Having just published Carnage In Hyperscaler Credit, a reader pointed us to an article from Nikkei Asia titled “Five US Tech Giants’ Hidden Debt Soars To $1.65tn On Opaque AI Funding.” He asked if the article and its claims that off-balance-sheet obligations at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle have grown roughly eightfold in four […]
Lately, it seems like you can’t open a financial publication without stumbling across another article declaring the 60/40 portfolio dead. The pitch is everywhere: bonds are broken, the old rules no longer apply, and investors should modernize by swapping the bonds in their portfolio for Bitcoin, gold, or whatever alternative the asset management industry is […]
“Carnage in hyperscaler bond land”, claims the Tweet below. The graph below the Tweet shows “exploding” yield spreads for hyperscalers. These hyperbolic messages and many others are generating fear in some investors that the largest hyperscalers are in financial trouble. The bearish hyperscaler narrative is not all it’s cracked up to be, as we will […]
Every time interest rates rise, the “bond bears” flood the media with commentary suggesting US Treasuries are no longer a “safe asset.” The 30-year Treasury bond closed last Thursday at 5.17%. Meanwhile, the 10-year touched 4.71%, its highest print since January 2025, while Brent crude pushed above $100 as the Iran conflict escalated. Add a […]
SpaceX’s June IPO raised $75 billion, resulting in an initial valuation of $1.77 trillion, making it the largest IPO in history. SpaceX, encompassing its launch business, Starlink, and the recently merged xAI, peaked at a $2.5 trillion market cap in its first week of trading, briefly tying it with Amazon as the fifth-largest publicly traded […]
Decades of data across global markets reach the same verdict: the more frequently retail traders trade, the worse they perform. The infrastructure has never been more inviting. The losses have never been more documented. Here are some key statistics we will dive into further. Retail traders have never had it so easy. Zero commission platforms, […]
A sailor who fixates on the barometer will rarely leave port. A sailor who never checks it will eventually get caught in a storm. It’s easy for most investors to fall into one of those two modes, either warning that headwinds are approaching and taking cover, or waving off every warning because AI spending is […]
If you knew you were standing inside a stock market bubble, you wouldn’t be standing in it for long. You’d sell. So would I, and so would everyone reading this. And if spotting market bubbles was something everyone could do in real time, the bubble couldn’t form in the first place. That paradox is why […]
Bond market pundits often warn that bear yield curve flatteners or inverted yield curves ultimately lead to recessions. Similarly, some equity experts caution that periods of violent back-and-forth rotations among stock sectors and/or style factors are precursors to a market top. Additionally, the combination of a bearish flattening trend and volatile equity rotations leads some […]