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Overview Dell Technologies has been the hardest-hit large cap in AI hardware this week. On October 14, intraday data cited by Yahoo Finance showed DELL down 11.27%, the steepest decline in the S&P 500 that session, with HPE off 8.28% and NetApp off 7.03%. The slide continued the next day. Benzinga recorded the stock at $460.20 by 10:37 a.m. ET on October 15, down as much as 9.4%, before it closed at $473.39 per GuruFocus, a loss of $34.54 or roughly 6.8% that took market value to about $301 bill

Overview The September producer price report released on October 15 pushed crypto to its lowest level in a month. CoinDesk's live coverage recorded PPI rising 1.3% month over month and 6.3% year over year, with core PPI up 0.7% and 5% respectively, all well above forecasts. CNBC reported that it was the largest annual gain since 2022. Bitcoin slid through the session and touched $79,950 at around 9:54 a.m. Eastern, its first break below $80,000 since mid-September, before recovering roughly 3% t

Overview The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases September producer price data on October 15 at 8:30 a.m. ET, which is 12:30 UTC and 20:30 in Singapore, a schedule confirmed in the previous PPI news release. It lands at an awkward moment. One day earlier, September CPI came in at 3.7% year over year, above the 3.6% consensus and up from 3.4% in August. That has pushed a normally secondary release to the front of the queue. Per the Investing.com economic calendar, headline PPI is expected to

Overview Samsung Electronics America announced on October 7 that Samsung Wallet will add stablecoin functionality for eligible US Galaxy users in the last week of October, reaching roughly 82 million compatible devices, with USDC issued by Circle as the first and for now only supported stablecoin. The official announcement sets out two transfer paths: sending USDC to compatible third-party crypto wallets or exchange accounts on supported networks with no Samsung transfer fee, and sending money t

Overview Binance published its notice on the closure of Binance Pool services on October 13, confirming that the pool and its related products stop at 07:00 UTC on November 10, 2026. At that moment mining connections are severed and endpoints stop accepting submissions, with any hashrate or shares sent afterwards neither processed nor credited. The closure covers more than the pool itself, taking in Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, the Transaction Accelerator, Telegram hashrate alerts, email notifica

Overview Chainalysis put a number on something that had been largely unmeasured. In its annual report on the North American crypto economy, published October 14, the firm counted more than 138 million x402 transactions on Base by the close of its study period, which covers the twelve months ending July 1, 2026, with the micropayment analysis extended to the sixteen months ending September 2026. The size distribution matters more than the count. Over 87% of those payments fell between one hundred

Overview ASML delivered a record third quarter on October 14. Revenue, gross margin and net income all came in strong, full-year guidance was raised again, and management said some customers are already discussing equipment orders for 2029 and even 2030. According to the company's quarterly results release, net sales reached €11.662 billion with a gross margin of 57.5%, net income of €4.960 billion and basic earnings per share of €12.95. The share price said something else entirely. Per stockana

Overview CoreWeave is trying to move its funding base away from banks and private credit and toward the longer, cheaper money held by insurance companies. The Financial Times published an interview with co-founder Brannin McBee on October 14, and according to Traders Union's account of that report, McBee described the insurance industry's capital pool as effectively unlimited and said the company is working to get its Nvidia GPU-backed loans rated investment grade as a class. The same report put

Overview The Census Bureau releases September retail sales on October 15 at 08:30 ET, which is 20:30 in Singapore. According to investinglive's calendar for the week, consensus looks for a 0.3% monthly gain in the headline and 0.5% excluding autos, against August prints of 1.2% and 1.4%. Moving from 1.2% to 0.3% is a sizable step down in expectations. The number itself is not the interesting part. What makes this release worth watching is the contradiction sitting behind it. The University of Mi

Overview Four token unlocks land within the next 72 hours. BeInCrypto's roundup of this week's schedule puts Starknet at roughly 127 million STRK on October 15, Arbitrum at roughly 92.65 million ARB on October 16, and Cronos at roughly 1.17 billion CRO on October 17. PANews' list of the same window adds Sei with about 55.56 million SEI, also on October 15. Priced at October 14 levels, the four events total roughly $102 million. Unlocks earn calendar space not because prices reliably fall on the