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An analyst upgrade is doing the heaviest lifting this morning, powering a home furnishings name to the day's biggest gain. Right behind it, a media merger that had been stuck in a courtroom looks closer to the finish line after settlement talks surfaced over the weekend.

Bitcoin is back at levels it hasn't seen since January, pulling the crypto trade up with it, and a consulting giant is higher on a billion-dollar AI partnership. The one clear loser is a drugmaker that asked investors to wait until the next decade, and the market isn't in a waiting mood.

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Arhaus (ARHS): +10%

Jefferies upgraded the home furnishings brand to Buy from Hold, with the analyst pointing to renewed optimism about its strategy for building brand awareness. The gain is coming on light volume, which makes it a reaction to one analyst's call rather than a crowd forming behind the name, at least so far.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD): +7%

The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that Paramount (PSKY) and California Attorney General Rob Bonta have discussed settlement terms in the lawsuit blocking the two companies' merger, sending Warner Bros. Discovery higher and Paramount up more than 5.8% alongside it. The company being acquired is the bigger mover, which fits: settlement talks are the first real sign the deal's biggest obstacle can be negotiated away rather than fought out in court.

Coinbase (COIN): +5%

The crypto exchange is following bitcoin higher to start the week, with the coin touching its highest level since late January. The move stacks on a 10% gain last week after regulators cleared a path for tokenized stocks, so Coinbase is trading on two tailwinds at once: the price of the asset its customers trade and a regulatory opening that could widen what it offers.

Accenture (ACN): +4%

Accenture said Friday it will partner with Anthropic and evaluate the AI company's models, with both sides committing at least $1 billion to build capacity. Consulting firms have spent this cycle answering whether AI eats their business, and a billion-dollar tie-up with a leading model developer puts Accenture on the side doing the implementing.

Novo Nordisk (NVO): -5%

Investors are unimpressed by Novo's long-term plan for competing in the weight loss market. The Denmark-based drugmaker is targeting at least five drug launches by 2030 and more than 150 billion Danish kroner (about $23 billion) in risk-adjusted pipeline sales by 2035, but in a race this crowded, a roadmap that stretches into the next decade is a hard thing to pay up for today.

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Micron Technology (MU)

Micron climbed to the top of r/wallstreetbets over the past 24 hours, with ApeWisdom tracking more than double the prior day's mentions, as traders start sizing up the fiscal fourth-quarter report due September 30. The mood is more split than the mention count suggests: Stocktwits sentiment on the name has been sitting in bearish territory, and TipRanks' read on retail holders has slipped to Neutral from Very Positive back in June.

The stock is up more than 200% this year, and the quarter carries an extra week, a detail some market watchers argue makes the company's own guidance look more conservative than it is. Whether the print resets expectations higher or simply confirms what's already priced in is the question the chatter keeps circling, and it may be the outlook, not the results, that settles it.

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