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$NVDA co-founder & CEO Jensen Huang on why he does not fire people: "I'd rather improve you than give up on you... I don't like giving up on people because I think they could improve. And it's tongue in cheek but people know that I'd rather torture them into greatness [than give up on them]" - Jensen Huang Unsurprisingly, Nvidia's market cap per employee is more than $111 million. No other public market company will ever be able to beat it. Great company coupled with great leadership does wonders. #nvda #nvidia #ai

Warren Buffett at the 2017 $BRK.B meeting, on repurchases and excess cash: "There’s no way I can come back here three years from now and tell you we hold $150 billion or more in cash, and we think we’re doing something brilliant by doing so."

$NVDA Earnings Reactions Are Compressing

Breaking from @iconnections_io Miami: @DanielSLoeb1 Third Point to Launch BDC Amid Credit Fears

Retail trading is still down from the '21 peak, but $COIN has been making up for it via Subscriptions & Services.

The equal-weighted $SPX is having its moment. And the echoes of 2000 are hard to ignore. For three years, the cap-weighted index dominated, powered by Big Tech eating up a third of its weight.

Global stock markets performance YTD 1) Emerging markets outperforming developed markets 2) Rest-of-the-World equities outperforming US equities 3) Value outperforming growth 4) Small caps outperforming large caps

Here's the highest paid hedge fund managers in 2025. Steve Cohen leads the charge at $3.4B - that's a lot of money for the Mets this year!

$AMZN rattled investors with plans to spend $200 billion in 2026 on data centers and chips, stoking fears that the AI boom may not justify its soaring price tag.

$BABA launches a fresh ¥3.1B (~$431M) AI push into Lunar New Year, using red‑envelope–style promotions and Qwen chatbot “showdowns” across Taobao, Alipay, and Douyin‑like short video. valuesense.io/news/alibaba-l…

I think there are two things that happened $NVDA 1. #OpenAI bet largely on consumer. Consumers have mostly rejected AI. Anthropic on the other hand went all in on B2B and coding. 2. @sama is profoundly unlikable. valuesense.io/news/nvidia-an…

Get ready for $MSFT earnings

$ASML Q4 rev crushes €8.5B (+15% YoY beat), record €44B orders on AI lithography frenzy—TSMC/Intel/Samsung loading High-NA EUV.​ 2026 guide lifted €34-39B sales (20%+ growth), 51-53% margins valuesense.io/news/asml-q2-e…

$NVDA +1.1% rips as China greenlights first H200 AI chip imports — several hundred thousand units OK'd for top internet giants (Alibaba/Tencent/ByteDance?), timed w/ Jensen Huang's Beijing visit. valuesense.io/news/nvidia-st…

$TXN Q4 rev $4.42B (+10% YoY inline), EPS $1.27 miss vs $1.29 est. Analog +14% (data center +70%), gross mgm 56%. Q1 guide $3.7-4.1B, FY26 FCF $6-7B. Shares +8% AH on auto/industrial resilience + CHIPS tailwinds.​ valuesense.io/news/texas-ins…

Nancy Pelosi made some loud moves. • Sold roughly $50M of $AAPL • Trimmed spot exposure in $NVDA and $DIS • Added long-dated calls in $AAPL, $NVDA, $GOOGL, $AMZN • Bought 25K shares of $AB outright

$HCA Q4 '25 preview—consensus $7.37 EPS, $19.68B rev (+7.6% YoY) on 3.4% equiv admissions growth, 3.9% rev/admission lift.​ Patient vols resilient (18Q streak), cardiac/neonatal tailwinds offset Medicaid dip valuesense.io/news/hca-q2-20…

Expected numbers for Raytheon $RTX earnings today before the bell: Revenue: $22.72B EPS: $1.47 They have beaten revenue estimates 11 times in the last 17 quarters and EPS estimates 17 times in 17 quarters. valuesense.io/news/rtx-q2-20…