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The numbers, when stripped of the marketing sheen, tell a story of a company losing its grip. A decline of 8.5% in vehicle deliveries—not a gentle correction, but a stumble. For the first time, the crown slips, landing on the head of BYD, a name whispered with a growing confidence. It’s a harsh lesson, isn’t it? That even in a world hungry for novelty, the fundamentals still matter. The working man—the delivery driver, the gig worker—doesn’t care about innovation; he cares about a reliable vehicle at a price he can bear.

They’ve got early access to the next generation of hardware, which sounds impressively futuristic, and billions in contracted revenue. Billions. It’s a lot of zeroes. The whole thing feels a bit… precarious, doesn’t it? Like a beautifully constructed house of cards. But a house of cards with a lot of venture capital behind it. I checked the market prices on January 19, 2026, just so I could feel slightly more responsible about this whole endeavor. This was published on January 22, 2026, so don’t blame me if it’s all gone to pot by the time you read this.

The SEC filing, a document akin to a cartographer’s incomplete map of a shifting terrain, reveals the liquidation of 253,363 shares. This action effectively erased Healthcare Services Group from Azarias’s holdings, a deletion as absolute, and as ultimately meaningless, as any found in the annals of forgotten empires. The fund’s broader portfolio, a constellation of preferred equities, offers a clue. The largest positions – NYSEMKT: SPY, NYSEMKT: URG, NASDAQ: EU, NYSE: NXE, NYSE: MAN – suggest a preference for liquidity, for the predictable rhythm of cyclicality. A fund, after all, is not a collector of curiosities, but a surveyor of probabilities.

Look closely at this digital ad circus. The Trade Desk, in theory, was supposed to be the cool hand, the guy who could find the right eyeballs for the right message. A platform for the ad agencies and the advertisers, armed with AI and algorithms, sifting through the noise. It was a beautiful concept, a streamlined machine… until the sharks started circling. Google and Amazon, of course. They could do the same thing, but they’re biased. Like asking a fox to guard the henhouse. They’ll steer you toward their own platforms, naturally. It’s the way of the beast.

A projected revenue growth of 38% for the first quarter, a full-year rise of 30%… these are not the numbers of a reckless gambler, but of a calculating soul. And then, the capital expenditure. A staggering $52 to $56 billion… a commitment that chills one to the bone. For a foundry like TSMC, to construct these ‘fabs’—these temples of microfabrication—is to gamble with the very future. An underutilized facility is a tombstone for ambition, a monument to miscalculation. They are not merely responding to demand; they are attempting to will it into existence, to forge a future where such capacity is not merely sufficient, but desperately needed.

There’s a restlessness in the air, a sense that the easiest gains have been taken. To stake everything on one field, no matter how fertile, feels…precarious. A man needs to scatter his seed, to find new ground where growth hasn’t yet been exhausted. That’s where a look beyond our borders becomes a necessity, not a luxury. It’s about spreading the risk, yes, but it’s also about finding opportunity where others haven’t yet looked.

The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveals a reduction of their stake to 2.59% of reportable assets. A significant sum, certainly, but a fraction of the whole. One imagines the portfolio managers, not celebrating a grand victory nor lamenting a defeat, but simply… accounting. The position, at quarter’s end, stood at $5.92 million, a decline of $3.23 million from the previous report. The ebb and flow. It’s always the ebb and flow.