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Something extraordinary happened beneath the surface of the stock market today. The Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X Shares ETF—better known by its ticker, SOXS—traded more than 1.3 billion shares, according to Goldman Sachs. That reportedly makes it the third-largest volume day, measured by shares, for any U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund in approximately two decades of observed … Read more
Today’s U.S. Debt Clock graphic is doing what it does best: compressing a decade-plus of disruption into one punchy visual. At the center is Tesla’s revenue arc — from roughly $116.7M in 2010 to $94.8B in 2025 — a reminder that “impossible” often just means “early.” Tesla’s own 2010 results pegged full-year revenue at $116.7M. … Read more
In 2022, NVIDIA was locked out of China’s booming AI chip market. By April 2025, U.S. restrictions went further — an outright ban on selling advanced AI processors to China. Overnight, both NVIDIA and AMD lost access to their most lucrative international customer base. Then came an unprecedented reversal. In June, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang … Read more
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution isn’t just reshaping industries — it’s reshaping global power structures. And at the heart of this seismic shift lies a critical and fiercely contested resource: semiconductor chips. As AI’s insatiable appetite for computational power accelerates, semiconductor companies are becoming the new oil barons of the digital era. For investors, this … Read more