EMP METALS AND SALTWORKS ENTER INTO AGREEMENT TO DEVELOP DEMONSTRATION PLANT - PROJECT AURORA

TradingKey - Since April, as the conflict in the Middle East has continued to escalate, the oil market has undergone a dramatic transformation: WTI crude has been repriced, not only matching the performance of the global benchmark Brent crude but also surpassing it during several trading sessions. O

TradingKey - Oracle (ORCL) shares surged 12.69% on Monday to close at $155.62, reaching an intraday high of $155.91, as trading volume spiked significantly. This rally represents a repricing driven by a combination of fundamental improvements and a recovery in expectations.

TradingKey - On April 14, 2026, SK Hynix shares extended their rally, breaking the 1.1 million won mark intraday and hitting an all-time high of 1.13 million won. The company’s total market capitalization subsequently climbed to approximately 110 trillion won (about $80 billion), firmly securing its position as the second-largest company by market value in the South Korean stock market, trailing only Samsung Electronics. Looking back over the past few years, SK Hynix's stock price has been characterized by significant volatility. During the global memory chip industry’s cyclical downturn in 2022, the share price once dropped below 80,000 won. Driven by the explosive growth in demand for AI computing power, the company achieved a dual recovery in earnings and valuation through its forward-looking strategic positioning in the HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) sector. Entering 2026, the rally further accelerated, with a year-to-date (YTD) gain exceeding 35%, while the benchmark KOSPI index rose by less than 3% during the same period.

Elon Musk’s XChat, the Western equivalent of WeChat, is set to launch on the App Store, issuing a direct challenge to giants such as Meta, Apple, and PayPal.

Microsoft at $370 is a 17%-revenue-growth, 47%-margin, $625-billion-backlog business trading at a multi-year low valuation, because the market is scared of macro noise. The AI model releases this week prove the moat is deepening, not narrowing.