Articles for author: Russ Cohen

Russ Cohen

AI Model Race Heats Up: BABA, NVDA, MSFT, META, GOOGL in Focus

Chinese Artificial Intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek rattled the AI industry with the announcement of its low-cost AI models, prompting a huge sell-off in shares of U.S. tech giants, including NVIDIA NVDA, Broadcom, Amphenol, AMD, Microsoft MSFT, Alphabet GOOGL and Oracle. Microsoft through its OpenAI investment and GOOGL via Gemini models are direct competitors of DeepSeek ...

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EPIX Investors Have Opportunity to Lead ESSA Pharma Inc. Securities Fraud Lawsuit with the Schall Law Firm

The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against ESSA Pharma Inc. (“ESSA” or “the Company”) EPIX for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors who purchased the ...

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Options Corner: Ambiguity Ahead Of AMD's Q4 Earnings Sweetens A 'Condor' Trade

Although China’s DeepSeek model threatens to disrupt the current paradigm in artificial intelligence, it’s just one concern impacting semiconductor giant Advanced Micro Devices Inc AMD. Ahead of the company’s critical fourth-quarter earnings report, investors may find more comfort considering a directionally neutral strategy in the form of an iron condor. Fundamentally, Advanced Micro incurs mixed ...

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A Closer Look at Applied Optoelectronics's Options Market Dynamics

Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bearish stance on Applied Optoelectronics AAOI. And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the positions showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga. Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don’t know. But when ...

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Insider Selling in Tech Stocks Spikes in Q4

Insider selling in tech stocks like AppLovin (NASDAQ: APP), Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO), and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) spiked in Q4 2024 and could signal a top for the market. Sellers include the CEO, CFO, directors, and critical C-suite personnel in all cases, providing a potentially strong signal. However, selling activity also aligns with companies that utilize ...

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Thursday's ETF with Unusual Volume: RPV

The Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 5.4 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 122,000. Shares of RPV were up about 0.6% on the day. Components of that ETF with the highest volume on Thursday were Ford Motor, trading up ...

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Bear of the Day: Baidu (BIDU)

Baidu Company Overview Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell) stock Baidu (BIDU) is a Chinese technology company that offers multiple internet services. With a focus on mainland China users, Baidu is best known for its search engine dominance (owns ~54% market share in China). However, the company has branched out into several other offerings. Baidu also ...