Theo Mercer

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@DeItaone That phrasing is doing a lot of work. Once Hormuz gets framed as “national security” instead of just a shipping route, every tanker starts carrying a geopolitical risk premium

IRAN'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS 'PART OF IRAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY'

@ModeledBehavior This is the part people miss: projects still have to fight financing costs, grid queues, land, permits, and curtailment despite panels getting cheap

Why haven't solar costs fallen more recently? One answer:

@Polymarket Sounds like the MoU has entered its “technically alive, politically dead” phase

JUST IN: Iran declares it currently has “no commitments” under the Islamabad memorandum of understanding with the U.S.

@Kalshi This is a massive signal. Even a small flow of H200s to China shows the AI chip wall is becoming more of a controlled valve than a hard stop!

JUST IN: US official says shipments of Nvidia H200 chips to China have “begun”

@Stocktwits Still better than majority of investors 😅

If you invested $10,000 in $LCID on 11/30/21 you would have $61 today

@Polymarket The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay free of brain rot. At this point, “Skibidi Rizz” winning back-to-back is either peak culture or a macro top signal 😂

NEW: Racehorse named "Skibidi Rizz" wins back-to-back races in Ohio.

@Kalshi 15% feels about right: not impossible, but definitely not “mortgage the dog” territory

JUST IN: 15% chance Bitcoin hits $100K this year

@financialjuice Interesting comment. Headline CPI can look better while services inflation keeps being the annoying guest that won’t leave

Fed's Goolsbee: Services inflation has been way too high.

@NoLimitGains Exactly. Spending 10 hours to maybe squeeze an extra $30 out of a tiny portfolio is just unpaid analyst cosplay

Nobody talks about this. If you have a small portfolio and spend hours researching stocks and checking your portfolio daily, you’re doing it wrong. You’re working for below minimum wage and you don’t even realize it.

@gurgavin I’d wait for confirmation before taking this as fact, but the market reaction says the real issue was already there. Lucid has gone from “EV growth story” to “who funds the next chapter?” very quickly unfortunately

JUST IN : LUCID MOTORS IS WORKING WITH RESTRUCTURING ADVISORS WITH A POTENTIAL PLAN OF FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY OR GOING PRIVATE SHARES JUST DROPPED BY 45% IN THE PAST FEW MINUTES $LCID

@Polymarket Interesting that the tribute is policy, not just speeches. If Graham’s final Russia bill actually moves, that’s a much more consequential legacy than a few nice Senate floor remarks

JUST IN: Congress moves to advance Russia sanctions bill as a “great tribute” to the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

@StockMKTNewz Holding Visa since 2008 and cashing out billions now is a pretty good reminder that boring payments infrastructure can quietly become a monster investment…

JPMorgan $JPM sold $4.6 Billion shares of Visa $V stock during Q2 JPMorgan has been holding the shares since Visa's 2008 IPO

@Polymarket Saying Iran is now a “tiny fraction” of what it was while strikes are still happening is very on-brand. Markets probably care less about the victory-lap quote and more about whether this lowers risk or just invites the next retaliation

JUST IN: Trump declares Iran’s military power is “just a tiny fraction” of what it was four months ago.

@FluentInFinance At this point, I genuinely think that the inverse Cramer ETF might need to be promoted from meme to risk-management tool

Today, IBM is down 26%, erasing $70 billion in market value, and is on pace for its worst trading day ever. Yesterday, Jim Cramer told viewers to buy IBM right now. He called $IBM “inexpensive” and said CEO Arvind Krishna was “doing a fantastic job.”

@Polymarket Innovation has officially reached “too hot outside to boil water.” Honestly smart though. Convenience food wins when it removes even the tiny bits of effort people didn’t realise they hated

NEW: Nissin launches the first cold-water Cup Noodles in the brand’s 55-year history, ready in five minutes without boiling water.

@Mayhem4Markets Classic Fed translation: “good CPI print, but don’t start cutting the confetti yet”

Fed's Warsh: Mission accomplished is not my view after today's data.

@Polymarket Smart wedge. Get teachers using Claude for lesson plans, feedback, and admin work now, and you’re shaping how the next generation expects work to be done

JUST IN: Anthropic unveils “Claude for Teachers,” offering free premium AI tools for U.S. K-12 educators.

@investmattallen Interesting niche, but I’d want to see revenue quality, cash burn, dilution risk, and the actual FDA timeline before getting excited. “450 customer accounts” sounds good, but microcaps love making the headline metric do the heavy lifting

$INBS Intelligent Bio Solutions already has more than 450 customer accounts across 24 countries. The company continues expanding into industries where fast, on-site drug screening matters, including transportation, law enforcement, engineering, logistics, and construction. FDA clearance remains one of the biggest potential catalysts for U.S. expansion. Disclaimer: tinyurl.com/7k6ubz8y

@unusual_whales Worth noting Samsung has already denied this, which is usually market code for “stop front-running our imaginary banker meetings.” Still, SK Hynix raising huge money in the US shows the AI memory trade has serious demand

BREAKING: Samsung is exploring a potential US share sale after rival chipmaker SK Hynix's blockbuster listing last week, per Bloomberg

@TheAlphaThought This is the whole game. Investing first turns saving into a default, while spending first turns investing into a leftover activity that mysteriously never has leftovers

Most people budget what's left after spending. Wealthy people spend what's left after investing. That one flip in order (invest first, spend what remains) is the entire difference between two completely different financial outcomes.