The Brutalist Report

MarketWatch

• This fund has jumped 1,200% on Anthropic and SpaceX hype. Retail investors should be cautious. [11d]
• Gonna be golden: These ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ meals could make McDonald’s $100 million in just the first few days [11d]
• The 5 highest-paid college basketball players this year: No. 1 is making $4.2 million from NIL [11d]
• Six years away from Social Security’s insolvency and lawmakers still can’t agree on how to fix it [11d]
• Microsoft’s stock is having its worst quarter in 17 years — and there may be no quick fix [11d]
• JetBlue’s stock turns positive for the year on merger talk [11d]
• This ‘single greatest’ stock-market predictor has never been more bearish [11d]
• Super Micro, Dell and HPE have been red-hot stocks this week. What’s behind the big moves. [11d]
• I have $1,000 in credit-card debt. Is it OK to save for a house instead of paying it off? [11d]
• Micron’s stock is dropping. Is Google partly to blame? [12d]
• I don’t want Social Security to switch me from disability to retirement benefits. How can I stop it? [12d]
• Chewy says pet ownership to keep increasing despite worries about rising costs [12d]
• Here’s what airlines are offering passengers trapped in long TSA lines — and why travelers won’t get much else [12d]
• Mortgage rates near 6-month high — but here’s how much worse it would be without Freddie and Fannie’s bond buying [12d]
• Palantir could be a big winner of Trump’s $185 billion ‘Golden Dome’ [12d]
• Here’s how much it could cost to fix Mideast oil and gas production damaged by the Iran war [12d]
• Nvidia’s stock is cheaper than Exxon’s. Are investors ditching tech for energy? [12d]
• GameStop’s move to add bitcoin as a treasury asset turns 1. It hasn’t paid off yet. [12d]
• Higher inflation is coming — import prices show biggest increase in four years [12d]
• Arm’s stock shoots toward best day in a year as an Nvidia-like chapter may be starting [12d]
• This value-stock strategy has trounced the S&P 500 for nearly five years [12d]
• Intel’s stock is climbing. Here’s why the company’s new chip launch is so significant. [12d]
• Iran war volatility is pushing retail investors to sell stocks, but they aren’t leaving the market entirely [12d]
• SpaceX could soon file for an IPO. Why EchoStar and other space stocks are rising. [12d]
• ‘I want safe returns’: I’m 73 with $300,000 saved. I’m not interested in the stock market. What should I do? [12d]
• Temu parent’s stock drops as end of ‘de minimis’ tax rule comes at a cost [12d]
• ChatGPT or Claude? How to decide which AI chatbot is worth your money. [12d]
• Merck makes a big move into new cancer treatments with a $6.7 billion buyout deal [12d]
• KB Home says the war is already hurting home sales as it cuts guidance [12d]
• What OpenAI scrapping its Sora video generator tells us about AI [12d]
• Citrini made a famous call about AI. The new bet is that the market is wrong on the Fed. [12d]
• I’m 30 and forgot to pay my dad for my cellphone bill for a year. He charged me $975. Is that fair? [12d]
• How the Iranian war may lead to the last days of the petrodollar [12d]
• Oil prices fall on reports of a U.S. ceasefire proposal with Iran [12d]
• Larry Fink on why he won’t cash out private-credit investors: ‘Those are the rules, live with it.’ [12d]
• My Paypal account received money from the Philippines with two phone numbers listed. I called them. Big mistake. [12d]
• Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas slash the price of their big Hudson River mansion [12d]