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Q2 GDP Slowed to 1.5%, but Private Demand Jumped 3.9%: Why the Bond Market Isn’t Buying the Cooldown

The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday that real GDP grew at a 1.5% annual rate in the second quarter, down from 2.1% in the first,…

By Scott Allan · Jul 30 · 4 min read

Markets

Micron’s Taiwan Union Voted 99% to Authorize a Strike. Samsung and SK Hynix Already Gave Ground.

Micron's Taoyuan union voted 99% to authorize a strike. Its 15% profit-share ask is worth about $14.9 billion…

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PepsiCo Cut Its 2026 Profit Forecast, a Downgrade Made Despite a Tariff-Refund Boost

PepsiCo beat Q3 estimates and cut its 2026 profit outlook. Tariff refunds supplied four points of profit growth…

8h ago

Markets

Stocks, indices, and the macro tape

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Analysis

Schneider Electric Shed €15 Billion in Market Value Agreeing to Buy PTC for $22.6 Billion

Schneider lost about €15 billion in market value the day it agreed to pay…

By Scott Allan · 2d ago

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Anthropic Disclosed Up to $84.5 Billion in SpaceX Compute Deals. Most Can Be Ended on 90 Days’ Notice.

Anthropic's prospectus lists up to $84.5 billion in SpaceX compute agreements, most cancelable on…

By Scott Allan · 3d ago

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Economy

Payrolls Missed by Roughly 60,000 in September, but the Real Damage Is in Wages

Employers added 29,000 jobs in September, but wages grew 3% against inflation near 3.4%…

By Scott Allan · 3d ago

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Markets

Toshiba’s $380 Million Hard Drive Plan Knocked 14.6% Off Seagate

Toshiba plans about $380 million to double hard drive capacity. Seagate and Western Digital…

By Scott Allan · 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence

The race to build — and regulate — intelligent machines

Why Did Synopsys Jump 4.8% on Amazon and OpenAI Deals With One Disclosed Number?

Synopsys gained about $3.9 billion in value on a $1 billion-plus Amazon deal and an OpenAI partnership with no stated terms. What investors actually got.

By Scott Allan · Oct 1

Technology

Product, platform, and the shape of the Internet

Markets

$32 Billion in Customer Deposits Sits Behind the Micron Capex Plan That Spooked Investors

Micron beat on every line, then dipped on $25 billion of capex. Customers have…

By Scott Allan · Oct 1

Markets

IonQ’s Quantum Error Decoder Ran on Simulated Noise, Not on Its Own Qubits

IonQ opened 11.9% higher on a real-time quantum error decoder. The error data came…

By Scott Allan · Sep 24

Meta Added Nearly $200 Billion on Download Counts the Week Amazon Blocked Muse and a Researcher Hijacked It

Meta added roughly $190 billion in market value on Muse download counts. The same…

By Scott Allan · Sep 23

Legal & Regulatory

Musk Quietly Dropped Apple From His Antitrust Case, and OpenAI Went to Court to Find Out Why

X Corp and SpaceXAI dropped Apple from their antitrust suit with prejudice and disclosed…

By Scott Allan · Sep 17

Business

Apple’s Price Increase Tracks the Memory Shortage, Not the Foldable

The headline out of Apple Park on Wednesday was a folding phone. The number…

By Scott Allan · Sep 10

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Markets

When Memory Makers Started Taking Collateral, the Shortage Stopped Being a Cycle

Every story about the memory crunch this year has been filed as a market…

By Scott Allan · Sep 8

Business

Deals, earnings, and corporate strategy

Business

After a Record 141 Deals of $100 Million or More, Accenture Stock Closed Up 16%

Accenture jumped 16% on record $100 million bookings, but fiscal 2027 guidance of 3% to 6% growth is a step down from fiscal 2026.

By Scott Allan · 6d ago

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Oracle’s $638 Billion Backlog Is a Funding Structure, Not a Sales Pipeline

Oracle reports first-quarter fiscal 2027 results on Thursday, and nearly every preview written this week leads with the same number: $638 billion in remaining performance obligations,…

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Amgen Fell 5% on a Trial It Did Not Run. Nobody Yet Knows if the Target Failed or the Dose Did.

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Most of Salesforce’s Record Earnings Beat Was an Unrealized Gain on Anthropic

Crypto

Digital assets, tokenization, and the on-chain economy

Crypto

Trump’s $1.4 Billion Crypto Disclosure Reveals the Business Model Behind His Deregulation Agenda

President Trump earned at least $1.4 billion from crypto ventures in 2025, his first year back in office, while simultaneously dismantling the…

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Crypto Bitcoin ETFs Post Worst Month on Record With $4.5 Billion in June Outflows as Institutional Investors Retreat
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Policy

Regulation, geopolitics, and capital in Washington

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Healthcare Technology

Nearly Half of America’s In-Licensed Drugs Now Start in China, a Dependency Treasury Just Decided Not to Break

Treasury will allow most US pharma licensing deals with China, restricting only pathogen work. The reason is commercial: nearly half of US…

Sep 21

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Economy The Fed Hiked to 4% on a Dot Plot With 18 Dots, Not 19
Sep 18
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Legal & Regulatory Canada’s C$27.6 Billion Retaliation Is Pegged to a 1930 Statute No Court Has Ever Tested
Sep 8
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Business KKR’s Record Antitrust Penalty Will Be Paid by Its Law Firms, Not by KKR
Aug 28

Cloud & Infrastructure

Data centers, chips, and the plumbing of AI

Cloud & Infrastructure

BlackRock and IFM Near a $25 Billion Deal for Stack’s Asia-Pacific Data Centers

A BlackRock-backed consortium is in exclusive talks for Stack's Asia-Pacific data centers at up…

By Scott Allan · Sep 25

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To Break Nvidia’s Grip on AI Networking, Cornelis Raised $205 Million on a Figure It Modeled Itself

Cornelis raised $205 million to attack Nvidia's interconnect lock-in. The $1.68 billion waste figure…

By Scott Allan · Sep 16

Cloudflare’s New Crawler Rules Grade Microsoft on a Control That Ships in 2027

Cloudflare's Accountable designation decides which AI crawlers keep reading your site. Microsoft holds it…

By Scott Allan · Sep 16

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The Pentagon Wants to Lend $5 Billion to an AI Cloud Startup. None of It Would Build a Data Center.

The Office of Strategic Capital would make its largest ever loan to Fluidstack, funding…

By Scott Allan · Sep 14

Microsoft Plans to Triple Its Data Center Fleet by 2032, and the Number Came From Nobody at Microsoft

Microsoft's reported 38 gigawatt capacity target has been written up as an announcement. The…

By Scott Allan · Sep 11

Jane Street, a Trading Firm With No AI Product, Now Holds $19 Billion in GPU Contracts

Crusoe closed more than $3 billion at roughly a $30 billion valuation, nearly tripling…

By Scott Allan · Sep 7

Economy

Inflation, employment, and the real economy

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Economy

The 10-Year Treasury Yield Hit 5.34%, Its Highest Since 2002, and Mortgages Are Already Over 7%

The 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.34%, a 2002 high, with mortgages above 7%. Why the 1.24-point gap over the Fed's rate is…

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Economy The Treasury Sold $70 Billion of Five-Year Notes at 5.033%. Primary Dealers Were Left Holding $11 Billion of Them.
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Economy Everyone Reported Mortgage Rates Approaching 7%. The Daily Trackers Already Have Them Above It.
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Healthcare Technology

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Meta Rose 36% in September on Its Muse AI App. Can Muse Ever Cover $145 Billion in Capex?

Sep 25

When Microsoft Cut Copilot Prices by up to 50%, It Attached a Usage Meter to the Deal

Sep 24

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AMD Touched $1 Trillion for a Few Hours. The Number That Mattered Was Nvidia’s 0.4%.

Sep 22

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Anthropic Pushed Its IPO to November Because a $2 Trillion Ask Needs One More Quarter of Revenue

Sep 21

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Energy

Greenland Energy Does Not Mine Anything. It Rose 150% on a Mining Trade.

Sep 21

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Danone Pulled SKU 136603 for the Second Time in Nine Months, a Recall the FDA Had Already Closed

Sep 18

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Generac Gained $2 Billion in Market Value on an Order Worth $2.4 Billion Over Two Years

Sep 18

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Economy

Lennar’s Margin Fell 170 Basis Points in a Quarter Its Own Construction Costs Improved

Sep 17

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Markets

J.B. Hunt Lost 13% on a Warning Blamed on Diesel. Its Own Split Puts $25 Million on Driver Pay.

Sep 17

Business

Oura’s Gross Margin Fell 13 Points in a Year. An $84.4 Million Battery Bill Explains Most of It.

Sep 16

Q2 GDP Slowed to 1.5%, but Private Demand Jumped 3.9%: Why the Bond Market Isn’t Buying the Cooldown

Micron’s Taiwan Union Voted 99% to Authorize a Strike. Samsung and SK Hynix Already Gave Ground.

PepsiCo Cut Its 2026 Profit Forecast, a Downgrade Made Despite a Tariff-Refund Boost

Schneider Electric Shed €15 Billion in Market Value Agreeing to Buy PTC for $22.6 Billion

Anthropic Disclosed Up to $84.5 Billion in SpaceX Compute Deals. Most Can Be Ended on 90 Days’ Notice.

Payrolls Missed by Roughly 60,000 in September, but the Real Damage Is in Wages

Toshiba’s $380 Million Hard Drive Plan Knocked 14.6% Off Seagate

Why Did Synopsys Jump 4.8% on Amazon and OpenAI Deals With One Disclosed Number?

The FTC Opened a Probe Into OpenAI, Anthropic and METR. Anthropic’s Prospectus Saw It Coming.

AMD Is Buying World Labs for $8.2 Billion in Stock, Not Cash

Anthropic’s Leaked Prospectus Shows a $42 Billion Loss Behind Its $2 Trillion IPO Ask

$32 Billion in Customer Deposits Sits Behind the Micron Capex Plan That Spooked Investors

IonQ’s Quantum Error Decoder Ran on Simulated Noise, Not on Its Own Qubits

Meta Added Nearly $200 Billion on Download Counts the Week Amazon Blocked Muse and a Researcher Hijacked It

Musk Quietly Dropped Apple From His Antitrust Case, and OpenAI Went to Court to Find Out Why

Apple’s Price Increase Tracks the Memory Shortage, Not the Foldable

When Memory Makers Started Taking Collateral, the Shortage Stopped Being a Cycle

After a Record 141 Deals of $100 Million or More, Accenture Stock Closed Up 16%

A 14-Day Order Put CNN, MS NOW and Politico Back Inside the White House

Paramount Settled 12 States for Film Quotas and $47.5 Million, a Fraction of the $49 Billion It Must Now Borrow

The $20 Billion Book for SoftBank’s Bond Is a Bet on Yield, Not on OpenAI

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Oracle’s $638 Billion Backlog Is a Funding Structure, Not a Sales Pipeline

Amgen Fell 5% on a Trial It Did Not Run. Nobody Yet Knows if the Target Failed or the Dose Did.

Most of Salesforce’s Record Earnings Beat Was an Unrealized Gain on Anthropic

Trump’s $1.4 Billion Crypto Disclosure Reveals the Business Model Behind His Deregulation Agenda

Nearly Half of America’s In-Licensed Drugs Now Start in China, a Dependency Treasury Just Decided Not to Break

BlackRock and IFM Near a $25 Billion Deal for Stack’s Asia-Pacific Data Centers

To Break Nvidia’s Grip on AI Networking, Cornelis Raised $205 Million on a Figure It Modeled Itself

Cloudflare’s New Crawler Rules Grade Microsoft on a Control That Ships in 2027

The Pentagon Wants to Lend $5 Billion to an AI Cloud Startup. None of It Would Build a Data Center.

Microsoft Plans to Triple Its Data Center Fleet by 2032, and the Number Came From Nobody at Microsoft

Jane Street, a Trading Firm With No AI Product, Now Holds $19 Billion in GPU Contracts

The 10-Year Treasury Yield Hit 5.34%, Its Highest Since 2002, and Mortgages Are Already Over 7%

Cboe’s Exclusive S&P 500 Options License, Extended to 2051, Carries a Royalty Reset Nobody Has Priced

Kodiak’s Zenkuda Matched Eylea in Phase 3, a Win Against the Dose Regeneron Is Already Leaving Behind

Meta Rose 36% in September on Its Muse AI App. Can Muse Ever Cover $145 Billion in Capex?

When Microsoft Cut Copilot Prices by up to 50%, It Attached a Usage Meter to the Deal

AMD Touched $1 Trillion for a Few Hours. The Number That Mattered Was Nvidia’s 0.4%.

Anthropic Pushed Its IPO to November Because a $2 Trillion Ask Needs One More Quarter of Revenue

Greenland Energy Does Not Mine Anything. It Rose 150% on a Mining Trade.

Danone Pulled SKU 136603 for the Second Time in Nine Months, a Recall the FDA Had Already Closed

Generac Gained $2 Billion in Market Value on an Order Worth $2.4 Billion Over Two Years

Lennar’s Margin Fell 170 Basis Points in a Quarter Its Own Construction Costs Improved

J.B. Hunt Lost 13% on a Warning Blamed on Diesel. Its Own Split Puts $25 Million on Driver Pay.

Oura’s Gross Margin Fell 13 Points in a Year. An $84.4 Million Battery Bill Explains Most of It.