Super Brief: $100 Oil and a Dead Phone Line — Super Brief

Brief: Record Demand, Record Doubt

Micron just printed $41.5 billion in quarterly revenue and an 84.9% gross margin, and the market it proved is the same one that just took gold below $4,000 for the first time since November and repriced a September rate hike from impossible to probable in seven sessions. The demand and the doubt arr

Super Brief: The AI Selloff Started in Seoul — Super Brief

The AI Selloff Started in Seoul. Korea's KOSPI fell 8% on Tuesday and tripped a circuit breaker, SK Hynix and Samsung down more than 12%, and not one input to that crash was Korean. The index is still up roughly 80% on the year even after the plunge, Taiwan is up better than 50%, and mainland China sits flat. The consensus calls it

Brief: The AI Selloff Started in Seoul

Tuesday found the fault line Monday's calm was hiding. South Korea's KOSPI fell 8% and tripped a circuit breaker, SK Hynix and Samsung down more than 12%, and the shock rolled west into a Nasdaq rout. Nothing broke inside the AI models. The money that builds them got more expensive. Traders now pric

Super Brief: Peace Broke the Bull Case — Super Brief

Peace Broke the Bull Case. The Russell clearing 3,000 while the Nasdaq slips is the widest small-over-large split in months, duration beating growth. Brent off a tenth with the 10-year stuck at 4.50% says disinflation is here and the long bond won't celebrate. Bitcoin over 65,000 with Ethereum near 1,760, both up about 2% on

Brief: Peace Broke the Bull Case

Monday's reopen after the five-day break split the tape: small caps broke a record while megacap tech bled from an AI talent exodus. But the day's real tell was what each resolution did with its risk rather than to it. The Iran roadmap drained the war premium and handed it to the bond market, calm i