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1 Jun 2026

The current market frenzy is far beyond the 2021 MEME STOCK MANIA

Retail investors are now spending a record 4.9 TIMES more money on semiconductor options contracts than the average seen since 2020, according to Citadel data. This is also exceeding the 2024 record by ~25%, when the AI chip frenzy first drove a surge in retail semiconductor options activity. In other words, retail investors are making record bets on semiconductor stocks. Source: Global Markets Investor, Citadel securities Afficher la traduction

29 May 2026

Nasdaq at 875 trading days after the release of Netscape on 12/19/94: +144.55%.

Nasdaq at 875 trading days after the release of ChatGPT on 11/30/22: +144.77%. Past performance is no guarantee of future results! Source: Bespoke

29 May 2026

Forward P/E Ratios...

Costco $COST: 45 Walmart $WMT: 36 Nvidia $NVDA: 17 Which one is the bubble? Source: Charlie Bilello

29 May 2026

AI Race To Return On Investment

Only **Amazon** is expected to generate a positive return on its massive AI capex through 2030 — even under the most generous assumptions (zero costs). Microsoft: -9.2% Alphabet: -15.7% Meta: -28.8% Oracle: -35.6% The AI arms race is getting expensive. Source: FT BraVoCycles Newsletter

28 May 2026

SNOWFLAKE $SNOW STRIKES $6 BILLION DEAL WITH AMAZON $AMZN FOR AGENTIC COMPUTING CHIPS

$SNOW +27% IN AFTER-HOURS Q1 Adj EPS: $0.39 vs $0.32 est Q1 REV: $1.391B vs $1.324B est Source: Trend Spider

28 May 2026

By looking at the 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 what do you observe?

1985–2005: Three decades belonged to Manufacturing & Production. 2015: One decade belonged to the IT revolution. 2025: We are entering the Super Decade of AI. Source: niveshak

28 May 2026

HERE ARE THE 10 MOST VALUABLE STOCK MARKETS IN THE WORLD

Source: Evan, Yahoo Finance

27 May 2026

Micron just hit $1 Trillion market cap for the first time in history and becomes the 10th-largest U.S. company

$MU Micron is up 18% yesterday alone. A year ago this company was worth $60 billion. Today it crossed $1 trillion. That is a 1,350% move in just 413 days. UBS nearly tripled its price target from $535 to $1,625, citing explosive AI memory demand and a global memory shortage that is allowing Micron to raise prices at will. Every Nvidia chip needs memory chips to function. Micron makes those memory chips. Source: Bull Theory, Stocks World

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