Micron’s $1 Trillion Moment: HBM and the AI Memory Reset
Micron crossed $1 trillion in market cap on June 1, 2026 after a 6.6% pop to $1,035, a 263% YTD gain driven by AI-memory demand.
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Contango Explained: Why Commodity ETFs Lose to Spot Prices
Contango is the upward-sloping futures curve that quietly drains commodity ETF returns. Here is the math, the cause, and how to spot it.
Veris Residential Goes Private in $3.5B Affinius Deal
Affinius Capital and Vista Hill Partners completed a $3.5B all-cash take-private of Veris Residential on May 27, paying $19/share — a 23.2% premium.
Marvell’s $177B AI Bet: Q1 Beat, 102.4 Tbps Switch, NVLink
Marvell is up 138% YTD on a Q1 FY27 beat, the industry’s first 102.4 Tbps AI switch, and a widening Nvidia NVLink Fusion partnership.
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.
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.