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Now, according to the fine folks at Reuters, JD’s industrial arm – JingDong Industrials, or JDi as the savvy types are calling it – is fixing to raise a neat $500 million with a Hong Kong listing. They say it’ll happen sometime in late October, though I wouldn’t bet my boots on the timing. The list of banks lining up to help with the charade includes some of the finest names on Wall Street: Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Haitong, UBS, and Huatai. Why, it sounds like they’re assembling a team for a gold rush in the industrial sector!

The Fly, that intrepid chronicler of market whims, reports the analyst’s decree. He expects the company to promise a doubling of revenue by 2030. A bold claim, one might say, for a firm whose earnings last year amounted to $1.55 per share-a paltry sum for a stock priced at $316. The P/E ratio of 200 is not a number but a riddle, solved only by those who mistake future promises for present realities.

In their latest missive, Morgan Stanley-those modern-day court jesters of capitalism-raised their target to $750, all while keeping their “overweight” rating, because nothing says caution like betting on a product launch like it’s the last horse at the racetrack. They cite the Oct. 1 Axon Ads Manager rollout as the “proof point” for scaling nongaming ads, as if the gaming world’s ad dominance wasn’t already a well-trodden highway. And let’s not forget Piper Sandler and UBS, who’ve joined the parade with their own glittering price targets ($740, $810-because why not aim for the moon if you’re already ignoring gravity?). Together, they form a Greek chorus chanting, “Trust us, it’s different this time!”

Enter Blykalla AB, Stockholm’s brooding virtuoso of small modular reactors, now bound to Oklo in matrimony most strategic. Their vows include technology trysts, supply chains entwined like helical strakes, and regulatory whisperings traded like confidences in a Speakeasy. The dowry? A modest $5 million to fuel Blykalla’s next investment round-a trifle for plutonium potentates.

The S&P 500 Growth ETF, that botanical curator of growth stocks, prunes its garden with the precision of a Renaissance gardener. It hoards 213 stocks, though the true heart of its collection beats in the chests of Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple. These titans, like Goliaths in a David-and-Goliath narrative, loom over smaller specimens such as Moody’s and Sherwin-Williams, whose dividends offer a faint scent of stability amid the perfume of ambition. The ETF’s diversification is a mosaic of 200 pieces, enough to shield the investor from the sharper edges of volatility, yet not so many as to dilute the essence of growth.