2.4% Headline CPI Cheat Sheet: Energy, Banks, Airlines Stage Stealth Breakout
The Number That Didn’t Scream Headline CPI printed 2.4 % Tuesday, a whisker below the whisper 2.5 %. Futures barely…
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$195B AI Tab: Cloud Kings Face ROIC Reckoning If Revenue Mirage Fades by ’27
The Capex Ledger No One Sings About Between January 2023 and March 2025 the five largest U.S. cloud providers spent…
58% Beat the S&P in Q1—Active Stock Pickers Just Had Their Best Run Since Obama’s First Term
The Scoreboard Speaks Preliminary eVestment data show 58% of large-cap core mutual funds outperformed the S&P 500 in the first…
7 bps Surprise Tax: New SEC Rule Quietly Raises Your Mid-Cap Fund Cost Overnight
The Rule That Landed at 2 a.m. Most investors slept through it. At 2:14 a.m. ET on 3 June 2025…
Mag-7 Bloodbath = Equal-Weight Bonanza: 640 bps Alpha in 31 Days
The Quiet Data Point That Screamed First On 11 March the seven largest S&P 500 constituents—Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia,…
Wall Street’s 0.02% ETF Reveal: The Hidden Revenue Play Every Investor Missed
The Fee That Wasn’t a Fee On 3 May the SEC’s new “spread-fee” footnote became mandatory inside every ETF prospectus.…
AI Cash Geyser: Microsoft & Broadcom Hike 12 %—Funded Purely by Cloud Gold
The Quiet Dividend That Screamed Microsoft lifted its quarterly payout 12 % after Wednesday’s close; Broadcom followed within minutes. No…
Bond-Proxy Reboot: Consumer Staples Now Offer Both Shelter & Upside as Yields Fall
The Yield Drop That Wasn’t Supposed to Matter Two-year Treasuries have shed 82 bp since the October CPI miss, dragging…
Drought = Dollars: Farmland Prices Surge, REITs Print Record NAVs While S&P Crawls
From the cracked topsoil of Kansas to the glass-walled boardrooms of Boston, the same variable is rewriting price tags: water,…
1.35% Fee, No K-1, 8.4% Payout: BCRED Opens the Gates to Mom & Pop Private Debt
Retail finally gets a ticket to the illiquid credit carnival—at a moment when carbon-intensity screens are rewriting the pricing grid…