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Warsh’s first speech as Fed chairman at Jackson Hole landed more hawkish than anyone had positioned for — he emphasized that inflation expectations “must be closely minded” and that price stability remains the Fed’s “predominant focus,” sending the 2-year Treasury yield to 4.35% in its biggest one-day jump since June and pushing September rate hike odds from 35% to 58% overnight.

Marvell beat Q2 estimates and raised guidance for both the current and upcoming fiscal years — the textbook “beat and raise” — and the stock still fell 10%, because the AI hardware bar is now so high that beat-and-raise is the floor, not the ceiling.

Bloomberg reported that the Stripe-Advent consortium abandoned its pursuit of PayPal; the stock tumbled 12%, erasing the July premium from the bid that briefly sent PYPL up 17%. Elastic reported a 70-cent EPS beat for Q1 FY2027 as its AI-powered search and data retrieval platform accelerated, and the stock gained nearly 20% — a reminder that while AI hardware keeps disappointing on expectations, AI software keeps landing clean beats

Bitcoin fell more than 3% as the dollar strengthened on Warsh’s hawkish tone, and gold dropped nearly 3.4% as investors unwound the debasement trade that had run for several weeks.

Alphabet’s Google faced a new obstacle after a U.S. bankruptcy court delayed approval of its $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines’ internal business data until September 9, following an objection from the airline’s flight attendants union over employee information potentially included in the transaction.

The dispute puts worker privacy directly into the AI data race, as Google looks beyond public internet content and increasingly targets proprietary corporate datasets that can support the development of its AI systems.

Cyabra signed a six-figure annual agreement with a major interactive-entertainment company to monitor coordinated manipulation and inauthentic activity across its player community, expanding private-sector adoption of technology previously used to identify organized digital influence campaigns.

The contract gives Cyabra a new foothold in gaming, where bot networks, fake accounts and manipulated narratives can damage communities and brands, extending its commercial business beyond government and national-security customers.

Tyson Foods faces a fresh regulatory threat after President Trump said he is preparing a legal order that would give farmers and ranchers broader rights to process their own food, targeting concentration among major U.S. processors.

Four companies control about 85% of U.S. meat processing, and the Justice Department is already examining possible price manipulation, putting Tyson directly in the path of a policy push that could reshape competition across the beef supply chain.

Walmart settled a major Justice Department opioid lawsuit accusing the retailer of unlawfully dispensing controlled-substance prescriptions through its pharmacies, ending one of the federal government’s most significant corporate cases tied to the opioid epidemic without publicly disclosing settlement terms.

The case dated back to 2020 and carried potential civil penalties in the billions, giving Walmart closure on a long-running legal exposure after it separately agreed to pay $3.1 billion in 2022 to resolve thousands of state and local opioid claims.

Cytokinetics reported that aficamten met both Phase 3 endpoints in the 517-patient ACACIA-HCM trial, improving patient-reported health status and peak oxygen consumption in people with symptomatic non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

The result gives Cytokinetics a potential route into a second form of HCM, although heart-failure events and treatment interruptions linked to reduced ejection fraction were more frequent during dose titration.

United Therapeutics moved ralinepag into formal FDA review after regulators accepted its new drug application for the once-daily oral treatment targeting pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare disease that places severe pressure on the heart and lungs.

The FDA has set a June 24, 2027, decision date, giving United Therapeutics a defined regulatory timeline for another potential addition to its pulmonary-hypertension franchise and a more convenient oral treatment option for patients.

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Vince Holding acquired OVO’s operating assets and retail business, making the streetwear label its first major expansion beyond the Vince brand and giving it control of OVO stores, e-commerce operations and wholesale relationships across the U.S., Canada and UK.

OVO will remain creatively independent, but Vince becomes its core apparel and retail licensee, using its existing infrastructure and department-store relationships to expand the brand’s U.S. distribution and build a broader multi-brand platform.

Standard Motor Products is expanding its European business through Nissens, with the acquired operation adding 17 locations, more than $300 million in revenue and over 800 new products as the U.S. automotive-parts supplier builds a larger overseas platform.

Management expects $8 million to $12 million in cost synergies from the acquisition and is prioritizing debt reduction, giving Standard Motor a clearer path to capture more European aftermarket demand without relying solely on its established North American operations.

Omnicom Media officially launched Hearts United by combining Hearts & Science with Mediahub, creating a new global agency spanning 40 markets and roughly $9.1 billion in 2025 client billings.

The network enters the market ranked first in U.S. year-to-date new business, with AI built into its operating model as Omnicom pushes for more scale across media, data, commerce and creative services.

The Trade Desk is strengthening its connected-TV platform with Gracenote data that gives advertisers more detailed program-level information when buying streaming inventory, including standardized content identifiers and metadata.

The integration gives buyers more visibility into exactly where ads appear, addressing a long-running problem in programmatic CTV and sharpening Trade Desk’s position as advertisers move larger budgets from traditional television into streaming.

TJGC Group [TJGC] $9.90 (+24.69%)

TJGC Group makes smart electronics and connected device products. The stock ran 26% this session, continuing its pattern of appearing in the top movers list on positive technology sector days.

Despite the chip sell-off after Marvell’s disappointing reaction, TJGC’s connected-device positioning in Asia sits outside the AI hardware supply chain that investors are penalizing, which is why it catches bids when the broader tech narrative is mixed rather than uniform.

CBL International [BANL] $16.10 (+21.05%)

CBL International distributes marine bunker fuel to ships at ports across Southeast Asia. The stock jumped 21% in the week’s final session as uncertainty over shipping lanes in the Middle East continues to redirect cargo through alternative routes where CBL operates.

Oil held steady near $88, and marine fuel distributors positioned at alternative ports continue catching the rerouting premium that the Strait of Hormuz situation created months ago.

Elastic [ESTC] $99.94 (+19.30%)

Elastic reported Q1 FY2027 earnings with a 70-cent EPS beat and accelerating revenue growth from enterprise adoption of its AI search platform. The company’s Elasticsearch is increasingly used for retrieval-augmented generation — the architecture underlying most production AI applications — giving Elastic a structural role in how enterprises access and query AI data.

The market had been waiting for software to deliver what the hardware names keep promising. Buy rated.

Wetour Robotics [WETO] $5.72 (-50.26%)

Wetour Robotics has now logged a fresh extreme move for the fourth time this week — Monday up 33%, Wednesday down 38%, Thursday down 31%, Friday down 49%.

The company makes intelligent transportation robots, completed a 1-for-100 reverse split to regain Nasdaq compliance, and has been trading entirely on post-split thin-float mechanics ever since. The pattern is not a business story. It is a liquidity story.

Marvell Technology [MRVL] $216.62 (-10.28%)

Marvell beat Q2 revenue estimates, lifted guidance for the current quarter and the year ahead, and fell 10% anyway. The problem is the pattern: investors have watched AI hardware companies beat and raise for two years running, and the multiple that gets attached to each new beat has been compressing as the market asks “yes, but what’s the ceiling?

Marvell is a strong business — the market is questioning whether its growth rate justifies its current valuation after Nvidia set the bar this week.

PayPal [PYPL] $53.66 (-12.71%)

The Stripe-Advent consortium that had been in talks to acquire PayPal for roughly $53 billion walked away, according to Bloomberg. The July bid was the catalyst for one of PayPal’s best sessions in years; today’s news removed that catalyst entirely.

PayPal’s underlying business — processing payments, Venmo, Honey — is unchanged. The deal premium is gone.

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