To have purchased its stock five years past would be to have entrusted one’s fortune to a vessel adrift in a storm, its helm seized by the tempests of technological upheaval. The numbers, stark and unyielding, tell a story of loss-a 54% erosion of capital, a testament to the fickle nature of markets. And yet, the question lingers: should the investor, like a weary traveler, turn his back on this path, or press onward in hope of a dawn yet to come?
Yet there exist certain stocks whose valuations remain remarkably unassuming, offering yields exceeding 4% despite their steady comportment. Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC) (BIP), Energy Transfer (ET), and W.P. Carey (WPC) stand apart as unpretentious prospects. Their dividends, like well-mannered proposals, arrive with regularity and promise improvement.
Now, one might observe that the current occupants of the $2 trillion+ club-Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet-are rather like the glittering constellation of stars at the Savoy Grill. Nvidia, with its graphics processing units (GPUs) that could make a supercomputer blush, has vaulted past $4 trillion, while Microsoft’s cloud-based AI tools puff along like a Rolls-Royce ascending Box Hill. Yet TSMC, though modestly valued at $1.3 trillion today, appears poised to elbow its way into this exclusive set by 2028, armed with nothing but its wits, cutting-edge lithography, and the sort of quiet confidence one associates with a well-tailored umbrella.
Gold, that most steadfast of safe havens, has traditionally danced to the tune of market turmoil. Yet this latest crescendo defies convention. The S&P 500 and gold have both ascended in unison, a curious duet. The catalyst? A certain invasion in Eastern Europe and the subsequent freezing of assets-a geopolitical spectacle that has sent central banks into a frenzy of gold-buying, as if diversifying from the dollar were a matter of national survival.
The air hums with anticipation, not unlike the quiet before a storm. Nvidia, that titan of semiconductors, has long been the darling of artificial intelligence-a realm so vast and uncharted it seems almost otherworldly. Yet beneath the grandeur of AI’s promise lies the same old human uncertainty, the same fragile hope that tomorrow will bring something better than today.
At the break of the day, Voyager unveiled, with an almost casual indifference, a decision to funnel unspecified sums into Latent AI, a private company whose business model is described, with a peculiar sense of bravado, as the creation of AI solutions suited to “contested and constrained environments.” The notion of what this actually means is as abstract as it is unsettling, resembling the language of bureaucracy that one might hear when attempting to procure something from a faceless governmental institution-a promise with no substance, delivered with practiced ease.
Behold the consortium, a cabal of visionaries led by Kutcher, who now dons the mantle of a boardroom sovereign. Their target: Soho House, that gilded sanctuary of exclusivity, now to be wrested from the clutches of public scrutiny. The price? A sum that drips with the intoxicating nectar of greed, 83% above the prior share price-a siren song to shareholders, luring them toward the altar of surrender.
Picture this: Novo Nordisk, the Copenhagen leviathan that peddles Wegovy (a potion to shrink humans into pocket-sized treats), received a golden key from the FDA. They’ll now cure noncirrhotic metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis-MASH, for short. A mouthful, yes? Like swallowing a hairball whole.
Enter TeraWulf, a Bitcoin miner and high-performance computing (HPC) data center purveyor, now entangled with Alphabet‘s Google in a pantomime of finance. Last week, Google pledged $1.8 billion to guarantee Fluidstack’s lease; today, the sum swells to $3.2 billion. A noble gesture, one might think, were it not for the faint scent of delusion wafting from the stage.
It seems that our friends at Newsmax, in a spirit of conciliation and with the grace of a man who’s just remembered to tip the footman, settled a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems. The matter in question-ah, the drama!-stemmed from Dominion’s 2021 accusation that Newsmax had made certain remarks about their operations that were, to put it kindly, “unflattering.” The sum of £67 million (or as the Americans prefer to call it, $67 million) was agreed upon, to be paid in installments over three fiscal years, much like a subscription to a particularly expensive tea club.