Friday is a great day to check if AI is coming for your job. If you’re in construction, agriculture, or grounds maintenance – AI can barely figure out what you do, or how to replace you… Source: Anthropic

This one chart perfectly summarizes every AI discussion from the past few weeks. Three scenarios, one trend line, and zero consensus. Source: FT

Looking back at 5 years of analyst sentiment on Fiserv stock – BUY ratings dominated the timeline. If the investor decided to buy the stock during the most optimistic period, after the 2025 Q2 earnings reports, the loss would be staggering, ~55%. The long horizon would not have helped as well, even a December 2020…

Earnings are driving US equity returns this year Insightful chart from BlackRock that splits the total equity return into three components: earnings growth, multiples expansion/contraction, and dividends. Looking at the U.S. AI-linked indices, the majority of equity returns came from earnings growth, with Magnificent 7 even experiencing a multiples contraction. However, indices that excluded Mag7/Tech…

𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐒 𝐄𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 Interesting chart for Friday: being long US equity has delivered steady gains over the last 6 years; however, being long the most heavily shorted basket of 250 stocks (not an ETF, yet) would have outperformed the market by 3x. The most likely reason is short squeezes that are…