Mag 7 miracle: S&P 500 hits record highs on cloud bloom, AI and cloud rally adds roughly $4 trillion in market value across Big Tech

Alphabet and Microsoft lead strong Q1 recovery as cloud revenue surges… AI infrastructure spending arms race adds $4 trillion in market value… Amazon leads gains while analysts flag divergence from industrial fatigue… Investors monitor Elon Musk lawsuit against OpenAI naming Microsoft as defendant… Alphabet shares surged as Google Cloud crossed the $20B quarterly milestone with …

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U.S. Housing Market CANCELLED. Home Value FRAUD

Access exclusive 12-month forecasts fory our ZIP code at https://www.reventure.app/mobile Zillow just downgraded their 2026 housing market forecast, cutting from 1.9% to 0.5% growth. And they are now forecasting values to drop in roughly 50% of major U.S. metros. Many sellers were not expecting this, as home values are still near record highs. However, the …

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McDonald’s plans new $3 and less value menu

McDonald’s new business plan includes new value menus They say the dollar menu is not coming back but “$3 is the new $1, basically to give lower income and younger consumers something that they can get” “McDonald’s will reportedly launch a new $3 and less value menu. That will include popular items like a sausage …

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CRYPTO ASSETS LOSE $1.7 TRILLION IN VALUE

(Bloomberg) — Almost half a trillion dollars has been wiped off cryptocurrencies in less than a week as a selloff led by Bitcoin accelerated. Total crypto market value has slumped by $467.6 billion since Jan. 29, according to CoinGecko data. Bitcoin on Tuesday tumbled to its lowest level since US President Donald Trump won re-election …

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Holy cow moment on Wall Street, U.S. stocks hit 306% of M2, blow past 2000 bubble peak, value of shares now over 3 times America’s cash

Stocks now outweigh the money supply by three to one, which only works as long as liquidity keeps pretending it’s infinite. When cash tightens even a little, there’s nothing underneath that valuation but hope. That's when people want to be in the world reserve currency but even that has its limits…. And we are about …

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Venezuelan bonds quintuple in value.

Wall Street Investors Who Stuck With Venezuela Are Poised for a Payday Many holding distressed Venezuelan assets hope that Maduro’s ouster signals a windfall after a long time out in the cold The ouster of Nicolás Maduro is rewarding investors who spent years betting on a Venezuela comeback. Investment firms including Fidelity and T. Rowe …

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America’s New “Value Menu” Economy Should Worry You

The hottest restaurant items of 2025 aren’t gourmet burgers – they’re value meals. When eating out turns into a budgeting exercise, it reveals something deeper about inflation, the rising cost of living and the quiet erosion of our quality of life… By Peter Reagan Restaurants have been a constant of human life for centuries, from …

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More rotation out of tech and into value…. Bitcoin is just useless at this point… $SPY Daily head and shoulder into December… FOMC split at 5 pause, 4 cuts, 3 unclear

More rotation out of tech and into value. DOW +620 Bitcoin is just useless at this point. pic.twitter.com/avclgXvAms — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) November 25, 2025 $SPY Daily head and shoulder into December 👌 pic.twitter.com/J0UXQatMEW — JLoc (@JohnLoc18) November 25, 2025 $SPY THE 670 REJECTION pic.twitter.com/PUkVA3SnHX — 👁 (@Oculustrade) November 25, 2025 This is how it …

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Eli Lilly hits $1 trillion market value, a first in health care

Eli Lilly reached a $1 trillion market capitalization on Friday, the first health-care company in the world to join the exclusive club dominated by tech firms. The Indianapolis-based company’s stock has been riding the skyrocketing popularity of its weight loss injection Zepbound and diabetes treatment Mounjaro. The two drugs have driven eye-popping sales growth for …

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Small shops cutting staff, Home Depot losing customers, and 53 percent of homes dropping in value. America enters quiet recession.

Affordability crisis rattling mom-and-pop shops… “Surging import costs. Mounting payroll and healthcare expenses. A shortage of affordable loans. And a stressed-out workforce. Small businesses are facing mounting pressure from America’s affordability crisis. Doug Scheffel, owner of a family-run ETM Manufacturing in Massachusetts, laid off about a quarter of his employees in April as the Trump …

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Meta secretly let “high value” scammers rack up 500 strikes and target vulnerable users while raking in billions for its AI war chest

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI. Documents showed that internally, Meta was hesitant to abruptly remove accounts, even those considered some of the “scammiest scammers,” out of concern that a drop in revenue could diminish resources needed for artificial intelligence growth. Instead of promptly removing bad actors, …

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Doug Casey on Why the Gold Surge Signals a Crisis of Confidence in the US Dollar

Via International Man International Man: Gold has seen a dramatic rise recently. What do you think is driving this surge—inflation, geopolitical instability, loss of faith in fiat currency like the US dollar? Doug Casey: The answer is all of the above. First, inflation is not retail price rises, as most people think. The rise in prices is …

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Kimberly-Clark just lost 15% of its value after buying Tylenol’s parent, investors are calling it a $50 billion mistake

Kimberly-Clark is buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in a cash and stock deal worth about $48.7 billion, creating a massive consumer health goods company. Shareholders of Kimberly-Clark will own about 54% of the combined company. Kenvue shareholders will own about 46% in what is one of the largest corporate takeovers this year. The deal must still …

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IONQ shareholders plan to sale 25.3M shares ($1.6B in value)

IonQ, Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) filed a prospectus supplement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday covering the potential resale by certain selling stockholders of up to 25,275,276 shares of its common stock. The filing supplements IonQ’s registration statement on Form S-3ASR, which was originally filed on February 26, 2025. According to the statement, the shares …

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Historic Financial Carnage: More Than A Trillion Dollars In Market Value Was Just Wiped Out In A 24 Hour Period

by Michael Was this just an isolated incident, or is this the beginning of the Big Crash?  The carnage that we witnessed on Friday was absolutely breathtaking.  The largest single day wipeout in the history of the cryptocurrency industry was accompanied by a tech bloodbath of epic proportions.  Many investors that were very highly leveraged got …

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Gold crosses $4000… In real-money terms, the S&P 500 has lost 70% of its value in the last 25 years

BREAKING: Gold officially crosses above $4,000/oz for the first time in history. Gold is now worth ~$27 TRILLION. pic.twitter.com/oeEHOIzMCn — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) October 7, 2025 We bounce or die here lol I think a bounce is overdue. https://t.co/FxhbkEutP9 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 6, 2025 The money illusion is creating the mirage of …

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Price Doesn’t Reflect Value, and We’re Paying a Steep Price for Confusing the Two

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, This exploitation is indeed profitable, but there is a very high price to be paid for abusing our trust. Price and Value–now there’s a twisted tale. We’ve been trained to compare price and buy the lower priced option as the better value, but price doesn’t reflect value, and we’re paying a …

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Stocks are going up because people are bidding them up, not because companies are producing more value.

S&P 500 free cash flow yield has fallen to 2.58%, the lowest level since the Global Financial Crisis 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/pya0wO8QNK — Barchart (@Barchart) September 26, 2025 That means stocks are rising because people are willing to pay more for less cash flow. The S&P 500’s free cash flow yield is at 2.58%, the lowest since …

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Tylenol maker Kenvue has now lost one-third of its value in 2 months.

Tylenol maker Kenvue has now lost one-third of its value in 2 months. That’s -$15 billion in market cap. pic.twitter.com/J4aIjT9v2p — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) September 26, 2025 Every day he finds new ways to turn the US into a giant insane asylum. pic.twitter.com/cVlNlqsBQa — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 26, 2025

Nvidia just put $100B into OpenAI and magically gained $150B in value, tell me again how this isn’t a bubble

We sell you 100 billion in shovels and then invest that into your shovel-buying enterprise. There is no bubble here. The tech is clearly valuable enough by itself without resorting to wash investments. Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI (Reuters) -Chipmaker Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and provide it with …

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The Dollar has lost 50% of its value versus Gold in the past 3 years. Think the move in gold is notable? Just wait until the ETFs start chasing

The dollar’s collapse against gold is a warning few are ready for. When ETFs and institutional money start chasing the yellow metal, demand could explode, sending prices into uncharted territory. Every decline in the dollar erodes savings, pensions, and wages, and global markets that rely on dollar liquidity will face sudden shocks. The Dollar has …

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Trump and Melania’s memecoin loses nearly all value after dinner invite and Nasdaq bell hype, investors left holding pennies

Trump’s meme coin hit $75 in January. It’s now $9, an 88% collapse. The April bump? A dinner invite for the top 220 holders at Trump’s Virginia golf club. That fizzled. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-and-melania-s-scammy-meme-coins-have-lost-almost-all-value/ar-AA1KTNGu Eric Trump rang the Nasdaq bell with WLFI and ALT5 executives. TRUMP coin jumped 9% on speculation alone. No fundamentals changed, just optics. …

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UPS crashes 52% from 2022 peak. Dividend nears 8%. Massive job cuts and cash burn deepen the collapse. Investors warned: this isn’t a value trap.

UPS just finished the full Covid rollercoaster. From pandemic lows to stimulus highs and then right back down. The stock has plunged 52% from its 2022 peak. It now trades at all-time lows compared to FedEx. The dividend is nearly 8 percent. That is not a bargain. It is a flashing red warning. UPS cut …

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