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Norwegian Cruise Line just reminded Wall Street that even the best parties eventually run out of champagne. Shares of NCLH plunged 11% Monday after the cruise operator delivered a double dose of bad news: fourth-quarter revenue of $2.24 billion missed analyst expectations of $2.35 billion, and full-year 2026 guidance came in well below consensus. Norwegian expects adjusted earnings of $2.38 per share this year — a full 17 cents below the $2.55 Wall Street had penciled in. That's the kind of ...
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So here's the deal: Big Tech is about to drop $700 billion this year on AI infrastructure. That's $2 billion per day flowing into data centers, GPUs, and enough cooling systems to make your electric bill look like pocket change. Wall Street is having a collective panic attack, wondering if we're witnessing the biggest money bonfire since the dot-com bubble. But here's the thing – when you actually crunch the numbers (and I mean really crunch them, not just panic-tweet about ...
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Oil prices surged more than 6% on Monday after an Iranian drone strike forced Saudi Arabia to shut down its largest oil refinery -- and the Middle East energy map is suddenly looking a lot more fragile than anyone priced in. Saudi Aramco halted operations at the Ras Tanura refinery on the Persian Gulf coast, a facility that processes roughly 550,000 barrels per day. The shutdown came amid a wave of retaliatory strikes across the region following last weekend's joint U.S.-Israeli ...
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Software stocks are getting massacred, and Wall Street can't stop the bleeding. The fear is existential: if businesses can throw a few prompts into Claude or ChatGPT and build their own tools at minimal cost, what happens to the companies charging $50-per-seat-per-month for features AI can replicate in seconds? Salesforce has the answer -- its stock is down 32.7% in 2026 alone and 42.1% over the past 12 months. The market is pricing in a future where traditional SaaS moats evaporate. But ...
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Wall Street can't decide if Big Tech is pulling off the greatest investment of the century or lighting $700 billion on fire. The five largest hyperscalers -- Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle -- are collectively spending roughly $710 billion on AI-related capital expenditures this year. That's $2 billion per day flowing toward data centers, compute chips, fiber, energy infrastructure, and cooling systems for machines most people only talk to through a chatbox. The kneejerk reaction from skeptics is predictable: "This is ...
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Wall Street can’t decide if Big Tech is pulling off the greatest investment of the century or lighting $700 billion on fire. The five largest hyperscalers — Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle — are collectively spending roughly $710 billion on AI-related capital expenditures this year. That’s $2 billion per day flowing toward data centers, compute chips, fiber, energy infrastructure, and cooling systems for machines most people only talk to through a chatbox. The kneejerk reaction from skeptics is predictable: “This is ...
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Gold just blew past $5,300 again on Monday as the Iran conflict sent investors sprinting toward safe havens. But while everyone is watching the shiny metal itself, the real money is being made one level down — in the companies pulling it out of the ground. Welcome to what analysts are calling the "Era of Super-Margins." With gold firmly above $5,000 per ounce and All-In Sustaining Costs (AISC) for major miners stuck between $1,400 and $1,600, the math is almost absurd ...
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Markets opened ugly on Monday. The Dow dropped 600 points at the lows. The S&P 500 fell 1.2%. Oil spiked. Gold ripped past $5,300. VIX hit its highest level of 2026. The Iran conflict has everyone in full panic mode. But here's what the data actually says: you should be getting ready to buy, not sell. Wells Fargo ran the numbers going back to World War II. The finding? The S&P 500 has posted a median gain of 0.4% two weeks after ...
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