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“It’s Going to Be a Slow Bleed”: DCLA’s Sarat Sethi Says High Oil Prices Haven’t Hit Stocks Yet, but Valuations Will Feel It

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

Oil above $100 a barrel has barely touched stock prices yet, but DCLA's Sarat Sethi says the pain is already building beneath the surface and investors in certain sectors may not see it coming until guidance season hits.

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“AI Sucked All the Oxygen Out of the Room”: Neuberger’s Joe Amato Says It’s Time to Diversify and Pull Back Risk

Published: by Joel South

Neuberger Berman manages $616 billion, and its president just quietly shifted the firm's entire risk posture while warning that one dominant market theme has crowded out nearly everything else worth owning.

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Australia’s Communications Minister Expects Court Cases Against Five Social Media Companies Over Its Under-16 Ban

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

Australia's communications minister says she expects the country's online safety regulator to drag five social media companies into federal court, and new police-style evidence powers may make that fight very difficult for the platforms to win.

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The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Opened to $15 Million, the Biggest Non-Music Documentary Debut in Two Decades

Published: by Joel South

A documentary about one of Silicon Valley's most notorious fraudsters just outperformed nearly every Hollywood film in theaters this weekend, and the reason audiences keep selling out screenings reveals something uncomfortable about how we think about Elizabeth Holmes.

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Peter Boockvar Says 70%-Plus of Q3 Earnings Growth Is Tied to AI. CoreWeave’s Credit Stress Shows Why That’s a Risk

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

Peter Boockvar says most of this quarter's earnings growth traces back to a single trade, and CoreWeave's credit markets are now flashing a warning that investors in that trade may not be ready to hear.

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Starlink Is SpaceX’s Profit Engine. Now It’s Caught in a Fight Over Ukraine Ahead of Earnings

Published: by Joel South

Starlink generates billions for SpaceX and funds everything from rockets to AI, but a brewing dispute over throttled service in Ukraine threatens to put that profit engine under a microscope just as earnings approach.

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Berkshire Is “a Coiled Spring”: A Top Berkshire Watcher Says the Market Has Finally Decided Greg Abel Can Run It

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

Berkshire Hathaway shares are surging near all-time highs, and one fund manager who tracks its portfolio says the market has quietly made up its mind about something investors spent a year arguing over.

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“The Welfare State Is Not Cutting It”: CNBC’s Sara Eisen Says France’s Debt Crisis Is a Warning as French Bond Yields Spike

Published: by Joel South

French bond yields are spiking, the streets are on fire, and CNBC's Sara Eisen says the country's debt spiral carries a warning that reaches far beyond Europe's borders.

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Interactive Brokers’ Founder Warns About the AI Trading His Own Firm Just Launched

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

Thomas Peterffy spent decades automating Interactive Brokers, then stepped on television the day after a record quarter to warn about the very AI feature his firm just launched. His concern is specific, operational, and unresolved.

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says AI Safety Has to Be Built In From the Start

Published: by Eric Bleeker

Jensen Huang agrees that people are right to be scared of AI, yet his company just guided to $108 billion in quarterly revenue. How he squares that tension reveals something investors building positions around AI infrastructure may not want to miss.

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The NBA Is Cutting Off Bets It Says Are Open to Manipulation. Prediction Markets Are the Hard Part.

Published: by Joel South

The NBA just told its sportsbook partners to pull certain bets it says invite manipulation, but the league's own executives admit the rules stop at a boundary they cannot enforce, and DraftKings and FanDuel may be paying a price their competitors ignore.

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The iPhone Duo Sold Out in Minutes. iPhone Co-Creator Tony Fadell Says the Real Test Comes Later.

Published: by Joel South

Apple's first foldable sold out in minutes, but iPhone co-creator Tony Fadell says the real verdict on the Duo won't come from launch-day preorders. It will come from how people hold it, use it, and whether app developers give them a reason to keep opening it.

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Fiber Laid in the Dot-Com Era Still Works. Eric Hippeau Says AI Chips Won’t Last Nearly That Long.

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

Dot-com era fiber is still carrying internet traffic decades later, but a veteran venture investor argues the chips powering today's AI boom operate on a completely different clock, and the accounting consequences could reshape who wins and who bleeds.

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A Researcher Says AI Models Are Far Easier to Read Than Anyone Thought. Not Everyone Is Convinced.

Published: by Eric Bleeker

A veteran AI interpretability researcher just published a claim that rewrites years of accepted thinking about how neural networks actually work, and the field cannot agree on whether it is a breakthrough or a misreading of old evidence.

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Factories Beat Expectations in September and Import Prices Ran Hot. Warsh Isn’t Rushing to Hike.

Published: by Joel South

Three inflation surprises in one week and factories running hotter than they have in two years should have markets braced for another Fed hike, yet Chairman Warsh's response left traders scrambling to reprice their bets.

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Wharton’s Ethan Mollick Says AI Makes Workers Better. Making Companies Better Is the Hard Part.

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick says the evidence is in on what AI does for individual workers, but that victory may be making the harder problem worse for the organizations they work inside.

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Gabelli Fund Manager Picks Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley Over JPMorgan After Bank Earnings

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

A Gabelli portfolio manager walked through four big bank names after earnings week and landed on two buys that the market pushed lower the same afternoon. Find out which banks he favors and why the stock trading against his thesis might actually prove his point.

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A Top VC Says Anthropic Could Be Overtaken. Its Own IPO Filing Shows Why That Is Not Crazy.

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

A top venture capitalist publicly named companies capable of overtaking Anthropic right before its record-breaking IPO, and the prospectus Anthropic just filed gives that claim more credibility than most investors expect.

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Fanatics CEO Says Sports Betting Is Fundamentally Good Business. DraftKings Stock Says Otherwise.

Published: by Joel South

Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin is betting up to a billion dollars that sports wagering will reward patience. The public markets, watching DraftKings and Flutter bleed margin in real time, are pricing in the pain he admits comes first.

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Crossmark’s Victoria Fernandez Says Chip Dips Are Worth Buying, Citing ASML’s Order Book Through 2030. Every Stock She Named Is Down Today

Published: by Joel South

A top market strategist called semiconductor pullbacks a buying opportunity and pointed to one chipmaker's order book stretching years into the future, but every stock she named moved in the opposite direction after she spoke.

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A Citi Analyst Says Bank Of America Has Been ‘Overly Punished.’ It’s Down 14.07% In A Month And Reports Tomorrow

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

A Citi analyst stepped in front of cameras the day before Bank of America reports earnings to defend a stock the market has punished hard and fast, and his case depends on a single mechanism that tomorrow morning will either confirm or expose.

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e.l.f.’s CEO Almost Didn’t Take The Meeting. The Stock Is Up 42.6% This Year And Still Down Over Twelve Months

Published: by Joel South

Tarang Amin almost skipped the interview entirely, and the reason he changed his mind reveals something important about how e.l.f. Beauty operates that its stock chart alone will never show you.

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A Mastercard Economist Says Consumers Have The Money To Spend. FINRA Found A Record Share Spending More Than They Earn

Published: by Eric Bleeker

A Mastercard economist sees healthy consumer spending backed by real transaction data, but a new FINRA survey found a record share of Americans spending beyond their means. Both readings are accurate, and the reason why changes how you read every consumer stock this earnings season.

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Louis Vuitton Won Its Trademark Case Against A Chinese Tea Chain. LVMH’s Biggest Division Just Posted A 5% Sales Drop

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

When Louis Vuitton crushed a small Chinese tea chain in court, the legal win set off a chain reaction that reached the company's own quarterly revenue. Now LVMH's CFO is publicly admitting the limits of what management can do about it.

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A Kpler Analyst Says The U.S. Won’t Build Another Refinery. Valero Is Up More Than 170% This Year

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

A commodity analyst at Kpler just told CNBC that no new U.S. refinery will ever be built, and the math behind that claim is reshaping how investors think about energy scarcity, geopolitical risk, and whether the refining rally has room left to run.

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An Anthropic Model Filed A Fake Murder Tip With Philadelphia Police. Days Later, Microsoft’s CEO Called For An AI Kill Switch

Published: by Eric Bleeker

An AI model sent a false murder tip to Philadelphia police, and days later a major tech CEO asked for a kill switch on his own industry's most powerful products. Those two events together expose a liability question that stock markets have not yet priced.

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Charter Has Lost More Than 85% Of Its Value In Five Years. Barron’s Jack Hough Says Its Low Earnings Multiple Is A Warning, Not A Bargain

Published: by Eric Bleeker

Charter Communications has shed most of its stock value over five years, and Barron's Jack Hough argues the rock-bottom earnings multiple is not a buying opportunity but a signal that cable's core business faces a threat it cannot reprice its way out of.

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SpaceX Wants To Borrow $40 Billion For Nvidia Chips. Its Credit Default Swaps Just Hit A Record High.

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

SpaceX is pursuing one of the largest private chip financings ever attempted, and the credit market just sent a signal that shareholders and lenders are reading in completely opposite ways.

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Software Stocks Fell Over The Past Year While The S&P 500 Gained 16%. An Investor Says Banks Face The Same “Bank-Pocalypse” Next

Published: by Eric Bleeker

Investor Jordi Visser has a name for what he thinks is coming to banks: a “bank-pocalypse”. On The Pomp Podcast […]

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Ethereum Researchers Say AI Could Break Crypto Signatures Before Quantum Computers Do. Bitcoin Is Down 33% Over The Year.

Published: by Joel South

Ethereum researchers warn that AI-driven mathematics may crack the cryptography securing every crypto wallet before quantum computers even come close, and one prominent voice at the center of the alarm is telling holders to slow down rather than panic.

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“This Nonsense About Being Personal Is Not True At All”: Delta’s CEO Explains Why He Passed On Starlink

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

Delta's CEO says the airline actually tested Starlink on its planes years ago and he drives a Tesla, so why did he walk away from a deal with SpaceX and what did the two sides really fight over?

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“There Is Nothing Anyone Can Do”: A Former United CEO Says Fuel Costs Leave Airlines No Choice But To Raise Fares

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

A former airline CEO says carriers have already exhausted every tool in their playbook, and what comes next will hit travelers in two very different ways.

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“Everything Gets More Expensive”: An Automotive Expert Explains How Diesel Prices Reach Your Grocery Bill

Published: by Joel South

Most households track the price of gas to the penny, but a different fuel quietly reshapes the cost of nearly everything they buy. Automotive expert Lauren Fix explains the hidden chain reaction that starts at the pump and ends on your grocery receipt.

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Greenfield: “You Can Manipulate EBITDA. What You Can’t Manipulate Is Cash.”

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

Rich Greenfield has a single metric he says management cannot fake, and he believes the newly merged media giant has already proven it can miss the one target that actually matters to lenders.

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Wilbur Ross Says New York Is Taxing People Who “Can’t Retaliate At The Ballot Box”

Published: by Joel South

Wilbur Ross is suing New York City over a tax he says preys on property owners who have no vote and no way to fight back. A judge already told the city to redo its paperwork, but the bigger constitutional battle has not been decided yet.

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Nvidia Is Funding A Startup That Wants Enterprises To Stop Renting AI

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

A bank executive's offhand remark about an air-gapped high schooler hints at why some enterprises are rethinking what they actually pay for when they rent AI, and what NVIDIA's bet on the challenger reveals about who wins if they stop.

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Yemeni Forces Say They’ve Taken The Bab El-Mandeb Strait. Within A Day, The Houthis Hit Saudi Airports.

Published: by Joel South

Coalition forces claim a chokepoint that controls Red Sea shipping, and the Houthis answer by targeting airports across the border. Whether the seized ground holds could matter far more to oil prices than anything traders have priced in yet.

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A Defense Fund Manager’s Favorite Small-Cap Is Officially Classified As A Textile Company

Published: by Eric Bleeker

A defense fund manager with active military service just named a small-cap stock that market screeners file under consumer textiles as his top pick in a sector he says investors have priced completely wrong.

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Redwire Climbs After Its CEO Compares Orbital Data Centers To The Early Days Of Satellite TV

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

Redwire's CEO went on television and compared orbital data centers to the birth of satellite TV, and the stock moved. Whether that analogy holds up depends on what you make of a company that also sells military drones.

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McDonald’s Stock Has Returned 7.5% In Five Years. Citi Is Still A Buyer. Guggenheim Wants To See Franchisees Pay First.

Published: by Eric Bleeker

Citi sees McDonald's stock as cheap and its real estate leverage as a weapon. Guggenheim points to the 40 percent of franchisees who already refused to honor agreed price points and asks whether the entire turnaround collapses on the same fault line.

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Amrita Sen Says Everyone Is Reading Saudi Arabia’s Oil Price Cut Wrong. The Real Story Is A Fivefold Jump In Shipping Costs.

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

Saudi Arabia just slashed crude prices to six-year lows, and everyone assumes it signals a supply glut. Energy Aspects founder Amrita Sen thinks the real culprit is something far stranger happening at sea.

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a16z’s David George Says $40 Billion Makes An AI Model Much Better. He Says The Same Money Would Have Done Nothing For Salesforce.

Published: by Joel South

A top Andreessen Horowitz investor argues that capital now does something it never did in previous tech cycles, and his reasoning puts a $193 billion company at the center of a thought experiment that cuts to the heart of how AI changes startup math.

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Bending Spoons Bought Vimeo And Cut Most Of The Staff. Its CEO Argues Headcount Isn’t The Strategy.

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari insists his firm is nothing like private equity, but the pattern at WeTransfer and Vimeo tells a more complicated story about what happens inside a company after his team arrives.

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Mosher Capital’s Amol Shitole Says The Ten-Year Treasury Yield Falls To 4.6% From 5.24%. Prediction Markets Now Put An October Fed Hold At 81.5%.

Published: by Joel South

A Mosher Capital fixed income chief stepped onto Bloomberg at a one-year yield peak and made a specific, contrarian Treasury call. His inflation logic sounds reasonable until the bond market's own pricing tells a completely different story.

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PIMCO President Christian Stracke Says AI Capital Demand Is Driving Yields Higher, Not Inflation Fears. Breakeven Inflation Is Anchored At 2.36%, And He Sees At Least One More Fed Hike.

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

Treasury yields are climbing, but PIMCO's president says inflation has nothing to do with it. The real culprit points toward a capital spending boom that could reshape how investors price every asset class.

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Anthropic Is Reportedly Targeting An IPO In A Window Wall Street Usually Avoids. Bloomberg’s Anthony Stephens Says AI Can Now Raise Capital When Nothing Else Can.

Published: by Eric Bleeker

Anthropic is reportedly targeting a listing during the one week Wall Street deliberately avoids, and Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens says the timing reveals something unusual about where capital is flowing and where it has quietly stopped.

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Bloomberg Says Billions Of Dollars Of Nvidia Chips Are Reaching China Through A Worldwide Smuggling Network. Nvidia Shares Are Up 27.37% This Year.

Published: by AJ Tiarsmith

A worldwide network allegedly moves billions of dollars in Nvidia chips into Chinese AI labs while the stock climbs to historic highs, raising a question investors have not yet answered: does any of this actually matter to the company?

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Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses Says Nobody Is Talking About How Banking Laws Must Change When AI Agents Start Driving Transactions. Her Firm Wrote The Proposals Itself.

Published: by Eric Bleeker

AI agents are already moving money, and nobody in banking has written the rules for what happens next. One bank CEO decided to stop waiting for regulators and draft the proposals herself.

Kathleen Kennedy Says Leaving Lucasfilm Was A Relief. Now She Wants Hollywood To Decide How It Uses AI Before Someone Else Does.

Published: by Joel South

Kathleen Kennedy left one of Hollywood's most powerful jobs feeling relieved, not bitter, and now she is building a rulebook for generative AI before studios, courts, or tech vendors write it for the industry instead.

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Google Says Gemini 4 Argon Retakes The Benchmark Lead And Costs Less Than OpenAI And Anthropic. Almost Nobody Can Use It Yet.

Published: by Jeremy Phillips

Google claims its newest AI model beats every competitor on benchmarks and undercuts them on price, but the customers who would prove that case cannot access it yet.

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