Why does a strong January matter?
Here's a chart shared last year (so it isn't updated for 2024 yet), but it shows a clear trend starts early in the year. Source: Carson, Ryan Detrick
Magnificent 7 stocks have underperformed the market in 2025:
The Magnificent 7 stocks are down -1.4% while the S&P 500 itself is up ~2.9%. Meanwhile, the remaining 493 stocks in the S&P 500 have gained +6.6%. To put this into perspective, in 2024, the Magnificent 7 stocks returned +67.4% while the remaining 493 firms gained just +5.0%.
Why "cheap" AI will benefit the overall ecosystem explained in one chart
As the cost of AI comes down, what are the sectors that benefit from cheap intelligence? 1. Cybersecurity (e.g $CRWD) 2. Data Storage/Analytics (e.g $NOW) 3. Robotics (e.g $AMZN) 4. AI Agents (e.g $MSFT $CRM) 5. Advertising (e.g $META, $GOOGL) 6. Ecosystems (e.g $AAPL) NB: These are not investment recommendations Source: Lin@Speculator_io
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
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
Nvidia $NVDA just had the largest single day market cap decrease in stock market history.
By a HUGE margin. Source: Evan
Yesterday was Value's best day vs Growth since October 2008
$SPYV $SPYG Source: Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA
Interesting to see that DeepSeek is owned by a hedgefund …
Did they short nvidia before announcing the world - through a paper authored by their lab - that the DeepSeek-R1 model outperforms cutting-edge models such as OpenAI’s o1 and Meta’s Llama AI models across multiple benchmarks?
