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The company’s AI endeavors have contributed to its recent gains, largely due to its ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) business. Several of the largest cloud providers and AI companies are now relying on Broadcom’s custom chips to complement their own in-house AI chip development. Following Thursday’s announcement of a new, large ASIC customer, analysts responded predictably by raising their price targets for Broadcom. It was as though a decision was made in an executive room-a decision from which there was no escape, and which would ripple outward, affecting the market in ways that few could fully comprehend.

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.