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PepsiCo downgraded, HubSpot upgraded: Wall Street's top analyst calls

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed the decision on Grayscale's spot XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) request, but Franklin Templeton has now joined the XRP ETF race.

February's Consumer Price Index (CPI) report showed inflation pressures eased in February, calming some fears about the health of the US economy during a rocky few weeks for markets.

Bolivia's state energy firm YPFB will use cryptocurrency to pay for energy imports amid a painful shortage of dollars and fuel in the landlocked South American nation, a company spokesperson and a government official told Reuters on Wednesday. The country is battling a dangerous slide in foreign currency reserves afters years of dwindling exports of natural gas, which has sparked off a fuel crisis in the country with regular long lines at gas stations and scattered protests. A spokesperson for state-run energy firm YPFB told Reuters that a system had been put in place to use cryptocurrency to purchase fuel imports after a government approval to use digital assets to help meet demand.

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Business automation software provider Upland Software (NASDAQ: UPLD) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, but sales fell by 5.8% year on year to $68.03 million. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $62 million was less impressive, coming in 7.7% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.41 per share was significantly above analysts’ consensus estimates.

As the Q4 earnings season comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of this quarter’s best and worst performers in the education services industry, including Lincoln Educational (NASDAQ:LINC) and its peers.

The consumer price index rose 0.2% last month after accelerating 0.5% in January, the Labor said on Wednesday. In the 12 months through February, the CPI increased 2.8% after climbing 3.0% in January. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI gaining 0.3% and advancing 2.9% year-on-year.

It's been a long, strange year for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) -- and it's only March. The potential big catalyst for Bitcoin, of course, is the recent announcement of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. With an executive order from President Trump, the U.S. government has now moved to consolidate its holdings of Bitcoin.

Growth boosts valuation multiples, but it doesn’t always last forever. Companies that cannot maintain it are often penalized with large declines in market value, a lesson ingrained in investors who lost money in tech stocks during 2022.