
Frances Horodelski
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Frances Horodelski
@fhoro
I love stocks, music, words, time travel. I love laughter and tears. Believe life is Math. CFA. Bay Street & BNNTV alumnus. 🎗️🇨🇦 🌻


The most-anticipated Nasdaq listing in years just started trading with two new daily-reset tools sized to it: $SKUU (2x Long) for a directional day-one view $SKDD (2x Short) for the opposite one Same underlying. Two sides of the tape. @GraniteShares



Morgan Stanley: Bearings The Big Picture: Bearings as a Core Robotics Play > Architecture-Agnostic Growth: Bearings offer a diversified way to invest in the robotics sector because they are required regardless of a robot's ultimate design or form factor. > Massive Market Expansion: Morgan Stanley forecasts a massive ~300x growth in the robot bearings market through the year 2050. > Low Risk of Obsolescence: Bearings face very low substitution, in-sourcing, or obsolescence risks—you simply cannot design moving machines around them. > OpenAI Endorsement: In a recent Request for Proposal (RFP) for U.S.-based hardware manufacturing capacity, OpenAI listed precision bearings as 1 of 6 critical components in its robotics category. Content Scales with Robot Complexity > Bearings 101: Every single motor in a robot requires at least one or more bearings to reduce friction and support rotating parts. > Degrees of Freedom (DoF): As robots get more complex, the number of bearings multiplies. Small quadcopter drone: Requires 8–12 bearings. Humanoid robot: Requires 70 or more bearings. > Pricing Variability: Depending on the specific use-case, individual bearings can range from under $1 to as much as $100 Global Bearings Market Dynamics > Consolidated Supply: The top 6 global manufacturers control over 50% of the global roller market, with Chinese manufacturers making up about 25%. > Current Demand Split: Roughly 40% of the overall market goes to industrial equipment OEMs, 30% to automotive, and 30 to distribution channels

🇺🇸🇮🇷🚢Trump reimposes naval blockade on Iran amid escalating clashes in Hormuz. My report on @axios axios.com/2026/07/13/tru…


BREAKING: US President Donald Trump says Washington is reinstating a naval blockade against Iran -- but also says the US will demand a 20% fee on all cargo shipped to guarantee the Strait of Hormuz is open to other countries (on first reading, that equals to ~$15 per barrel!!!!)










