Artur Ślesik

Artur Ślesik is a technology and financial markets journalist at Bez-kabli.pl, covering artificial intelligence, semiconductors, technology stocks and emerging innovations. A graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, he combines a technical background with market analysis to explain how new technologies are shaping industries, businesses and investment trends worldwide.

RKTO’s Friday Drop Came After Big Gains for Hoth Therapeutics Traders

RKTO’s Friday Drop Came After Big Gains for Hoth Therapeutics Traders

Rocket One Inc., which used to be called Hoth Therapeutics, dropped 14.1% to close at $1.46 on Friday. Shares slipped further to $1.384 after the bell, according to StockAnalysis. The stock pulled back after its rapid jump tied to a move from biotech into AI and space. That’s important now since the HOTH ticker isn’t trading anymore. A filing showed the legal name became Rocket One Inc. as of May 26. Nasdaq switched the ticker to RKTO on May 28. Shareholder rights and the CUSIP number stayed the same.
May 31, 2026
Highview Merger Gains to $10.15 as SPAC Timeline Nears

Highview Merger Gains to $10.15 as SPAC Timeline Nears

Highview Merger Corp. finished Friday at $10.15, up 0.30%, keeping the blank-check firm close to its peak ahead of the weekend. Google Finance listed the company’s market value at around $298.5 million and reported 20,030 shares traded at the May 29 close. Why does it matter? Highview is a pre-deal SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company. That means it’s a listed shell raising money to buy or merge with a private firm. Investor.gov calls SPACs “blank-check companies” that don’t typically have an operating business at IPO.
May 31, 2026
Payoneer shares edge higher ahead of CEO comments

Payoneer shares edge higher ahead of CEO comments

Payoneer Global Inc. closed Friday at $5.20, gaining 1.96%. Shares added 5.26% for the week, which was shortened by the holiday as Nasdaq markets shut for the weekend. That left the cross-border payments name with a stronger finish. For the year, the stock is still off 7.47% and down 23.87% over the past year. This comes with no new company statement late in the week that would account for the action. The next listed company event is around the corner: Chief Executive John Caplan is set to speak at the William Blair 46th Annual Growth Stock Conference on June 2 at roughly 12:20 p.m. ET.
May 30, 2026
Ouster Stock Just Ripped 24% in a Short Week. The $75 Wall Street Call Is Only Part of the Story

Ouster Stock Just Ripped 24% in a Short Week. The $75 Wall Street Call Is Only Part of the Story

Ouster shares finished a holiday-shortened U.S. trading week at $46.05, up 8.79% on Friday and 24.36% over five days, capping one of the sharper moves in small-cap sensor stocks. U.S. markets had been closed on Monday for Memorial Day. That matters because the move was not just another lift from a strong tape. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 each rose about 0.2% on Friday, while small caps fell, leaving Ouster’s jump standing out as investors chased a more specific theme: sensors for robotics, defense and “physical AI,” meaning AI systems that perceive and act in the real world.
May 30, 2026
SU Group’s Brutal Week Leaves $1 Line in Focus Before Monday Trade

SU Group’s Brutal Week Leaves $1 Line in Focus Before Monday Trade

SU Group Holdings Limited’s Nasdaq-listed Class A shares ended a holiday-shortened U.S. week under heavy pressure, closing at $1.02 on Friday, down 31.5% on the day, and then slipping to 98.02 cents after hours. The Hong Kong security-services company fell each trading day after the prior Friday close of $3.44, market data showed. That makes Monday the next test. Nasdaq trades regular hours from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on weekdays, and the exchange’s 2026 calendar shows May 25 was closed for Memorial Day and June 19 is the next scheduled U.S. holiday.
May 30, 2026
Definitive Healthcare Stock Jumps, With Traders Watching the $1 Level

Definitive Healthcare Stock Jumps, With Traders Watching the $1 Level

Definitive Healthcare Corp. finished the holiday-shortened week up, gaining 4.88% Friday to settle at $0.93. The healthcare data company is still trading below the $1 level, which has been a key line for the stock. About 574,000 shares changed hands, with trading in a range from $0.84 to $0.97. Rebound timing is in focus this week as U.S. markets were closed over the weekend and again on Monday, May 25, for Memorial Day. That gives investors just a few days to figure out if the bounce lasts. Nasdaq notes that normal hours are Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET.
May 30, 2026
HF Foods Shares Edge Lower Ahead of June Meeting

HF Foods Shares Edge Lower Ahead of June Meeting

HF Foods Group Inc. shares fell 3.94% on Friday to close at $1.95, wrapping a down week for the stock as the holiday-shortened U.S. trading week left the Nasdaq-listed firm off 2.99% over five sessions. Year-to-date, shares have dropped 9.3%, according to market data. That's more important now as HF Foods is a small-cap—market cap is around $105 million and volume Friday was 88,851 shares. With a stock this size, end-of-week selling can have a bigger effect than on some of the bigger food distributors.
May 30, 2026
Five Below Eyes Key Earnings Week After Friday Bounce

Five Below Eyes Key Earnings Week After Friday Bounce

Five Below shares finished the week higher. The discount retailer has its first-quarter earnings due next Wednesday after the U.S. market closes, putting it up for a bigger test. The stock gained 1.09% to close at $227.36 on Friday, with about 1.0 million shares changing hands, market data show. Shares moved between $221.90 and $228.74 during the day. The market cap stood at around $12.6 billion.
May 30, 2026
AppLovin Pops Back Over $600 as Wall Street Watches Key Ad Number

AppLovin Pops Back Over $600 as Wall Street Watches Key Ad Number

AppLovin shares pushed higher Friday, last up 2.0% to $612.07. Buyers kept coming in as bulls bet the ad-tech firm can get more out of its Axon engine. The stock hit $616.57 in the session, putting AppLovin's market cap near $207 billion. AppLovin’s rally has shifted from a post-earnings pop to a fresh debate on its conversion rate — the chunk of ads that actually get users to download, buy or take action. Investors are watching to see if AppLovin can keep pushing the conversion number higher as the main mobile-gaming thread now grows and ages.
May 29, 2026
Orchestra BioMed Shares Trade Lower Ahead of Trial Milestone

Orchestra BioMed Shares Trade Lower Ahead of Trial Milestone

Orchestra BioMed Holdings shares fell in Friday afternoon trade. Investors seemed to look ahead to upcoming milestones for its Medtronic-partnered hypertension therapy, while the news flow stayed quiet. The stock traded lower, falling 0.8% to $3.95 as roughly 116,000 shares changed hands. The move trailed the broader biotech sector, where the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF added 0.4%, but the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF slipped 0.2%.
May 29, 2026
Launchpad Cadenza Shares Static With $232M Trust Backing

Launchpad Cadenza Shares Static With $232M Trust Backing

Launchpad Cadenza Acquisition Corp I shares ticked up in light volume Friday, with the SPAC staying near its cash redemption level as the market waits for word on a possible deal. Class A shares with the LPCV ticker traded at $10.01 as of 12:37 p.m. EDT, up 0.4%, on 929 shares in volume. Robinhood showed a session high, low and open all at $10.01, with little trading range or price discovery.
May 29, 2026
Bloomia Dips as Debt Maturity Hangs Over TULP

Bloomia Dips as Debt Maturity Hangs Over TULP

Shares of Bloomia Holdings dropped in sparse Nasdaq trade Friday, putting the fresh-cut tulip producer under the recent shareholder cash raise price. Investors are watching its debt and waiting for the next word on a seller-note payment. TULP shares last traded at $3.86, off 6.5 cents from the prior close. The stock opened at $3.85 and market data showed 2,229 shares had changed hands.
May 29, 2026
Orange County Bancorp Stock Slips Near $34 as Dividend Deadline Puts This Small Bank Back in Focus

Orange County Bancorp Stock Slips Near $34 as Dividend Deadline Puts This Small Bank Back in Focus

Orange County Bancorp shares edged lower in midday trading on Friday, lagging a firmer regional-bank group, as investors weighed a routine shareholder vote filing and looked ahead to next week’s dividend record date. The stock was last quoted at $34.11, down 0.4%, with a market value of about $455 million and light volume of 10,540 shares. The SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF, an exchange-traded fund that tracks a basket of regional-bank shares, rose 0.4%; NBT Bancorp was little changed and OceanFirst Financial gained 0.4%.
May 29, 2026
Harte Hanks Stock at $2.58: Why This Tiny Nasdaq Name Is Back on Traders’ Screens

Harte Hanks Stock at $2.58: Why This Tiny Nasdaq Name Is Back on Traders’ Screens

Harte Hanks shares entered Friday’s U.S. session near $2.58 after closing Thursday down 2.3% on just 1,399 shares, a thin print even by small-cap standards. The Nasdaq-listed customer-experience company was last shown around the same level before the regular market open. That matters now because this is not a deep, heavily traded stock. Harte Hanks’ market value was about $19.1 million, meaning even small orders can make the price look more dramatic than the underlying news flow.
May 29, 2026
Rallybio Stock Faces a $50 Million Test as Traders Weigh What Comes Next

Rallybio Stock Faces a $50 Million Test as Traders Weigh What Comes Next

Rallybio Corp shares were little changed before the Nasdaq open on Friday, with the latest available market-data print at $14.52, up about 0.3% from the previous close, as investors kept the stock near levels reached after a $50 million deal-termination payment earlier this month. That matters now because there has been no fresh company press-release catalyst in the last 24 to 48 hours, leaving price action to test whether the May re-rating can hold. Rallybio’s investor-relations feed lists its latest news releases as the March 2 Candid merger announcement, a Feb. 17 RLYB116 data release and a Feb. 3 reverse-stock-split notice.
May 29, 2026
McKinley Acquisition Stock Flat at $10 as $176.7M Deal Waits

McKinley Acquisition Stock Flat at $10 as $176.7M Deal Waits

McKinley Acquisition Corp. traded close to its cash-backstop level ahead of the regular Nasdaq open Friday, holding near the value of its trust instead of showing much connection to earnings. The company’s latest quarterly filing still has it searching for a deal. The Nasdaq session starts at 9:30 a.m. ET. May 29 was not shown as a market holiday for 2026. Class A shares finished at $10.19 on May 28 after 1,513 shares changed hands, giving the company a market value near $248.1 million. The stock has traded between $9.85 and $10.19 over the past year, leaving Thursday’s close right at the high end of that tight range.
May 29, 2026
PTLE stock sits close to $5 ahead of market open as small fuel name hits radar

PTLE stock sits close to $5 ahead of market open as small fuel name hits radar

PTL Ltd’s shares on Nasdaq traded near $5.01 ahead of Friday’s U.S. regular session. The marine-fuel logistics group stayed on watch in light volume, with no obvious fresh company news driving the move. That’s key now since PTLE trades thin. Robinhood data put market value at $31.47 million, with just 4,190 shares traded and average daily volume at 6,680 shares. Small trades can move the price.
May 29, 2026
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