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Latest · Oct 28, 2026Anthropic's filing shows an $80.7 billion loss and a $1.6 billion profit. Same six months.The $80.7bn loss is an accounting entry that grew because the company got more valuable. The operating loss was $693 million.Read it
Market conditionsBitcoin is down 14% since Strategy's peak. Strategy is down 69%.Nearly five times the fall in the asset it exists to hold — and 2.2 times the rise off the June low. The leverage is the whole story.Oct 25, 2026 · 13 minRead →Market conditionsMeta beat, got upgraded, and fell 7%. The cash flow statement says why.Revenue +26%, operating cash flow +9%, capital spending +80% — and free cash flow printed −$2.1bn, its first negative quarter.Oct 25, 2026 · 14 minRead →Market conditionsTreasury yields fell. Mortgage rates went up anyway.The 10-year dropped 22 basis points. The 30-year mortgage rose 29. The lender's margin, not the government's borrowing cost, is what moved.Oct 25, 2026 · 10 minRead →Rates & bondsIn 2023 the 3-month T-bill paid more than any other Treasury. Today it pays less than almost all of them.The gap between a 3-month bill and a 10-year note has swung 2.90 points since June 2023. That swing, not a forecast, is what answers "is now the right time".Oct 1, 2026 · 9 minRead →Options strategyWe priced 54,860 box spreads. The guarantee is real. The profit isn't.Every American-style box we priced locked in a loss — all 21,713 of them. The best credible box anywhere beat a Treasury bill by 0.22 percentage points.Sep 29, 2026 · 12 minRead →Market conditionsGold had its eighth-worst day in five years. The S&P 500 fell 0.74%.A dull day at the index level and an unusually legible one underneath: today's losers sorted by interest-rate sensitivity more cleanly than on 85% of sessions this year.Sep 28, 2026 · 10 minRead →Market conditionsWe tested 637 oversold stocks. The bounce is real. The edge isn't.Oversold stocks rose two-thirds of the time. Six in ten still trailed the index. The signal that paid was never about the stock.Sep 28, 2026 · 12 minRead →AI & techThe AI bubble already burst. It burst in the stocks nobody quotes.Six of these fifteen AI stocks are in bear markets. The Nasdaq set a record three days ago. One number explains both.Sep 27, 2026 · 11 minRead →Oil & energyOil is up 72% and diesel hit an 11-year high. The market still isn't pricing a war.Brent rose 72%, WTI only 53%, and US natural gas didn't move at all. That pattern names the shock.Sep 27, 2026 · 10 minRead →Federal ReserveThe Fed meets October 27–28, and it just did something it hadn't done since 2023It raised rates. Inflation is 3.35%, unemployment is 4.1%, and the bond market thinks one hike won't be the last.Sep 27, 2026 · 9 minRead →CommoditiesAmerica mined a record 51,000 tons of rare earths — and imported 169% moreDigging up the rock was never the hard part. China owns the step that comes next.Sep 27, 2026 · 8 minRead →Tariffs & tradeAmerica quadrupled its tariffs. The imports didn't stop — they moved.China's share of what America buys fell from 21% to 7%. Total imports are heading for a record anyway.Sep 27, 2026 · 8 minRead →Market conditionsThe stock market looks calm. The bond market says it shouldn't be.Yields at 25-year highs, the VIX asleep at 15, and one of the sharpest sector splits of the year hiding underneath.Sep 27, 2026 · 6 minRead →

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