During the week of May 4–15, U.S. earnings season drew attention as Palantir Technologies, in the information technology sector, reported first-quarter revenue of $1.63 billion, surpassing analyst estimates of $1.54 billion, and raised its full-year guidance to $7.65–7.66 billion. However, the market continues to remain cautious about the company’s high valuation, with a price-to-earnings ratio of 150. In fact, despite posting results above expectations, RingCentral’s stock price fell 6%, revealing the market’s increasingly stringent scrutiny of future growth and profitability. Next week, earnings are scheduled for Constellation Energy (May 11) in the energy sector, and Cisco Systems (May 13) and Applied Materials (May 14) in information technology. Market attention will focus on factors such as energy market fluctuations, semiconductor demand, and hardware order trends. #markets #investing ※Investing involves risks. Please make final decisions at your own responsibility.

If you're watching $XLF financials in comparison to the massive underperformance of the $SPX and thinking the health of the market is weak, consider a longer term view. The financial sector has meaningfully underperformed the S&P 500 since the dot com bubble peak in the early 2000s. On a relative basis $XLF versus $SPX it has been in a long term downtrend for much of the past 25 years and recently hit all time lows in relative strength. Financials do not reliably reflect broader economic or market health for several key reasons. Sector composition and structural shifts matter. Banks, insurers, and asset managers are highly sensitive to interest rates, regulation, credit cycles, and net interest margins. Post 2000 changes including stricter rules after the Global Financial Crisis, a long period of low rates, and the dominance of technology and other growth sectors in the S&P 500 have weighed heavily on financials. Meanwhile the broader index has been driven by innovation and non financial names. The stock market and especially narrow sectors like financials is not the economy. Valuations, monetary policy, sector rotation, and concentration in a few mega cap stocks often drive relative performance far more than GDP growth, employment, or consumer health. Financials can lag even in expanding economies if margins are compressed or capital flows elsewhere such as into tech and AI. Bottom line: Weakness or relative strength in $XLF tells you more about the unique headwinds facing financials than it does about overall market health or the real economy. Broader indices like the S&P 500 have their own dynamics such as concentration risk in technology. Always zoom out, check absolute performance, valuations, and macro context instead of assuming one sector mirrors everything else. This approach helps avoid over interpreting short term moves as economy wide doom or boom.

Michael Burry warns today is similar to the final months of the 1999-2000 dotcom bubble. “Final months” trough to peak: $SPX +26% “Final months” trough to peak: $NDX +128% We still golden boys!

🚨 Michael Burry is betting against AI while retail investors globally keep buying every dip In India especially, AI has become the new: • EV theme • Startup theme • “Multibagger” narrative People are chasing anything with “AI” in the story without even looking at valuations. That’s exactly how bubbles start forming. Not saying Burry will be right immediately… But history says euphoric narratives rarely end quietly.

Bloomberg reports that call option volume in individual stocks has increased while volume in the S&P 500 has decreased, indicating that speculators are increasingly focusing on a small number of stocks. The divergence has most recently been driven by an increase in single-stock call volume, while call volume in the index has decreased. 📷

Block ANY account that EVER tweets this man followed by “The same guy who PREDICTED 2008 crash just shorted x company” They are brain dead, have no thoughts or opinions of their own, and will fall for any slightest bit of propaganda Michael Burry SHORTED IN 2005 not 2008. He was absolutely WRECKED for 2.5 years