Europe’s Biggest Tech IPO: Bending Spoons

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πŸ’» Microsoft β€” forward PE cheap but capex is eating FCF
⛏️ Afrimat β€” a quality cyclical near 10-year lows
β›½ Petrol & Brent β€” a big fuel cut as oil drops into the low 70s
πŸ₯„ Bending Spoons β€” buying legacy tech brands
πŸ›’ Naspers β€” trading at a discount to Tencent
πŸ‰ Tencent β€” Chinese tech “deeply hated”

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MercadoLibre is Amazon with a bank and it’s cheapest in years

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πŸ›’ MercadoLibre down 40% β€” Amazon + PayPal of Latin America
πŸš€ SpaceX’s rocky listing (still above IPO price)
πŸ•ŠοΈ Alan Greenspan dies at 100
πŸ›οΈ First FOMC with Powell no longer chair
πŸ›’οΈ Why Brent oil won’t stay high

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Peace in Our Time | Are We Just Going Back to February?

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πŸš€ The big-tech IPO that popped 50%
πŸ›’οΈ Peace in our time: oil collapsing
πŸ’΅ Rand back at 16.23, gold holding 4,300
🏦 SA inflation at 4.5%
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ FOMC; no change expected
πŸ“Š Stocks on the move (Clicks, MTN, Discovery, Mondi & more)

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Stocks for your Soccer World Cup

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⚽ World Cup stocks
πŸ‘Ÿ Adidas & Nike
🎰 Betting plays; Sun International & Super Group
πŸš€ Three mega IPOs; SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI
πŸ’Έ The $160bn cash crunch, Alphabet raising $85bn
⛏️ PGMs look bleak β€” every platinum miner on the downside list

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The US consumer has no savings left, should we worry?

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πŸ“‰ US personal savings rate at 2.6%
πŸ›’οΈ The Iran deal collapses again
🏦 SARB hikes prime to 10.5%
πŸš€ Naspers & Prosus fly
πŸ›’ SPAR’s horror update
🌏 The year-to-date scoreboard
πŸ“Š Stocks on the move

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The SpaceX IPO Valuation Reality Check | The Pope on AI

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πŸ“Š The Dow Jones turns 130
πŸš€ SpaceX IPO on 12 June at $1.75 trillion
πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Moody’s lifts South Africa’s outlook
🏘️ Balwin delisting at below NAV
πŸ“Ί Canal+ listing next Wednesday
✝️ Pope Leo XIV writes a letter on AI
πŸ›’οΈ Oil settling around $90–$95
πŸ“ˆ Stocks on the move

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Bond Yields Are Screaming | Why Isn’t Anyone Calling It a Crisis?

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πŸ“ˆ Global bond yields spike
πŸ›’ Pick n Pay sells R4.7bn of Boxer
🍊 Floods could hit 10–12% of the citrus crop
πŸ’» Cerebras IPO,150x sales, 86% of rev from one customer
πŸ€– Anthropic now bigger than OpenAI
πŸ“‹ Results: Calgro M3, WeBuyCars, Astral
🌍 Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2026
πŸš€ Stocks on the move

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Hyperscaler Results, Berkshire’s Cash Pile and Fuel Pain

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πŸ”Œ Copper is the quiet AI trade
☁️ Hyperscaler $1.46tn RPOs
πŸ’° Berkshire Hathaway: $380bn cash drag
πŸ€– AI to write institutional-grade research
πŸ’Ύ Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron
β›½ Fuel price hike: consumers under pressure
πŸ›’οΈ UAE withdraws from OPEC

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Tim Cook Out, Tariff Refunds In, Markets Back At Highs

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🍎 Tim Cook steps down
πŸ’Έ $166B tariff refund chaos
πŸ“ˆ US markets at all-time highs
πŸ›°οΈ Amazon buys Globalstar for $11.57B
🎬 Netflix results
πŸ›οΈ Fed Chair nomination battle
πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ SA CPI, fuel price outlook & rand watch

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