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Storage Stocks Rise; Micron up 3%; SanDisk, Western Digital up 2%; Optics Technology Stocks Jump; AAOI up 6%; POET Technologies up 4%
Chip storage stocks rose in premarket trading on Friday.Micron up 3%; SanDisk, Western Digital, Seagate up 2%.Shares of optics technology companies rose in premarket trading on Friday.AAOI up 6%; POET Technologies up 4%; Lumentum, Corning, Credo Technology, Coherent up 3%; Ciena up 2%.Tiger News
Fri, May 8
Premarket Movers | Iren Rises 9%; Rocket Lab up 8%; MP Materials Pops 5%; Coinbase down 2%; Cloudflare Falls 16%
Nvidia will invest up to $2.1 billion in data center operator IREN, as part of a broader deal to deploy up to 5 gigawatts of infrastructure to keep up with soaring artificial intelligence demand.IREN Ltd rose 9% in premarket trading on Friday.The tie-up, announced on Thursday, underscores the hung...Tiger News
Fri, May 8
Top 10 HK Stock Gainers (5.8)
160 HEALTH(02656) rose 44.26%, with a trading turnover 2.4 Billion HKD, and a year-to-date fell 57.9%. HAIZHI TECH GP(02706) rose 25.96%, with a trading turnover 363.0 Million HKD, and a year-to-date rose 129.5%. AIM VACCINE(06660) rose 21.83%, with a trading turnover 10.6 Million HKD, and a year-to-date fell 4.4%.Longport
Fri, May 8
Top 5 HK Stock Gainers/Losers (>100B) (5.8)
HUAQIN(03296) rose 10.09%, with a trading turnover 323.3 Million HKD, and a year-to-date rose 54.4%. KUAISHOU-W(01024) rose 9.4%, with a trading turnover 9.0 Billion HKD, and a year-to-date fell 17.2%. MINIMAX-W(00100) fell 9.51%, with a trading turnover 881.2 Million HKD, and a year-to-date rose 350%. HUA HONG SEMI(01347) fell 7.5%, with a trading turnover 7.2 Billion HKD, and a year-to-date rose 76%.Longport
Fri, May 8
Top 10 HK Stock Losers (5.8)
PRODUCTIVE TECH(00650) fell 10.39%, with a trading turnover 25.7 Million HKD, and a year-to-date rose 267%. MINIMAX-W(00100) fell 9.51%, with a trading turnover 881.2 Million HKD, and a year-to-date rose 350%. DEEPEXI TECH(01384) fell 9.28%, with a trading turnover 2.5 Billion HKD, and a year-to-date fell 6.8%.Longport
Fri, May 8
HK Grey Market | Robot Maker Ldrobot Jumps 154%
Visual perception products and lawn-mowing robot manufacturer Ldrobot jumped 154% in Hong Kong’s grey market trading.Ldrobot is a full-stack intelligent robotics company built on perceptual intelligence. It has developed intelligent robotics infrastructure centered on vision perception to empower a ...Tiger News
Fri, May 8
Previewing the Product Logic Behind Waton’s Next AI Trading Platform
(8 May 2026, Hong Kong) The race to build AI products for investors is accelerating, but much of the market is still framing the opportunity too narrowly.Most new entrants are being understood through a familiar lens: can AI generate better signals, better summaries, better stock ideas, or better timing? That may be commercially convenient language, but it misses the more important shift now underway.The next meaningful change in investing may not come from a smarter answer engine. It may come from a better decision structure.That is the logic behind MoTA, Waton’s next AI trading platform.Rather than positioning AI as a single assistant that produces market recommendations, Waton is building MoTA as a human-AI collaborative investment system. The distinction is not cosmetic. It reflects a different belief about what investors actually lack.For many individual investors, the challenge is no longer access to information. Data is abundant. Research is faster than ever. AI can already compress earnings calls, summarize market news, and generate investment commentary on demand. Yet decision quality remains uneven. Investors still struggle with fragmentation, inconsistency, emotional bias, and weak process discipline.The reason is straightforward: investing is not only an intelligence problem. It is also a structural one.Institutional investors do not operate with a single signal or a single point of judgment. They work through roles, process, review, and risk control. Research feeds analysis. Analysis is checked against constraints. Risk is not an afterthought. Decisions emerge from a system.MoTA appears to be designed around bringing that logic closer to the individual investor.At the center of the product is the idea of a structured AI investment team. Different agents perform different functions inside a workflow. One agent may focus on research, another on analysis, another on risk. The point is not to create more output for its own sake. The point is to organize AI participation so that decision-making becomes more coherent and more disciplined.That is an important departure from the current generation of AI investing narratives. MoTA is not best described as an AI stock picker, nor simply as a multi-agent product. Its more ambitious claim is that investors should be able to manage an AI team rather than query a single AI tool.This suggests a product philosophy that is closer to system design than to recommendation delivery. Users are not merely consuming conclusions. They are defining how conclusions should be produced — through roles, workflow, rules, and structured collaboration.That emphasis on design and control may prove especially important in financial services, where trust is often the limiting factor in AI adoption. If AI is introduced as an opaque engine that investors are expected to follow, skepticism is inevitable. If, however, AI is introduced as part of a visible, controllable decision architecture — one that includes human approval, embedded risk management, and explicit workflow boundaries — the adoption path becomes more credible.This is where Waton’s direction deserves attention. The company is not presenting AI as a replacement for the investor. It is presenting AI as a coordinated participant within an investor-controlled system.That may sound like a subtle distinction. It is not.In practice, it changes the product category. The conversation moves away from whether AI can pick the next stock and toward whether AI can help investors operate with something closer to institutional discipline. It moves away from one-shot answers and toward repeatable process. And it moves away from black-box automation and toward structured collaboration.If MoTA develops along those lines, Waton may be previewing more than a new product. It may be previewing a different way the market will eventually evaluate AI in investing.The key question will not be whether AI can generate recommendations. Many systems can already do that. The more consequential question is whether AI can be organized into a trustworthy decision environment — one that helps investors think more clearly, act more consistently, and retain control over how decisions are made.That is the product logic behind MoTA. And in a market crowded with AI claims, it is one of the more serious ideas now taking shape.Media Contact:Email: ir@watonfinancial.comWebsite: https://wtf.usDisclaimer: This press release contains forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied. This is not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.08/05/2026 Dissemination of a Financial Press Release, transmitted by EQS News.The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.Media archive at www.todayir.comEQS
Fri, May 8
SQ, the 'US Alipay': growth via credit, profits via layoffs?
The 'US Alipay' — $Block(XYZ.US) (XYZ.US) released Q1 FY26 results after-hours on May 8. The quarter was solid, with both revenue and profit beating estimates and trends improving. Guidance for next quarter also looks good; details below.1) Growth and profit both solid: Total revenue rose about 5% Y...Dolphin Research
Fri, May 8
24H | Chip Stocks Rebound. SOXL, Qualcomm up over 3%; Microchip, Micron up Around 2%; Marvell, ARM, Applied Materials, ASML up over 1%
Chip stocks rebounded in overnight trading. SOXL, Qualcomm up over 3%; Microchip, Micron up around 2%; Marvell, ARM, Applied Materials, ASML up over 1%.The Trump administration is inviting CEOs from Nvidia, Apple, Exxon, Boeing and other big companies to accompany the president on his trip to China ...Tiger News
Fri, May 8
ABNB: Near-term results fine, but a midlife crisis?
The alt. stays leader Airbnb$Airbnb(ABNB.US) posted Q1 FY2026 results this morning (May 8). Overall, the quarter was solid, with most metrics slightly beating estimates and growth accelerating on an FX tailwind. The outlook for next quarter also came in above expectations, details below:1) Growth lo...Dolphin Research
Fri, May 8
HK Movers | Some AI Application Software Stocks Jump. Meitu up 13%; MarketingForce up over 11%; Kingsoft up 5%; Kingdee Int’l up over 4%
Some AI application software stocks jumped in Hong Kong market. Meitu up 13%; MarketingForce up over 11%; Kingsoft up 5%; Kingdee Int’l up over 4%.Tiger News
Fri, May 8
HK Movers | New Consumption Shares Mixed. Pop Mart Rallies 7%; Bloks up 2%; Guming up 1%; Nio down 1%; Auntea Jenny down 2%
New consumption shares mixed in Hong Kong. Pop Mart jumped 7%; Bloks up 2%; Guming up 1%; Nio down 1%; Auntea Jenny down 2%.Shares of Pop Mart rose over 7% after prominent Chinese investor Duan Yongping disclosed in a social media post that he had switched his holdings from China Shenhua into the tr...Tiger News
Fri, May 8
24H | Baidu Jumps 4% as Its AI Chip Arm Kunlunxin Completes the Filing for Listing Tutoring
Baidu’s U.S.-listed shares jumped 4% in overnight trading.The China Securities Regulatory Commission disclosed that Baidu Inc.’s artificial-intelligence chip unit Kunlunxin (Beijing) Technology completed the filing for listing tutoring with the Beijing Securities Regulatory Bureau last Thursday (Apr...Tiger News
Fri, May 8
24H | Akamai Technologies Surges 28%; Monster Beverage Jumps 6%; MP Materials Rises 3%; Cloudflare Sinks 18%; Trade Desk Drops 14%; Expedia Falls 9%
Shares of Akamai Technologies rallied after the company said it would supply cloud infrastructure services to a leading artificial-intelligence lab in a seven-year agreement worth $1.8 billion.The cloud and cybersecurity company described the AI lab as a "leading, U.S. based frontier model provider,...Tiger News
Fri, May 8
SG Morning Brief | Records Fade as Iran Ceasefire Cracks and Chips Take a Breather
US OvernightThe S&P 500 fell 0.38% to 7,337.11, the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.13% to 25,806.20, and the Dow shed 313.62 points (-0.63%) to 49,596.97 — all pulling back from Wednesday's record closes after oil prices reversed course and Iran accused the US of breaking the month-long ceasefire. Both the S&P and Nasdaq hit new intraday all-time highs before selling off into the close, and the Dow briefly crossed 50,000 for the first time. WTI crude settled at $94.81 (-0.28%) and Brent at $100.Longport
Fri, May 8
IREN, Block Jump 7% Each; Rocket Lab Rises 5%; Microchip Gains 3%; SoundHound AI Plunges 12%; CoreWeave Tumbles 9%; AAOI Sinks 6%; Coinbase Drops 4%
IREN signed a five-year AI infrastructure cloud services contract with NVIDIA valued at about USD 3.4 billion. Shares of the company jumped 7% in overnight trading.Tiger News
Fri, May 8
Applied Optoelectronics Stock Tumbles 7% Following Q1 Revenue Shortfall Despite 51% Growth
Applied Optoelectronics shares dropped over 7% in Thursday's early after-hours trading after the company released its Q1 2026 financial report.Both the first-quarter results and the second-quarter guidance for revenue and earnings per share fell below market expectations. The stock had already finis...Tiger News
Thu, May 7
Coinbase：旱地已久，静待政策 “及时雨”
$Coinbase(COIN.US) 一季报发布，大部分是 “预想” 中的坍塌，当期背景是 CLARIFY 法案迟迟难见推进 + 中东摩擦推高油价甚至引发加息预期，都是对风险资产极为不利的因素。不过，数字货币标的股价变动完全跑在业绩前面，随着 4 月地缘紧张缓解，数字货币还是走了一段修复行情。相比较上季度的财报日而言，BTC 价格从 6.7 万升到了 8 万，Coinbase 估值也从 385 亿涨到了 500 亿。那么维持后续修复趋势的关键因素是什么？具体来看：1. 避险致交易降温： 导致收入滑坡的还是交易收入，Q1 同比下滑了 40%，主要源于交易量萎缩了 36%，但相比中心化交易所整体...Dolphin Research
Thu, May 7
US Stock Futures Slide While Brent Oil Futures Rise Nearly 3% as US Forces Engage Iranian Targets Following Warship Assault
U.S. Central Command reported that American forces retaliated against Iranian attacks on Navy destroyers navigating the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday.WTI crude oil futures rose 2.59% to $97.27 a barrel on the news while Brent oil futures rose 2.57% to 102.63 a barrel.US stock futures slid. Nasdaq 100...Tiger News
Thu, May 7
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