Imam who refused to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization scheduled to deliver a benediction at Trump’s inauguration

My bad!!! I thought 25% to 30% was big.

B. Riley Securities maintained its Buy ratings on Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ:RGTI) and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) and raised the price targets on the shares, noting that some commercialization concerns are misplaced.

Shares of Rigetti jumped about 15% on Tuesday, leading quantum computing stocks higher after last week's dip following Nvidia's (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang's comments that "very useful" quantum computers are over a decade away. D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) was up about 8%, Quantum Computing (NASDAQ:QUBT) around 3% and Arqit Quantum (ARQQ) nearly 6%. However, IonQ (IONQ) dipped about 2% on Tuesday.

Analyst Craig Ellis said they believe that despite recent well publicized CEO views on an elongated path to commercialization, a slew of recent and, in some cases, materially underappreciated data points offer broadly encouraging technical advances to significantly boost confidence in quantum's intermediate to long-term high-value workload scalability into areas unreachable to classic CPU and GPU computing, raising the arc of B. Riley's bullish sector thesis in the years ahead.

In addition, equity capital raises amid the fourth quarter of 2024's high-volume share gains significantly ameliorated covered company cash sufficiency concerns, easing a dark multi-year share cloud, the analysts added.

Stocks thus reversed a two-year downtrend, with large gains notching market-leading fourth quarter 2024 upside. And while a fierce sell-off ensued in the past week with now -51% average declines, most sit well above early to mid-fourth quarter 2024 levels, according to the analysts.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas has recruited almost as many militants as it’s lost in Israeli strikes, comments that underscored US skepticism about the long-term prospects of Israel’s effort to demolish the group since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.

“Each time Israel completes its military operations and pulls back, Hamas militants regroup and re-emerge because there’s nothing else to fill the void,” Blinken said in a speech Tuesday at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

He called Hamas’s ability to keep recruiting fighters “a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.”

The militant group’s continued capacity to replenish its ranks is one reason the US has continued to press the Israeli government to enter into a ceasefire that would eventually lead to an end to the Gaza conflict. Blinken said the Biden administration has long insisted to Israel that Hamas, designated a terrorist group by the US and the European Union, can’t be defeated by a military campaign alone.