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Something is breaking in the "buy America" trade — and the numbers are hard to ignore. U.S.-domiciled investors have yanked roughly $75 billion out of American equity products over the past six months, with $52 billion of that flowing out since January 1st alone. That's the fastest eight-week exodus since at least 2010, according to LSEG/Lipper data. For a market that spent the last 15 years as the undisputed gravitational center of global capital, this is a seismic shift. So where's the ...
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Remember when Coke and Pepsi were duking it out for soda supremacy? Well, there's a new corporate cage match in town, except instead of selling sugar water, these companies are helping people lose weight. Plot twist of the century. Meet the heavyweight champions: Eli Lilly (LLY) and Novo Nordisk (NVO). These pharma giants are throwing haymakers over who gets to dominate the GLP-1 weight-loss market, and yesterday's scorecard was... let's just say someone got their lunch money taken. The Setup These drugs started ...
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Remember when everyone was worried about robots taking over the world? Well, turns out they're starting with your stock portfolio first. Meet Claude, Anthropic's AI chatbot that's basically become the grim reaper of tech stocks. This digital troublemaker has been on an absolute tear, wiping out billions in market value faster than you can say "software-as-a-service." And honestly? It's kind of impressive in the most terrifying way possible. The Carnage So Far The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF is down 27% from its ...
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Remember the California Gold Rush? Most miners went broke, but the guy selling pickaxes made a fortune. Well, welcome to AI Gold Rush 2.0, and spoiler alert: the pickaxes are winning again. Here's what's happening: Uncle Sam has basically said "screw the free market" and decided to play favorites with AI infrastructure. Through executive orders and a mountain of cash (we're talking $50+ billion just for chips), Washington is fast-tracking everything from data centers to uranium mines like it's 1943 and ...
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Diageo, the company behind Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, and Guinness, just took a meat cleaver to its dividend — cutting it in half from 40.5 cents to 20 cents per share. Shares cratered nearly 10% on Wednesday morning in the stock's worst single-day drop since November 2023. And the new CEO is just getting started. Dave Lewis, nicknamed "Drastic Dave" for his cost-cutting track record at Tesco and Unilever, delivered his first earnings presentation as Diageo's boss and chose honesty ...
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Lowe's just pulled the classic corporate move: crush your quarterly numbers, then quietly warn everyone the future is not as rosy as the scoreboard suggests. The home improvement giant reported Q4 results this morning that beat estimates — comparable sales up 1.3%, adjusted earnings of $1.98 per share versus $1.93 expected — and then dropped a 2026 outlook that landed like a wet blanket. The company guided for adjusted EPS of $12.25 to $12.75 for the full year. Wall Street wanted ...
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AMD just pulled off the kind of deal that makes Wall Street sit up and pay attention. On Tuesday, the chipmaker announced it will sell up to $60 billion worth of AI chips to Meta Platforms over the next five years — and Meta gets the option to buy up to 10% of AMD as part of the arrangement. The numbers here are staggering. AMD will supply six gigawatts worth of chips to Meta, kicking off with one gigawatt of its ...
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So Apple just announced they're dropping a cool $500 billion on U.S. manufacturing over the next four years. That's not a typo – we're talking about half a trillion dollars. To put that in perspective, that's roughly the GDP of Belgium. Or about 125 billion lattes from Starbucks. Tim Cook had a little chat with Trump last week, and apparently the conversation went something like: "Hey Tim, those tariffs on China are looking pretty spicy, huh?" And Tim was like, "You ...
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