Best known for its rise to above $400 on Covid vaccine sales during the pandemic, Moderna (MRNA) jumped again recently.
The biotech company is reportedly in the early stages of developing a vaccine for hantavirus. After a high mortality rate from the virus spread on a cruise, interest in hantavirus increased.
Moderna has an mRNA platform that could potentially protect people from the emerging infectious disease.
Dell Technologies (DELL) soared by 25.4% in just the last week. The gain, its best in two years, happened after the U.S. president endorsed the firm. Michael Dell donated $6.25 billion to the Invest America initiatives. In response, Trump told people to “go out and buy a Dell.”
Micron Technology (MU) jumped to new all-time highs. It gained 15.5% on May 8 and is up by 161.7% in 2026. Analysts at Mizuho hiked their price targets for the memory supplier and storage companies. Western Digital (WDC), Micron, and Sandisk (SNDK) rallied in response to that upgrade.
High-speed storage and memory prices show no chance of slowing demand. Mega corporations are in a rush to outmaneuver each other in the AI chatbot race. Anthropic looks like it is in the lead. Its latest funding round valued the company at around $1 trillion. Unfortunately, Microsoft (MSFT) stock is languishing after investors bet that ChatGPT, which powers CoPilot, will fall further behind.
