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Shao, that scribe of Wall Street’s cathedral of numbers, has not only raised his price target by $45 but also reaffirmed Alibaba as a “buy.” His thesis? A cloud business that thrives on AI’s alchemy, where data storage and machine learning breed revenue like a sorcerer’s apprentice. Eight quarters of triple-digit growth-this is no mere growth, but a resurrection. “Stable margins,” he wrote, as if the very concept of volatility were a bureaucratic quirk to be dismissed with a bureaucratic sigh.

The digital campfires of Reddit and social media have turned Opendoor into a modern fable. Traders, like prospectors in a desert, chase whispers of fortune. A 30,000-share purchase by the interim CEO-made on August 28, a date now as forgotten as the dust on a forgotten trail-became gospel. The shares surged, as if faith alone could build a house. But the truth is older than the market itself: promises etched in tweets fade faster than ink on parchment.

The analysts-those soothsayers of spreadsheets-had predicted an adjusted loss of $0.04 per share on sales of $66.2 million for Planet Labs’ second-quarter fiscal 2026 report. Yet reality proved kinder; the company reported a smaller loss of $0.03 per share, with revenue climbing 20% year over year to $73.4 million. Management spoke of even brighter horizons ahead, their voices echoing through boardrooms as if they could drown out the hum of machinery below.

By midday, the shares of this once-promising liquefied natural gas (LNG) enterprise had plummeted 37.6%, with earlier declines reaching a staggering 48.6%. It was as though some invisible hand had swept across the market’s horizon, leaving behind only desolation and whispers of doubt. The cause? A cascade of disappointments unveiled in its second-quarter earnings report after Friday’s closing bell-a document so bleak it seemed almost preordained to sow unease among investors.

Today, the market bore witness to a spectacle as rare as a meteor in the daytime sky. A live demonstration-no mere laboratory ghost-propelled shares upward by as much as 36%, though they now linger at a more measured 21.2%. Such is the nature of capital: it dances to the tune of possibility, yet fears the weight of reality.