The Investor

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[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

Jobs today highlighted increased layoffs and loss of full time jobs with a huge amount of part time jobs and government jobs added.

Increased long term unemployed and unchanged unemployment despite the high headline new jobs number.

This is both good and bad depending on what your positioning is, but basically not too inflationary by itself.

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

Make your shopping list

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

JUST IN: Gold erases all its gains YTD

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

@CapexAndChill @fivepointscap So early. LLM were not too useful just two years ago, now they are, but it is a recent occurrence.

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

@leadlagreport Higher US rates do not bode well for the yen

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

California is no longer the state with the most Fortune 500 companies.

After all the departures, that title now belongs to Texas.

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨UPDATE: Zcash founder confirms a critical Orchard bug capable of minting unlimited counterfeit zcash:native remained active from May 2022, until it was patched June 1 using Claude Opus 4.8.

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX You cannot change the algo without, in a way, changing the track record. And IPOs are not exactly great performers statistically. And yes, the S&P 500 is an algo.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Get ready, friends. Anthropic appears to be preparing the release of its Mythos-level model.

Pricing: $16 per 1M input tokens / $80 per 1M output tokens.

The release is likely very close, possibly even in the same week as GPT-5.6. Competition is heating up again.

Gemini 3.5 Pro is about to face serious pressure. It better be a banger.

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

Value is created.

Intrinsic value is not a just a semi-static stock trait waiting to be discovered. It is produced through capital allocation, operational execution, innovation, competitive positioning, and sometimes exogenous catalysts.

Markets price this imperfectly and with variable lag. Sometimes price is a leading indicator, sometimes it is a lagging one.

Sometimes, value is created over many years, others it is created in an instant by an idea or event and prices need to follow suit if the stock is to remain reasonably valued.

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

Could be worse for a couple days

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

I might or might not have added to my $META position in part due to news of potential WhatsApp and Instagram paid subscription plans.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Venezuela’s crude oil exports have surged +61% YoY, to 1.25 million barrels per day, the highest in 7 years.

The surge was led by rising shipments to the US at ~558,000 barrels per day, India at ~427,000 barrels per day, and Europe at ~169,000 barrels per day.

In total, 67 cargoes were exported from Venezuelan ports in May.

Since November 2025, Venezuela’s oil exports have surged +150%, or ~750,000 barrels,

This comes as the US eased sanctions on Venezuela's oil industry following the capture of Maduro earlier this year.

Venezuela's oil ministry is now targeting output of 1.37 million barrels per day by year-end, which would mark a +22% increase from 2025 levels and the highest since US sanctions were first imposed in 2019.

Venezuelan oil is increasingly flowing into global markets.

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

@systvest Well another thing is a lot of the technological innovation last few years is happening on large caps and less so on smaller caps. A small cap approach might work well in absolute terms but still underperform.

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

I might or might not have added to my $META position in part due to news of potential WhatsApp and Instagram paid subscription plans.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Payment giants Stripe, Visa, Mastercard said to be among backers of soon-to-debut stablecoin platform: BBG

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

Seems like bringing back the show plus the Ozempic effect.

Missed this obvious one.

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

AI stocks are doing so well they are bringing value indices with them.

Micron and Intel together explain roughly 71% of VLUE’s entire 46+% YTD gain when measured from the start of the year.

[The Investor @ValueInvestor]

@CapexAndChill @DividendDynasty $META under-earning and its physical location give it significant optionality.