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The USD/ZAR pair was little changed on July 1 as traders reacted to hawkish remarks by South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor Lesetja Kganyago, who spoke at the European Central Bank (ECB) forum in Portugal. The pair was trading at 16.40, a few pips below last month’s high of 16.67.SARB may hike interest rates in JulyThe USD/ZAR pair wavered even after Kganyago, the head of South Africa’s central bank, hinted that the bank may decide to hike interest rates later this month. If this happens, it will hike rates to 7.25% and the prime lending rate to 10.75%, the highest level…

ServiceNow NOW and Salesforce shares climbed 4% on Wednesday after Guggenheim upgraded the software companies, arguing that their valuations have become attractive despite ongoing risks posed by artificial intelligence.The upgrade comes after a difficult year for enterprise software stocks, with investors reassessing growth prospects as AI reshapes the industry. ServiceNow shares are down 33% so far in 2026, while Salesforce has fallen 38%.Guggenheim upgrades ServiceNow and SalesforceGuggenheim analyst John DiFucci upgraded ServiceNow to Buy from Neutral and assigned a $125 price target, valuing the company at 7.5 times enterprise value to next-12-month recurring revenue.According to DiFucci, the upgrade reflects valuation…

The lazy read on Microsoft (MSFT) in mid-2026 is that it has become a broken AI-capex story: the shares closed at $373.02 on June 30, 2026, well off their old highs, as investors recoiled from a spending bill that hit roughly $37.5 billion in a single quarter (stockanalysis.com; Microsoft FY26 Q2). The overlooked fact is that the same sell-off dragged Microsoft’s forward price-to-earnings ratio down to roughly 22 times — below its own five-year average — even as Azure grew 39% and the company’s artificial-intelligence run-rate reached about $26 billion. Wall Street’s average 12-month price target sits at $561, some…

Bitcoin gave back its entire April rally to close Q2 2026 down roughly 11%, and $8.35 billion in wiped-out long positions has left the market thinner but steadier heading into the third quarter, according to a June 30 report from Talos. The pullback came as a Federal Reserve in no hurry to cut rates and a rush into AI stocks drew money away from crypto, weakening its main sources of demand and setting off a round of forced selling that cleared leverage out of the derivatives market. What Drained Crypto’s Demand in Q2 Bitcoin rose to around $82,000 through April…

The UnitedHealth Group stock price has embarked on a major rally in the past few months and has recently formed the encouraging golden cross pattern. UNH jumped to $420, its highest level since April 25. It has soared by 78% from its lowest level this year. Why UnitedHealth Group stock is soaringUnitedHealth Group, the biggest health insurance company in the United States, is doing well this year. This is a sharp contrast to what happened last year when it became one of the top laggards in Wall Street. The stock has rebounded even after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold all the shares…

Wells Fargo has increased its price target on Advanced Micro Devices to $615 from $505 while maintaining its Overweight rating, reflecting growing confidence in the company’s long-term server CPU business and continued demand driven by artificial intelligence (AI).AMD shares rose 2% on Tuesday’s trading after closing the previous session 3.4% higher at $539.49.Wells Fargo raises revenue and earnings forecastsWells Fargo increased its revenue estimates for AMD’s server CPU business over the next three years.The brokerage now projects server CPU revenue of $16.0 billion in 2026, rising to $20.5 billion in 2027 and $25.0 billion in 2028.The firm left its data…

BitGo has expanded its institutional custody platform to support YLDS, the SEC-registered yield-bearing digital security issued by Figure Certificate Company, giving institutional investors access to regulated custody for one of the first blockchain-native fixed-income products registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The digital asset infrastructure provider said YLDS can now be held through BitGo Bank & Trust, its federally chartered digital asset trust bank regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The launch combines SEC-registered digital securities with qualified custody infrastructure designed for institutional investors, highlighting the growing convergence of traditional securities regulation and blockchain-based…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission have moved against Netrios LP Ltd. and Red Acre Ltd. in parallel settlements that put the infrastructure behind offshore CFD brokers under direct U.S. regulatory scrutiny. In a CFTC order dated June 26, 2026, Netrios was ordered to pay a $1.75 million civil monetary penalty and Red Acre was ordered to pay $750,000 for facilitating illegal off-exchange leveraged or margined retail commodity transactions involving U.S. customers who were not eligible contract participants. The SEC imposed the same penalty amounts in a separate administrative order dated June 29, 2026, bringing…

Top software stocks have slumped this year amid the lingering concerns that artificial intelligence tools by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will hurt their revenue growth in the long term. ServiceNow (NOW) stock is down by 35% this year, while Salesforce (CRM), Workday (WDAY), and Adobe (ADBE) have fallen by over 40%.NOW, CRM, WDAY, and ADBE have gone through a valuation resetThe ongoing software slump has made these companies affordable to most people. A good example of this is by comparing their current valuations with that of the S&P 500 Index and their historical levels.The S&P 500 Index has a…

Top software stocks have slumped this year amid the lingering concerns that artificial intelligence tools by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will hurt their revenue growth in the long term. ServiceNow (NOW) stock is down by 35% this year, while Salesforce (CRM), Workday (WDAY), and Adobe (ADBE) have fallen by over 40%.NOW, CRM, WDAY, and ADBE have gone through a valuation resetThe ongoing software slump has made these companies affordable to most people. A good example of this is by comparing their current valuations with that of the S&P 500 Index and their historical levels.The S&P 500 Index has a…