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Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) announced the largest contract in its
history Monday evening: a 20-year lease worth $9.1 billion, with a
tenant Bloomberg identified as Anthropic. The stock jumped more than
25% in after-hours trading. It opened Tuesday at $23.57 and touched
$23.66 in the first minutes — a gain of more than 21% on Monday's
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roughly four times its recent average volume.

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A 70-GIGAWATT BACKLOG AND A FOUR-YEAR WAIT
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— Thirty minutes before this issue reached your inbox, the
government released July's inflation report — the number we told you
on Monday would referee the fight between a Fed talking about rate
hikes and a labor market that just lost 23,000 jobs.

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FIVE STRONG BUY STOCKS TO WATCH FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12
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— Tuesday, August 11, brought a fresh wave of Buy-equivalent
upgrades. Truist Securities lifted Best Buy ahead of Q2, Argus
upgraded Boeing on production growth and free-cash-flow improvement,
UBS moved Jabil to Buy on a multi-year AI-driven cycle, Phillip
Securities upgraded Spotify, and B.

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THE GOVERNMENT CHECK IS SHRINKING
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— Monday, August 10, brought another wave of Buy-equivalent
upgrades. Wells Fargo lifted Dick's Sporting Goods to Overweight ahead
of the August 25 earnings release, Morgan Stanley reversed to
Overweight on Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Argus turned bullish on
SanDisk citing a memory-cycle bottom, Goldman Sachs upgraded
Protagonist Therapeutics to Buy on its oral IL-17 antagonist PN-881,
and Loop Capital moved FirstCash to Buy on an oversold post-earnings
setup.

“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and
not as a speculator.”

— Ben Graham

Worth Reading Today

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Trump’s Gold Move Could Change Everything
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The last time Washington made a move like this, gold surged 2,300%.
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$207 Million in Palantir Insider Selling
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Palantir executives just unloaded millions in stock—and they
aren’t alone. DISCOVER WHAT THIS COULD MEAN FOR AI INVESTORS AND THE
THREE POSITIONS TO CONSIDER
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Elon’s Next Venture Could Create New Winners
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Demand for Elon’s latest technology is reportedly surging, and a few
companies control the supply chain. SEE THE STOCKS POSITIONED TO
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_Mode Mobile recently received their ticker reservation with Nasdaq
($MODE), indicating an intent to IPO in the next 24 months. An intent
to IPO is no guarantee that an actual IPO will occur._

_The Deloitte rankings are based on submitted applications and public
company database research, with winners selected based on their
fiscal-year revenue growth percentage over a three-year period._

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