Vlad Schepkov
Vlad Schepkov is a financial journalist and breaking news reporter who covers market-moving company news and events for Investing.com and StreetInsider.com. His coverage focuses on short, timely updates that explain why individual stocks, sectors, and indices are moving, often filed around new filings, press releases, contracts, and data releases. Since 2022 he has built a large archive of brief items that translate complex corporate and macro developments into concise signals for the trading day.
Company news and stock price moves
He spends much of his time on short items that explain sudden moves in individual stocks, linking price action to catalysts such as earnings, contracts, financings, or regulatory developments.
Recent pieces include explanations for surges or drops in names like CleanSpark, Palantir Technologies, PayPal, and Nutanix, framed around specific news triggers such as new products, deals, or guidance shifts. He also follows analyst rating changes and target revisions, filing briefs on updates for companies ranging from NeoVolta and EPAM Systems to AutoNation, Celsius Holdings, Boot Barn, and a wide list of smaller issuers.
These stories emphasise the headline change, the new rating or target, and the immediate reaction in the share price rather than long narrative analysis.
Index changes and market structure
Another strand of his work tracks index rebalancings and constituent changes that affect passive flows and benchmark positioning. He has reported on S&P Dow Jones Indices decisions to add and remove companies from the S&P 100, S&P 500, and S&P 400, highlighting moves involving Dell Technologies, Bloom Energy, Colgate-Palmolive, Nike, Honeywell Aerospace, Palo Alto Networks, Sandisk, and Molson Coors Brewing. He covers similar changes in smaller benchmarks, including Tenable Holdings entering the S&P SmallCap 600 and Leggett & Platt leaving the index.
His index stories often note effective dates, the impacted tickers, and trading dynamics around the changes, including record Nasdaq closing cross volumes during major Russell index rebalancing.
Technology, AI and digital infrastructure
Technology and artificial intelligence feature heavily in his briefings, especially where new capacity, partnerships, or product launches can shift sentiment in the sector.
He has covered Nvidia’s earnings as key catalysts for the broader AI trade and Amazon Web Services’ expanded partnership with Nvidia to deploy millions of additional GPUs over the coming years. His archive includes items on Oracle’s large-scale job cuts tied to an AI-driven strategic shift, infrastructure build-out plans at AWS and Nvidia, and cloud security or networking developments at companies such as Zscaler, CrowdStrike, Netscout, and Amdocs. He also writes on emerging AI and data projects, from Xoople and L3Harris satellite constellations to Safe Pro’s AI landmine detection contracts and Story Foundation’s rebranding into a data-focused network.
In these pieces, he centres the concrete announcement - capacity expansions, contracts, regulatory filings - and the potential impact on valuation and trading.
Global mining, energy and industrial stories
His coverage extends across mining, energy, aerospace, defence, and industrials, often via brief updates on production, project progress, or corporate strategy.
Examples include Tianci International’s progress on a gold and chromium project in Zimbabwe, Sigma Lithium’s confirmation that operations continue despite permitting litigation, and Triple Flag Precious Metals’ record quarterly revenue driven by strong metal sales. He has filed on Shell acquiring a stake in a Gulf of Mexico prospect, Barrick Mining considering a delay to a planned gold-unit IPO, Stellantis increasing vehicle output in Italy, and HII outlining a plan to lift shipbuilding for the U.S. Navy. Economic data and policy also appear, such as Canadian wholesale sales reaching a multi-year high and government stake sales in Indian Railway Finance Corp, which he connects to broader market themes.
This strand of work gives concise visibility into supply, demand, and regulatory factors affecting commodity, industrial, and transport names around the world.
Format and role
Across beats, his stories follow a wire-style format: a direct headline, a short paragraph summarising the news, and key figures or quotes that explain why the development matters for the security or sector. He writes for Investing.com’s global editions in multiple languages, with archives spanning English, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, and Indian-focused pages, all carrying the same focus on market-moving company news. His author profile describes him as a financial journalist and breaking news reporter with extensive experience covering developing stories and tracking market-moving events for Investing.com and StreetInsider.com, underlining the fast-paced, event-driven nature of his work. Since joining in early 2022, he has built a dense body of short, timely pieces that map corporate announcements, economic releases, and index decisions directly onto trading in equities and related instruments.
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