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🌎 Headlines and Analyst Ratings for 8/28/2026
AUGUST 28TH, 2026
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Today’s Top Stories
Could Falling Yields Make REIT Stocks Worth a Second Look?
BY CHRIS MARKOCH
Permian Resources Rally Faces a Test
BY PETER FRANK
Strategy’s $1.59B Gamble: Checkmate at $80K?
BY JEFFREY NEAL JOHNSON
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Rickards Predicts: Trump to buy tiny $2 stock?
Jim Rickards believes the Trump administration is about to take a direct stake in a $2 stock sitting on the largest mineral reserve in the country – enough gold for a new Fort Knox, enough copper to rebuild the U.S. electric grid 25 times over. The Trump administration has previously staked positions in MP Materials, Lithium America, Trilogy Metals…
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Analysts’ Upgrades
ALL UPGRADESEPM Evolution Petroleum
Northland Securities
Market Perform → OutperformPT $4.00
11.7% upsideMRNA Moderna
Argus
Hold → BuyPT $180.00
26.1% upside
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Buy this stock tomorrow
Marc Chaikin, founder of Chaikin Analytics, is sharing a strategy he calls ‘Sell This, Buy That’ – a way to move out of overpriced AI stocks before the tech trade breaks down and into lesser-known names with real potential to challenge the Mag 7. One pick he calls ‘an upgrade to Tesla stock’ is a little-known company that just inked a partnership with Nvidia…
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Wall Street’s quietly buying these 3 AI infrastructure plays
Hedge funds are rotating out of AI hype and into the hardware layer powering it. New research identifies three profitable U.S. infrastructure companies leading this shift. One just posted 76% year-over-year data-center growth. Another holds a $12 billion backlog from global hyperscalers. A third is generating 59%+ gross margins on next-gen chips…
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Analysts’ New Coverage
ALL INITIATIONSOSG Octave Specialty Group
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
OutperformPT $8.00
77.6% upsideTMC TMC the metals
Stifel Nicolaus
BuyPT $10.00
96.5% upside
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ALERT: Drop these 5 stocks before the market opens tomorrow!
The Wall Street Journal is already raising the alarm about a potential market crash, and Weiss Ratings research points to the first half of 2026 as a particularly rough stretch for certain holdings. Some of America’s most popular stocks could take serious damage as a radical market shift plays out. Analysts at Weiss Ratings have identified five names you may want to remove from your portfolio before this unfolds…
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Apple
$314.58 +1.13 (+0.36%)
As of 8/27 4:00 PM ET
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SVP
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1,439 shares @ $310.95Apple’s Foldable iPhone Could Be a Catalyst, But Not a Cure-All 8/28Apple Defies Steepest-Ever Smartphone Slump, iOS Share On Track For Record High: IDC8/28 – BENZINGA‘I Don’t Know John Ternus,’ Jim Cramer Says — but He Trusts Tim Cook’s Word on Apple’s Next CEO8/28 – BENZINGAAMZN
Amazon.com
$256.26 -4.02 (-1.54%)
As of 8/27 4:00 PM ETAmazon Announces PPA For Electricity & Wind Energy Projects In Germany, Sweden 8/28 – RTTNEWSMarket Chatter: Amazon-Backed Anthropic Held Talks to Acquire AI Chip Startup MatX for $7 Billion8/28 – YAHOOMarket Chatter: Anthropic Wins Ruling Blocking US Supply-Chain Risk Designation 8/28 – YAHOOGOOGL
Alphabet
$340.65 -1.35 (-0.39%)
As of 8/27 4:00 PM ETGoogle Cloud Just Gave Rezolve AI a Major Vote of Confidence (GOOGL) 8/27Alphabet Is Building a Base—Could a Breakout Be Next? 8/27Step Aside, Coca-Cola and Bank of America: There’s a New Apple of Berkshire Hathaway’s Eye, and It’s a Virtual Monopoly 8/28 – FOOLMETA
Meta Platforms
$571.10 -5.04 (-0.87%)
As of 8/27 4:00 PM ETMeta, Palantir, Paramount Skydance Hedge Trump Ties by Courting Democrats as Midterms Raise Prospect of House Flip: Report 8/28 – BENZINGAJim Cramer Was Left Surprised By Movement In Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META)’s Shares8/28 – YAHOOMeta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India8/28 – TECHCRUNCHMSFT
Microsoft
$505.06 +8.69 (+1.75%)
As of 8/27 4:00 PM ETIREN Eyes $4 Billion ARR as AI Cloud Business Replaces Bitcoin Mining 8/28 – BENZINGAHow Is Microsoft’s Stock Performance Compared to Other Software Services Stocks? 8/28 – BARCHARTMicrosoft vs. Salesforce: A $10,000 Bet Five Years Later 8/27 – 247WALLST
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