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Is The AI Spending Boom Creating A Depreciation Time Bomb? Via City AM, Big Tech's AI spending has exploded, with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta collectively investing hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure. Rapid technological change may shorten the economic life of AI servers and GPUs, increasing depreciation and replacement costs. The long-term profitability of AI will depend not only on demand growth but also on whether companies can justify the enormous ongoing capital requirements. The eye-watering capital expenditure plans of Big Tech has been one of the year’s biggest stories.  Google, Meta, Amazon, and...

"But A Whimper": Retail Euphoria In SpaceX Fizzles After Stock Loses $600 Billion In One Day It started off with a bang: SpaceX IPOed on June 12 with an opening price of $150 on their first day of trade, well above the offering price of $135, and within two days, enterprising traders were ravenously bidding up 380 calls (expiring in just days) in hopes of sending the stock soaring in hopes of orchestrating a gamma squeeze.  They are going for it https://t.co/tT4cJns9nv pic.twitter.com/P6NTzq4tx2 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 16, 2026 ... then it will...

China Moves To Shut Down Offshore Stock-Trading Channels Used By Mainland Investors Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, China’s securities regulator has opened enforcement actions against Futu, Tiger Brokers, and Longbridge Securities, accusing the offshore online brokerages of illegally serving mainland investors who used the platforms to trade U.S. and Hong Kong stocks. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said on May 22 that it had opened investigations and issued administrative penalty pre-notification letters against Tiger Brokers (NZ) Limited, Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited, Longbridge Securities (Hong Kong) Limited,...