Straight from the Desk

Syz the moment

Live feeds, charts, breaking stories, all day long.

29 Jan 2025

💻 AI hardware & infrastructure were the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom with Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Google, Meta and others spending zillions.

With the rise of DeepSeek & other small models, questions are the following: 1) Will these giants maintain their spending forecasts? 2) How they justify it after DeepSeek release? 3) Will the perceived value move up the chain towards applications? Source: Deutsche Bank thru Ali Dhanji @DhanjiatRJ on X

29 Jan 2025

Hedgefund Billionaire Steve Cohen just said:

“Our view is what happened with DeepSeek is actually bullish because it advances the move to artificial super-intelligence” - Bloomberg Source: Evan on X

29 Jan 2025

Nvidia's market cap increased by $259 billion today after the stock rallied 9%, bouncing back from yesterday's record decline.

This was the 3rd largest single day increase in market cap for any US company (Nvidia already holds the #1/#2 spots). $NVDA Source: Charlie Bilello

29 Jan 2025

DeepSeek has apparently spent over $500 million on $NVDA chips despite low-cost AI claim,

Source: SemiAnalysis via @FT

29 Jan 2025

In the 1990 the wealth gap between the top 1% and the bottom 50% was $3 trillion.

Now the gap is $40 trillion. Source: Sven Henrich @NorthmanTrader

29 Jan 2025

The most DRAMATIC energy chart you can ever see 👇

While the world debates about Artificial Intelligence and how quickly can put its flag on Mars, there are huge portions of Africa non even able to have electricity ⚡️More than 600 million of Africa people do not access to electricity. Source: Alexandro Blasi

29 Jan 2025

So many tourists flying to Japan

(The weak yen helps). It is an extraordinary country to visit by the way. Source: The long view on X

29 Jan 2025

One-Pager on The Intelligent Investor

Source: Daniel @MnkeDaniel on X

Thinking out loud

Sign up for our weekly email highlighting the most popular posts.

Follow us

Thinking out loud

Investing with intelligence

Our latest research, commentary and market outlooks