$MS
4 long-form articles and 12 pre-market mentions covering $MS from AskMelon Research.
Schwab's Record Quarter Quietly Bet Its Margin on the Fed Never Cutting Again
The Charles Schwab Corporation just printed the cleanest quarter of its post-pandemic life — net revenue up 16% to $6.48 billion, GAAP profit up 30% to $2.48 billion, net interest margin clawing back …
The Nobel Laureates Who Almost Took Down Wall Street
A meditation on Long-Term Capital Management's 1998 collapse, the trillion-dollar leveraged book on a four-billion-dollar equity base, and the rehearsal for 2008.
The Synthetic CDO That Was Designed to Fail
A meditation on the 2010 Abacus settlement, the structuring conflict of interest the SEC made an example of, and the structural issue underneath that the settlement did not resolve.
The Family Office That Took Down Credit Suisse
A meditation on Bill Hwang's Archegos, the total-return swap structure that hid forty-to-ninety billion dollars of concentrated exposure, and the four-day cascade that ended a 167-year-old Swiss bank.
Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026
ASML's €9.33B Q2 blowout and a June CPI print of +3.5% YoY — the largest single-month inflation decline since April 2020 — land together as the clearest simultaneous bull signal this market has seen i…
Thursday, July 2, 2026
Q3's second session opens on a knife-edge: chipmakers are clawing back Wednesday's brutal −5% flush, futures are modestly green, and the whole tape is coiled around one 8:30 AM print — June payrolls, …
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Q3's first session opens with the market's most-crowded H1 trade — the memory/semiconductor super-cycle — in profit-taking mode, two consecutive soft US data prints, and a Fed Chair who refused to giv…
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
The last session of a powerful quarter opens quiet-but-constructive: after Monday's broad rally carried the Dow to its first-ever close above 52,000, futures are modestly green, Asia's memory names cl…
Sunday, June 28, 2026
The 60-day Iran road map that was supposed to deliver a final deal by August 16 survived exactly nine days before the Strait of Hormuz became a shooting gallery again: Iran launched four one-way attac…
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
The Bank of Japan hiked to 1.00% overnight in a 7-1 decision — Japan's highest rate since 1995 — the Nikkei briefly crossed 70,000 for the first time in its history before closing at 69,404, and marke…
Thursday, April 16, 2026
S&P 500 above 7,000 for the first time. Nasdaq on an 11-day winning streak. The Iran war is "very close to over." TSMC just crushed earnings. And China GDP beat. This is a market that refuses to stop.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Verdict: VERIFIED
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Nine straight sessions green. S&P 500 within 1% of its all-time high. The tape is begging for a reason to pause -- but earnings keep delivering.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
The blockade is on. But Iran called. The tape just flipped.