Weekly Roundup: Portfolio Extends Lead, Adds Firepower Ahead of Earnings Season
We locked in gains on three holdings, giving our cash levels a boost as the Q2 earnings season heats up.
We locked in gains on three holdings, giving our cash levels a boost as the Q2 earnings season heats up.
The SK Hynix IPO performed fairly well but sustained momentum will be difficult.
A slow and steady approach with these stable biopharma stocks offers refuge from a market that feels ready to pop.
Markets brush off fighting with Iran as Meta talks about making its own AI chips; South Korea’s SK Hynix lists on Nasdaq; I give a chart checkup on the market.
SK Hynix’s IPO pricing, Micron’s spending, Delta’s earnings, and other headlines are moving stocks this morning.
Even as semiconductors continue to power the market higher, chip makers face a $1 trillion question.
Renewed U.S.-Iran attacks, traffic in the Strait, Costco, SK Hynix and other headlines are moving stocks this morning.
See this tweet:
But, more importantly, the subtweet under it:
I think that is the leading indicator. Although I would modify the subtweet a bit.
This also means the revenue growth is flattening. The spike we had that really kicked off this last rally was artificial. It was unsustainable tokenmaxxing (and apparently Anthropic also had a big 1x pull in of revenue in Q3, if I remember correctly). The consumer quickly found out they were doing the opposite of gaining productivity, they were costing themselves more money than the humans they had.
So it has been stopped. Then the biz also started shifting to China/Open Source as well. A double whammy.
No wonder SpaceX ($SPCX) and Meta ($META) are selling excess capacity all of the sudden… and why Blackstone ($BX) is rumored to be stopping data center projects, for example.
Position: Long BX (S); Short SPCX (VS)
The world’s largest chipmaker seemed to trigger a surprising stock selloff.
Nasdaq, the S&P and even the Russell are all up; but here’s why I think they’ll come back down to earth.