DHS overpaying for $PLTR. $META does surveillance state things way more effective.

Another illegal, treasonous and of course - stupid pedo proposal, that actually suprised me this time.

US arms sales to China..

Leverage scars your wallet. Your brain too apparently. South Korea:

Strauss Zelnick closing Q1 call:
"We're also really excited about what we believe the future will bring for our company and for our colleagues. All of that should translate into enormous benefits for our shareholders"
$TTWO

Silly con valley folks sell dreams, (2025 WEF curing cancers anyone?)

Bears like Zitron sell subscriptions, that dump on perceived bubbles.

Neither is fit for balanced informational diet.

@bcaresearch :
It's not wars that determine oil prices, but oil prices that determine the intensity of conflicts

Very true, and given tacos we been getting, also UST yields...
#oil

SpaceX reports earnings today, but Bernstein says "the quarterly results should not matter."

Instead, analysts are focused on management's confidence in its AI and orbital data center strategy.

ICYMI: Tesla does not offer completely driverless, unsupervised use yet. Waymo does.

During 22-23' inflation shock, 10Y treasury yield peaked at 5%. $IGV bottomed half yr before.

We recently revisited 4.7%+. Not that far off. Why the strength?
-fwd inflation expectations are tamed
-peak techbro self-regulation
-clearing AI tailwinds within SaaSapocalypse
-..?

Black mirror by techbros getting a real life pushback
#ai #wearables

Took a new position today to bridge AI-energy.

Solaria Energia y Medio Ambiente - Spanish solar PV utility, transforming to EU datacenter play $SLR. In at $18.4

Solaria owns private network, substations, 3GW of mostly solar PV power, that rapidly scales to 4GW.

EV= 3.9B

Typical datacenter regions Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin - are grid and space constrained.

Spain and Solaria wins here. Peninsula well connected to inter-atlantic cables, while regulations allow for direct plug and play, circumventing grid connection queues

Last year, first deal of its kind inked w/ Merlin.

They invest aggressively into scaling + BESS (batteries) at every solar park, to increase margins, availability. Based on their presentation BESS payback time is ~3 years.

Balance sheet considerably levered x5 net debt/EBITDA, incl. IFRS 16 land lease.

However they have strengthened balance sheet after Q1, raising 300M at 24€ (~10% share capital increase; of which 3.85% sold treasury shares)

Technically risky, but potential reversal forming.

In 26'Q1 call, CEO Arturo was clearly holding back good news on assets monetization, deals for capital markets day sometime in H2.

Here's the taste in transcript screenshot.

Thanks to @origoinvest for idea!

Solar generated record 25% of EU power in June with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the race.

Korea Financial Supervisory Service: As of July 13, the cumulative total of over 1.2 million leveraged retail accounts across the Korean market triggered margin calls, with approximately 320,000–360,000 accounts fully forcibly liquidated by brokers

Nature is healing. $KOSPI