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KEY POINTS Quantinuum started trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday under the ticker QNT. The firm was founded from the merger of Honeywell’s quantum computing division and UK-based Cambridge Quantum. ANALYSIS U.S. CHIPS Act Collaboration: Signed a major Letter of Intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce to fund R&D for fault-tolerant trapped-ion systems. Hardware Manufacturing …
The idea that markets are efficient is failing to explain why the S&P 500 continues to hit new highs while consumer confidence sits at record lows. Morgan Stanley reports that the economy is splitting, with a massive rally in tech and semiconductor stocks driven by artificial intelligence spending while households struggle with weakening purchasing power. …
Layoff announcements continued to climb last month as the tech sector culled positions, with planned job cuts reaching the highest total for May since 2020, the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a report on Thursday. Employers announced just over 97,000 job cuts, up slightly from the same month last year and …
via WSB A reverse split is what a dying stock does to stay listed. You smash 10 shares (or 100) into 1 so the price clears Nasdaq’s $1 minimum and the exchange doesn’t kick you off. It fixes nothing about the actual business. It just resets the countdown. I track every SEC 8-K in a …
Every stock you bought recently looks like this right now byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Party isn’t over! byu/Electronic-Rate5497 insmallstreetbets Fucking insane byu/X_Opinion7099 inWallStreetbetsELITE
The same b*stards were talking about brent crude at $147 back in March if Hormuz stayed close for 10 weeks (we are on week 11). Just do the opposite of what they are saying. pic.twitter.com/V0EarEjb4X — M U K (@basedMuK) June 4, 2026
The European Central Bank confirms that gold has replaced US Treasuries as the leading reserve asset for the first time since 1996, with bullion now accounting for 27 percent of global reserves compared to 22 percent for Treasuries. ECB President Christine Lagarde highlights that relentless geopolitical friction acts as the primary driver for this exodus, …
WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed as “meaningless” the House’s approval of a war powers resolution aimed at ending U.S. military operations against Iran, as his administration continues what he called “final negotiations” to end the conflict. Trump criticized Democrats who supported the measure, calling them “Dumocrats,” and blasted the four Republicans …
I wonder how $MSTR investors feeling about Michael Saylor loading up on bitcoin:native at $115,000 and selling at $65,000 "Are you ever not buying Michael?""No, we're always buying." I see zero evidence this man loves snow… https://t.co/hNKwMlB8ht pic.twitter.com/lZ6eTU1hAT — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) June 3, 2026
Feels like HR folks finally taste what they helped create. More:https://t.co/pnIP5FHISG — Official Layoff (@LayoffAI) June 3, 2026 Uber cuts HR, recruiting, and employee relations. Official line: 'unrelated to AI.' Khosrowshahi went on a podcast to say executives privately admit AI kills jobs while telling the public everything is fine. That podcast aged two weeks. …
Why are Democrats such whiney, sniveling, malcontents all of the time? The party is plunging into irrelevancy. — Johnny Doester (@bothen) June 3, 2026 Trump is declining like any 80 years old, but he is not demented. And not even close to the level Biden was. He is capacitated. Everyone can see it. He is …
Ray Dalio just gave the most important AI investing warning of the year (Save this). The question put to him was simple with Alphabet raising $85 billion in equity, debt markets flooding with AI capital, and war spending piling on top, is there a crowding out happening? Can the system absorb all of it? Yes, …
Trump team just dropped a new plan: 10% tariffs on imports from 60 countries. → 10% for Canada, Mexico, EU & UK (the ones trying on forced labor) → 12.5% for China, Brazil, India etc. But don’t worry, coffee, beef, tomatoes & orange juice get a pass so your grocery bill doesn’t explode. Critics calling …
SpaceX targets a $135 share price at a $1.77 trillion total value. Morningstar cuts the company value to $780 billion, exposing a huge gap. STMicroelectronics grows data center sales to $1 billion to survive sector swings. Alphabet stock drops 10% from its high as investors pull back. Analysts say the company is worth less than …
Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus Why things will eventually fall apart: 1. Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competition like web search was, in which Google taking over 95% 2. But everybody is building essentially the same technical solution with essentially the same data, so …
Another example of just how insane this housing market is. https://t.co/I3jGmafRGB — Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 (@EricSpracklen) June 3, 2026 Homeowners have never been more delusional about the price of their homes pic.twitter.com/6XGXylDuQL — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) May 30, 2026 Paid $610,000 in '22 and tried to flip it seven months later for an eye-watering $770,000. …
“VTI and chill for 35 years” shows up again and again as the default answer in retail discussions Individual stock picking gets dragged back into examples like NVDA, TSLA, AMZN whenever volatility is discussed A lot of users admit there is no real exit plan, just long time horizons and assumptions about patience The same …
What’s the point of this circus? And 80 year old man appears to have maybe dozed off for a second? That’s worthy of all the theatrics? — Libertarian LaXer 🗽🥍 (@mdrn_cnservativ) June 3, 2026 Do Democrats remember when Biden did THIS at least a couple dozen times? pic.twitter.com/eDQQTg1hnh — Steve J 🇺🇸 (@SteveJ111) June 3, …
Chasing “hot” IPOs right after they debut is one of the most reliable ways for retail investors to lose money. The hype, FOMO, and early gains often reverse quickly as lock-up periods expire, reality sets in, and fundamentals are scrutinized. To push it a further, about three in five IPOs, roughly 60%, delivered a negative …
Source: repair.org Big tech just lobbied hard against a new state-level bill that would have finally let us fix our own hardware. It’s infuriating, they want us to just toss our $1,000 devices the second a battery dies or a screen cracks. They’re trying to own our stuff even after we’ve paid for it. Data …
European banks are doing something that looks irrational. The European Central Bank is increasingly likely to raise its short-term policy rates again. Oil prices are still elevated. Energy costs are feeding into headline inflation. ECB officials keep coming on hawkish. And normally, if you believe short-term rates are going higher, the last thing you’re going …
by Michael U.S. households are being financially squeezed at a level that we have never seen before. I have often said that we are in a long-term cost of living crisis that never seems to end, and that is not an exaggeration at all. Just about everything has been getting more expensive in recent years, …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The AI boom shares all the risk profiles of previous speculative manias but lacks society-wide benefits while generating fast-metastasizing negative consequences and costs. The idea that the current bubble in AI data centers is an echo of the railroad-construction bubble of the 1870s is appealing–but only half-right. The completion of …
A new Executive Order expands Treasury action against financial activity tied to illegal immigration, human smuggling, and welfare fraud Border enforcement moving beyond crossings and checkpoints Bank accounts, money transfers, and financial networks now part of the pressure campaign Assets linked to criminal activity can be frozen or seized under federal authorities Supporters see a …
Combined stockpiles tracked by the LME, CME Group, and the Shanghai Futures Exchange would cover global supply for less than five days, according to Bloomberg calculations. That’s the lowest level of cover of the six main metals traded on the LME, and represents a major shift for an industry that’s historically been plagued by oversupply. …
JOLTS (job openings) were an absolute disaster today. Came in at 7.6 million openings vs 6.866MM expectations. Keep whistling by the graveyard 🪦 pic.twitter.com/K8nADMveH7 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) June 2, 2026 Job openings surged to 7.618 million — a big jump of +731,000 from March and the highest level in nearly two years. Hires dropped …
Oh really? So what’s going on in Wyoming? I just paid more than ever to fill my gas tank today….. — Beyond the Fence Line with Joseph Kibler (@joseph4wy) June 2, 2026 We have to bring down the cost of renting, Americans can’t afford it This man went to look at a 1 bedroom apartment, …
A viral WallStreetBets post argues the market has moved from buying AI to buying the fear of missing AI “Invest everything in AI or be left behind” That mindset alone is making some traders nervous Data centers, chips, memory, cloud capacity… money still pouring in But questions getting louder around the companies actually selling AI …
