Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Celanese Corporation

Similarweb Ltd.

Caesars Entertainment, Inc.

Danaher Corporation

Masimo Corporation

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.

General Mills, Inc.

Vulcan Materials Company

Apple Inc.

NVIDIA Corporation

Amazon.com, Inc.

Daily review and forecast of events on the U.S. stock market from Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Freedom Capital Markets Research.

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Applied Digital Corporation

TeraWulf Inc.

Hut 8 Corp.

In 2025, the bitcoin mining sector rebounded strongly and outpaced the performance of the cryptocurrency itself. The Smid-cap Bitcoin Miner Equal Weight Index, put together by analyst Aldiyar Anuarbekov for Oninvest, gained 46%. The index includes 17 small- and mid-cap mining companies. Meanwhile, the&nbsp;Smid-cap Bitcoin Miner Cap Weight Index&nbsp;added 27%. By comparison, bitcoin fell 9.7% in 2025, while the S&amp;P 500 rose 16.3%. In 2026, investors are increasingly betting on companies at the intersection of mining and AI infrastructure.

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Every 1% increase in U.S. stock market capitalization due to IPOs then leads to a subsequent 7.5% decline in quotations, the investment firm warned

Grantham's Perpetual Bear Fund: OpenAI and SpaceX IPOs threaten to crash US stock market

ASELSAN Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi

Turkey's defense and aviation industry exports, including products and services, <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/turkiyes-defense-aviation-exports-exceed-10b-threshold-in-2025/3790365">exceeded</a> $10 billion in 2025, a record. Over the year it grew by 48%. The Turkish defense industry is booming, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/turkish-defense-firm-that-surged-236-in-a-year-eyes-new-markets">writes</a>. And Turkey's largest military electronics manufacturer, Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi, is competing for contracts in Europe and NATO countries. Its shares have risen 264% in value over the year, while the benchmark of the Turkish market - the BIST 100 index - is up about 45%. Askar Akhmedov, CFA, Chief Investment Officer at ATLAS Capital, wrote for Oninvest how the company secured such growth and how should investors view it?

Shares of Turkey's defense company Aselsan are up 264% year-to-date. What attracted investors? 

Arm Holdings plc

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Nvidia finally exited Arm (one of the world's leading fabless processor architecture developers for mobile devices and servers), in parallel extending its multi-year partnership with Meta to supply millions of graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) for AI datacenters. Microsoft announced plans to invest $50 billion in AI development in the Global South. About these and other topics - in our review of key events by the morning of February 18.

Main by morning: Nvidia has pulled out of Arm Capital, Cathie Wood's fund in a prolonged slump

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Meta Platforms' multibillion-dollar bet on Nvidia chips has triggered a selloff in the securities of rivals of the main beneficiary of the AI boom

Nvidia will sell millions of chips to Meta. For which companies was this bad news? 

The iPhone maker is working on three new devices

Apple is accelerating the development of AI gadgets, Bloomberg has learned. What is the company preparing?

Tesla, Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

Self-driving cars will be at the head of the trend

Robot market could grow to $1 trillion, says Barclays. Which stocks does it choose?

Chevron Corporation

Domino's Pizza, Inc.

Chubb Limited

The company got rid of 80% of the Amazon shares it owned

Apple, NYT, Chevron: what Berkshire bought and sold in Buffett's last quarter

Carnival Corporation & plc

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

The Elliott Fund, known for successfully transforming Southwest Airlines, has become one of Norwegian's largest shareholders

Norwegian shares soar: activist investor wants to pull cruise player out of crisis