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Peter Thiel is said to host private Rome conference on Antichrist

Government Drops Sweeping AI Chip Export Rules: Can Nvidia Start Growing Again?

Why GB are 'positive' despite just one medal at Winter Paralympics

Great Britain leave the Winter Paralympics with just one medal after a difficult Games, but "can be excited for what is to come".

Waystar Stock Is Down 32% This Past Year, but One Fund Bought Up $11.5 Million Last Quarter

Waystar delivers cloud-based software to streamline healthcare payments and revenue cycle management for providers nationwide.

Prediction: Buying Ethereum Today Could Set You Up for Life

The world's second-most-valuable cryptocurrency has a bright future.

The entire AGI bet rests on a single island - and the market doesn't seem to care

I've been thinking about concentration risk in the AI trade and I keep coming back to the same bottleneck that nobody prices in. (AGI Industrial Chain) Every major AI accelerator - NVIDIA H100s, Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium - is fabless. They design the chips but outsource manufacturing entirely. TSMC produces roughly 90% of the world's leading-edge semiconductors, and their advanced fabs are almost entirely in Taiwan, 180 km from mainland China. The hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon) have committed a combined $300B+ in AI CAPEX over the next few years. That spend assumes the supply chain stays intact. There is no viable near-term alternative: Intel Foundry is years behind on yield, Samsung's advanced node output is a fraction of TSMC's. A Taiwan Strait escalation - or even a sustained blockade - wouldn't just hit TSM stock. It would freeze the hardware supply chain for every company in the AI space simultaneously. The CAPEX already deployed becomes stranded. Model training timelines slip. The entire investment thesis gets repriced. I don't see this reflected in valuations anywhere. NVDA trades at 35x forward earnings. The hyperscalers are at all-time highs. TSM itself is up significantly despite the geopolitical backdrop. Is this actually priced in somewhere I'm not looking - or is the market just ignoring the physical reality of how these models get built? Disclosure: Long TSM, NVDA submitted by /u/PrincessNausicaa1984 [link] [comments]

Assuming a prolonged closure of the Straights of Hormuz, is this a good time to go heavy on American oil companies?

America is energy independent thanks to fracking, but the world will be bidding for American oil driving up the price (and oil company profits) anyways. So a good time to invest in American oil companies? submitted by /u/celtic1959 [link] [comments]

Is a $130 Costco executive membership the new VIP status symbol?

Executive membership has grown by 9.1% to nearly 40 million — and these social-media stars are celebrating it in a viral video.

What next for Dowman - how do you look after a precious talent?

The question now is how can Arsenal continue to develop and take care of Max Dowman after his first Premier League goal.

The Top 2 Consumer Staples Stocks to Buy Right Now

These leading grocery store staple brands have increased their dividends for decades.

IEA Says Asia to Release Emergency Oil Stocks Immediately

The International Energy Agency said oil from an unprecedented stockpile release will be made available immediately in Asia, where buyers are clamoring to replace barrels lost to war-related disruptions in the Middle East.

Bitcoin price teases key support reclaims with weekly close above $70K

Bitcoin edged toward an important weekly close above $70,000 that would include a reclaim of an important 200-week trend line.

Beyond the strait: why attacks on Kargh Island could keep oil prices high

Oil could pass 2008 record of $147.50 a barrel as damage and field closures risk compounding supply shock caused by Iran war About 20 miles off the coast of Iran lies the source of the petrostate’s economic lifeblood and the latest target of US military aggression: an 8 sq mile coral island through which nine in every 10 barrels of Iranian crude passes each day. The US president’s decision to launch a weekend attack on Kharg Island, the home of Iran’s processing hub and the heart of its economy, is an unsurprising counterstrike to the Iranian regime’s ongoing chokehold on the oil market’s trade artery. Continue reading...

Strategic oil release may calm markets but cannot fix Hormuz disruption

Record oil release steadies markets, but war-driven disruption in the Strait of Hormuz keeps energy supplies uncertain.

Transferred my 401k to Fidelity while market peaked. Got a pile of cash. Now what?

Hi, I recently changed jobs and transferred my company managed 401k to Fidelity. I had about 100k worth of "large cap US" and 50k worth of my company's stock, and another 100k in money market. During the transfer, it got all liquidated and it was done in mid Feb when both my company stock and the market was near ATH. This is completely due to luck. I'm thinking about buying back the $150k worth of equities next week given that the market has already dropped since my "cash out" so even if it drops further I'm already doing better than what I would've done had I not changed jobs. Then I plan to DCA the remaining $100k over a year. I understand the "optimal mathematically correct" move is to lump sum all-in now, but from mental health standpoint I prefer to DCA in. This would leave me some dry powder in case the market crashes further. What do you think? How do you think the market will act in the 2026, or in the coming months/weeks? (Yes, I understand no one can predict the future. Just want to hear some opinions and diverse perspectives). Thanks submitted by /u/EyeTechnical7643 [link] [comments]

Looming Fed meeting shifts bets for 2026 interest-rate cuts

Is Netflix Stock Going to $200?

My Top 2 Mega-Cap Stocks to Buy After Microsoft's Latest Pullback

These stocks are cheap given their AI-related growth prospects.

Schwab says you don’t have to buy CDs from your bank

You walk into your bank, ask about CD rates, and the teller slides a sheet across the counter with two or three options. You pick one, sign the paperwork, and that’s it. Your money is locked up for six months or a year, earning whatever rate that one institution offers you. Most people never ...

This Internet Infrastructure Stock Plunged 72% in a Year, so Why Did an Investor Buy Up $12 Million?

Apple's stock split history: Everything you need to know

EXCLUSIVE: Congress Stock Trading Could Be Ending Soon – Expert Says 'People Are Sick Of It'

Row over tuition fees cut for European students threatens Starmer’s EU reset

British negotiators ‘blindsided’ by Brussels’ demand for a reduction that could cost universities £140m a year Britain is in a standoff with Brussels over a demand to cut university tuition fees for European students, in a row that threatens to scupper Keir Starmer’s planned EU reset. EU officials say European students should pay “home” fees of about £9,500 a year in England and Wales as part of the negotiations over a youth mobility scheme, rather than the higher international rate, which can rise above £60,000. European students would also pay the domestic rate in Scotland, which is set at £1,820 a year, although most Scottish students qualify for free tuition. Fees for Irish students In Northern Ireland are generally capped at £4,855. Continue reading...

Florida’s real estate ‘gold rush’ draws the super-rich as rising costs push others out

The luxury property surge fuels growth in Miami, but a poll finds many residents weighing an exit over housing and living costs To a casual observer, everything in south Florida’s real estate garden is looking rosy. There’s a “gold rush” in Miami as ultra-wealthy buyers snap up mega-mansions and luxuriously appointed condos as soon as they hit the market; and the Guardian has also reported recently on the “Mamdani effect” of elite New Yorkers arriving in the sunshine state with bulging pocketbooks in search of a high-priced escape from the city’s new mayor. Yet alongside the boom, there are rumblings of a more troubling parallel reality. Undoubtedly, the billionaire class is helping to pump even more dollars into an already thriving Florida economy. But as prices rise and the less affluent find everything from housing and insurance to gas and groceries increasingly expensive, many are considering doing something about it. Continue reading...