The “kidulting” economy is still booming as more grown-ups yearn for playtime. Beyond the growing trend for nostalgic tchotchkes and collectibles, it seems that adults are just craving some lighthearted fun. Whether it be through theme parks, ball pits, or building bears in workshops, the latest form of grown-up self-care is some carefree growing down. 

One stock in particular has outpaced many tech giants. A theoretical $100 invested into which company’s stock at the start of 2021 would be worth ~$1,600 today, about $200 more than the theoretical value of the same amount of Nvidia stock?

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US stocks opened higher before quickly falling into the red on Wednesday, where they stayed for most of the session. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 each gave back 0.3%, while the Russell 2000 underperformed with a 0.9% drop.

RedCloud Holdings, which operates a business-to-business platform for retailers, finished the day up 63% on Wednesday after revealing that “it has joined the NVIDIA Connect program as part of its mission to deliver a new operating system for global trade.”

RedCloud is fairly small, with a market cap under $70 million heading into yesterday’s session. 

So what is the Nvidia Connect program, you might ask? Sounds fancy. And official. Right?

Still, Jorge Guerrero, assistant vice president of product at RedCloud, made it sound like a pretty big deal in the company’s press release: “This program provides us with access to NVIDIA’s ecosystem of AI tools and expertise, which we expect to be instrumental in building powerful AI-native infrastructure to enable intelligent trade of FMCG products across global supply chains.”

A cynic might argue that the requirements of joining the Nvidia Connect program are only slightly more onerous than securing a Discover credit card: the applying organization “must provide at least two contacts with corporate emails, maintain a working website, be officially incorporated, and accept the program’s terms and conditions” to be eligible, per Nvidia. For a thing with no application or membership fees, at the very least it’s a pretty obvious way to borrow some (brief) valor from Nvidia.

The companies that make up the Nasdaq-100 Index^® are all around you, from the coffee you drink and the clothes you wear, to the technology that powers your everyday life.

The Nasdaq-100 is a large-cap index that represents the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market^®.

The index is home to the brands you love and some of the most innovative companies across the technology, consumer goods, and healthcare sectors.

Explore a day in the life of the Nasdaq-100 to see how many of these companies you interact with your daily life.

Micron announced phenomenal fourth-quarter results: a top- and bottom-line beat along with guidance on earnings and profitability for the current quarter that exceeded every Wall Street analyst’s expectations. And yet the stock was lower yesterday, even as the sell side was largely singing the memory chip specialist’s praises.

The problem seems to be that Wall Street has been in catch-up mode on the company, leading to a bit of a “sell the news” event.

It’s much easier to say with hindsight that these fantastic results and outlook were priced in. But even a cursory look at this chart would suggest that Micron needed to be an Olympic-level hurdler to clear the bar the market had set for this quarter. Even with yesterday’s drop, shares of Micron are still up more than 30% this month.

All in all, about a dozen analysts hiked their price target on Micron in the wake of these results. “The company indicated its high bandwidth memory customer base has now increased to six customers and expects to sell out the remainder of its 2026 HBM supply within the next few months,” Needham & Co. analyst N. Quinn Bolton wrote, lifting his price target to $200 from $150 and maintaining a “buy” rating. Bank of America kept its “neutral” rating on the shares, but lifted its price target to $180 from $140.

Amid the noise of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” drama, Disney has rolled out its latest price hike — its fourth in four years — making Disney+ and Hulu some of the most expensive streaming services, when just four years ago they were among the cheapest, as we charted.

Ad-free vs. ad-supported prices

What are North Americans’ top three favorite airports?

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Binance Coin (BNB) is bigger than solana by market cap.¹ But almost no American brokerage account lets you buy BNB directly. 

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