The Market Is Trading on Fundamentals, Not Speculation

The Market Is Trading on Fundamentals, Not Speculation There’s a narrative circulating that today’s stock market resembles the late 1990s dot-com bubble. While there are similarities surrounding excitement over artificial intelligence, the underlying market fundamentals tell a very different story. This market is not being driven purely by speculation. It is being driven by earnings. […]
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SpaceX: The 800-lb Gorilla Entering the Room

SpaceX: The 800-lb Gorilla Entering the Room The biggest kids play in the biggest playgrounds. In the stock market, the biggest playgrounds are the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100. Every time you buy an index fund based on those indexes, you are buying all of the stocks within them. The composition of those indexes […]
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Swimming Upstream

Swimming Upstream The news this week turned sour. We, and many others, have warned that an extended conflict in Iran would bring worsening economic consequences with each passing day. In its May 2026 Oil Market Report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that global oil supply declined by a further 1.8 mb/d in April to […]
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You Can Never Go Home Again

You Can Never Go Home Again Our title this week shares the name of Thomas Wolfe’s 1940 posthumously published novel. It carries a universal theme: time always marches forward, never backward. You can never go back home. The Middle East may be facing such a moment. War is not new or different in the Middle […]
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Brains to Brawn

Brains to Brawn While hyperscalers (Amazon -AMZN, Alphabet- GOOGL, Meta – META, and Microsoft – MSFT) and NVIDIA (NVDA) continue to command headlines and trillions in market valuation, the real stock market action has shifted toward smaller companies solving critical datacenter bottlenecks. The first AI bottleneck was Nvidia chips, the brains of AI, but the […]
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