loss in its fiscal first quarter. CEO Brian Grass said “tariff-related impacts” were its Achilles heel.
Autodesk fell 6.89% after Bloomberg reported on Wednesday it was weighing a takeover of rival engineering software company PTC.

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DAILY UPDATE: Stock Markets Surge!

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Nvidia: Worth 4-trillion dollars.

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Stocks up

Hims & Hers Health gained 4.62% after announcing it will sell generic semaglutide in Canada when Novo Nordisk’s patent for Ozempic and Wegovy expires in January.
Merck shareholders applauded its move to buy respiratory drugmaker Verona Pharma for $10 billion, sending its stock up 2.88%.
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals popped 36.63% thanks to a promising new trial for its oral obesity treatment.
AES, a renewable power company that counts Microsoft among its clients, jumped 19.87% after Bloomberg reported it was considering a sale.
Fashion names Ralph Lauren (+2.10%) and Coach owner Tapestry (+3.31%) hit record highs.

Stocks down

WPP cut its guidance and watched its stock fall 18.11% as a result. The ad giant is dealing with a laundry list of challenges, from AI disrupting the industry to clients spending less to finding a new CEO.
Medical device maker RxSight plunged 37.84% after slashing its full-year revenue forecast.
T-Mobile ticked 1.55% lower after getting a downgrade from KeyBanc, which said its weakness in fiber internet would prevent it from catching up to rival AT&T.
Mobileye, which makes self-driving tech and was spun out of Intel, fell 7.08% when Intel said it was selling 45 million shares.

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DAILY UPDATE: Women’s Health, and Commodities, as Stock Markets Struggle

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Record VC investments for women’s health: Venture-backed women’s health startups experienced unprecedented investment last year, according to a new SVB report. The report examines the factors driving such record-breaking funding—like growing recognition of how various health conditions affect women differently and disproportionately, plus the causes and biological drivers behind this imbalance. Read it here.

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Stocks: Investors mostly yawned and the major indexes held steady a day after President Trump reignited his trade war by announcing higher tariffs would go into effect on 14 countries starting August 1st. Wall Street banks don’t seem concerned either, as Goldman Sachs and Bank of America became the latest strategists to raise their year-end target for the S&P 500.
Commodities: Copper futures popped as much as 17% to a new record, the largest intra-day gain since at least 1988, after Trump said he plans to place a 50% tariff on copper imports.

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DAILY UPDATE: FBI and FDA as Stock Markets Crash

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The FBI has uncovered $14.6 billion worth of fraudulent claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid and other government health care programs, the agency said on Monday in conjunction with the Department of Justice (DOJ). The investigation resulted in 324 defendants being charged, including 96 medical professionals.
Now, the DOJ, FBI and HHS say they are collaborating to create a health care data fusion center that will help them identify, investigate and prosecute health care fraud.
And yesterday, the entities announced a DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group, in which HHS will refer potential False Claims Act violations to the DOJ. Read more about the working group, its members and its goals here.

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Stocks: US equities tumbled from record highs, dragged down by megacaps, as President Trump reignited the dormant trade war with fresh tariff warnings against major trading partners (more on that in a sec). Meanwhile, the dollar bounced 0.5% against a basket of other currencies.

Commodities: Oil gained despite OPEC+ deciding to raise crude production by 548,000 barrels per day beginning in August, a larger-than-expected increase. Ultimately, Wall Street analysts expect oil futures to drop below $60 a barrel by the end of the year due to the increase in production.

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Read: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary MD is revamping the agency, with plans to use more AI assistance. (the Wall Street Journal)

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DAILY UPDATE: OpenAI & Microsoft as Stock Markets Surge

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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OpenAI is giving its employees a mandatory week long vacation to stave off a poaching spree launched by Meta.

Microsoft announced another round of layoffs—its largest in years—expected to impact thousands of workers across Xbox and other divisions, including 830 from its Redmond, Washington, HQ.

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The S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite tallied fresh record closing highs on Thursday, buoyed by a stronger-than-expected jobs report that helped dampen expectations for a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut in July. But after lagging their trendier rivals earlier in the year, the Russell 2000 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are finally starting to play catch up. On Thursday, the Russell 2000 turned positive for 2025 for the first time since February, as a rally that started in June has accelerated in July.

Many investors have been waiting patiently for small-cap stocks to break out. But aside from a few false starts over the past two years, they have mostly continued to lag their large-cap rivals. However, some investors believe things could finally be changing.

A team of strategists at Barclays pointed out on Wednesday that a proposed increase to interest-expense tax deductions in President Trump’s budget bill could boost small-cap companies’ earnings by double digits, due to their higher interest burdens. “This market broadening out is a heathy sign,” said Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Sandler, during an interview with MarketWatch on Thursday. More small-cap participation inevitably means investors are developing more of a taste for stocks beyond information technology, which powered much of the market’s gains in 2023 and 2024.

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Friday, July 4, 2025

All U.S. markets will be closed in observance of Independence Day.
There will be no Pre-Market or After-Hours trading sessions.

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DAILY UPDATE: Human Genome Project as the Dow and NASDAQ Diverge

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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When it comes to scientific achievements that have advanced the practice of medicine, you’d be hard-pressed to find one more influential than the Human Genome Project. The project, a federally funded collaboration between scientists around the globe, began in October 1990 with the goal of improving our knowledge of human biology by sequencing an entire human genome, which is the complete set of DNA in a cell. Nearly 13 years and $2.7 billion later, the project wrapped up in April 2003, and scientists around the world now use the reference human genome to study genetics, biology, and more. Today, the entire human genome can be sequenced in as little as five hours and costs as little as $600. Learn more about the Human Genome Project’s impact here.

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Jack in the Box popped like a…well, you know…after activist investor Biglari Capital reportedly accrued a 10% stake in the fast-food company. Shares rose 7.86%.
Robinhood Markets climbed 6.12% on speculation that it may be added to the S&P 500 to fill the spot left by Juniper Networks.
Rigetti Computing rose 15.45% after Cantor Fitzgerald analysts initiated their coverage of the quantum computing company with an “overweight” rating.
Verint Systems jumped 15.33% on reports that the customer service software maker may be acquired by Thoma Bravo.
Corona parent company Constellation Brands gained 4.48% after it reiterated its fiscal guidance, assuring shareholders that aluminum tariffs will only cost the company about $20 million.
Crypto companies gained across the board after bitcoin miner BitMine Immersion Technologies announced it’s pivoting to ethereum. BitMine rose 21.17%, MARA Holdings gained 13.38%, and CleanSpark climbed 12.64%.

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Centene plunged 40.37% after the health insurer rescinded its fiscal 2025 guidance, warning that EPS will come in lower than anticipated.
Centene’s news pulled the rest of the health insurance industry down with it. UnitedHealth Group lost 5.70%, CVS Health fell 4.28%, Elevance Health stumbled 11.50%, and Molina Healthcare dropped 21.97%.
Paramount Global sank 2.43% after the company settled its 60 Minutes lawsuit with President Trump for $16 million.
Marvell Technology slipped 2.61% on reports that Microsoft is cutting back on manufacturing AI chips in-house.
Intel lost 4.25% on the news that it may be shifting the strategy behind its foundry business.

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DAILY UPDATE: Crude Oil Prices Reverse as Stock Markets Diverge

Posted on July 2, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Power station: Crude oil prices reversed as tensions in the Middle East cooled, but AI likely raises electricity demand over the longer term, creating investment opportunities and risks.

Oil supplies now exceed demand, noted Michelle Gibley, director of international research at the Schwab Center for Financial Research, in her latest analysis, though “AI is transforming the energy sector,” raising power shortage concerns.

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Solar stocks got a reprieve today after the Senate dropped the excise tax on clean energy projects. Sunrun soared 10.51%, Enphase Energy rose 3.18%, SolarEdge Technologies popped 7.16%, and Array Technologies climbed 12.54%.
Apple tumbled this summer after investors were disappointed by its AI rollout, but rose 1.29% on the news that the company may pivot to using Anthropic or OpenAI in iPhones instead of building something in-house.
Wolfspeed, the best name for a company that makes computer chips, exploded 98.09% after the company officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Hasbro got a nice 4.29% bump thanks to Goldman Sachs analysts, who are big old nerds who think Magic: The Gathering will boost the toymaker’s sales.
Ford popped 4.61% after the automaker reported an impressive 14% increase in sales last quarter.
Casino stocks soared on the news that gaming revenue in Macau rose 19% in June. Wynn Resorts climbed 8.85%, Las Vegas Sands added 8.95%, and MGM Resorts gained 7.24%.

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AMC Entertainment tumbled 9.03% after the one-time meme stock announced its new debt restructuring plan.
Progress Software sank 13.03% after the business application software company reported mixed results last quarter, beating on profit but missing on revenue.
Joby Aviation fell 7.01% after traders took profits following the air taxi company’s big pop yesterday.
AeroVironment dropped 11.42% after defense contractor announced it’s offering $750 million in common stock and $600 million in convertible senior notes to pay off its debt.
Diabetes device makers tumbled on the news that the government may change the reimbursement rate for glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Insulet lost 4.52%, Dexcom fell 4.25%, and Beta Bionics sank 4.26%.

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DAILY UPDATE: 23andMe as Stock Markets Rise

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stat: $305 million. That’s how much 23andMe co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki’s nonprofit paid to acquire the genetics company. (CNN)

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Building products distributor GMS soared 11.73% on the news that Home Depot will acquire the company for $4.3 billion. Home Depot fell 0.50%.
Moderna climbed 1.58% after reporting positive late-stage trial results for its experimental flu vaccine.
Palantir rose 4.27% after announcing that Accenture will help federal government clients implement the defense tech company’s AI offerings. Accenture rose 1.16% as well.
Joby Aviation flew 11.76% higher after the eVTOL company delivered its first flying taxi to the UAE.
Oracle jumped 3.99% thanks to regulatory filings that revealed a new $30 billion annual cloud deal that should prop up its finances quite nicely.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise popped 11.08% after the Department of Justice settled its lawsuit with the server maker, clearing the way for it to acquire Juniper Networks for $14 billion. Juniper jumped 8.45% on the news.
Robinhood Markets rose 12.77% as the trading app makes a big international push with tokenized equities for European investors.

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Tesla tumbled 1.84% on the news that the Senate version of the tax bill will end credits for EV purchases after September. Elon Musk was not pleased.
Gotta pay for that wedding somehow: Amazon sank 1.75% after founder Jeff Bezos announced he’s selling $5.4 billion worth of shares.
Boeing’s financial outlook was upgraded to “stable” by Fitch, but the stock still fell 2.32% on news that its acquisition of Spirit Aerosystems faces antitrust scrutiny in the UK.

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Posted on June 30, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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DAILY UPDATE: Health Insurance Options as Bull Market Edges Upward

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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A June 11th report from global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) predicts that more beneficiaries might soon ditch insurance coverage for options like short-term, limited duration plans or healthcare sharing ministries (HCSMs), which aren’t regulated like health insurance and aren’t required to comply with ACA protections like covering maternity care or pre-existing conditions.

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🟢 What’s up

Nvidia extended its winning streak to five days, rising another 1.73% as the AI trade continues to recover.
EchoStar climbed 13.16% after the parent company of Dish TV disclosed that President Trump did in fact prod the FCC to make a deal.
Cyngn soared another 20.07% following a big day of gains after the company that makes self-driving tech for industrial vehicles announced a partnership with Nvidia.
Strong earnings from Nike (more on that later) propelled sporting goods stocks higher today. ON Holdings rose 1.74%, while Dick’s Sporting Goods climbed 3.59%.
Domestic power producers popped on reports that Trump is planning to issue an executive order increasing energy production to meet AI demand. Vistra gained 2.44%, GE Vernova climbed 2.54%, and Vertiv added 2.71%.

What’s down

Coinbase Global ended its winning streak, tumbling 5.77% after GENIUS Act hype propelled the crypto stock skyward all week long. Traders took profits in Circle as well, pushing the stablecoin stock down 15.54%.
Chinese EV maker Li Auto fell 1.93% on its weaker-than-expected deliveries forecast for the second quarter.
Fellow Chinese EV maker Xiaomi stunned markets with reports that it received 240,000 orders for its new SUV within 18 hours of its debut, but shares still sank 4%.
Pony.ai lost 6.31% on a report that Uber is considering helping its founder Travis Kalanick fund his acquisition of the US subsidiary of the Chinese autonomous vehicle company.
Gold miners tumbled while the price of the precious metal fell as investors took a risk-on stance. Newmont lost 4.11%, Barrick Mining fell 3.44%, and Kinross Gold shed 6.18%.
Today’s trade deal reopens the door for Chinese rare earth imports, bad news for US producers like MP Materials (down 8.59%) and USA Rare Earth (down 12.14%).

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DAILY UPDATE: Nvidia and MSFT Reach New Highs as Stock Markets Surge!

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Nvidia and Microsoft both set new record highs as the AI trade continues to revive. Nvidia rose 0.46%, while Microsoft climbed 1.05%.
Core Scientific exploded 33.01% on reports from the Wall Street Journal that the bitcoin miner may be acquired by AI company CoreWeave.
Serve Robotics gained 9.87% after the delivery robot maker launched its service on the streets of Atlanta today.
McCormick is looking spicy: The consumer goods company rose 5.31% after earnings outpaced analyst forecasts.
Penn Entertainment rose 4.94% after the gambling company was upgraded by analysts at Citizens, who think the stock’s underperformance is about to reverse.
Solar stocks may be thrown a lifeline by the Senate, which is considering keeping some clean energy tax credits in the spending bill. Enphase Energy popped 12.83%, SunRun rose 6.46%, and SolarEdge Technologies climbed 5.11%.
Copper miners popped as prices of the precious metal rose today. Freeport–McMoRan jumped 6.85%, Southern Copper Corp. climbed 7.79%, and Anglo American plc added 7.16%.

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Micron Technology lost 0.98% despite the chipmaker reporting fiscal third quarter results that beat Wall Street’s expectations.
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions sank 2.36% after the military tech company announced it will sell $500 million worth of stock to raise money for capital spending.
Equinix crumbled another 9.56% after a terrible fiscal outlook pushed Raymond James and BMO analysts to downgrade the internet services company.

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DAILY UPDATE: Stock Markets Struggle

Posted on June 26, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Nvidia rose 4.33% to hit a new all-time high today and once again become the largest company by market capitalization in the world.
European defense contractors climbed after NATO members agreed to increase defense spending to 5% of their GDP. Rheinmetall rose 3.43%, Leonardo SPA climbed 3.10%, and Thales SA added 2.59%.
QuantumScape exploded 31.40% after it revealed a solid-state lithium battery breakthrough.
BP jumped 1.63% on reports that the oil giant is in talks to be acquired by Shell, only for those reports to be refuted.
BlackBerry popped 12.47% after the cybersecurity stock (yes, that’s what they call themselves now) posted strong earnings last quarter and raised its fiscal forecast.
Yum Brands gained 3.14% thanks to an upgrade from JPMorgan analysts, who like the KFC and Taco Bell parent company’s strong free cash flow.
Drone maker AeroVironment soared 21.55% after crushing top- and bottom-line estimates last quarter.

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Tesla tumbled 3.79% after its EU vehicle registrations fell 41% in May, its fifth straight month of declines.
FedEx beat earnings expectations last quarter, but the shipping company still fell 3.27% thanks to worse-than-expected fiscal forecasts for next quarter.
General Mills may have just barely surpassed analyst forecasts last quarter, but sank 5.04% after management warned of a challenging year ahead.
Paychex lost 9.40% after the payment processor provided a mixed financial forecast for the coming quarter.

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DAILY UPDATE: GENIUS Act Protects Consumers

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The FTC’s second interim staff report on consolidated pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) found that the three largest of these middlemen—CVS Health’s Caremark Rx, Cigna Group’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group’s OptumRx—”marked up two specialty generic cancer drugs by thousands of percent and then paid their affiliated pharmacies hundreds of millions of dollars of dispensing revenue in excess of estimated acquisition costs for each drug annually.”

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DAILY UPDATE: PBM Mark-Ups as Stock Markets End Mixed

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Circle continued its stunning climb, rising another 20.69% following the Senate’s passage of the GENIUS Act earlier this week. Former toy company and soon-to-be crypto stock SRM Entertainment soared 34.63% as well.
Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden’s parent company, rose 1.21% after it beat earnings estimates and forecast strong growth through fiscal 2026.
CarMax climbed 6.61% after the auto seller reported better-than-expected earnings last quarter, thanks in no small part to a 9% increase in used car sales.
GMS soared 23.69% thanks to a bidding war for the specialty building materials maker between QXO and Home Depot.
Kroger popped 9.82% after posting mixed results last quarter, but shareholders liked that the grocery chain upped its full-year sales forecast.

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Credit card companies slid on the news that X may roll out a physical payment card. Mastercard lost 1.13%, and Visa sank 0.57%.
Chip stocks fell on reports that the US is considering canceling some waivers on semiconductors sold to China. Nvidia fell 1.12%, TSMC lost 1.87%, and Marvell Technology sank 1.92%.
Regencell Bioscience lost another 40% as the biotech’s rapid rally continues to fizzle out.
Accenture fell 6.82% after the IT company reported a 6% decline in bookings last quarter, offsetting its otherwise strong earnings report.

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Stat: $1 trillion. That’s how much one analysis says the healthcare industry could lose due to the Trump administration’s “big beautiful bill.” (Modern Healthcare)

Quote: “The evidence is mounting and indisputable that MRNA vaccines cause serious harm including death, especially among young people. We have to stop giving them immediately!”—Retsef Levi, an MIT professor and one of RFK Jr.’s newly announced CDC vaccine advisors, in a pinned 2023 X post (CNN Health)

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DAILY UPDATE: PBMs Expensive Drugs as Stock Markets Struggle

Posted on June 19, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The FTC’s second interim staff report on consolidated pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) found that the three largest of these middlemen—CVS Health’s Caremark Rx, Cigna Group’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group’s OptumRx—”marked up two specialty generic cancer drugs by thousands of percent and then paid their affiliated pharmacies hundreds of millions of dollars of dispensing revenue in excess of estimated acquisition costs for each drug annually.”

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Crypto stocks climbed after the Senate passed the GENIUS Act, a bill that ushers in a new era of stablecoin acceptance. Coinbase rose 16.32%, Circle added 33.82%, and JPMorgan, which is rolling out its own stablecoin, climbed 1.65%.
SunRun recovered 6.06% following the solar stock’s biggest one-day loss in company history.
Oracle rose 1.29% after Guggenheim analysts raised their price target for the software stock, noting that its revenue could accelerate in the coming years.
TKO Group popped 4.75% on back-to-back upgrades from Citi and Bernstein analysts, who think the UFC and WWE parent company will profit nicely from its broadcasting rights.
Scholar Rock Holding added 16.60% after the biotech announced its latest drug can help patients taking Eli Lilly’s weight-loss drugs lose less muscle as they shed weight.

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CERo Therapeutics plunged 42.01% a day after the immunotherapy company soared after its acute myeloid leukemia treatment received an orphan drug designation from the FDA.
Credit card companies tumbled on fears that stablecoins will disrupt the payment industry. Mastercard fell 5.39%, and Visa sank 4.88%.
Zoetis lost 4.03% thanks to a downgrade from Stifel analysts, who think competition will eat into the animal medication and vaccine market.
Allstate fell 1.27% after the insurer reported $777 million in catastrophic losses last month.

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Stat: 600. That’s how many employees Washington-based nonprofit health system Providence is laying off across seven states. (Fierce Healthcare)

Quote: “If we can make one thing a little bit easier for a lot of people, we’ll save them a lot of time, a lot of money, and some lives.”—Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services, on Amazon’s recent healthcare business reorganization (CNBC)

Read: A second Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient has died after using Sarepta Therapeutics’s gene therapy treatment Elevidys. (Biopharma Dive)

Investments are soaring: A new SVB report found that women’s health startups saw a whopping 55% increase in VC investments in 2024. Learn about the factors driving this record-breaking funding and the sector’s long-term potential.*

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DAILY UPDATE: Stock Markets Struggle

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stocks: Markets sagged as fighting between Israel and Iran continued, with investors worried about escalation after President Trump called for the “unconditional surrender” of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The Wall Street Journal reported that he is considering a potential US strike against Iran.
Commodities: Oil prices popped this morning after Trump warned that Tehran should be evacuated.
Bonds: Yields sank after US retail sales came in much lower than anticipated, raising fears of an economic slowdown.

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Verve Therapeutics exploded 81.50% on the news that the gene-editing company will be acquired by Eli Lilly in a $1.3 billion deal.
Reddit popped 6.06% after the social media site rolled out new AI-powered tools for advertisers.
BGSF surged 34.25% after the staffing company announced it is selling its professional division to INSPYR Solutions for $99 million.
Jabil gained 8.80% thanks to a strong earnings report for the electronics parts supplier.
Oil stocks climbed as the conflict between Israel and Iran threatens to grow. Valero Energy rose 2.89%, Chevron gained 1.93%, and Hess added 1.79%.

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Microsoft fell 0.23% after the Wall Street Journal reported that its partnership with OpenAI is falling apart.
JetBlue Airways lost 7.88% on the news that it’s cutting costs, including reducing its number of flights, due to softer-than-expected travel demand.
Lennar sank 4.42% after the homebuilder beat revenue estimates last quarter but missed profit forecasts.
T-Mobile tumbled 4.14% on the news that major shareholder Softbank sold 21.5 million shares of the telecommunications company.
Airline stocks sank as the price of oil rose throughout the day. United Airlines lost 6.18%, while Delta Air Lines fell 4.33%.

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DAILY UPDATE: Medicaid, HIV Vaccine, CDC and the Rising Stock Markets

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stat: 2%. That’s the portion of Medicaid expansion enrollees who were either not working or in school due to “lack of interest” in finding a job. (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Quote: “It’s just devastating. So much human toil has gone into this. Just when it looked like we could beat this virus, we’re going to give up.”—Dennis Burton, a Scripps Research Institute immunologist, on how a new HIV vaccine was about to start clinical trials before federal funding cuts (NPR)

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The wait is finally over: US Steel climbed 5.10% after President Trump signed an executive order approving its takeover by Nippon Steel.
Roku jumped 10.43% after announcing a partnership with Amazon that gives advertisers the ability to reach roughly 80% of American households with connected TVs.
Advanced Micro Devices rose 8.81% on an upgrade from Piper Sandler analysts, who think the semi stock’s AI business will boom.
EchoStar exploded 49.11% after Trump pushed the FCC to resolve its ongoing spectrum dispute with the satellite company.
Victoria’s Secret rose 2.36% on reports that the struggling retailer has attracted the attention of an activist investor.
Sage Therapeutics soared 35.37% on the news that it will be acquired by Supernus Pharmaceuticals in a $795 million deal.
MGM Resorts climbed 8.10% after the casino company revealed that its Bet MGM online gambling platform is expected to pull in more revenue than previously thought.
Kering, the parent company of Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, and other luxury brands, popped 12.37% on the news that it has convinced Renault’s CEO to run the company.

What’s down

Sarepta Therapeutics plunged 42.12% after the pharma company reported a second death of a patient taking its Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment Elevidys.
Reports that Iran wants to end hostilities pushed oil prices lower this afternoon, hurting shares of energy stocks like APA Corp (down 2.43%), Devon Energy (down 1.45%) and ConocoPhillips (down 2.02%).

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Doctor V. Forensic Pathologist V. Coroner V. Morgue

Posted on June 16, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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A morgue is a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy.

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A forensic pathologist is a medical doctor who studies diseases and performs autopsies, while a coroner investigates and determines the cause of sudden or unexplained deaths, often without a medical degree.

An autopsy (also referred to as post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause, mode, and manner of death or the exam may be performed to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes. The term necropsy is generally used for non-human animals.

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Autopsies are usually performed by a specialized medical doctor called a pathologist. Only a small portion of deaths require an autopsy to be performed, under certain circumstances. In most cases, a medical examiner or coroner can determine the cause of death.

A coroner is elected or appointed to a local government office, while a forensic pathologist is a medical doctor trained to perform autopsies and other procedures to determine the cause of death.
A forensic pathologist is able to perform medical operations while coroners may specialize in the legal paperwork and law enforcement side of a death.
The title of “medical examiner” is usually the job title of a forensic pathologist who works for a government.
In many jurisdictions, a coroner does not need to possess a medical degree.

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DAILY UPDATE: Medicaid Payments as Stock Markets Collapse

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Gold stocks gained as investors pushed the price of the safe-haven commodity higher. Newmont climbed 3.54%, Barrick Mining added 2.81%, and SSR Mining rose 2.25%.
Tesla gained 1.94% on reports that the Trump Administration will lower the bar for regulations on self-driving cars.
Circle surged 25.54% a day after Shopify announced it will accept USDC stablecoin payments on its e-commerce platform.
RH popped 6.90% after the home furnishings retailer reported far better earnings than Wall Street predicted, even though revenue fell last quarter.
JBS rose 4.69% the day the world’s largest meatpacker made its NYSE debut.

What’s down

DraftKings fell 3.90% thanks to the gambling app’s decision to add a $0.50 surcharge to every bet made on its platform in Illinois to offset a new state tax.
Adobe tumbled 5.32% despite the software company’s solid earnings report and higher fiscal forecast.
Archer Aviation plunged 14.89% after announcing it will sell $850 million worth of new shares to raise money.
Boeing lost another 1.62% as the fallout from a 787 Dreamliner crash in India continues.
US Steel sank 3.03% on reports that Nippon Steel is balking at taking over the company if it can’t retain operational control of the domestic steelmaker.

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DAILY UPDATE: Kennedy on Vaccines & Google Search as Stock Markets Rise!

Posted on June 13, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed eight new members to a panel that advises the government on vaccines after firing the entire 17-member group.

Google offered buyouts to US employees in its Search and other divisions as it looks to cut costs.

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Oracle popped 13.31% after the cloud computing giant beat Wall Street forecasts on both the top and bottom lines last quarter.
Cardinal Health climbed 4.55% after the healthcare products maker raised its fiscal guidance for the year.
CureVac NV exploded 37.59% on the news that BioNTech will acquire the pharma company in an all-stock deal worth $1.25 billion.
Datadog rose 3.43% thanks to an upgrade from analysts at Wolfe Research, who think the cybersecurity company has an opportunity for rapid growth thanks to AI.

What’s down

Boeing sank 4.79% after an Air India 787 flying from Ahmedabad to London crashed with 242 people aboard. Engine maker GE Aerospace fell 2.25% as well.
GameStop plummeted 22.45% after the video game retailer announced late yesterday that it will sell $1.75 billion in convertible bonds to buy more bitcoin.
Speaking of raising money, nuclear startup Oklo fell 5.22% on the news that it will sell $400 million of common stock in a public offering.
Oxford Industries, parent company of Tommy Bahama and Lily Pulitzer, dropped 14.03% after cutting its fiscal guidance due to tariffs.

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DAILY UPDATE: PBMs as Markets Dip Down

Posted on June 12, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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CVS and Cigna’s pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Caremark and Express Scripts, respectively, are suing Arkansas after the state signed a bill on April 16 that would ban vertical integration between PBMs and pharmacies. The companies filed two separate lawsuits on May 29th claiming the Arkansas law is unconstitutional and “unenforceable.”

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Papa John’s popped 7.45% on a report from Semafor that the pizza chain is being taken private.
Oklo roared 29.48% higher after the nuclear power startup announced it has been conditionally selected to provide power to an Air Force base in Alaska.
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment won big, jumping 17.74% after the gaming restaurant chain reported a lower-than-expected decline in same-store sales.
General Motors rose 1.92% on the automaker’s announcement that it will spend $4 billion to make more cars in the US.
SailPoint soared 14.66% after the cybersecurity company reported better-than-expected earnings last quarter and raised its fiscal forecast.
Rigetti Computing rose 11.39% thanks to some optimistic comments from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

What’s down

GameStop tumbled 5.31% after the video game retailer revealed disappointing revenue growth last quarter, though it did report a profit.
Chewy lost 10.98% despite beating Wall Street’s forecasts last quarter, likely due to the pet food retailer’s already-sky-high share price.
SunRun sank 1.81% on a downgrade from Jefferies analysts, who think the solar power provider faces too many headwinds if residential demand drops.
GitLab plunged 10.60% after the online software developer issued a worse-than-expected revenue forecast for the coming quarter.
Lockheed Martin stumbled 4.26% after the Pentagon cut its order for new F-35 fighter jets in half.
Steel stocks took it on the chin today thanks to a report that the US and Mexico are nearing a deal that would reduce the 50% tariff on steel imports. Cleveland-Cliffs fell 8.10%, Nucor lost 6.06%, and Steel Dynamics tumbled 2.82%.

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DAILY UPDATE: Stocks, Commodities & Crypto-Currency

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Tesla climbed another 5.67% on signs that Elon Musk and President Trump are mending fences and on hype around the robotaxi reveal this week.
TSMC rose 2.63% after the semiconductor company reported that its revenue in the month of May rose 39.6% year over year.
Disney rose 2.65% higher a day after agreeing to purchase Comcast’s stake in streaming service Hulu for $438.7 million. Comcast climbed 2.95%.
Solar stocks got a bit of hope after the Wall Street Journal reported that tech companies are lobbying Congress to keep clean energy subsidies in the tax and spending bill. SolarEdge rose 11.81%, and Sunrun gained 7.13%.
Insmed exploded 28.65% thanks to strong results for the biopharma company’s new treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Casey’s General Store rose 11.59% after the retailer crushed Wall Street’s profit expectations last quarter and raised its dividend.

What’s down

J.M. Smucker tumbled 15.59% on mixed earnings results and a weaker-than-expected fiscal forecast for the snack foods company.
McDonald’s lost 1.43% thanks to a double downgrade from Redburn Atlantic analysts, who think the fast food titan’s slowing foot traffic and headwinds from obesity drugs will hurt its growth. That’s the company’s third downgrade in three days.
Snap fell just 0.12% after the social media company unveiled its new augmented reality glasses.
Calavo Growers plunged 16.26% after the avocado distributor reported much worse quarterly results than Wall Street was expecting.
Biopharma stocks Liquidia and United Therapeutics lost 16.87% and 14.32%, respectively, on competitor Insmed’s good news.

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Stocks: Markets meandered higher as investors awaited news from ongoing US & China trade negotiations in London. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said talks were going well and could continue into tomorrow.
Commodities: Oil soared to its highest price since April on hopes that a trade deal between the world’s largest economies could spur demand, but plunged back to earth after the US said oil output will fall next year.
Crypto: After just barely holding on last week, Bitcoin has now stayed above $100,000 for 30 days straight for the first time ever—a signal to traders that there’s a new level of support for the crypto king.

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DAILY UPDATE: AHA as Stocks End Slightly Mixed

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stat: $18 billion. One report says that’s how much hospitals and health systems spent combating workplace violence in 2023. (the American Hospital Association)

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The trading platform eToro rose 10.58% and touched a record high after analysts began coverage of the stock. They generally had nice things to say.
Aviation startups like Archer (+10.50%), Joby (+13.67%), Vertical Aerospace (+15.24%), and Blade Air Mobility (+11.58%) all popped after President Trump signed an executive order on Friday intended to spur drone manufacturing.
Stablecoin issuer Circle can’t stop won’t stop after its IPO last week, popping another 7.24% for its third straight day of gains.
Topgolf Callaway jumped nearly 15% after a board member bought ~$2.5 million worth of shares last week. Just in time for the US Open.

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Robinhood (-1.98%) and AppLovin (-8.21%) fell after S&P Dow Jones Indices decided not to include them—or anyone else—in the S&P 500 index.
Intuitive Surgical sank 5.55% after getting its first “sell” rating on the Street from Deutsche Bank analyst Imron Zafar, who argued that the medtech company is going to face some cutthroat competition over the next few years.
EchoStar, a satellite and wireless company, dropped 8.52% after the WSJ reported it was considering filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The Children’s Place tumbled 32.22% after a rough earnings report for the kids’ clothing store: It posted a quarterly loss nearly 3x projections and revenue decreased 10% year over year.

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DAILY UPDATE: Express Scripts & CVS, HHS and the Roaring Stock Markets

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Express Scripts and CVS, which owns Caremark, are suing Arkansas after it instituted a law banning vertical integration between pharmacies and PBMs

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Circle Internet Group, the stablecoin issuer, followed up its epic IPO day on Thursday with another banger, soaring 29.80%.
Coreweave closed out a roller coaster week with a 3.78% gain. The recently public AI cloud computing company is up 158% in the past month, and its tie-up with Applied Digital boosted that stock by another 8.54% today.
Rocket Lab (+9.34%) was one of several SpaceX competitors to receive a small boost following Elon Musk’s blowup with President Trump, which could threaten SpaceX’s contracts with the government.
Omada continued the strong run of recent IPOs. The virtual chronic care company jumped 21.05% in its debut on the Nasdaq today.

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Lululemon plunged 19.80% after cutting its full-year guidance due to the “dynamic macroenvironment” (CEO-speak for tariff uncertainty and people opting for baggier clothes than yoga pants). The company said it will increase prices on some items to offset the tariffs.
Docusign tanked 18.97% after warning that its billings for the year would come in lower than estimates as it transitions to an AI-driven model.
Broadcom failed to live up to exceedingly lofty expectations for its Q3 revenue forecast, causing shares of the giant semiconductor supplier to dip 5%.

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Stat: $16 billion. That’s how much an HHS watchdog found in health program overspending, fraudulent billing, and possible cost savings in a six-month span. (Axios)

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DAILY UPDATE: Retirement Savings Up But Stock Markets Down

Posted on June 6, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Americans are squirreling away a larger percentage of their earnings than ever before. In the first three months of the year, Americans stashed an average of 14.3% of their income in their 401(k)s, up from 13.5% in 2020, according to Fidelity Investments, which manages millions of accounts. That’s a record, and it also nearly approaches the 15% that’s recommended to be able to maintain your lifestyle after a 40-year career, as per the Wall Street Journal.

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Planet Labs exploded 49.37% thanks to the satellite imagery stock beating Wall Street forecasts, posting its first quarter of positive cash flow and record revenue.
MongoDB soared 12.84% after the software company crushed analyst estimates last quarter and projected better-than-expected earnings next quarter.
Five Below continued the trend of discount retailers beating expectations, rising 5.59% on an impressive beat-and-raise earnings report.
Land’s End missed revenue forecasts but beat on profits last quarter. Shares climbed 13.02% after the clothing company promised tariffs won’t hurt its bottom line.
Scott’s MiracleGro rose 11.04% after the fertilizer titan reiterated its healthy forward guidance.

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Tesla fell yet again today, down another 14.26% thanks to a growing rift between CEO Elon Musk and President Trump.
Procter & Gamble fell 1.90% after the consumer goods giant announced it will slash 7,000 jobs over the next two years.
Brown-Forman tumbled 17.92% on poor earnings for the alcohol maker and worse-than-expected forecasts for the coming year.
Kimberly-Clark lost 2.27% due to an agreement to sell a majority stake in its international Kleenex tissue business.
PVH plunged 17.96% after the parent company of brands like Calvin Klein beat earnings estimates last quarter but predicted a much worse quarter ahead.
ChargePoint Holdings plummeted 22.49% thanks to a rough quarter for the EV charging company.
Ciena sank 12.85% following a much-weaker-than-expected quarter for the communications equipment maker.

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DAILY UPDATE: Bristol Myers Squibb Pays BioNTech as Stock Markets End Mixed

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stat: $11.1 million. That’s how much Bristol Myers Squibb is paying biotech company BioNTech to license a new cancer drug. (MarketWatch)

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Reddit climbed 6.63% after it announced it’s suing AI startup Anthropic for using the social media site’s content without permission.
ON Semiconductor rose 6.14% after its CEO touted a recovery in demand for its chips.
Guidewire Software popped 16.41% thanks to strong earnings for the insurance provider last quarter, including a 22% increase in revenue.
Thor Industries climbed 4.25% on better-than-expected earnings from the world’s biggest RV manufacturer.
HealthEquity jumped 8.96% after the health savings account custodian boosted its fiscal guidance for the year ahead.

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Tesla tumbled 3.55% on weak sales data from China and Germany.
Apple fell 0.22% thanks to a downgrade from Needham analysts, who think the company’s valuation is way too high.
Wells Fargo lost 0.36% after the Federal Reserve lifted its 2018 cap on the bank’s assets.
What goes up must come down: Constellation Energy sank 4.31% after Citigroup downgraded the nuclear power provider, warning it’s not getting its money’s worth with Meta Platforms.
Asana plunged 20.47% after the work management software maker announced fiscal forecasts that came in below Wall Street’s expectations.
Flowserve lost 6.27% and Chart Industries dropped 9.46% after the two industrial manufacturers agreed to an all-stock merger of equals.

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DAILY UPDATE: Stock Markets Rise Up

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Nvidia is back on top as the world’s most valuable company after rising 2.80%.
Ford climbed 2.10% after the automaker reported an impressive 16% increase in sales last month thanks to employee pricing promotions.
Pinterest popped 3.84% thanks to an upgrade from JPMorgan, who applauded the social media site’s recent focus on monetization efforts.
Signet Jewelers proved once again that diamonds are forever, rising 12.49% thanks to strong earnings last quarter.
Credo Technology exploded 14.80% thanks to the high-speed connectivity solutions provider crushing earnings forecasts after it tripled its sales last quarter.
Parsons gained 7.01% despite the defense tech company slashing its fiscal forecast due to uncertainty in the Pentagon.
Ferguson Enterprises rose 17.23% on the news that tariffs won’t have much of an effect on the plumbing and heating parts supplier.
MoonLake Immunotherapeutics soared 17.95% on a report in the Financial Times that it may be acquired by Merck.

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Hims & Hers Health fell 3.59% on the news that it will acquire European digital health platform Zava.
Bumble tumbled 6.45% on a downgrade from JPMorgan analysts, who think the dating app is losing market share to Hinge.
EchoStar sank 11.31% after the telecommunications company announced it will not make an interest payment, its second missed payment amid an FCC investigation.
FactSet Research Systems lost 4.83% on the announcement of a new CEO.

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DAILY UPDATE: The Gap is Down but Stock Markets are Up

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Meta Platforms popped 3.62% on a report in the Wall Street Journal that the company is going all-in on using AI to create advertisements.
Applied Digital skyrocketed 48.46% after the data center operator announced two 15-year leases with CoreWeave that will bring in $7 billion in new revenue. CoreWeave rose 7.99%.
BioNTech soared 18.05% on news of a multibillion-dollar collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb to develop cancer treatments. Bristol Myers Squibb rose 1.06%.
Moderna gained 1.84% thanks to the FDA’s approval of its new Covid vaccine, though it’s only for certain patients.
Blueprint Medicines exploded 26.09% after the biopharma company agreed to be acquired by Sanofi for $9.5 billion.

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Tesla slipped 1.09% after vehicle deliveries across Europe continued to drop, including a 67% decline in France last month.
Auto stocks suffered from fears of higher pricing thanks to President Trump’s steel tariff hike. General Motors tumbled 3.87%, Ford fell 3.86%, and Stellantis slid 3.55%.
Sports-betting stocks took a loss after Illinois lawmakers decided to tax the companies $0.25 per wager made on their apps. DraftKings lost 5.99%, and Flutter Entertainment dropped 2.74%.
Advertising stocks sank on Meta Platforms’ announcement of AI advances in its advertisements. Omnicom Group lost 4.02%, and WPP Group fell 2.45%.

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Markets: Stocks closed out a winning month Friday with the S&P 500 having its best one since 2023. But the markets are still rattled by the trade war, and stocks wavered during the day after President Trump accused China of breaching its recent trade deal with the US. Investors declined to fall into the Gap after the retail chain said tariffs would cost it up to $150 million this fiscal year.

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DAILY UPDATE: Home Prices and 23andMe as Stock Markets Wobble

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The median home price jumped 1.6% YoY last month and is sitting at $431,931. Meanwhile, mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed loan (the most common) are still hovering just under 7%. The chief economist of the National Association of Realtors said lower mortgage rates are the key to getting buyers to buy homes again.

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Ulta Beauty is sitting pretty, up 11.78% after the cosmetics retailer crushed earnings expectations and raised its fiscal guidance for the year ahead.
Costco Wholesale rose 3.12% after beating Wall Street’s earnings expectations, though same-store sales did slip a bit.
Zscaler climbed 9.79% on strong earnings for the cybersecurity company, including 23% revenue growth.
Palantir popped 7.73% on a report from the New York Times that the Trump administration has asked the company to help the government compile data on US citizens.

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Nvidia slipped 2.92% as rhetoric between the US and China over semiconductor import restrictions reignited investor fears.
Gap plunged 20.18% after the retailer revealed that tariffs will cost between $100 and $150 million.
Marvell Technology fell 5.55% after the chip maker barely beat Wall Street expectations last quarter, failing to impress shareholders.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals tumbled 19.01% thanks to mixed results for its new respiratory drug in late stage trials. The medication is made in partnership with Sanofi, which also dropped 5.61%.
Dell Technologies sank 2.08% after missing earnings expectations last quarter, though it did manage to beat on revenue.
Elastic NV beat analyst forecasts last quarter, but still fell 12.09% after the software company issued lower-than-expected revenue guidance.
PagerDuty, which is in fact a cloud computing company and not a seller of 1990s tech, lost 11.43% after issuing lower second-quarter guidance than Wall Street forecast.

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23andMe peaked at a $6 billion valuation in 2021 but never made a profit. It filed for bankruptcy on March 23rd and was put up for auction.

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DAILY UPDATE: UnitedHealth Group and Crypto Up as Stock Markets Spike

Posted on May 30, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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UnitedHealth Group improperly uses workers’ funds to reduce its own 401(k) contributions, according to a lawsuit against the nation’s largest health insurer that is seeking class-action status. The company denies the claims. It’s just one in a string of lawsuits facing the beleaguered company.

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Boeing climbed 3.32% after CEO Kelly Ortberg laid out his turnaround plan for the struggling aircraft manufacturer, including ramping up production of its 737 Max.
C3.ai exploded 20.76% higher thanks to a smaller-than-expected loss last quarter and strong revenue growth for the enterprise AI company.
Veeva Systems soared 18.74% after the cloud computing company beat Wall Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines.
E.l.f. Beauty popped 23.58% thanks to better-than-expected earnings, as well as the news that it will acquire Haley Bieber’s beauty brand Rhode for up to $1 billion.
Moderna rose 3.38% despite the Trump administration pulling $766 million in funding for a new bird flu vaccine.
Li Auto climbed 2.11% after beating first-quarter forecasts, though the Chinese EV company issued disappointing guidance.

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Salesforce posted a beat-and-raise earnings report, but it wasn’t good enough for shareholders, and the software giant sank 3.30%.
HP reported solid revenue last quarter, but missed on profits and issued worse-than-expected guidance for the coming year, pushing shares down 8.27%
Kohl’s fell 0.74% after posting solid sales and a smaller-than-anticipated earnings loss.
Best Buy tumbled 7.27% after beating earnings estimates but missing on revenue and warning that it’s cutting its fiscal forecast and likely raising prices.
SentinelOne fell 11.59% after the cybersecurity company missed revenue estimates and issued a lower sales forecast than Wall Street wanted to see.

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There are now 114 publicly listed companies that own bitcoin, up from 89 at the beginning of April, according to BitcoinTreasuries.net.
Bitcoin’s price jumped nearly 50% from a low of ~$75,000 to an all-time high of nearly $112,000 over roughly the same period.

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DAILY UPDATE: Stock Markets Down

Posted on May 29, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Vail Resorts soared 8.84% on the news that it’s bringing back former CEO Rob Katz to turn the company around.
Dick’s Sporting Goods climbed 1.66% thanks to solid earnings, and the retailer also impressed by keeping fiscal guidance intact.
Box jumped 17.23% after the cloud storage company beat earnings estimates and raised its forecast for the coming quarter and full year.
Joby Aviation soared 28.78% after the air taxi startup secured a $250 million investment from Toyota.

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US chip designers sank on reports that the White House has ordered them to stop selling to clients in China. Cadence Design Systems tumbled 10.67%, while Synopsys lost 9.64%
Okta tumbled 16.16% despite the identity management software company posting solid earnings and standing by its fiscal guidance for the year.
Macy’s fell 0.50% despite beating Wall Street estimates across the board, though it did cut its profit outlook for the year.
Automaker Stellantis dropped 3.15% after revealing veteran exec Antonio Filosa will become the new head of Jeep’s parent company.
Freshpet fell 3.97% on a downgrade from TD Cowen analysts, who think the company’s refrigerated pet food concept doesn’t have much growth potential.
Semtech stumbled 4.56% even though the semiconductor supplier beat earnings estimates and raised its fiscal forecast.
Boston Scientific sank 1.56% after it decided to discontinue its artificial heart valve system due to regulatory feedback.
Chevron fell 1.31% a day after the US government declared that it can no longer produce oil in Venezuela.

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DAILY UPDATE: Gold Down as Stock Markets Sky Rocket

Posted on May 28, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Bonds breathed a sigh of relief after 30-year Treasury yields fell back below 5% as Japanese central bankers took precautionary measures to shore up their finances.

Gold tumbled as investors continue to throw money at risk assets, while bitcoin maintained its recent gains.

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Informatica popped 6.08% after Salesforce acquired the cloud data manager for $8 billion.
US Steel gained 1.98% on reports that its acquisition by Nippon Steel is finally happening.
Oklo rose 10.29% thanks to the Trump seal of approval for nuclear energy.
CoreWeave can’t stop, won’t stop: The AI hyperscaler was downgraded by Barclays analysts, who think its near-term upside is limited, but shares still rose 20.66%.
VF Corp., the parent company of The North Face, JanSport, etc, rose 12.92% after disclosing that members of its C-suite splurged on the stock.
Soundhound AI is a retail trader favorite, and now Piper Sandler analysts like it,too: The AI voice platform jumped 16.05% on an upgrade.
Southwest gained 5.53% on reports that the airline is rolling out $35 baggage fees beginning tomorrow.
Movie theater stocks popped on a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend at the box office: AMC soared 23.77%, Cinemark climbed 3.82%, and Marcus Corp. gained 10.12%.

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PDD Holdings plunged 13.64% after the Chinese e-commerce retailer reported a hefty 47% decline in profits last quarter.
Trump Media & Technology Group tumbled 10.38% after the company announced it’s raising $2.5 billion to buy bitcoin.
Champion Homes sank 16.39% after the homebuilder missed Wall Street expectations last quarter by a mile.
Rocket Pharmaceuticals dropped 62.84% after the biotech reported that a patient participating in a gene therapy trial died over the weekend.

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DAILY UPDATE: Medicare A.I. as Markets Go Down

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Medicare may soon be able to reimburse physicians for using artificial intelligence-based medical devices, thanks to a bipartisan bill recently introduced to Congress. The bill, called the Health Tech Investment Act, would set up a payment system for devices that use AI or machine learning, which the bill’s cosponsors say would encourage providers to use the technology in clinical settings and help improve diagnoses.

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Stock markets were down in trading on Friday after President Donald Trump said he wanted to impose a 50-percent tariff on the European Union and a new 25-percent tariff on iPhone maker Apple.

The S&P 500 was down around 0.8 percent, the NASDAQ Composite down 1.0 percent, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 0.6 percent.

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DAILY UPDATE: Stock Markets Collapse!

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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While stocks usually steal headlines, all eyes were on the bond market today. The 10-year bond yield popped back above 4.5% first thing this morning while the 30-year rose above 5% as fears of larger deficits due to the Republican tax and spending bill gave investors pause. A poorly received auction of $16 billion in 20-year bonds this afternoon only pushed yields higher.
Bitcoin climbed to a new all-time high early in the trading session, touching $109,500 at one point today as investors continue to search for alternatives to bonds and the US dollar.
Crude oil climbed to its highest price in a month on reports of flaring tensions between Israel and Iran, then tumbled lower after the US announced surprisingly high oil inventories.

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Silly goose: Outdoor apparel maker Canada Goose soared 19.35% after reporting a stellar first quarter.
Alphabet rose 2.79% following a slew of big announcements at its developer conference, including a revamped AI Search.
Xpeng popped 13.06% thanks to a smaller-than-expected loss last quarter for the Chinese EV maker.
WeRide soared 21.42% on the announcement that the robotaxi will buy back $100 million of its stock.

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UnitedHealth Group secretly paid nursing homes to transfer fewer people to hospitals so it could cut costs, according to The Guardian. Shares understandably tumbled 5.79%.
Target missed the mark last quarter, with fewer transactions thanks to DEI boycotts leading to lower sales and profits, pushing shares down 5.21%.
Lowe’s sank 1.77% despite sticking to its full-year guidance, noting that sales to professionals will pad its bottom line.
Palo Alto Network may have beaten analysts’ estimates for sales and profits, but the cybersecurity company still fell 6.80% due to thinner margins.
Take-Two Interactive sank 4.52% after the video game maker put $1 billion in common stock on the market.
Fair Isaac caught strays today from a Trump Administration official who was displeased by the credit analytics company’s decision to raise royalty fees.
Carter’s crashed 15.74% on the announcement that the children’s clothing retailer will slash its dividend due to higher costs from tariffs.
Airline stocks tumbled after the FAA limited flights in and out of Newark Airport. United Airlines fell 3.93%, Southwest Airlines lost 2.35%, and American Airlines sank 3.52%.
Wolfspeed, easily the best-named stock on the market, may go bankrupt. Shares of the semiconductor supplier dropped 59.11%.

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DAILY UPDATE: Capital One Settles Litigation as S&P 500 Rises

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Capital One has agreed to pay $425 million to settle nationwide litigation accusing it of cheating savings account depositors out of much higher interest rates by not telling them they could move their money to higher-yielding accounts. A notice describing the preliminary settlement was filed on Friday evening in U.S. federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. The accord requires a judge’s approval.

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The S&P 500 is just 3% below its record high set in mid-February, when President Donald Trump launched a trade war that began with Canada and Mexico. That puts the index around bull market territory and marks a stunning rebound from just a month ago as markets crashed after Trump unveiled his “Liberation Day” tariffs.

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Stat: $159.4 million. That’s the total paid out to six CEOs at the country’s top payers in 2024. (Fierce Healthcare)

Quote: “They couldn’t make the economics work quickly. Changing the way Americans receive healthcare services just looks like a very long slog.”—Julie Utterback, senior equity analyst at investment research firm Morningstar, on big retail chain investments in clinical care (Modern Healthcare)

Read: Could California’s experiment with near-universal healthcare be nearing its end? (KFF Health News)

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DAILY UPDATE: PBMs, Cable Companies Merge as Stock Markets Rise

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Arkansas just passed a first-if-its-kind law banning vertical integration between pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and pharmacies. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on April 16th signed a law prohibiting any company that owns a PBM from also owning or operating pharmacies in the state. The goal of the law is to eliminate “conflicts of interest” that lead to higher drug prices and care delays, according to a press release.

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Nvidia climbed 0.42% on reports that the US and United Arab Emirates are nearing a deal that would allow the UAE to import 500,000 chips per year. But shares lost some ground after the company denied reports that it will build a new R&D center in Shanghai.
Galaxy Digital made its long-awaited debut on the Nasdaq today, with the crypto/data center company climbing 4.06%. The company is reportedly in conversation with the SEC to tokenize its stock.
Virgin Galactic rocketed 43.28% higher on the space tourism company’s announcement that it will restart commercial spaceflights.
Coinbase climbed 9.01% after Oppenheimer analysts said the market’s reaction to recent news of a hack and an SEC probe were “overblown.”
CoreWeave soared 22.09% after Nvidia disclosed a larger stake in the data center provider than expected.
Quantum computing stocks popped on news that the company Quantum Computing has finished laying the groundwork for a quantum chip foundry. Shares of Quantum Computing rose 39.29%, while D-Wave Quantum gained 11.06%.
Archer Aviation soared 9.11% after being named the Official Air Taxi Provider of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games, which sounds made up but is apparently very impressive.
Vistra Corp popped 3.06% on the news that it has acquired seven natural gas facilities from Lotus Infrastructure Partners for $1.9 billion.

What’s down

Novo Nordisk slipped 2.69% on the news that its CEO is stepping down after eight years at the helm, due to the pharma giant’s recent challenges.
Applied Materials sank 5.25% after the semiconductor maker’s revenue last quarter came in under analyst estimates.
Cava crumbled 2.27% thanks to financial forecasts of slower growth for the salad bowl chain in the coming year.
Take-Two Interactive Software lost 2.41% due to weaker-than-expected projections for net bookings this quarter and this year.
Doximity plunged 10.08% after the healthcare platform issued fiscal guidance for the current quarter and full year that came in below analyst expectations.

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Two of the biggest cable companies in the United States have agreed to merge, marking a major milestone in consolidation as cord-cutters continue to ditch their pricey TV packages, thus forcing companies to adjust to their dwindling futures. Charter Communications, which operates under the Spectrum branding, is combining with its privately held rival Cox Communications, which it values at $34.5 billion including debt, the two companies announced Friday.

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