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Market Rally Today: AI Giants, Blue Chips, and Small Caps Kick Off February in Style -( $AAPL $FLYX $GOVX $INTC $LLY $MCD $MODD $MU $NOK $RIO $TSM Rise!)

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. February 3, 2026 5539Views 0Likes

U.S. stocks launched February with a flourish, as major indexes shrugged off weekend volatility in commodities and crypto to end Monday sharply higher. S&P 500: Brushing Past Its Nerves The S&P 500 spent the day flirting with record territory, ultimately closing just…

IonQ’s $1.8 Billion SkyWater Deal: Building America’s First Vertically Integrated Quantum Chip Powerhouse

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. February 2, 2026 577Views 0Likes

IonQ’s (IONQ) decision to buy SkyWater Technology for $1.8 billion reads like a quantum-age industrial policy love story: a fast‑growing quantum upstart marries a scrappy U.S. chip foundry, and the honeymoon is scheduled right onshore. For investors, the deal is a bet…

Leidos’ $2.4 Billion Power Play: Why the ENTRUST Deal Could Supercharge Its Energy Future ( $LDOS $SPY )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. February 2, 2026 695Views 0Likes

Leidos (LDOS) is betting that the future of power isn’t just about electrons—it’s about engineering, data and a lot of capital expenditure, and it’s writing a $2.4 billion all‑cash check for ENTRUST Solutions Group to prove it. The deal doesn’t just bulk…

Senate’s Last-Minute Funding Victory Dodges At Least One Shutdown Bullet -( $DIA $SPY $QQQ $GLD $SLV )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. January 31, 2026 430Views 0Likes

Lawmakers pulled off a bipartisan high-wire act, passing a massive funding package that secures most federal operations through September. While a brief partial shutdown looms over the weekend, the deal signals Washington's knack for threading the needle at deadline's door. Bipartisan Sprint…

Weekly Market Wrap January 30, 2026: S&P Edges Higher as Warsh Nomination, Earnings, and Gold & Silver Surge & Selloff -( $MODD $MTWO $SER $SOAR $SPY $VIX Rise!)

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. January 31, 2026 5522Views 0Likes

Wall Street closed the week ending January 30, 2026 looking like a marathoner who technically finished in positive territory but clearly felt the hill at the end. The S&P 500 managed a modest weekly gain of about 0.3%, while the Dow and…

Dow Edges Higher as Nasdaq Falls: Full Jan. 29, 2026 Market Recap, Fed Outlook and Gold’s Record Run”- Jan. 29, 2026 -( $AAPL $DV $FLYX $GLD $LLY $MCD $META $MU $NVDA $RIO $SER $SOAR Rise!)

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. January 29, 2026 5415Views 0Likes

Wall Street tiptoed through Thursday’s session like a tightrope walker over Times Square: plenty of wobble, very little actual fall. The major indexes finished mixed, with Big Tech nursing a post-earnings hangover while old‑economy names politely pretended not to notice. Indexes: Tech…

Billion‑Dollar Exit, Billion‑Dollar Hearts: How One CEO Turned a $1.7 Billion Deal Into $240 Million for Workers In Louisiana

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. January 29, 2026 546Views 0Likes

An American CEO just turned a classic corporate exit into something closer to a feel‑good Main Street miracle. Graham Walker, the outgoing chief of Fibrebond, sold his family’s Louisiana manufacturing company for $1.7 billion—and insisted that a hefty slice of the pie…

Tesla’s Q4 Beat: Profits, Bots, and a Wink to Wall Street & A Market That Believes -( $SPY $TSLA $QQQ )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. January 29, 2026 563Views 0Likes

Tesla’s (TSLA) latest quarter delivered the kind of result that lets both the bulls and the skeptics claim victory, but only one group saw the stock pop more than 3% in after-hours trading. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of 0.50,…

Meta Just Put a Price Tag on the AI Future, Superintelligence Labs & Reality— And Wall Street Is Applauding -( $META $NVDA )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. January 29, 2026 621Views 0Likes

Meta’s latest quarter landed with the kind of thud Wall Street likes to hear: heavy, solid, and full of cash-generating advertising. Revenue for the fourth quarter clocked in around 59.9 billion dollars, up roughly 24% year over year, while earnings per share…

Fed Pause, Sky‑High Gold & Silver, & Another Torrent of Tech‑driven Earnings – Jan. 28, 2026 -( $AVGO $DV $FLYX $INTC $INTG $META $MU $NVDA $OKLO $RIO $SOAR $TSLA $TSM Rise!)

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. January 29, 2026 5272Views 0Likes

U.S. stocks hovered near record territory on Wednesday as traders first waited for and then digested widely expected Fed pause, sky‑high gold, and another torrent of tech‑driven earnings, leaving the major indexes modestly mixed by the close. Major U.S. Indexes The S&P 500 inched…

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