Big Tech
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Nov 2026 2 stories
Big Tech's Cash Is Draining. Its AI Business Is Earning More
Nomura's J-curve points to a timing gap between falling free cash flow and the payback on AI spending. For investors, the two are not the same thing.
Midterms Matter Less for Big Tech Than Whether Data Centers Get Built
The next obstacle in the AI race may be the power grid, building permits and local consent rather than GPU performance. The question for investors is less which party wins than how fast and how economically planned data centers can come online.
Oct 2026 6 stories
Midterms Are 3 Days Out. What Would a Democratic Win Mean for AI Stocks?
The result may matter less than who pays for AI's growth and which companies can keep cash. Data center timelines and costs are the numbers to watch.
Alphabet Fell 12.6% in a Day. 406 S&P 500 Stocks Rose Anyway
The S&P 500 lost 0.57% last week and the QQQ fell 1.97%, but the equal-weight RSP gained 0.82%. So far the numbers point to big-tech weakness, not a broad market decline.
If Big Tech Cuts AI Spending, What Happens to Chip Stocks?
AI's long-term growth and chipmakers' near-term profits may not move together. A Bank of Korea downside scenario for 2027 raises a question for US equity investors too.
DeepSeek's $15 Billion Raise: Model Makers May Feel It Before Nvidia Does
China's DeepSeek is closing a round about twice its original target. For US investors, the question is less the size of the check than where the money goes and whose profits it could erode.
A 36% Crash by 2027? The Real AI Risk Is Whether the Money Comes Back
Believing AI will change the world is not the same as believing AI stocks will keep rising. The 2027 crash call turns on one question: can investors recover what they are spending?
Why the White House Swapped "AI" for "Super Intelligence"
Executive Order 14434 renames AI across the federal government without defining a new technology. The real story is about roughly $700 billion in capex, free cash flow and electricity.
Sep 2026 5 stories
Google's Real Moat May Not Be Search. It May Be What You Were Curious About
The EU's new legal fight with Google raises a bigger question than search regulation. In the AI era, the edge may not end with who builds the best model, it may shift to who can legally see the proprietary data and user context behind it.
Why Microsoft Rebuilt Copilot: AI Billing Shifts From Seats to Workload
The redesign is less about new features than about Microsoft expanding its enterprise AI revenue model beyond the per-seat subscription into task delegation and agent execution.
US Rates Are at 5%. Why Traders Still Fear a Yen Carry Blowup
The rate gap isn't the danger, the yen's speed is. A 2024 playbook suggests growth-stock investors need to watch USD/JPY, Japanese rates and volatility together, not just the Fed.
The AI Bubble Might Burst in Debt Markets, Not Stock Prices
The Bank for International Settlements is not asking whether AI is fake. It is asking what happens when data centers built on borrowed money fail to earn the returns investors expect.
Rates Are Rising and Big Tech Is Holding. Here Is Why That Is Not a Contradiction
The 10-year yield tells you the price of money. It does not tell you how much money is left. Put the two together and the confusing headlines of the past three years line up into one picture.
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