Billionaire Bill Ackman believes that three Magnificent 7 names are trading below their fair value as investors chase plays widely seen as beneficiaries of the massive AI CapEx. The News In a new interview with the All-In Podcast crew, the Pershing Square Capital Management founder says investors have been focusing on the AI picks-and-shovels plays, but they are missing the bigger picture. “What’s interesting about markets is that people always bring their eyes to the new thing. And the new things are chips, semiconductors and energy. And that’s where the shorter-term capital is going. What tends to happen is that…
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Banking giant Citi says the billions of dollars pulled out of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are the main culprit driving the sell-off as BTC plummets to a price last seen in February of this year. The News Citi analyst Alex Saunders says the $3.8 billion withdrawn from spot Bitcoin ETFs between May 15th and June 2nd is the primary catalyst for the sell-off, rather than Michael Saylor’s Strategy sale of 32 Bitcoin in late May. Saunders cites data from the crypto market research firm SoSovalue showing that Bitcoin ETFs have recorded 11 consecutive days of trading outflows, the longest…
Billionaire Ray Dalio says the AI buildout is no different from other major technology cycles in the past, as companies raise massive amounts of money to fund their ambitions. The News In a new Bloomberg interview, Dalio says history shows that all tech cycles have produced a bubble because companies are forced to spend aggressively to capture market share amid heavy competition. “All great technological changes produce bubbles. And the reason they produce bubbles is because nobody can get it exactly right. Okay. You have to either spend a ton of money to capture your market share and so on.…
BlackRock executive Rick Rieder believes investors should stay the course in the equity market, noting that the earnings growth story is in full swing. The News In an interview at the CNBC CEO Council Summit, Rieder says corporate earnings are growing so fast that multiples are lower today than they were nine months ago, even though the market is trading at all-time high levels. “I think we’re going through an extraordinary period of time. I mean, in fact, I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this in terms of you’ve got a market that’s doing extremely well. The cash…
Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives says investors are overlooking Microsoft, predicting that MSFT will eventually rally as the monetization phase of AI kicks in over the coming months. The News In a new CNBC interview, Ives says Microsoft is taking positive steps to look after its developers while witnessing meaningful growth in Copilot seats and Azure. Ives says he has assigned an “outperform” rating to MSFT with a $575 target, potentially over the next six to 12 months. “They’re defending their turf. They’re going after developers. And that’s really front and center in this arms race that we’re seeing play…
Mark Newton, Fundstrat’s head of technical strategy, says investors looking to diversify their holdings could consider two beaten-down sectors that are flashing signs of life. The News In a new Yahoo! Finance interview, Newton calls the strong rally in semiconductor names in the last month “unsustainable,” while noting that the pace of buying is starting to show signs of weakness. “When I look technically at the charts of the semiconductors being up over 40% in the last month, it’s really unsustainable, regardless of what the overall long-term outlook is of many of these companies, which are all changing the world…
Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon says he’s starting to see signs of froth in the markets after seeing how investors reacted to Google parent Alphabet’s follow-on equity deal. The News In an interview at the Economics Club of New York, Solomon says he’s looking at Alphabet’s $80 billion capital raise as a case study for the current state of market sentiment. According to Solomon, the stock is trading up quite well during the “largest follow-on equity deal that’s ever been done,” leading him to believe that investor risk appetite is on the up and up. “This is the first…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is walking back on the AI jobs displacement narrative, noting that the tech is not as sophisticated as his previous comments suggested. The News In a new CNBC interview, Altman says that his earlier statement that GPT-4.2 could already outperform humans across 44 occupations is not 100% accurate. According to Altman, the statement was made out of an abundance of caution. “What I wish we had said then is that it outperforms professionals at small tasks in 44 occupations, which is, I think, a more accurate thing. And it is the people who are using…
The popular document database platform MongoDB (MDB) has surged more than 20% in just one trading session, days after the company released its Q1 fiscal 2027 earnings report. The News On May 28th, MongoDB reported $687.6 million in revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2027, shattering consensus estimates of $644 million. Meanwhile, the firm posted adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.32 to beat estimates of $1.19. MongoDB president and CEO CJ Desai says the company has the right team in place to move with even greater velocity. “We delivered better-than-expected first quarter results, as our go-to-market teams continue…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is deploying billions of dollars into Alphabet to support the tech titan’s AI ambitions. The News In a new press release, Google parent Alphabet says it is raising $80 billion to support its AI infrastructure plans amid “unprecedented customer demand” for compute capacity. Alphabet says the offering will consist of concurrent underwritten offerings worth $30 billion, split between $15 billion in depositary shares and $15 billion in class A common stock (GOOGL) and class C common stock (GOOG). Additionally, the firm is running an at-the-market offering program to sell $40 billion worth of GOOGL and GOOG…
