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And yet, the quarterly report released late on Wednesday, when the market’s pulse had begun to slow, unveiled a company still clinging to the wind in its sails-though perhaps not with the fierce vigor investors had hoped. Cisco’s fiscal fourth-quarter results painted a picture of modest prosperity: revenue surged by 8% year-over-year to $14.67 billion. A sliver above the consensus of $14.62 billion, but certainly no fireworks. It was, dare we say, a beat-but a soft one, as though the company were quietly clapping for itself.

In the months preceding this brief rally, there had been whispers of caution. The winds had not been kind, laden with tariff threats and uncertainties about consumer spending. Yet, amid the clamor of potential downturns, Dillard’s had defied expectations. The company’s second-quarter results were nothing to write home about, yet they stood in stark contrast to the pessimistic forecasts. With revenue rising by a mere 1.4%, and same-store sales inching upwards by just 1%, there was little reason to think this day would be any different from the others. But it was. For within the walls of Dillard’s, something subtle and enduring had taken place-a quiet revolution, perhaps, in the form of a carefully curated business model.

And so, it is with the same expected disappointment that we find XRP’s decline intimately linked to the rather unremarkable yet persistent issue of inflation. The latest inflation data has driven investors into a retreat-hardly a new development, yet always one that surprises those who have not yet learned to keep a stoic demeanor in the face of such inevitable, though inconvenient, events. The Producer Price Index (PPI), a measure of inflation that most would rather avoid, announced a far higher level of inflation than anticipated. This, unsurprisingly, has induced a great deal of price retraction, as both cryptocurrency and stock markets retreat into their well-worn habits of caution.

The numbers, cold and indifferent, tell a tale of 21.3% gains since last Friday. But what of the soul that trades in percentages? The market, that great theater of collective delusion, now turns its gaze to SoundHound, where the price of a future is bartered with the currency of hope.

GoPro’s ledger, it seems, is a chiaroscuro of contradictions. Revenue, that most fickle of muses, fell 18% year-over-year to $153 million, a decline as graceful as a ballerina trampled by a stampede. The root of this woe? Action camera sales, the lifeblood of its empire, withered by 23% to 500,000 units. Subscription and service revenue, a modest but vital tributary, stagnated at $26 million, like a river frozen mid-spring.

And yet, dear reader, here we find ourselves at an all-time high-a phrase that trips off the tongue like a champagne cork popping in slow motion. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has ascended 8.5% year-to-date and a dizzying 66.4% since the start of 2023. But earnings? Ah, those plodding tortoises of corporate performance, they have not kept pace, leaving valuations stretched thin as the silk threads of a spider’s web under moonlight. Is this ascent, then, a bubble waiting to burst, or merely the natural evolution of markets?

TeraWulf, a company that mines Bitcoin and rents out high-performance computing space (essentially the Airbnb for AI algorithms), has signed a 10-year, $3.7 billion agreement with Fluidstack, an artificial intelligence cloud provider. To put this into perspective, imagine renting out your spare bedroom to a tenant who insists on installing a particle accelerator in it-and then pays you handsomely for the privilege.

Instead of the usual parade of pie charts and buzzwords, PagSeguro gave us a press release shorter than most TikTok videos-less than 400 words-and buried the lede in Brazilian reals. Because nothing screams “investor confidence” like making Wall Street do currency conversions on the fly. It’s almost as if they hired Michael Scott to manage their PR strategy. (“That’s what she said… about our revenue growth!”)

The cause of this latest turn in Dogecoin’s fate is, as often the case, a shift in the winds of governance. A remark by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, found its way into the press, sending ripples of unease through the crypto community, particularly those who had placed their hopes-however misplaced-on Bitcoin as a future pillar of national strategy.

Now, you might think, “Ah, surely they must’ve bungled something egregious!” But no, dear reader, CoreWeave just reported earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations. They raked in $1.21 billion in revenue, leaving the consensus target of $1.08 billion gasping for air like a fish out of water. And yet, here we are, watching their shares plummet faster than a politician’s promises after election day.