IREN: A Cloud’s Peculiar Ascent

The filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission – a bureaucratic labyrinth where dreams go to die and paperwork multiplies like rabbits – reveal a transaction valued at approximately $171.96 million. A sum large enough to purchase a small principality, or, more realistically, a considerable quantity of server racks. The increase in Cantor Fitzgerald’s IREN holdings, adding $124.65 million to their portfolio, suggests a conviction, or perhaps a desperate gamble, depending on one’s temperament. One imagines the brokers, faces illuminated by the ghostly glow of screens, calculating probabilities with the fervor of medieval alchemists.

Fiserv: A Slow Dance with Recovery

Let’s have a look at what’s been ailin’ this company, why Wall Street’s turned up its nose, and what a body needs to keep an eye on to see if it can pull itself up by its bootstraps and outpace the market. It’s a tale of high finance, naturally, but underneath all the numbers and jargon, it’s just a story about folks tryin’ to make an honest dollar – or at least, a digital representation of one.

Altcoins Stage a Comeback: Bitcoin’s Reign of Terror on the Brink?

Let’s peer into the crystal ball of technical analysis, shall we? The crypto market capitalization charts have been busily scribbling a love letter to altcoins, those plucky underdogs of the digital asset world. While Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana have been nursing their bruised egos through a bout of price weakness, their smaller cousins have been quietly hogging the spotlight. Not with fireworks, mind you-just the quiet confidence of a butler who knows where the bodies are buried.

A Comedy of Capital: Two Challengers to ASML’s Throne

The Dutch firm, you see, is like a portly nobleman, resting upon his laurels. Solid, dependable, but lacking the agility of a younger, hungrier contender. We shall examine, therefore, the prospects of Micron Technology and Oracle, two players who, while not yet masters of the realm, possess the potential to become so, and to expose the inherent fragility of any seemingly unassailable dominion.

Navan & a16z: A Mildly Alarming Convergence

Navan, for the uninitiated, is a company that manages corporate spending. Essentially, it’s a digital butler for expense reports. It takes the soul-crushing task of reconciling receipts—those flimsy, fading testaments to our fleeting existences—and automates it. A noble pursuit, if you discount the fact that it’s enabling more spending, which, historically, hasn’t ended particularly well. (Though, to be fair, neither has not spending. It’s a conundrum.)

Vertiv: An AI Play (Possibly)

The problem is, everything feels a bit frothy, doesn’t it? Everyone’s throwing money at AI, and I’m starting to suspect a lot of it is just…hope. But Vertiv, they actually do something. They provide the infrastructure. The power, the cooling, the racks…all the boring but essential stuff that keeps the AI humming. Which, again, is good. Less chance of it suddenly deciding it doesn’t like us.

Hycroft Mining: A Spot of Luck in Nevada

But today’s exuberance isn’t merely a reflection of the market’s fondness for shiny things. No, sir. It’s down to a rather startling discovery concerning the quantity of said shiny things lurking beneath the Nevada dust at Hycroft’s mine. It seems they’ve stumbled upon a positively generous vein, a bit like finding a tenner in an old coat pocket, only considerably more valuable.

Deere: A Season of Yield

The market, quick to scent opportunity, has already offered its benediction. Deere’s shares, ascending with a near 30% climb at the year’s opening, reflect a belief in this metamorphosis. But the seasoned investor, like a cartographer tracing the contours of a shifting landscape, must pause and consider the deeper currents at play.

NuScale: Still Trying to Split the Atom (and Your Portfolio)

Right now, NuScale is a money-losing startup in the nuclear power industry, which is… a bold career choice in 2026. They’re trying to land their first sale of a small modular reactor. It’s exciting! It’s also like betting on a horse that hasn’t left the stable yet. Until they actually build something, it’s all just PowerPoint presentations and hopeful engineering. The opportunity size is, shall we say, theoretical.

AXT: A Comedy of Capital

The filing with the SEC, dated the fourth of February in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-six, reveals the entirety of Pacific Ridge’s stake – a sum of seventeen million, one hundred thousand dollars – has been exchanged for more…liquid amusements, no doubt. A rather tidy sum, to be sure, though one diminished by eight million dollars from its prior valuation. A cautionary tale, perhaps, that even the most promising ventures can prove as fleeting as a courtier’s favor.