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The CFO news is the absolute center of the storm this morning.. Where is the green? Nevermind we have a party pooper – OpenAI pic.twitter.com/nBfTrKsxi9 — Avg Gal | Stocks & Life 🌱 (@theaveragegal__) April 28, 2026 Sarah Friar just pulled the fire alarm: she’s privately warning that the $600 billion compute bill is coming …
We are now at Day 72 of the Department of Homeland Security being unfunded.. The House GOP is calling this “Brutal Week” because they have to fix the border and the DHS budget by Thursday or the lights go out for real.. While they fight in DC.. a massive corporate war for the “Western Power …
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just dropped an UNEXPECTED take on Iran. “It’s much more important that this be successfully completed, than what the market does.” Dimon says the markets are unpredictable right now, but regardless, EVERYONE should be hoping for Trump to succeed in Iran. DIMON: “I think the market…you know, markets are unpredictable and …
Trump has privately told his inner circle that some of his administration’s deportation policies have gone too far https://t.co/5XxW7E6z3b — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 20, 2026 WASHINGTON—President Trump is seeking to lower the profile of his mass deportation effort, and has directed his top advisers to adopt a new approach on one of …
Markets are teetering on the edge and the tension is growing by the hour. Michael Hartnett warns that if the S&P 500 falls to roughly 6,600, policymakers may feel forced to act. At the same time, Jerome Powell is expected to signal that stagflation risks are rising, meaning slower growth coinciding with higher inflation. This …
A new debate is spreading across Wall Street. Is the market starting to resemble the period right before the Global Financial Crisis? Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett believes the comparison is becoming harder to ignore. In a recent note, Hartnett warned that asset performance in 2026 is beginning to look “ominously close” to the …
THE STYLE OF DONALD TRUMP, President José Antonio Kast asks the General of the Chilean army to build physical barriers on the border to stop the entry of illegal immigration. 🚨| ULTIMA HORA: AL ESTILO DONALD TRUMP, el presidente José Antonio Kast, le pide al General del ejército de Chile, construir barreras físicas en la …
The dumbest call of all time was Wall Street telling investors to buy global stocks ex-U.S. ahead of this war – which everyone knew was coming. Global stocks ex-U.S. have far more risk exposure to this oil crisis than U.S. companies. But now U.S. investors have far more risk… pic.twitter.com/rrp7HR8Pot — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) March 5, …
For tomorrow market – I see premiums are really bullish. When I check option by option I see this First image: FULL BEAR MODE, $SPY PUTS AT 675Second: FULL BEAR MODE, shorting $SPY calls at 684 But the third: some puts are being shorted (third image). But this 665 friday… pic.twitter.com/R41OBvDSj8 — Data Driven Stocks …
Mac10 @SuburbanDrone This is the story of the stock market year to date as viewed by the equal weight NDX and the World ex-U.S.: Back in late January, U.S. stocks got hit by AI panic – The fear that AI was going to implode sector after sector including many Tech stocks. So Wall Street pundits …
A NEW CREDIT BLOWUP IN LONDON HAS WALL STREET CHASING BILLIONS – BBG — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) February 27, 2026 BREAKING 🚨 RUMOR JEFFERIES AND WELLS FARGO TO COLLAPSE. OUR SOURCES ARE WATCHING THE MATTER CLOSELY STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES https://t.co/uyw14OpzRc — ThePPShow (@ThePPseedsShow) February 26, 2026 MFS, a UK mortgage lender, entered administration today …
Midas @midascabal Here is why the AI bubble will implode. China is using a totally different approach to AI: – open source, mass scale, cheap The West approach to AI? – close source, private, profit driven China will mass produce AI and export it everywhere, like their products. This will be a race to the …
AI is nothing without #DATA. A stringent DATA policy will kill anthropic overnight. It can even go bankrupt. It will happen soon. No country wants anthropic as it will cause job losses. No 1 wants that.So no DATA, no ML/ No advanced real time AI. — max (@BmaxBull) February 24, 2026 Seems like Claude is …
KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat 🚨BREAKING: Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s deposition of Les Wexner appears to backfire, as Wexner repeatedly states he has no knowledge of any misconduct by President Donald Trump related to Jeffrey Epstein. CROCKETT: “Did you ever see or become aware of Trump having a sexual relationship with a person who was introduced to him by …
This is the exact same cope we heard at every top since 2021.Classic Wall Street shill pumping bags before the next rug pull. — The Dark Knight (@Andrew35487355) February 19, 2026 WALMART INC. WARNED OF SLOWER EARNINGS GROWTH, WITH CFO JOHN DAVID RAINEY CITING SIGNS OF A “HIRING RECESSION,” RISING CONSUMER DEBT DELINQUENCIES, AND TRADE …
via jokof Wall Street is dead wrong about the death of SaaS. The narrative that AI will let every company build their own software for pennies, misses how enterprise business actually functions. SMB revenue is a rounding error. The bear case focuses on small businesses using AI to replace simple tools, but major SaaS players …
SoftBank just missed Wall Street Net Income estimates by 70% https://t.co/615qtOBOAZ pic.twitter.com/KlUrlbZfiM — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) February 12, 2026 Meta is paying $6.5 billion extra in interest to keep $27 billion in AI infrastructure debt off its balance sheet. They’re using something called conduit financing, where a special purpose vehicle borrows the money, builds the …
Mag 7 cutting buybacks and borrowing while private credit guys talk about heavy drawdowns and yields keep grinding higher is not “AI strength,” it’s stress showing through the paint. Money isn’t cheap anymore, lenders are pulling back, and somehow people still act like companies can burn billions a quarter forever. Then you look at the …
Will Pam Bondi ever indict #ActBlue for international money-laundering? — Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 3, 2026 President Trump signed that memorandum back on April 24, 2025, giving AG Pam Bondi exactly 180 days to investigate ActBlue for “straw donations” and foreign money. That deadline came and went in October, and we still aint seen a …
Private credit firms sold a record amount of debt to themselves last year as the buyout sector’s slowdown pushed them to find new ways to generate cash from loans to companies owned by private equity. Private lenders struck so-called continuation deals worth $15bn globally in 2025, up from almost $4bn the previous year, according to …
We’ve said this for how long? “Oracle and OpenAI's AI data centers buildout needs $500 billion, and Wall Street is starting to flinch” “Oracle and OpenAI have aimed to build $500 billion of data centers by the end of the decade to power their artificial intelligence… https://t.co/WbGD3j8UTO pic.twitter.com/IVkaC5OZCB — kristen shaughnessy (@kshaughnessy2) January 24, 2026 …
JUST IN – Barcelona commuter train crashes after a retaining wall falls onto the tracks, just two days after a separate fatal train collision killed at least 42 people in southern Spain. pic.twitter.com/LWQbUDxxiZ — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 20, 2026 Train driver killed and several people injured after train derails near Barcelona, local media report https://t.co/QdSKEGZt7w …
“Every time the Unemployment Rate crosses its 36-month moving average from BELOW, a recession sets in.” https://t.co/3rknCG3YUH — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) January 18, 2026 “Private credit investors pull $7bn from Wall Street’s biggest funds” Fewer eyes on this story if it drops on the Saturday of a long holiday weekend??? “Private credit investors pulled …
Congress just made them a $6 billion giveaway for issuers. US Congress just legalized the largest wealth transfer in financial history. Nobody noticed. Section 11 of the GENIUS Act prohibits stablecoins from paying yield to holders. Tether holds $135 billion in Treasuries earning 4.5%. That’s $6 billion annually. Passed to you: $0. Tether keeps everything. …
Fun fact: traders shorts on $VIX are heading towards ATH Shorting VIX (aka “Vol harvesting”) is one of the most popular strategies on Wall Street that can work for a very long time till a sudden jump wipes out many and brings things back to square one https://t.co/2GJr5biqiG pic.twitter.com/0ZDv3wThsy — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) January 9, …
Institutional homebuyers tanking on the Trump tweet pic.twitter.com/7gXizdG7DW — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) January 7, 2026 Grok: Trump posted on Truth Social about banning large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, saying he’s taking immediate steps and will push Congress to codify it. This led to a sharp drop in stocks like Invitation Homes (INVH), down …
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 …
Wall Street's S&P 500 Targets for 2026 🚨 Nobody is predicting a red year for stocks 🤯 pic.twitter.com/5LOfHmfI9y — Barchart (@Barchart) December 22, 2025 The stock market’s run has been historic: US households now own more equities than real estate as a percentage of their net worth, the 3rd such occurrence over the last 65 …
by Michael 2025 has been a smashing year for those that invested in precious metals. The price of copper is up about 30 percent since the start of the year, and the price of silver has risen 128 percent during that same time period. I have been saying “we have never seen anything like this before” a …
One of Kentucky’s largest bourbon producers apparently is pausing whiskey production at the end of the year. Jim Beam, which is one of the largest makers of American whiskey in the world, is planning to shut down production in Happy Hollow in Clermont on Jan. 1 through 2026. The visitors center on site will remain …