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15 long-form articles and 20 pre-market mentions covering $MSFT from AskMelon Research.
Take-Two's $44 billion market cap is one game, one date, and a $7.4 billion hole
Take-Two Interactive sells the most anticipated product in entertainment history, and on paper it still loses money — $298.2 million of GAAP net loss in the fiscal year that just ended, sitting atop a…
Okta's growth halves to 11% while the GAAP-to-adjusted gap swallows half its profit
Okta sells trust for a living, and the market is quietly repricing how much of it remains. The identity vendor that once compounded revenue above fifty percent a year reported just eleven percent grow…
Sony's record ¥1.45 trillion profit hides a console past its peak and a ¥208 billion write-off year
Sony Group closed fiscal 2025 with the headline investors wanted — record sales of ¥12.48 trillion and record operating income of ¥1.45 trillion, up 13% — and the market filed it under "content compou…
SAP's 27% Cloud Headline Hides 6% Reported Growth and a 13-Point Currency Crutch
SAP sells itself to investors as a German hyperscaler in waiting — Business AI, the Joule copilot, a cloud backlog vaulting 25% and a Cloud ERP Suite compounding at 30%. Strip the constant-currency la…
Microsoft Booked a $5.9 Billion Gain on a Company That Loses Billions
Microsoft is the bluest of blue chips, the steadiest mega-cap in the market, a fortress of recurring software profits. So it is worth pausing on a line buried in its accounts: over the nine months end…
Amazon Is Spending $200 Billion on AI. Its Free Cash Flow Just Fell 95%.
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The Pin
A company raised two hundred and thirty million dollars to build a small square of aluminum that clipped to your shirt and promised to replace your phone. It shipped fewer than ten thousand of them, w…
Search and Destroy
For twenty-five years it ran the greatest business ever built — the toll bridge that every question on the internet had to cross, monetized with the highest-margin advertising in history, a monopoly s…
Creative Destruction
It was one of the great software franchises ever built — the company that owns the verbs of digital creation, whose products became the words we use for the acts themselves: to photoshop, to edit, to …
The Outage Premium
On a single morning in July 2024, a cybersecurity company pushed a flawed software update and crashed eight and a half million computers, grounding airlines, freezing hospitals, and shutting down bank…
Patient Zero
Nvidia is the most valuable company in history, the keystone of the AI boom, and the single stock that more of the world's money depends on than any other. It is also a company whose revenue increasin…
The Landlord's Gamble
Oracle has borrowed more than $100 billion and is burning cash faster than at any point in its history to build $300 billion of data centers for a single tenant — one that loses fourteen billion dolla…
Borrowed Time
The AI build-out is being paid for with debt — more than $155 billion of it from the tech giants alone, another $120 billion hidden in off-balance-sheet vehicles, and bonds that mature in the 2050s to…
The Ouroboros
OpenAI has filed to go public at up to a trillion dollars. It loses fourteen billion a year, has promised more than a trillion in spending it cannot afford, and sits at the center of a circle in which…
The Tell
The founders built the most talked-about company of the AI boom and rode it up roughly 150%. Since their shares came unlocked they have converted $2.3 billion of their own paper into cash — and not on…
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…
Saturday, June 27, 2026
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Saturday, June 27, 2026
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Friday, June 26, 2026
The cost-push reversal nobody modeled arrived Thursday: Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by 17–25% (Mac models ~18%, iPad models 20–25%) and Microsoft announced Xbox hikes of $100–$150 — both citing A…
Saturday, May 9, 2026
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Saturday, May 9, 2026
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Saturday, May 2, 2026
Your Saturday morning market coffee. The week three cloud giants committed $515 billion in AI capex in a single evening, Brent oil briefly hit $126 (a four-year high), Powell said goodbye from the pod…
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Day-of-week labeling (affects 6 claims: 57, 58, 60, 64, 65, 66):
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Total: 33 verified, 2 wrong, 3 unverified (38 claims)
Saturday, May 2, 2026
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Friday, May 1, 2026
Apple's Q2 record ($111.2B revenue, EPS $2.01, $100B buyback) and Reddit's blowout (+69% YoY) headline a Labour Day-thinned session — EU, China, Korea, HK, TW, India all closed; ISM Manufacturing at 1…
Friday, May 1, 2026
The morning after a record-setting April close (S&P +1.02% to 7,209.01, Nasdaq +0.89% to 24,892.31 — best month since 2020 (S&P best since November 2020; Nasdaq best since April 2020)). Apple capped M…
Friday, May 1, 2026
Aggregate: 5 correct + 2 partial + 3 wrong = 60%.
Friday, May 1, 2026
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Friday, May 1, 2026
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Friday, May 1, 2026
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Thursday, April 30, 2026
The morning after the most consequential earnings night of 2026 — Mag-4 split 2-2 (GOOGL +7%, AMZN +4% vs META -7%, MSFT -1.5%); Powell's valedictory delivered an 8-4 vote (largest dissent since 1992)…
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Visa posts fastest revenue growth since 2013 ($11.2B, +17%; non-GAAP EPS $3.31 vs ~$3.10 est) + $20B record buyback. SBUX +5% AH on US comp +7.1% (transactions +4.4%) — Niccol turnaround confirmed. Se…
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
GM obliterates Q1 estimates (41% EPS beat, SCOTUS tariff windfall). Rubio calls Tehran's Hormuz offer "unacceptable" — Brent surges to $111, WTI at $99. Oracle -5.2% on OpenAI drama. Visa + Starbucks …
Monday, April 27, 2026
Verizon beats, consumer lives. Iran blinked through Pakistan, Araghchi's on a plane to Putin. The biggest earnings and macro week of 2026 loads with flat futures and a geopolitical tail option that no…