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That $500 stock might be the smaller company.

10 million shares x $500 = $5 billion
2 billion shares x $5 = $10 billion

Price tag isn't size. Market cap is. #marketcap

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Outlook, Teams and Copilot have been down since yesterday afternoon. Outlook reports on Downdetector peaked near 140,000. Recovery is underway, not fully fixed.

Outlook and Teams went down for a day. Did your work get done faster or slower?

Education only, not financial advice.

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Hey @Grok, $100 a week into the S&P 500 vs the Nasdaq 100 for 20 years. Which one comes out ahead and by how much?

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Record revenue. $132.5B backlog. And CoreWeave still lost $709M?

Operations made about $207M. Net interest took about $846M.

Huge backlog? Check the interest bill next.

$CRWV

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@LizThomasStrat unrounded is where the real story is. the headline rounds to a clean number but the trend lives in the second decimal, and thats honestly what the fed watches closer

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@KobeissiLetter the part people skip is this is plans, not actual increases yet. but when this many owners say they are about to raise prices, it usually shows up in the real data a few months later

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Inverse Cramer: real strategy or just a meme? Someone actually launched an Inverse Cramer ETF in 2023, and it shut down within about a year. Would you ever bet against a TV stock pick?

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Most Companies Beat Earnings. Here Is Why That Is Not News. Estimates get set low enough that a beat is the normal outcome. #earnings #earningsseason #stocks #investing #tickertrap

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GM is leaving the NYSE for Nasdaq on Nov. 17. It first listed on the NYSE in 1911. Same GM ticker, and it becomes eligible for the Nasdaq-100. Does switching exchanges change anything, or is it just branding?

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Why a Stock Can Drop After Beating Earnings. The market cares more about what a company says comes next than what it just reported. #earnings #earningsseason #stocks #investing #tickertrap

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@elerianm the thing that changed today is Waller drew the line in public before the number even dropped. core at 0.3% was his stated trigger for talking about 50. so the print didn't just come in hot, it landed exactly on the line the Fed already pointed at

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The government released the inflation report. It left out the inflation rate.

October prices rose 0.4% from September, above the 0.3% forecast. Core prices (no food or energy) rose 0.3%. No yearly figure: last October's prices were never collected.

Looking for that yearly rate?

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Microsoft is selling bonds for the first time since 2017, at least $25 billion, to help fund AI. Meta chose to sell new stock instead. If you owned one of them, which would you rather see: more debt, or more shares?

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You clicked buy at $10 and paid $10.40. That is slippage, the hidden cost of a market order. Follow @TickerTrap. Education only, not financial advice. #stocks #investing #limitorder #beginners

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Starting in 2028, the Fed expects to vote on rates at 6 meetings a year, not 8. The other 2 become strategy-only, no rate vote. Fewer chances to shock the market, or fewer chances to fix things when something breaks?

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Amazon, Google and Meta are all spending more cash than they bring in as AI building keeps climbing. Here is what negative free cash flow means in plain words. Follow @TickerTrap. Education only, not financial advice. #stocks #bigtech #AI #investing

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The S&P 500 is up about 13% this year. Meanwhile AppLovin, CoreWeave, Coinbase and Oracle are all roughly 50 to 65% below their 52-week highs, and Robinhood is down about 41%. Healthy reset, or an early warning?

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Why can a strong jobs report make stocks fall? It is all about what traders think the Fed will do with interest rates. Education only, not financial advice. #stocks #jobsreport #investing #fed

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US households and nonprofits now own 42.1% of all US-held stocks, per Fed data. Stocks are also a record 48.2% of household financial assets. Healthy sign, or 1999 all over again?

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Alphabet just had the worst day in its history, down about 13% and roughly $500 billion in value. Slower search ads, huge AI spending, and negative free cash flow. Education only, not financial advice. #stocks #google #investing #AI