Oil Prices Jump on Iran War Fears as AI Sell-off Drags Markets 1% Lower
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Climate entity
Applied Materials
Company AMATAll 3 tracked stories fall under one category: market-trends. Applied Materials is most often covered alongside NVIDIA, which appears in 3 of these 3 stories. They are better corroborated than the beat average, carrying 8 original sources each against 4.1 for the same window.
Last mentioned: Jul 20, 2026
Entity pulse
Recent coverage · Applied Materials
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3 stories
avg impact
33% positive
67% negative
Coverage balance Negative coverage leads. Negative coverage exceeds positive coverage by 34 percentage points.
Figures are computed live from our source-verified story record — see our methodology for how impact and sentiment are derived.
What the coverage shows about Applied Materials
All 3 tracked stories fall under one category: market-trends. Applied Materials is most often covered alongside NVIDIA, which appears in 3 of these 3 stories. They are better corroborated than the beat average, carrying 8 original sources each against 4.1 for the same window. That works out to roughly 0.2 stories per week across a 120-day span. At 6.3, the average consequence score sits below the same-window beat average of 6.6. This profile follows 3 Climate stories mentioning Applied Materials across the period from March 23, 2026 to July 20, 2026.
- Stories tracked
- 3
- Per week
- 0.2
- Sources per story
- 8
Computed from the 3 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 381 Climate stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Appears alongside
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering Applied Materials. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
Stories mentioning Applied Materials 3
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