Now, earnings are due on or around February 19th. And that’s where it gets tricky. Do I add shares before the report? Or do I just…hide under the duvet? It’s always tempting to hide. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking (and a lot of online shopping, let’s be honest) and it feels like a bit of a gamble. A really, really big gamble. One that involves potentially losing a significant portion of my (already dwindling) savings.
On the twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord 2026, the CFTC unveiled its latest masterpiece: the Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC), a body destined to be the beacon in the fog of emerging technologies and market structures within these convoluted U.S. derivatives and commodity markets.
The question, therefore, is not whether these establishments possess merit – for that is abundantly clear – but rather, which of these two “Magnificent Seven” stocks is best positioned to flourish over the coming decade? A prudent investor might well consider the matter with a degree of circumspection.
By the time the trading day had coughed up its last breath, the stock was down by more than 13%. A hefty chunk, that. Enough to make a grown investor frown, and perhaps nibble nervously on a biscuit.
Palantir, at its core, is a constructor of intelligences—a weaver of data into patterns legible to those who seek to decipher the future. Initially conceived as an instrument of statecraft—a digital panopticon for the discerning eye—it has extended its reach into the commercial realm. It offers, in effect, a simulacrum of understanding, a mirror reflecting the potential within the chaos of information. And like all mirrors, it distorts as much as it reveals.
To dedicate a mere $500 to Costco at this juncture? The proposition feels less like investment and more like a charmingly naive gesture, akin to offering a thimbleful of water to quench the thirst of the Pacific.
I’ve been hesitant to dive in headfirst with these ‘pure-play’ quantum companies. It all feels a bit… speculative. Like buying a timeshare in a virtual reality world. Possibly brilliant, probably a disaster. Years, potentially, before they actually generate revenue. It’s a bit unnerving. However, I’m starting to feel a tiny flicker of… optimism about IonQ (IONQ +8.98%). Yes, really. It’s a process.
It seems our friends at Amazon have been rather enthusiastically parting with the company’s funds, a process known, rather mundanely, as capital expenditure. A perfectly sensible activity, one would think, except that they’ve been doing it on a scale that’s caused a bit of a stir. The reason? Artificial Intelligence, naturally. The demand for this modern marvel has prompted a veritable spending spree – building data centres, designing silicon chips, and acquiring GPUs from Nvidia – a most ambitious undertaking, what!
Sandisk, you see, isn’t just making little chips. They’re making the brains of everything! Smartphones, PCs, those fancy self-driving cars that scare me…even those little fitness trackers that tell me how little I exercise. It’s everywhere! And it turns out, everything needs more storage. It’s like a national obsession. They’re the plumbing of the digital age, and believe me, nobody wants a clogged digital pipe! The edge device market – that’s your phones and computers, for those of you still using rotary dials – accounts for a whopping 55% of their revenue. A 63% jump year-over-year? That’s not growth, that’s a rocket launch!
By the closing bell, the stock price had, predictably, ceased its ascent. One wonders if the market, like a discerning physician, simply diagnosed a temporary reprieve rather than a genuine recovery.