WACC Explained: How Companies Calculate Their Cost of Capital
WACC blends the cost of equity and after-tax cost of debt into one discount rate. Here is the formula, a worked Apple example, and the pitfalls to avoid.
Month: June 2026
Howard Davies-Led J.C. Flowers Buys Monte Paschi’s French Arm
J.C. Flowers acquires Monte Paschi’s French lending arm; Howard Davies takes the chair as BMPS streamlines post-Mediobanca.
Blackstone Asia PE Fund Closes at Record $13.1B
Blackstone Capital Partners Asia III closed at $13.1 billion, topping its $10 billion target and more than doubling its predecessor.
The Repo Market Explained: $12.6 Trillion of Plumbing
How the repo market works: $12.6T daily, SOFR, tri-party clearing, the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility, and the 2019 spike that changed everything.
Bitwise Debuts $259M Tokenized Crypto Carry Fund USCC
Bitwise took over Superstate’s $259M USCC tokenized fund on June 1, 2026, bringing the crypto basis trade onchain as tokenized RWAs hit $31.8B.
HPE Surges 23% on Record Q2, Pulls 2028 Targets Forward
Hewlett Packard Enterprise blew past Q2 FY26 estimates with $10.68B revenue and $0.79 EPS, raised FY26 guidance sharply, and said it will hit its 2028 AI targets this year.
Black-Scholes Explained: How Options Are Priced
The Black-Scholes options pricing model, in plain English: the formula, the five inputs, a worked example with verified numbers, and where it breaks.
Cognition Hits $26B in $1B Series D; Devin ARR Reaches $492M
Cognition raised $1B at a $26B post-money valuation — 2.5x its September 2025 mark — as Devin’s ARR reached $492M with enterprise usage up 50% monthly.
AST SpaceMobile Falls 18% on Blue Origin Pad Explosion
AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) shed nearly 18% Friday after a Blue Origin New Glenn engine test exploded at Cape Canaveral, rattling the entire space-stock complex.
Relative Strength vs RSI: What’s the Difference?
Relative Strength (RS) and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) sound alike but measure totally different things. Here’s the clean distinction.