Chris MacDonald is a long-time financial contributor to a number of world-class finance publications, including Barchart. With more than a decade of experience in covering a range of financial assets, Chris looks to bring a fundamentals-first approach to assessing the market.
J.P. Morgan upgraded Pepsi, citing expectations for improved performance.
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Meta is allegedly launching a new model in Q1 called Avocado.
Chipotle is upping its stock buybacks by $1.8 billion.
Carvana, after making a huge comeback, is joining the S&P 500 and will be in the index effective Dec. 22.
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DRAM billings were up 90% in November.
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Sam Altman, in an internal memo, has told employees at OpenAI that the company is on alert as Google makes waves with its Gemini 3, which has become the top-ranked AI LLM.
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Ives just added IREN to his list of the top 30 AI winners.
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Wedbush analyst Dan Ives just put together his list of the top 10 stocks to own through the end of 2025.
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Dan Ives reiterated that Jensen Huang is the Godfather of AI and that the AI thesis is still only in the third inning, as NVDA Q3 results were seen as defeating the bear thesis.
A Rothschild/Redburn analyst has downgraded Microsoft and Amazon as the bull thesis fails to play out with the intensity many have expected.
