Every price on your screen is a claim about the world, and every claim rests on somebody’s ability to count the thing being priced. Oil has always been the cleanest example of that. Barrels are physical, ships are enormous, and satellites are patient. For two decades that combination made crude one of the most transparent
Target’s improving sales trends are giving investors more reason to believe the retailer’s turnaround is taking hold, but Bank of America still sees a difficult setup for the stock heading into second-quarter earnings. Target (TGT) is scheduled to report results on Aug. 19, and expectations have climbed since its better-than-expected first quarter. The retailer posted
Every market cycle produces its own version of easy money. Meme stocks, meme coins, options trading, leverage, and now the AI boom have all tempted everyday investors chasing fast riches, often using capital they cannot afford to lose. Warren Buffett built one of the greatest track records in market history by refusing to chase any
There are growth stocks. Then some stocks make you wonder if you’re reading the numbers correctly the first time. The latter is actually rare, and today we found that rare gem. Nebius Group (NBIS) just reported 454% year-over-year revenue growth. Its AI Cloud segment alone grew 514% year over year. The stock jumped 34% after
The amusement and theme park industry is not a particularly easy world for smaller players. As rides need constant upkeep to pass safety audits and appear modern and interesting to visitors, the high operating costs are not always offset by the necessary visitors even in communities where the theme park has been a family staple
The founder of Baron Capital told investors that SpaceX (SPCX) could be worth $40 trillion in the next 10 to 15 years. For context, that number is close to the value of every public company in the United States combined today. Baron is not a stranger to calls like this. He made a similar bet
Microsoft stock spent most of 2026 in the penalty box. The AI spending looked too heavy. The returns were not yet visible. Then the company reported fourth-quarter results on July 29, and the stock jumped more than 27%. Azure crossed $100 billion. Copilot showed real adoption numbers. The narrative shifted. Two weeks later, JPMorgan is
A giant stone carving of four early U.S. presidents, Mount Rushmore is a major historical tourist attraction bringing in an average of between two and 2.5 million tourists in a given year. Most will either drive to the National Memorial located in the Black Hills of South Dakota from thousands of miles away as part
Picture three students turning in exams on the same day, covering the same material. Two walk away with high marks. The third has been raising his grades all semester, yet still gets flagged for summer school. That is roughly the dynamic inside the BofA research note on biotech I received on the 13th, where Amgen
Jim Cramer fired a triple buy call Aug. 11 on the “Mad Money” Lightning Round. It came for a stock most people still have not heard of. He backed it up with four words that tell you exactly why. Let’s see where he finds that conviction call. [Buy, buy, buy]. What a quarter they had.