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The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust is trending as escalating geopolitical tensions, specifically potential US tariffs on European economies related to Greenland and a 'Board of Peace' initiative, spark significant market uncertainty. Community discussions are rife with expectations of a market dip, though many anticipate a swift 'buy the dip' recovery, recalling past instances of market resilience to tariff-related volatility.

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United States Natural Gas Fund ($UNG) is trending as an intensifying Arctic air invasion across large parts of the US is forecast to drive a significant surge in heating demand. The community is buzzing about a potential short squeeze, given extreme short interest and the sudden shift to frigid weather, though acknowledging the commodity's notorious volatility. This immediate weather catalyst is compounded by emerging long-term demand narratives surrounding AI data centers.

ImmunityBio, Inc. is a clinical stage immunotherapy company. It develops next generation therapies that drive immunogenic mechanisms for defeating cancers and infectious diseases. The company's immunotherapy platform activates both the innate and adaptive immune systems to create long term immunological memory. ImmunityBio was founded by Patrick Soon-Shiong in 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

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ImmunityBio is currently trending following recent international approvals for its cancer immunotherapies, notably in Saudi Arabia for lung cancer, alongside updated positive clinical study results. The community is enthusiastically discussing the potential of Anktiva to revolutionize cancer treatment and is vocal about perceived US FDA delays, which is fueling significant speculation around a short squeeze. Investors are expressing strong optimism regarding Dr. Soon-Shiong's strategic vision and the company's considerable growth trajectory.

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ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas ($BOIL) is trending due to a significant surge in natural gas futures, driven by widespread forecasts for severe arctic cold fronts across the US, intensifying heating demand expectations. The community is actively debating the potential for a powerful short squeeze amidst historically high short interest, while also acknowledging the inherent volatility and decay of leveraged natural gas ETFs like $BOIL, often referred to as a "widow maker". Discussions highlight the impact of this weather event on depleting storage levels, yet some remain cautious, pointing to broader warm winter trends and structural factors like contango, questioning the rally's sustainability.

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The Invesco QQQ Trust is trending as renewed tariff threats and geopolitical statements from former President Trump regarding European allies and Greenland ignite market concern. While many anticipate a market dip, a strong 'buy the dip' sentiment persists among some traders, recalling past swift recoveries in the tech-heavy index.

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SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) is trending significantly as renewed geopolitical tensions intensify, primarily driven by discussions around potential US tariffs on European countries concerning Greenland. This has sparked community debate regarding gold's role as a safe-haven asset, with many anticipating further upside amid broader uncertainty and concerns over currency debasement, while others caution about an overextended rally. The ongoing criticism of the Federal Reserve's independence adds another layer of market uncertainty supporting precious metals.

Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, created in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. It enables peer-to-peer electronic cash transactions without intermediaries like banks or governments, operating on a blockchain secured by Proof of Work mining and the SHA-256 cryptographic algorithm.   With a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins and programmatic halvings every four years that reduce miner rewards, Bitcoin is designed as a deflationary digital asset often called "digital gold." Its value stems from solving the double-spending problem without trusted intermediaries, creating the first truly scarce digital asset with censorship resistance and permissionless access that no government, corporation, or individual can control.  Bitcoin operates as a decentralized peer-to-peer network where transactions are recorded on a public ledger called the blockchain, distributed across thousands of computers globally. Transactions are grouped into blocks added approximately every 10 minutes through mining, where specialized computers compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles.   Bitcoin has achieved mainstream adoption through multiple vectors. The January 2024 SEC approval of 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs opened Bitcoin investment to traditional finance participants, and corporations like Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) are using Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset to protect against currency debasement, offering MSTR holders amplified exposure to Bitcoin.   The Bitcoin ecosystem continues to evolve with innovations like Ordinals, which emerged in January 2023 to enable NFT-like functionality directly on Bitcoin, and BRC-20 tokens, an experimental standard for creating fungible tokens using Ordinal inscriptions. BTCFi (Bitcoin Finance) represents emerging financial applications extending beyond Bitcoin's traditional role, with protocols like Babylon allowing Bitcoin holders to stake BTC to secure Proof of Stake chains.

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Bitcoin is trending due to escalating U.S.-EU tariff tensions over Greenland, which has triggered a broad risk-off sentiment across the cryptocurrency market. This geopolitical uncertainty has led to substantial long liquidations, sparking community debate about Bitcoin's reliability as a safe haven asset, with some strategizing potential further declines and others viewing current levels as a buying opportunity.

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The iShares Russell 2000 ETF ($IWM) is a major talking point as investors debate its resilience amid ongoing discussions about potential tariffs and a highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling. Community sentiment points to a strong rotation from large-cap tech into small caps, with IWM consistently outperforming other major indices. Despite some skepticism regarding the profitability of its underlying holdings, traders are closely watching IWM's breakout performance and its implications for broader market dynamics.

Coinbase Global, Inc. engages in the provision of a trusted platform that serves as a compliant on-ramp to the onchain economy and enables users to engage in a wide variety of activities with their crypto assets in both proprietary and third-party product experiences enabled by access to decentralized applications. It offers consumers primary financial account for the cryptoeconomy, institutions a full-service prime brokerage platform with access to deep pools of liquidity across the crypto marketplace, and developers a suite of products granting access to build onchain. The company was founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ernest Ehrsam in May 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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Coinbase is trending due to significant uncertainty surrounding the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, after its CEO withdrew support over concerns about stablecoin rewards and other provisions, leading to the Senate postponing a key hearing. Community discussion reflects frustration with the stock's underperformance despite broader crypto movements, with many debating if the CEO's stance is a strategic long-term win or a short-term blow for vital revenue streams.

Venus Concept, Inc. is a global medical technology company, which engages in the business of developing, commercializing, and selling minimally invasive and non-invasive medical aesthetic and hair restoration technologies. It operates under the United States and International geographical segments. The company was founded on November 22, 2002 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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Venus Concept Inc. (VERO) is trending due to a single entity's acquisition of a significant 91% stake, which bulls are interpreting as a virtually 'locked' float that neutralizes short-selling pressure. This unprecedented ownership structure has fueled intense speculation among investors, with many anticipating an extraordinary price surge and others warning of a pump-and-dump scenario, citing the majority shareholder's intent to potentially delist the company. Community discussion is highly polarized, drawing comparisons to past volatile, low-float runners.

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Integrated payments and commerce technology company Shift4 Payments, Inc. (FOUR) agreed to buy Australia’s Smartpay for $180 million.Smartpay is an independent provider of payment processing and point-of-sale solutions in Australia and New Zealand. It supports more than 40,000 merchants in the region.Shift4’s purchase price of NZ$ $1.20 per share ($0.71 per share) represented a 46.5% premium to Smartpay’s 90-day trading day volume weighted average price. The New Zealand Stock Exchange-listed shares of Smartpay jumped over 11% on Monday.The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025, subject to regulatory approvals.On Stocktwits, retail sentiment toward&nbsp;<a href="https://stocktwits.com/symbol/FOUR">Shift4 stock</a> was ‘bearish’ (37/100), and the message volume was ‘low.’<figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:621/58;" src="https://news.stocktwits-cdn.com/Screenshot_2025_06_23_at_2_52_38_AM_png_48eca0b260.webp" alt="Screenshot 2025-06-23 at 2.52.38 AM.png" width="621" height="58"><figcaption>FOUR sentiment and message volume as of 2:53 a.m. ET, June 23 | source: Stocktwits</figcaption></figure>Shift4 stock is down over 11% so far this year.Smartpay sells tailored payment solutions through an extensive distribution network across Australia and New Zealand, supporting a diverse base of more than 40,000 merchants in the region. Subject to regulatory approvals, the acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025.Shift4 CEO Taylor Lauber said, “This acquisition follows the Shift4 playbook to a tee. It deepens our strategic presence in Australia and New Zealand, providing a significant opportunity to offer our full suite of software and payments solutions in the region.”The company noted that it has successfully executed a similar strategy of combining acquisitions to deliver an integrated payment experience with localized distribution, service, and support, valuable merchant-facing products, and owned payment rails to rapidly scale in other regions, most recently in Germany, the UK, and Ireland.For updates and corrections, email newsroom[at]stocktwits[dot]com.Read Next: <a href="https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/nasdaq-sp-500-edge-lower-oil-spikes-briefly-as-analysts-downplay-fallout/chmPM6GRR5X">Markets Unruffled By US Bombing in Iran? Nasdaq, S&amp;P 500 Futures Edge Lower While Oil Spikes Briefly As Analysts Downplay Fallout</a>

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Shift4 sees the deal deepening its strategic presence in Australia and New Zealand, providing a significant opportunity to offer its full suite of software and payments solutions in the region

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Despite underperforming other payment stocks over the past year, analysts remain strongly bullish on Visa’s prospects.

Payments giant Mastercard Inc (MA) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241220165251/en/Mastercard-Finalizes-Acquisition-of-Recorded-Future">announced</a> on Friday it has completed the acquisition of threat intelligence firm Recorded Future. Shares of Mastercard were trading over 1% higher on Friday afternoon.Recorded Future is the world’s largest threat intelligence company, with over 1,900 clients across 75 countries, including the governments of 45 countries and over 50% of the Fortune 100. The company provides real-time visibility into potential threats by analyzing a broad set of data sources.Executive vice president of Security Solutions at Mastercard Johan Gerber said that with the world becoming more digitized, there's an increased focus on securing every interaction and transaction against evolving cyber threats.“Adding Recorded Future’s AI-driven threat intelligence capabilities to our cybersecurity services, identity solutions and real-time fraud scoring will enable us to better support our customers in these efforts,” Gerber added.In September this year, Mastercard had announced that it is set to acquire Recorded Future from Insight Partners for $2.65 billion. Insight Partners had reportedly acquired a controlling interest in the firm in 2019.Notably, cybercrime is projected to cost $9.2 trillion globally in 2024 alone. The acquisition of Recorded Future will add to Mastercard’s identity, fraud prevention, real-time decisioning and cybersecurity services, bringing expanded threat intelligence capabilities to its network of merchants and financial institutions.Meanwhile, retail sentiment on Stocktwits continued to trend in the ‘bearish’ territory (44/100), albeit with a higher score. The move was accompanied by high message volumes.<figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1852/430;" src="https://st-everywhere-cms-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Screenshot_2024_12_20_at_1_26_27_PM_c2cefa3267.png" alt="Mastercard’s Sentiment Meter and Message Volume as of 1:08 p.m. ET on Dec. 20, 2024 | Source: Stocktwits" width="1852" height="430"><figcaption>Mastercard’s Sentiment Meter and Message Volume as of 1:08 p.m. ET on Dec. 20, 2024 | Source: Stocktwits</figcaption></figure>Earlier this week, Mastercard’s board of directors <a href="https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/mastercard-raises-cash-dividend-announces-12-billion-dollar-buyback-program/cJaV8PjR1N">declared</a> a quarterly cash dividend of $0.76 per share, and a new share repurchase program.The cash dividend represents a 15% increase over the previous dividend of $0.66 per share and will be paid on Feb. 7, 2025 to holders of record of its Class A common stock and Class B common stock as of Jan. 9, 2025.The company’s new share buyback program authorizes it to repurchase up to $12 billion of its Class A common stock.Meanwhile, shares of Mastercard have gained over 25% since the beginning of the year.Also See: <a href="https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/november-pce-inflation-comes-in-lower-than-expected/cJar9RTRSo">November PCE Inflation Comes In Lower Than Expected, Pushes Benchmark Indices Higher: Retail Sentiment Mixed</a>For updates and corrections, email newsroom[at]stocktwits[dot]com.

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Mastercard Completes Acquisition Of Threat Intelligence Firm Recorded Future: Retail Sentiment Score Improves

Mastercard believes adding Recorded Future’s AI-driven threat intelligence capabilities to its cybersecurity services, identity solutions and real-time fraud scoring will enable the firm to better support its customers.

Retail sentiment for American Express brightened on Friday after the firm raised its full year earnings guidance while reporting a mixed set of earnings. The credit card giant raised its full-year earnings per share (EPS) guidance to $13.30 - $13.80 from $12.65 - $13.15 previously.American Express also stated that it continues to expect revenue growth in line with the guidance range of 9%to 11% set at the beginning of the year. Retail sentiment on the stock is currently trending in bullish territory (60/100) supported by an extremely high message volume.<figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:787/236;" src="https://st-everywhere-cms-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Screenshot_2024_07_19_at_9_49_19_AM_97f070487a.png" alt="Retail sentiment for American Express stock trends in bullish territory" width="787" height="236"><figcaption>Retail sentiment for American Express stock trends in bullish territory</figcaption></figure>For the second quarter, the firm reported a 9% rise in its total revenues net of interest expense (forex adjusted) at $16.33 billion, which came in lower than a Street estimate of $16.59 billion. American Express said the rise in revenues was primarily driven by higher net interest income, increased card member spending, and continued strong card fee growth.Network volumes increased 3% YoY to $440.60 billion during the quarter. The average fee per card increased to $101 compared to $91 in the same period last year. Active spending by the firm’s premium customers at a time when recession fears are fading has helped the firm keep up the earnings.Stephen J. Squeri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at American Express said that an increased scale, combined with premium, high credit quality customers, well-controlled expense base and successful investments to continuously enhance the firm’s membership model, fuels the earnings power of the core business. This has reinforced the company’s confidence in its ability to deliver strong bottom-line growth, he said.Earnings per share rose 21% year-over-year (YoY) to $3.49, higher than a Street estimate of $3.24. Net income rose 39% YoY to $3.02 billion.Amidst all the upbeat numbers, the only blip was an increase in the consolidated provisions for credit losses that came in at &nbsp;$1.30 billion, compared with $1.20 billion a year ago. The increase reflected higher net write-offs, partially offset by a lower reserve build YoY, the firm said.Squeri added that based on the strong performance of its core business, the firm believes it can increase its marketing investments by around 15% YoY without using any of the transaction gain, allowing it to drive the “profitable growth” that investors love to see.American Express shares were trading nearly 2% lower in Friday’s pre-market session. The stock has performed well this year, having returned over 32% on a year-to-date basis. Based on current retail sentiment, it’s likely that at least some investors are looking to use this weakness to add to their longer-term positions.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Why American Express Drew Positive Retail Sentiment After Earnings Announcement

Although revenue came in lower than a Street estimate, its second quarter earnings beat estimates and the firm raised its full-year earnings guidance. 

Although revenue came in lower than a Street estimate, its second quarter earnings beat estimates and the firm raised its full-year earnings guidance. Retail investors and traders remain upbeat about the firm’s longer-term bet on the higher-income consumer.

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