CRDO: The Tiny Semiconductor Stock Quietly Holding the Global Economy Together—Until It Doesn’t By the time most citizens of Earth have finished their first cup of overpriced coffee, the share price of Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (NASDAQ: CRDO) has already bounced around like a diplomatic cable in a shredder. Based in San Jose—Silicon Valley’s…
Figma’s Phantom IPO: How a Design-Tool Darling Became the Rorschach Test for Late-Stage Capitalism By the time you finish reading this sentence, another unicorn will have galloped past the slaughterhouse gates. Among them, Figma—purveyor of cloud-based rectangles and the preferred doodle-pad of every product manager who thinks Helvetica is a personality—is once again flirting with…
American Eagle Outfitters—ticker symbol AEO, for anyone still pretending retail tickers are more than three-letter horoscopes—has spent the year behaving like a jet-lagged tourist: stumbling out of bed in Pittsburgh, checking its passport, and suddenly discovering the rest of the planet exists. The stock is up roughly 60 % since January, a figure that sounds…
Figma’s Quarterly Miracle: How a Free Design Tool Convinced the Planet to Pay Rent for Pixels By Dave Correspondent-at-Large, wired on lukewarm coffee in a hotel whose Wi-Fi is sponsored by regret San Francisco, Wednesday, 2 a.m. local—The earnings call began with the obligatory “record-breaking” superlative, continued through a PowerPoint deck that looked suspiciously like…
Robert Half: The Global Talent Broker Quietly Redrawing the Map of Work When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, history books breathlessly announced the end of ideology. They were half right: ideology simply moved to LinkedIn. Into that vacuum stepped Robert Half, the San Ramon–born staffing firm that has spent 75 years persuading CFOs in…
Jeff Bezos, the man who turned a modest Seattle garage into a global empire so vast it makes the East India Company look like a weekend lemonade stand, is still very much the gravitational center of Planet Capitalism—even after stepping down as CEO of Amazon. From the vantage point of a world that can’t decide…
ABTC Stock: From a Quiet Nevada Lab to the World’s Lithium Chessboard By Dave’s Locker International Desk When American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) closed Monday at US $1.47—up 38 % in five sessions—day-traders in New York saw a meme revival. Half a world away, however, the ripple was felt on three continents where governments are…
From Davos to Dhaka, the whispers started on trading floors and in diplomatic cables before sunrise: “Have you seen the Jolts Report?” By the time the New York open bell chimed, the headline had ricocheted across every major time zone, turning a once-sleepy U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics release into a planetary flashpoint. Overnight, the…
Northwestern Mutual’s Quiet Power: How a 167-Year-Old Wisconsin Insurer Is Quietly Shaping Global Capital Flows By Dave’s Locker International Desk Milwaukee rarely dominates global financial headlines—until now. While Wall Street fixates on the latest fintech unicorn or Beijing’s regulatory crackdowns, Northwestern Mutual has been moving trillions of dollars in ways that reach far beyond its…
Gold’s Quiet Rally: Why GLD Is Suddenly the Whole World’s Hedge By Dave’s Locker International Desk LONDON—On trading floors from Tokyo to Toronto, one three-letter ticker has muscled its way back onto every macro strategist’s screen: GLD, the SPDR Gold Shares ETF. After months of listless drifting, the world’s largest bullion-backed fund has surged 11…
