As of January 8, 2026, the landscape of high-performance computing (HPC) has undergone a tectonic shift, and few companies embody this transformation more than Applied Digital (Nasdaq: APLD). Once a niche player in the cryptocurrency hosting space, Applied Digital has successfully repositioned itself as a critical backbone for the generative AI revolution. The company is [...]
Today’s Date: 12/29/2025 Introduction On this final Monday of 2025, the digital infrastructure landscape has been reshaped by a seismic announcement: DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (NYSE: DBRG) has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by SoftBank Group in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $4 billion, or $16.00 per share. This deal marks the [...]
As the first trading week of 2026 unfolds, the global financial landscape is a study in stark contrasts. While geopolitical instability has flared from the jungles of Venezuela to the shipping lanes of the Red Sea, the technology sector—specifically the infrastructure powering Artificial Intelligence—has demonstrated a remarkable "antifragility.
As the calendar turns to January 5, 2026, the global financial community finds itself at a critical crossroads. The Federal Reserve, under the leadership of Chair Jerome Powell, is entering its final months of a transformative tenure that has spanned a global pandemic, a generational spike in inflation, and the
As the first trading week of 2026 kicks off, all eyes in the technology and real estate sectors are fixed on Applied Digital (Nasdaq: APLD). The company, which has successfully reinvented itself from a cryptocurrency hosting provider into a premier architect of high-density artificial intelligence infrastructure, saw its stock surge
As the calendar turns to January 1, 2026, the American financial landscape finds itself at a pivotal crossroads. After a tumultuous two-year journey of aggressive tightening followed by a cautious easing cycle throughout 2025, the Federal Reserve has entered the new year with the federal funds rate sitting at a
As of early 2026, the artificial intelligence landscape has been fundamentally re-architected. What began as a hardware announcement in mid-2024 has evolved into the central nervous system of the global digital economy: the NVIDIA Blackwell B200 architecture. Today, the deployment of Blackwell is no longer a matter of "if" but "how much," as nations and [...]
As the clock strikes midnight on 2025, the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) sector stands at a historic crossroads. After years of battling restrictive monetary policy and a post-pandemic identity crisis, the industry has emerged from 2025 transformed. The year was defined by a dramatic "sector bifurcation," where the AI-fueled
As 2025 draws to a close, the meteoric rise of generative artificial intelligence has collided head-on with a force even more powerful than Silicon Valley’s capital: local American communities. Across the United States, from the historic battlefields of Virginia to the parched deserts of Arizona, a massive wave of public pushback is threatening to derail [...]
As 2025 draws to a close, the data center industry has reached a definitive tipping point: the era of the fan-cooled server is over for high-performance computing. The catalyst for this seismic shift has been the arrival of NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) Blackwell and the newly announced Rubin GPU architectures, which have pushed thermal design power [...]
In a move that has sent shockwaves through the digital infrastructure sector, SoftBank Group Corp. (OTC:SFTBY) announced a definitive agreement to acquire DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (NYSE:DBRG) for approximately $4 billion in an all-cash transaction. The deal, priced at $16.00 per share, represents a significant 50% premium over
Rexford is still executing operationally, but this portfolio move hints at a growing gap between strong fundamentals and what investors are willing to pay for them.
As 2025 draws to a close, the global financial landscape is undergoing its most significant structural shift since the post-pandemic recovery. After nearly three years of aggressive monetary tightening and persistent price volatility, a new macro regime is taking hold: "The Great Normalization." With inflation finally drifting toward central bank
As 2025 draws to a close, the American economy has defied the skeptics once again. Following the release of robust third-quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data, the U.S. stock market has catapulted to unprecedented heights, with the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:
As of late December 2025, the United States bond market has reached a historic milestone, marking the definitive end of the longest yield curve inversion in financial history. For over three years, the "inverted" curve—where short-term debt yielded more than long-term debt—served as a persistent omen of economic
As the final trading days of 2025 approach, the financial world is witnessing a rare and paradoxical phenomenon: a powerful stock market rally occurring simultaneously with a sharp rise in long-term bond yields. While traditional economic theory suggests that higher yields—which increase borrowing costs and discount the value of
The tech sector is facing a stark reality check as the final weeks of 2025 unfold. Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), once the darling of the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure boom, has seen its stock plummet nearly 23% in December alone. As of December 23, 2025, shares are trading in the
