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Editor's Notes: * The $6.3bn Binance theft is the biggest financial heist ever recorded, but the number that matters more is $2.4bn. That is how much Tether and Circle were able to freeze within hours. In plain terms, the two biggest dollar stablecoins can stop stolen money
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Editor's Notes: * Reddit (RDDT) fell sharply after saying traffic from Google search dropped a lot last quarter, and got worse toward the end. Two days earlier, Alphabet (GOOGL) said its own Search growth slowed for the same reason: more people are using AI Mode, which answers the question
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Editor's Notes: * Alphabet (GOOGL) doubled its cloud revenue and lost $500bn of market value. Microsoft (MSFT) grew slower and rose 5%. The difference was free cash flow, negative $9.1bn at one and positive at the other, which tells you what the market is now paying for. Growth
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Editor's Notes: * Vertiv (VRT) doubled its orders and SK hynix (000660.KS) earned an 80% margin, while Landstar (LSTR), C.H. Robinson (CHRW) and Old Dominion (ODFL) fell double digits on weak freight volumes and Lennox (LII) on a residential slowdown. There are two economies now. One is
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Editor's Notes: * Anthropic's S-1 shows compute at about half of revenue now against twice revenue a year ago, and revenue per compute dollar rising from 40 cents to just over two dollars. Read from the hardware side, that means AI revenue grew roughly three times
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Editor’s Notes: * Software and database names rose on the Anthropic filing while chip equipment fell, and Akamai (AKAM) came away with a seven-year hosting agreement. That detail matters. A large AI lab placing a long-term commitment with a content delivery company, not just the hyperscalers, suggests the
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Editor’s Notes: * The global financial and technology landscapes are experiencing structural shifts. Key developments include France's sovereign debt crisis pushing yields to 24-year highs, Brent crude climbing to $116.72 on severe logistics constraints, and a critical 9.2-severity security flaw ("PHP2Shell") threatening
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Editor’s Notes: * Brent at $116 is now a margin tax on anything that moves or packages goods. United (UAL) and American (AAL) fell on jet fuel, Dollar General (DG) on freight, Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE) on aluminum, and Comfort Systems (FIX) on input costs, while Noble (NE), Valaris (VAL)
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Editor’s Notes: * Lam Research (LRCX) cannot ship tools fast enough, and Meta (META) can no longer pay for the buildout out of cash flow. Both sold off hard, but they point in opposite directions. Lam’s problem is demand outrunning cleanroom space and components, the same shape as early
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Editor’s Notes: * The memory rally and the packaging deals are the same story. Samsung (005930.KS) rallied on an HBM manufacturing tie-up with TSMC, the same day Amkor (AMKR) signed a ten-year packaging agreement with TSMC. Read together, the world’s largest memory maker is routing its
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Editor's Notes: * The AI benefit now showing up in earnings is cost, not revenue. Equifax (EFX) jumped on a margin guidance raise credited to AI savings, MSCI (MSCI) and Gartner (IT) rose on data businesses that scale without headcount, and the software winners, monday.com (MNDY) and BILL
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Editor's Notes: * The oddest number in the market right now is Walmart (WMT) at a higher trailing multiple than Nvidia (NVDA). A retailer growing single digits priced above the company supplying the AI buildout tells you where the crowding has moved. Investors fled hardware into anything that looked