To The Moon

The market thinks it sees a card company. I think it is watching a financial operating system emerge. Mastercard has become one of the stranger stories in the market this year. Here is a business generating absurd profitability, growing revenue at double digits, printing cash with the efficiency of a central bank photocopier — and still underperforming the S&P 500 by a painful margin. The stock is down more than 12% year-to-date while the broader market has surged. Normally, that sort of divergence appears when margins are compressing, growth is slowing, or investors realise the story was built on optimistic arithmetic. None of those things are happening here. The market hesitates even while long-term buyers quietly accumulate Instead, I think the market has become oddly conservative a

Last Week's Recap 1. Weekly Market Digest: S&P 500's 8-Week Run, Yields at Multi-Year Highs, Mag 7 Earnings Crush, Oil Tumbles Record run — S&P 500 logged its eighth straight weekly gain (longest since late 2023), though the Dow outperformed by hitting a new all-time high. Bond volatility — 30-year Treasury yield spiked to 5.18% (highest since 2007) on Tuesday before easing; 10-year closed at 4.56%, a 12-month high. Mag 7 earnings — The Magnificent Seven averaged 63% Q1 earnings growth vs. 17% for the rest of the S&P 500, per FactSet—best quarter in nearly six years. Oil pullback — Crude topped $108 then slid below $100 as Middle East talks continued, ending the week down over 4% near $97. Sinking sentiment — Michigan consumer sentiment hit a record-low 44.8 in May, the third s

The Department of Commerce’s announcement of $2.013 billion in federal incentives under the CHIPS Act for nine quantum computing companies represents a massive fundamental shift. By directly taking minority equity stakes in players like IBM, GlobalFoundries, $D-Wave Quantum Inc.(QBTS)$, and $Rigetti Computing(RGTI)$, the U.S. government has officially signaled that quantum is moving from academic research into the realm of national security and critical infrastructure. When evaluating whether this sector will rise in tandem with the mega-cap semiconductor stocks or become inversely correlated, the relationship is best understood through two distinct lenses: short-to-medium-term capital flows and long-term

I think it is safe to assume that Artificial Intelligence is here to stay for good. For that, the technology sector is witnessing a historic capital expenditure (capex) blitz, redefining the race for AI dominance. In Q1 2026 earnings prints, the world’s primary hyperscalers namely - Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta all revealed a jaw-dropping upwards revision to their infrastructure budgets. Instead of pulling back, these tech giants are channeling hundreds of billions of dollars into their physical footprints, driving collective annual capex projections for 2026 to a staggering $650 - $750 billion. The sheer volume of capital deployed in Q1 2026 alone highlights the magnitude of this infrastructure arms race: Amazon.com (AMZN)$ Led the group in absolute quarterly spending, recording a

The agentic AI narrative is the direct catalyst for $ARM Holdings(ARM)$'s explosive 35% run over the last few days, pushing the stock past $300 and sending its valuation into the stratosphere. A massive fundamental shift in how Wall Street views the "AI hardware stack" is underway, coupled with tactical options strategies tailored for a stock trading at these extreme, high-volatility levels. I am holding ARM for long term, so in this article, I am exploring whether a bull put spread or strangle would be a better option for ARM. 1. The Narrative: Why Agentic AI Belongs to ARM Until recently, the AI rally was almost exclusively a GPU story (Nvidia training massive models). However, the market realizes that Generative AI 1.0 (chatbots) is shifting to