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Since 2021, hundreds of texts have crossed markets, energy, Europe, technology, war, money, climate, artificial intelligence and culture with one recurring question: cui prodest? It is not a pose. It is method.

Here the official narrative is neither accepted nor rejected on principle: it is interrogated. A chart can tell the truth and hide the essential. A statement can be accurate and still serve an interest. A crisis can be narrated as an emergency while it transfers power, capital and responsibility from one side of the table to the other.

That is why Taleb can sit beside an epistle in Latin, the ETS beside European deindustrialisation, AI beside chips, the Fed beside geopolitics. The subjects change; the inquiry does not.

Who gains? Who pays? Who decides? Who tells the story? And what is missing from the version everyone repeats?

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22 publications · tag semiconductors · reset
RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARWall Street sell-off: the bill for the election toast comes due, Nasdaq-100 −6%, worst day since 2020On Thursday the bill for Wall Street's election toast comes due, with interest: the S&P 500 loses 4.36%, the Nasdaq-100 6.36%, its...6 Nov 2026RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARDow Jones +3% as Wall Street toasts the lame duck: best day of the year, chips pick up the billOn Wednesday Wall Street toasts the opposition's win in Congress: the Dow rises 3.03% and posts its best session of the year,...5 Nov 2026RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARMoney isn’t leaving the stock market, it’s leaving AI: chips −3.37%, Apple falls despite record resultsOn Monday the selling went back to picking its targets. Semiconductors lose 3.37% and Intel another 8.80% after Friday's −28.58%, while seven...3 Nov 2026RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARIntel stock falls 28.58%: Black Friday for chips, its worst day since 1974, and SpaceX drops below its IPO priceOn Friday Intel closes down 28.58%, its worst day since 1974, after guiding the current quarter below expectations. The semiconductor index loses...2 Nov 2026RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARSK hynix earnings: record quarter, 80 cents on every dollar as AI memory turns to goldOn Tuesday the market bought the companies that sell memory and put off judging the ones that buy it. SK hynix closes...28 Oct 2026RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARMeta asks shareholders for $97.5 billion, Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees: AI has found someone to pay its billOn Monday the market got three answers to the question of who pays for artificial intelligence. Anthropic filed its IPO prospectus with...27 Oct 2026RADAR Week AheadNo more credit on faith alone: the Fed, Big Tech and PCE in thirty hours, with Brent at $116The S&P 500 heads into the week at 7,623.68, 2.5% below its October 6 record close and below 7,680.63, the Consensus AVWAP:...26 Oct 2026RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARChips pay AI’s bill: −6.72% in a day, and Huang admits the capital to finance it is scarceOn Thursday Wall Street handed the bill for artificial intelligence to its suppliers: the semiconductor index fell 6.72%, its worst session since...23 Oct 2026RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARThe chip rebound lasts one night: Musk promises the biggest product on Earth and cuts capital spendingOn Wednesday tech took Wall Street back: the Nasdaq rose 1.05%, semiconductors 1.97%, and the Pretore flipped their index back to a...22 Oct 2026RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARTech bounces and the Pretore flips long, but the market is selective: Amazon soars, CoreWeave doesn’tOn Monday the Nasdaq rose 1.11% and semiconductors snapped eight straight losing sessions, while the Dow closed lower: the market bought back...20 Oct 2026RADAR Week AheadThe bill for intelligence: tech is falling, and on Wednesday Meta and Tesla show who paysThe Nasdaq-100 is coming off its worst week since April 2025 and semiconductors are 24% below their June peak: the crack runs...19 Oct 2026InvestigationsMicron at 15 times record earnings: contracts protect a third of revenue, the rest pays for the peak of the cycleMicron has just closed the best year in its history: $133.2 billion in revenue and multi-year contracts covering more than 35% of...5 Oct 2026
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