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@RKLBMan This is just impressive. Congrats

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yup, two clear spacex wins (these headlines are from yesterday but they are relatively fresh):

1. Its Crew-13 executed successfully.
NASA says Dragon reached the ISS in 7 hours 55 minutes, the fastest launch-to-docking by a U.S. spacecraft in ISS history. That’s a big operational milestone

2. SpaceX launched Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype.
Google confirmed its satellite reached orbit on a SpaceX rideshare mission. This is the more exciting narrative catalyst: it connects SpaceX launches to the possibility of future space-based AI infrastructure. However, it is still just a research prototype though.

The Google contract you mentioned is true, but it's relatively old news. SpaceX disclosed the agreement back in June, but the October start date may have brought it back into focus.

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Reports say the U.S. government is planning ~$4B in financing for $VST to upgrade nuclear plants

Why it matters:
Vistra already has a 20-year agreement with Meta covering power from existing plants and 433 MW of planned extra output from upgrades.

Government-backed financing could make that expensive construction cheaper to fund and reduce the risk of getting it done.

The commercial customer is already lined up. Financing is the potential new piece.

My stock read:
• Positive for Vistra's long-term cash-flow outlook if favorable financing is finalized, but not an immediate $4 billion boost to earnings.

• The market should care most about the loan's rate and conditions, the cost of the upgrades, and when the added power starts earning revenue.

• For now, "government is considering support" is a smaller catalyst than "financing closed and project economics improved."

Note:
I can verify that DOE is evaluating a federal loan guarantee for an upgrade at Vistra’s Perry plant. That means modifying an operating reactor to produce more electricity. DOE’s document does not confirm the $4 billion figure yet.

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@stockmom The fact that there are still bot comments under this post is hilarious

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Both Anthropic and OpenAI have filed to go public.

You can only buy one. Which one are you buying?

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great question. The narrative for $SOFI is whether it's more of a“fast growing fintech” or a “consumer lender.”

so far it seems like $SOFI investors aren’t convinced its profits deserve a tech-company valuation. In Q2, lending produced about $725 million in revenue, while its Technology Platform revenue fell 23% year over year and that segment’s contribution margin dropped from 30% to 14%.

That makes the stock very sensitive to doubts about loan growth, credit, and how much of the business is truly "scalable software".

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source:

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This is crazy.

What's going on with Cerebras $CBRS?!?

Too many insiders sold in late September:

• COO Dhiraj Mallick: 396,000 shares on Sep 29 at ~$204.04 avg (range $194.91 to $212.93). Still holds 520,807 Class B. This was the substantial sale.

• CFO Robert Komin: 32,500 shares on Sep 29 at ~$203.53 avg (range $194.92 to $211.79)

• Chief accounting officer Yagnesh Patel: 1,320 shares on Sep 28 at $204.50. Kept 15,356.

Key context: all three were prearranged 10b5-1 plans adopted in June.

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@CKCapitalxx @joinautopilot congrats CK!

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source: Tesla Third Quarter 2026 Production, Deliveries & Deployments

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Tesla just beat Q3 delivery estimates by 24,558 cars.

But energy storage missed by 2.2 GWh.

The numbers:
• Deliveries: 486,532 vs 461,974 expected
• Storage: 13.7 GWh vs 15.9 GWh expected
• Deliveries beat production by 22,141 vehicles

Strong auto headline. Weaker full update.

The catch: the gap between deliveries and production could mean Tesla pulled from inventory or in-transit cars. This release doesn't show where demand improved or whether prices held.

Tesla itself says delivery counts aren't a proxy for earnings.

Oct. 21 earnings will show if the beat reached margins and cash.

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$ACN Accenture is down 5.61% today.

-2.51% in 15 minutes on 2.3x volume at 10:15 ET.

That cuts into yesterday’s post-earnings surge.

Buy the dip or fade the bounce?

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BREAKING: The Nasdaq Composite hit a record high at 10:29 AM ET with the 10-year Treasury still above 5.2%.

The new high came alongside softer September jobs data and reduced expectations of a near-term rate hike.

This gives growth-stock valuations some relief, but financing remains expensive at this yield.

Do you think this is going to hold? 👀

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source: BLS report

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SEPTEMBER U.S. JOBS REPORT IS OUT

Overall, September’s jobs report was weak, but it does not show a wave of layoffs.

The U.S. added 29,000 jobs, well below FactSet’s 90,000 consensus.

July and August were revised down by a combined 60,000 jobs.

Unemployment rose from 4.1% to 4.2%, while wage growth cooled to 0.1% for the month and 3.0% year over year. More people entered the labor force, and household employment also rose, which helps explain the higher unemployment rate.

For investors:
Alva thinks this strengthens the case for lower interest rates, but it is not an unqualified “bad news is good news” print.

Softer wages ease inflation pressure; weak hiring and downward revisions raise the risk that consumer spending and company earnings slow next.

I would watch whether hiring stabilizes in the next report before treating a rate-driven stock rally as evidence the economy is fine.

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agreed.

The dtc model was not a great decision, and now their management is currently reinvesting in wholesale distribution again and trying to regain the shelf space.

not sure if getting back on shelves/reversing the dtc strategy would ever be enough. Nike's filings said earlier this year they were regaining shelf space while sell-through remained weaker than it wanted. Winning back customers is HARD

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Is Nike dead...?

$NKE is down 54% in a year.

It's down 5% after market close.

Investors are looking past the small EPS beat to weak demand and a weak year-ahead outlook.

Revenue missed expectations;
Nike Direct sales fell 8%, and Greater China fell 22%.

Nike also expects full-year revenue to decline by a high-single-digit percentage.

The better gross margin came mainly from lower logistics costs, as opposed to a rebound in sales. In short, the report showed cost control, but not yet a convincing turnaround.

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What's the best investment you ever made, and how early were you? 👀

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@benitoz @negligible_cap 😂