ALPHABET $GOOGL MANDATORY CONVERTIBLE STOCK SALE IS SAID TO BE OVERSUBSCRIBED
ALPHABET $GOOGL MANDATORY CONVERTIBLE STOCK SALE IS SAID TO BE OVERSUBSCRIBED Source: Wall St Engine
Japan's NIKKEI has surpassed 68,500 for the first time in history.
The NIKKEI is now up 36.5% in 2026, adding ¥365,000,000,000,000 ($2.5 trillion) in market value. Source: Bull Theory
South Korea has claimed the spot of the world's sixth-largest stock market.
We all know this is largely driven by tech, specifically Samsung and SK Hynix. Source: Ayesha Tariq, CFA
The software squeeze
At range highs, it is difficult to get greedy. Source: TME, LSEG Workspace
Oppenheimer makes an interesting point here.
If $GOOGL — a company printing massive FCF — is tapping equity markets for $80B, it’s because credit conditions are tightening. The private credit canary in the coal mine may have just died. The structure of the raise says a lot: a massive $40B ATM alongside a $10B private placement to Berkshire Hathaway. That’s what a desperate search for liquidity looks like. So who else is heavily exposed to credit markets? $ORCL is probably the first name that comes to mind. The stock has ripped higher and suddenly it feels like everyone forgot the financing overhang. Meanwhile, debt-to-equity is still above 5x. $META continues spending at an almost irrational pace. At some point this may force Zuck to reevaluate the playbook here. (Arete upgraded it today, by the way.) Then you have the companies that need constant access to capital just to keep expanding. $EQIX and $DLR immediately stand out. A 200MW data center now costs roughly $8B to build — not exactly pocket change. But the biggest credit story of them all might be $CRWV. The stock rallied yesterday on $DELL headlines, yet the company is sitting on $21B of debt, including an $8.5B delayed-draw term loan backed by GPUs. Source: Scrooge McDuck
The S&P 500 averages +4.6% in midterm years dating back to 1950.
It's already up 11% halfway through 2026. Stocks are outpacing their own history by a mile this year. Source: Phil Rosen
The U.S. technology sector has surged 42% in the last two months, marking its biggest two-month rally in 24 years as AI and semiconductor stocks lead the market higher.
Source: Bloomberg
Nice chart of how big SpaceX and Anthropic are at IPO vs the mega studs that have been public for years.
Source: Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg
