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matrixbot @thematrixb0t MICROSOFT CAN ERASE YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER! A man is going viral after exposing what millions of Windows users are just now realizing about Bill Gates’ Microsoft. “I think they should have to go to jail for this.” Windows updates quietly turn on OneDrive without a plain English warning. …
George Noble @gnoble79 This is the most OUTRAGEOUS deal I’ve seen in my 45 years on Wall Street. SpaceX just disclosed Musk’s new compensation package: He gets up to 200 million super-voting shares if SpaceX hits a $7.5 trillion valuation, establishes a permanent human settlement of at least ONE MILLION …
Last time rates ran hot like this, equities didn’t handle it well and liquidity tightened quick. 5% on the 30yr is wild. damn were pricing in a serious fiscal shit show pic.twitter.com/8ZHdiU8N7c — ZeroMazed (@ZeroMazed) April 29, 2026 The bond market is collapsing again. The 10Y Note Yield is now …
Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta all report massive beats after the bell… Google Cloud explodes 63%; Azure hits 40%; AWS speeds to 28% growth… Total “Mag 4” cloud backlog now north of $1 trillion as enterprise AI takes root… Market verdict: The “OpenAI revenue miss” rumor was a bear trap …
Grant Cardone says a $500,000 house can cost $320,000 in interest before taxes or maintenance “Bank of America is gonna charge you 8% for 10 years. You put 8% on $400,000, that’s 32K a year, times 10 is 320K” “So you need to sell your house for 500K plus 320K …
Microsoft Copilot rolling out to 743,000 Accenture employeesSounds big, but still inside a slow enterprise monetization story Only ~3% of 450M Microsoft 365 enterprise users pay $30/month for CopilotThat gap is the real issue, not distribution scale Microsoft shares down ~12% this yearOne of its sharpest drawdowns since the 2008 …
It is also creating a huge spilled oil mess in the Black Sea. Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery is now burning out of control this morning after an overnight Ukrainian drone raid. Locals report that additional oil storage tanks exploded. pic.twitter.com/PN6YwLkQ3j — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) April 28, 2026 Water supply has been …
The retail sector is where the pain is that he’s referring to pic.twitter.com/04gIC0uWkj — Travis Rothell (@TRothell62855) April 28, 2026 Jamie Dimon today: "The way it's going now, there will be some kind of bond crisis." He added that when a credit recession hits across all lending, it will be …
🚨 China's Real Estate Market has erased all gains from the last 20 years pic.twitter.com/ZIGemn0dPs — Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) April 28, 2026 🇨🇳 Housing prices in China are FALLING! “Houses are for living in, not for speculation.” – Xi Jinping pic.twitter.com/U176Wi1pFt — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) April 28, 2026
Same pattern as the early 80s where costs spiked and an entire generation got locked out of building wealth for years. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The share of U.S. non-homeowners who expect to buy a home within five years has dropped to 25%, the lowest Gallup has measured in seven readings …
FOMC official: Interest rates maintained at 3.5% to 3.75% for third straight time… Powell’s chairmanship expires next month; markets obsess over his “staying power”… Fed Statement: “Inflation remains elevated,” fueled by recent global energy shocks… The Warsh Shadow: Investors look past today’s pause to the May 15 leadership swap…
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Just like the dot com bubble in 1999 where Nasdaq valuations went parabolic on internet hype before the brutal crash. Make no mistake: It IS the largest asset bubble in human history. https://t.co/16W9PBcNIZ — Uncle Milty’s Ghost (@his_eminence_j) April 29, 2026 Nvidia is the Cisco of this generation. They sell …
“THE QUANTUM DANCE”: MIT-IBM Lab launches to crack the next frontier Cambridge tech hub opens doors to fuse generative AI with quantum computing. Mission includes building toward the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum system by 2029. Scientists just imaged mysterious quantum pairing of particles inside superconductors. Quantum chips are now being …
The Jerome Powell era is ending with a whisper, not a bang. Today is almost certainly his final rate-setting meeting before Kevin Warsh takes the keys on May 15. The Fed is expected to hold steady at 3.50% because $111 oil and the “Middle East Pincushion” have made rate cuts …
FOMC Day 2: Fed Chair to keep rates steady at 3.50% in likely final act… Market brace for “The Warsh Pivot” as Kevin Warsh prepares May 15 takeover… Inflation ghost: High yields and $111 oil kill hope for a 2026 rate cut… Internal Fed rift: Dissent grows over “over-correcting” for …
by Michael Americans were not even this stressed about their financial situations during the Great Recession. As you will see below, a brand new Gallup survey has discovered that 55 percent of Americans believe that their finances are getting worse. That is higher than any reading that Gallup recorded during …
Paul Tudor Jones says the US is more dependent on equity prices than ever, and explains what a 35% correction would trigger in the economy: “We’re 252% of stock market cap to GDP. In 1929 we were 65%. In 1987 we got to ~85-90%. In 2000, 170%. If you think …
Gasoline price spike with highest percentage increase in more than a month. Now highest price in four years as peace talks fail. Gasoline prices in the United States rose on Tuesday to their highest level in four years as peace talks between the United States and Iran appeared at an …
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April 28 (Reuters) – Seagate Technology forecast fourth-quarter revenue and profit above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, betting on strong demand for its data-storage hardware as enterprises ramp up adoption of artificial intelligence. Shares of the company surged around 16% in extended trading, fueling a rise in rivals’ stock. Western …
via Phoenix Capital Research The world is entering a new chapter in terms of investment. It is now clear that the pandemic opened the door to an amount of money printing/ stimulus that was previously unthinkable. It is also clear that once policymakers (governments and central banks) crossed that threshold, …
Fast food used to be the easiest choice. It was quick, affordable, and reliable. Something you didn’t have to think too much about after a long day. But lately, a lot of people are starting to notice that something feels different. Prices are higher, portions feel smaller, and the overall …
Section 31 transaction fee officially resets from $0.00 to $20.60 per million… New rate hit the tape on April 4; effectively ends the “Zero Fee” holiday… Volume cratered 18% in the first hour of trading as HFT algos recalibrate… The “Hidden Cost”: Every $1M in stock sold now costs $20.60 …
“SAM STOLE A PICASSO”: Musk takes the stand in SF trial of the century Lawyers tell jury: “Altman stole a non-profit museum and sold the art”… Opening statements: $134 billion in damages sought to be returned to “charity”… Altman’s defense: “This is a baseless and jealous bid to derail a …
Beeple unleashes “Regular Animals” at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie… Robot dogs modeled after Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg “poo” AI-distorted art… Artist: “The world is now shaped by tech billionaires who own the algorithms”… Crowds swarm as museum “pooches” print Picasso-style selfies in real-time… Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam …
Microsoft and Alphabet to report earnings; market demands “AI proof” in cloud… Azure constant-currency growth pegged at 38%—anything less triggers a derating… Google Cloud RPO (Backlog) becomes the “Scoreboard” for enterprise AI demand… Hyperscalers projected to spend $185B in 2026; “Revenue miss” is not an option… wow. Thats crazy Big …
6 to 3 split in Tokyo as Bank of Japan ignores global rate pause trend… Governor Ueda warns Middle East conflict is “muddying the water” for neutral rates… Traders on high alert for currency intervention as Yen hovers at “danger levels”… Gold slips below $4,700 as dollar strength and yield …
FOMC kicks off 2 day meeting; rates widely expected to hold at 3.50% to 3.75%… Market pricing for 2026 rate cuts collapses to zero amid energy driven inflation… Trump successor pick Kevin Warsh ready for May 15 takeover as Powell’s term ends… The “Hawkish Hold”: Fed focuses on preventing “imported …