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Here's a plot twist nobody saw coming: the Middle East is on fire, oil prices are doing their best impression of a rocket ship, and somehow that's bad news for your favorite AI stocks. Sounds weird? It is. But Tom Hancock, a fund manager whose track record beats 98% of his peers, is connecting dots that most investors are still squinting at. Here's the thing: when the Strait of Hormuz gets locked down (which is basically happening right now), Middle Eastern ...
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In a move that caught the energy market off guard Friday evening, shares of Sable Offshore jumped more than 10% in extended trading after President Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950 — a Cold War-era law — to allow the $2.5 billion oil-and-gas exploration company to resume offshore production off the coast of Southern California. You read that right. A law designed to ensure military readiness during the Korean War is now being used to ...
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While the broader market melts down — the S&P 500 officially entered correction territory this week — one sector is quietly doing its job. Defence stocks are up 11.7% year-to-date while global equities are basically flat. During the worst week of selling since 2022, the Morningstar Global Aerospace and Defense Index fell just 1.43%, compared to a 3.7% drop in the MSCI ACWI. That is what portfolio protection looks like in practice. The catalyst is obvious: the U.S.-Israel bombing campaign against ...
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Here is the most uncomfortable chart on Wall Street right now: since the dot-com bubble peaked in March 2000, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 have both failed to keep pace with their own historical average rate of return. Twenty-six years later, the indexes are still playing catch-up. That is not a typo. Adjusted for inflation, the total return of the two most followed indexes in America has been below average for more than a quarter century. And with the S&P ...
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Here's the thing about artificial intelligence—everyone's obsessed with the flashy stuff. GPUs, transformers, the whole nine yards. But here's what nobody talks about at parties: you need memory to actually run this stuff. And that's where Micron Technology (MU) comes in. Think of it this way: if AI companies are building the brains, Micron's building the filing cabinets. The company makes DRAM and NAND flash memory—basically the stuff that stores and retrieves all that data your AI models need to function ...
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Here's the thing about the AI voice assistant race—it's basically David versus Goliath, except David is actually pretty good at what he does, and Goliath has a $142 billion cloud business backing him up. Let's talk about SoundHound (SOUN) first, because honestly, they're the more interesting story. This company is laser-focused on conversational AI—think of them as the pure-play voice assistant specialists. They nearly doubled their revenue to $168.9 million in 2025, which is genuinely impressive. They're winning deals across automotive, ...
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Here's the thing about the AI boom that nobody talks about at dinner parties: it's not really one gold rush. It's a sequence of gold rushes, each one solving a different problem before the next bottleneck shows up. First, everyone needed GPUs. Nvidia printed money. Then hyperscalers realized they needed servers to hold those GPUs. Super Micro and Dell had their moment. Then the data centers started melting—literally—so cooling companies like Vertiv became the new hotness. Then the power grid started ...
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While everyone was watching oil prices and war headlines this week, JPMorgan Chase did something that barely made the news — but probably should have. The nation's largest bank quietly began marking down the value of loans tied to private-credit portfolios, with many of those loans going to software companies. When the biggest bank in America starts repricing collateral in the hottest lending market on the planet, it's time to pay attention. Here's the backdrop. Private credit has exploded into a ...
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