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Dogecoin (DOGE) is adding 10.1% to $0.1613 this week, slightly outperforming the broader crypto market, where Bitcoin (BTC) is rising by 8.0% to $107,010. The memecoin appears to be decoupling from the influence of Elon Musk and increasingly moving in line with Bitcoin’s broader trend. In this context, DOGE is attempting a recovery but faces a key challenge at the $0.2000 resistance level. A successful breakout could confirm a reversal, while failure to gain momentum might renew fears of a decline toward the $0.1000 area, a scenario some investors consider more probable given current uncertainties.

As an investment blogger who immediately and accurately advised everyone to buy Tesla shares below $285 after the hyping EV maker suddenly plummeted on a silly social media spat between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, I now have the moral right to celebrate each time whenever Tesla hits a new price peak. I am still more exited, as the price passed the $325 milestone after a slight price retracement for technical consolidation. Tesla soared above $350, or more precisely touched its fresh $357.50 high on June 23 , thanks to the long-awaited launch of the robotaxis service in Austin, Texas. However, the crowd likes to buy its own expectations, and then quickly sell the facts. Since Tesla's gains exceeded 25% in less than three weeks, this profit was quickly taken by so many in the market.

This short-term sell-off helped prices to drop again to test a $325+ area, which in my non-humble opinion only gives another chance to buy for every "Doubting Thomas". Of course, absolute sceptics will be convinced that the Tesla rally is justified, apparently, when it's already above $400, and that's when they're going to buy themselves a little bit of Tesla. "But I say to you, blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe", as I do not need to put my fingers on the cured wounds of Tesla image before betting on its further wave of price growth and may market gods forgive me.

It is clear that the eternal Trump haters, who are usually the adherents of the defeated woke movement as well, have also become Musk haters in 2025, and so they do not stop criticizing the launch of robotaxis anyway. Tesla sceptics are commenting that only about a dozen of electric cars are now driving Texas roads within 5 km range. Well, that's true, but it is precisely according to initial plans, which were announced from the beginning to avoid big faults. So, now only a limited number of users who receive an invitation can order such a service, and those chosen users are still mainly loyal Tesla influencers. O.K., I wasn't there yet, but the news also immediately seems to be true, and it would be strange if selected orders were given to haters who would criticize everything anyway, regardless of the actual quality of the service. There is a person in the passenger seat to monitor this stage, but this service man is not driving and does not interfere. The situation center staff are also watching, but the car is actually driving on autopilot in a self-drive mode.

The price is now fixed with Musk's favourite number of $4.20 per trip. Booking is not yet possible after midnight, the service is also limited by good weather at the moment, and haters doubt what will happen if a thunderstorm or heavy rain catches the car during the order, but why do they think that this quite usual situation is not thought out by engineers? Just why would Tesla create problems for itself at the testing stage, when the whole world's attention is so much focused on every appearance of robotaxis in the street?

According to Bloomberg, customers reported an issue with a Tesla Model Y that made an improper left turn to enter a lane for opposing traffic before crossing a double-yellow line and then returned to the correct lane. The incident was captured on video by former Tesla podcast host Rob Maurer, with audible honking from other drivers. Some other riders documented instances of Tesla’s driverless vehicles exceeding posted speed limits. As an example, one Tesla investor shared footage to show a robotaxi reaching 35 mph (miles per hour) in a 30 mph zone, while YouTuber Herbert Ong noted during a live stream that his robotic vehicle was traveling at 39 mph in a 35 mph zone. No injuries. These are all, of course, such terrible crimes, because no one else on the road allows him or her to exceed the speed limit like that, right? And I should probably immediately sell all my Tesla shares when I find out about this, right? No, of course not. I'm going to buy more right now. And I'll wait for $420, folks. See you on the upper side.

Cosmos (ATOM) is adding 11.2% to $4.01 this week, outperforming the broader market, where Bitcoin (BTC) is rising by 8.8% to $107,858. The token has shown consistent resilience, never falling below the $3.50 support level since August 2024. Historically, it tends to rebound quickly from this zone, often targeting the $5.00 mark and beyond. With Bitcoin approaching a potential breakout above the key $108,000–110,000 resistance, ATOM has a strong setup for further gains. Investor interest in the project remains solid, reportedly including figures like BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. With sentiment shifting, the token appears well-positioned for a renewed upward move.

A $270 billion networking equipment maker Cisco set its new all-time peak this week. With the company being a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) index, which includes the largest 30 stable U.S.-rooted businesses, this also helped the DJIA to show its best since late March, touching the milestone area above 43,000. DJIA is now less than 2,000 points, or about 5%, away from the all-time records of 45,000+, which was posted during a post-election market rally in 2024, and there is little doubt that higher levels will be seen already in the coming months.

Cisco has become the second giant company after Nvidia to leapfrog the former obstacles near its previous historical peaks after a market-wide correction that took place in early April on global trade barriers' concerns. The fog of tariff war doubts continues to clear.

The Internet of Things industry is one of the drivers of demand for Cisco products. Cisco's next quarterly earnings call on August 13 is still a long way off, but the stock is still rising during the financial off-season on ratings hikes and some positive news. On June 16, 2025, Cisco had a Tech Talk to discuss its innovations, with Samik Chatterjee, managing director at JPMorgan as host. By the way, JPMorgan analysts maintained their Overweight rating on Cisco stock, with potential to hit a price target of $73 at least. The way Cisco is involved in revolutionizing its customers' connection and  protection in the AI era was the main topic. The talk was focused on AI-powered solutions to enhance productivity and create a stronger digital resilience. These trendy themes had inspired investors.

Deutsche Bank stated that it is now bullish on Cisco, citing AI tailwind, even though the share price is so historically high. In its clients' note this Monday, Deutsche Bank analysts upgraded Cisco shares from Hold to Buy, while raising their price target on the stock from $65 to $73. Cisco closed above $68 the day after, with its post-weekend gain of 3% and almost 8% since the beginning of June. The bank emphasized Cisco's “improved visibility towards durable mid-single-digit growth in upcoming years,” based on AI-related enterprise deployments and sovereign spending, as 56% of total revenue is coming from subscription software and services. The Cisco Campus portfolio, which encompasses a range of hardware, software, and solutions to build enterprise-grade local area networks within a defined geographic area like a university or corporate campus, was especially mentioned in the forecast as one of the growth pillars. "Cisco’s breadth of supply chain enables it to more deftly navigate incremental tariffs and re-invest in growth,” Deutsche Bank wrote.

Some in the market are concerned about Cisco's similar history of strong growth in the 1990s, when venture capital became the main source of that time's rally. Many dotcom start-ups had business models, which eventually failed before 2000 and made Cisco’s earnings and market price peaking just above $50 per share. The dotcom confidence crisis sparked a very sharp downturn to as low as $10 per share just several months later. However, the sales niche has expanded remarkably over the recent 25 years. In 2000, Internet businesses were a novelty, but now Cisco relies on orders from already established large companies. Therefore, it is unlikely that anything may actually threaten the current wave of Cisco growth before higher goals are achieved.

Moreover, from a purely technical perspective, the historically important $50 per share resistance was broken not by emotion in one day, but during a major gradual assault that lasted from 2019 to 2025, with the price climbing and then updating its highs at intervals of a year or two each time between successful attempts to break higher. So, Cisco's new share price record looks set to withstand further tests of strength.