On July 2, IREN Ltd fell 5.42% in regular trading, trading around $41.11/share, with turnover of approximately $5.54 billion. The decline marks the stock's fourth consecutive session of losses since reaching $52.5 on June 25.

On the news front, reports that Meta Platforms is planning to enter the cloud computing infrastructure market by selling excess AI computing power and model access rights have triggered a broad sell-off in compute leasing stocks. Meta's strategy would pit it directly against AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, raising competitive concerns for independent GPU-as-a-service providers like IREN. The stock had already declined over 5.47% in the prior session on the same catalyst.

Adding to the pressure, IREN continues to experience profit-taking following its inclusion in the Russell 1000 Index, which took effect after market close on June 26. While the company announced the appointment of Kambiz Aghili as Chief Product Officer and Michael Nudelman as Chief Development Officer to bolster its AI cloud platform strategy, the positive development was insufficient to offset near-term competitive and technical headwinds.

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