Tag: Magnificent Seven

Investing • October 1, 2026

September Was Basically Two Stock Markets Wearing One Trench Coat

September was a good month for the stock market. September was also a terrible month for the stock market. Both statements can be defended with perfectly respectable numbers. The Nasdaq Composite gained about 1.9% during the month, extending the extraordinary run of technology and AI-linked stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went in the opposite […]

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AI • August 1, 2026

Apple Stock Is Winning the AI War Without Winning AI

Apple wasn’t supposed to be the biggest winner of the artificial intelligence boom. For nearly two years, Wall Street rewarded one thing above everything else: AI ambition. The more GPUs you bought, the more data centers you built, and the more billions you committed to AI infrastructure, the more investors cheered. Nvidia became the face […]

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AI Industry • July 27, 2026

The Magnificent Seven’s New Final Boss Is Capex

Alphabet, Tesla and Intel all gave investors something to celebrate during the latest earnings cycle. Each company beat at least one major Wall Street expectation. Each also watched its market value fall. That sounds irrational until you look at the statistic Wall Street has promoted above almost everything else: AI capex. Alphabet reported stronger-than-expected revenue, […]

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Big Tech • July 20, 2026

Magnificent Seven Earnings Have Entered the Perfection Trap

Netflix delivered the kind of quarterly report that once would have kept the market calm. Earnings per share came in ahead of expectations, revenue continued to grow, and the streaming giant remained highly profitable. Then the stock dropped by more than 10%. The problem was not the quarter Netflix had just completed. Wall Street was […]

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Big Tech • June 11, 2026

When FAANG Becomes MANGOS, Wall Street Gets a New Boss

Some market acronyms are useful. Others are just Wall Street cosplay with a Bloomberg terminal. FAANG started as a clean way to talk about the internet giants that ate advertising, e-commerce, mobile, streaming, and attention. Then came GAFAM, because Europe loves regulatory symmetry. Then the Magnificent Seven rode into town like the Avengers after a […]

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