Mexico president asks South Korea for more BTS concerts K-pop band BTS' comeback tour is likely to be one of the biggest tours of the year Some fans have also accused Ticketmaster and resale platforms of dynamic pricing, prompting an investigation. BTS will hold three shows in Mexico City in May, as part of its 79-date world tour after a four-year hiatus . Tickets were wiped out in less than 40 mi...
Mexico president asks South Korea for more BTS concerts K-pop band BTS' comeback tour is likely to be one of the biggest tours of the year Some fans have also accused Ticketmaster and resale platforms of dynamic pricing, prompting an investigation. BTS will hold three shows in Mexico City in May, as part of its 79-date world tour after a four-year hiatus . Tickets were wiped out in less than 40 minutes, local media reported. "I wrote a letter to the [president] of Korea... I still haven't received the answer, but let's hope it's positive," Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday. The scramble for tickets to K-pop band BTS' comeback tour, which comes after a four-year hiatus, has seen Mexico's president appealing to her South Korean counterpart to add more shows in her country. While on Ticketmaster, the official sales channel, tickets were going for between 1,800 pesos and 17,800 pesos ($100 to $1,030; £76 to £750), resale platforms were offering them for between 11,300 to 92,100 pesos, according to Reuters. Mexico's consumer watchdog has sanctioned resale platforms StubHub and Viagogo for "abusive and disloyal practices" over the ticketing process. About a million young people were vying for 150,000 BTS concert tickets, Sheinbaum said on Monday. "This group, BTS, is very popular among young Mexicans," she said. Spotify lists Mexico as K-pop's fifth-largest market worldwide, with streaming of the genre's songs growing more than 500% in the country in the last five years. Sheinbaum wrote to South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung after being told by local concert promoter Ocesa that the band's packed itinerary made adding shows unfeasible. Seoul's presidential office and foreign ministry have declined to comment on the matter, according to South Korean media. BTS has not released music as a group since June 2022, as they took a break to explore individual music careers and later underwent mandatory military service. The septet's globe-spanning comeback tour...
FOTOKITA/iStock via Getty Images Editor's Note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on January 28, 2026 [This blog post is an excerpt from a commentary published about two weeks ago at www.speculative-investor.com ] During February-March of last year, there was talk of the US government revaluing the gold bullion that currently is an asset on the balance sheet of the Fed. The asset was being valu...
FOTOKITA/iStock via Getty Images Editor's Note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on January 28, 2026 [This blog post is an excerpt from a commentary published about two weeks ago at www.speculative-investor.com ] During February-March of last year, there was talk of the US government revaluing the gold bullion that currently is an asset on the balance sheet of the Fed. The asset was being valued at $11B, or only US$42.22/ounce, whereas the market value of the asset at that time was around US$770B. The situation today is that the asset is still being valued at only US$11B, whereas its market value is now around US$1.2 trillion. This means that bringing the asset’s official valuation in line with its market value would now result in the addition of more than $1 trillion to the Treasury’s account at the Fed (the Treasury General Account, or TGA). Is this likely to happen anytime soon? When we addressed this topic in February of last year, our answer to the above question was “no.” The reason, in a nutshell, was that while the monetary injection would give the economy a short-term boost, it would have longer-term negative effects, including higher price inflation. We concluded that due to the short-term nature of any positive effect on the economy, from a purely political perspective, it would make more sense to implement the revaluation during the final year of the presidential term than during the first year. Due to the looming importance to Trump of the November 2026 midterm elections, we now think that the revaluation could happen within the next few months. If the midterm elections result in the Democratic Party gaining control of the House, the path ahead for Trump would become far more difficult. Not only would it be harder for him to pursue his policy agenda, but also he probably would be impeached for a third time. Creating the impression that the economy was strong or at least improving during the months leading up to the election would reduce the risk of ...
CoreWeave has a lot to gain from OpenAI's growth. 2026 could be the year that AI grows up. Three years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, the AI boom is in full effect. Stocks like Nvidia have soared, adding trillions of dollars in market value, but there are still some doubts about whether AI will have the same real-world impact as the concerns about an AI bubble indicate. However, OpenAI CFO Sarah F...
CoreWeave has a lot to gain from OpenAI's growth. 2026 could be the year that AI grows up. Three years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, the AI boom is in full effect. Stocks like Nvidia have soared, adding trillions of dollars in market value, but there are still some doubts about whether AI will have the same real-world impact as the concerns about an AI bubble indicate. However, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar recently said that 2026 will be a year of "practical adoption," meaning the start-up intends to close the gap between AI's possibilities and its everyday usage. OpenAI has also been a winner from the AI boom as it's reached run rate revenue of $20 billion and a valuation of $500 billion, though the company is losing billions of dollars a year. OpenAI's ramp is risky as the buildout it envisions over the next ten years will require hundreds of billions of dollars in funding. It's unclear how much compute capacity the company is planning to add this year, but its capacity tripled in each of the last two years, reaching 1.9 gigawatts (GW) in 2025. According to some estimates, OpenAI is planning to add 4 GW of capacity this year, bringing its total to around 6 GW. Much of the AI sector is relying on OpenAI's success as its technology forms the foundation of AI models being used across the software industry, but arguably no company has more to potentially gain from OpenAI's success than CoreWeave (CRWV +10.86%), the biggest neocloud company. CoreWeave's volatile position Like OpenAI, CoreWeave is seeing explosive top-line growth, but it's losing a lot of money as it spends aggressively on data centers to rent out GPUs and computing power to customers like OpenAI. Investors seem unsure what to make of the stock as it has been highly volatile since it went public last March. The stock gained more than 300% at one point, only to then fall more than 60% before recouping some of those losses. CoreWeave's price action has been an indicator for the market's broader sentiment aroun...
Looking for a hedge against any AI bubble that may or may not be forming? Centrus Energy is a good choice. Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, be they hardware companies like Nvidia or software companies like Alphabet, have delivered investors some solid returns in the past few years. But whenever there's a major bull run in a single industry or around a single trend, fears will begin to mount ab...
Looking for a hedge against any AI bubble that may or may not be forming? Centrus Energy is a good choice. Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, be they hardware companies like Nvidia or software companies like Alphabet, have delivered investors some solid returns in the past few years. But whenever there's a major bull run in a single industry or around a single trend, fears will begin to mount about a bubble forming and then about a bubble popping. And you don't have to look very far these days to find media sources talking about the possibility of an AI bubble. So, what's an investor to do? Obviously you want to hedge your bets so that if there is a bubble, your returns don't get wiped out. But if it's not a bubble and this AI bull market is going to keep going full steam ahead, you don't want to miss out. Well, fortunately, there are some stocks that will allow you to both hedge against a bubble and profit from the AI industry. And Maryland-based Centrus Energy (LEU +10.06%) is one such stock. Expand NYSE : LEU Centrus Energy Today's Change ( 10.06 %) $ 28.33 Current Price $ 310.03 Key Data Points Market Cap $5.1B Day's Range $ 275.05 - $ 317.00 52wk Range $ 49.40 - $ 464.25 Volume 45K Avg Vol 1.1M Gross Margin 28.85 % Enrich your portfolio Centrus is a nuclear fuel refiner. Uranium's not like coal, you can't pull it out of the ground and burn it. Well, I guess you could but I wouldn't advise it. No, uranium needs to be enriched from the yellow powder most miners produce into uranium fuel pellets that go into the fuel rods a reactor runs on. And that, simply put, is what Centrus does. It produces or procures two different kinds of enriched uranium, low enriched uranium (LEU) and high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) which is used in the development of next-gen nuclear reactors to enable them to be smaller. The company has long-standing agreements to acquire fissile material from Russian and French suppliers to sell LEU to American utilities companies. Last year...
Key Points OpenAI tripled its compute capacity in each of the last two years and is expected to do the same this year. OpenAI has contracted for up to $22.4 billion of capacity from CoreWeave. CoreWeave stock has been highly volatile, tracking with broader sentiment around AI. 10 stocks we like better than CoreWeave › 2026 could be the year that AI grows up. Three years after OpenAI launched ChatG...
Key Points OpenAI tripled its compute capacity in each of the last two years and is expected to do the same this year. OpenAI has contracted for up to $22.4 billion of capacity from CoreWeave. CoreWeave stock has been highly volatile, tracking with broader sentiment around AI. 10 stocks we like better than CoreWeave › 2026 could be the year that AI grows up. Three years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, the AI boom is in full effect. Stocks like Nvidia have soared, adding trillions of dollars in market value, but there are still some doubts about whether AI will have the same real-world impact as the concerns about an AI bubble indicate. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Continue » However, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar recently said that 2026 will be a year of "practical adoption," meaning the start-up intends to close the gap between AI's possibilities and its everyday usage. OpenAI has also been a winner from the AI boom as it's reached run rate revenue of $20 billion and a valuation of $500 billion, though the company is losing billions of dollars a year. OpenAI's ramp is risky as the buildout it envisions over the next ten years will require hundreds of billions of dollars in funding. It's unclear how much compute capacity the company is planning to add this year, but its capacity tripled in each of the last two years, reaching 1.9 gigawatts (GW) in 2025. According to some estimates, OpenAI is planning to add 4 GW of capacity this year, bringing its total to around 6 GW. Much of the AI sector is relying on OpenAI's success as its technology forms the foundation of AI models being used across the software industry, but arguably no company has more to potentially gain from OpenAI's success than CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV), the biggest neocloud company. CoreWeave's volatile position Like OpenAI, CoreWeave is seeing explosive top-line growth, but it's losing a lot of money as it spends agg...
Iga Swiatek's bid to complete the career Grand Slam at this year's Australian Open was ended by Kazakh fifth seed Elena Rybakina in the quarter-finals. Reigning Wimbledon champion Swiatek lost 7-5 6-1 as Rybakina used her power to devastating effect. Swiatek, 24, can already be ranked among the greats, having won six major titles across all three different surfaces. Mastering the Wimbledon grass l...
Iga Swiatek's bid to complete the career Grand Slam at this year's Australian Open was ended by Kazakh fifth seed Elena Rybakina in the quarter-finals. Reigning Wimbledon champion Swiatek lost 7-5 6-1 as Rybakina used her power to devastating effect. Swiatek, 24, can already be ranked among the greats, having won six major titles across all three different surfaces. Mastering the Wimbledon grass last year - a surface considered her weakest - opened the door to attempting in Melbourne to become only the sixth woman in the Open era to win all four Grand Slam events. Before the tournament, Swiatek acknowledged the achievement would be a "dream come true" but insisted she was blocking out the outside noise about what was at stake. On the evidence of what she had showed over the opening four rounds, it never truly felt that she would complete the clean sweep this year. Swiatek's service game had not been solid, while the quicker courts at Melbourne Park have historically led to problems against aggressive opponents. That always promised to be a bad combination against 2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina, who ruthlessly took advantage in Wednesday's contest. Rybakina, 26, could not find rhythm with her serve in a first set which started with the pair exchanging breaks. A low first-serve percentage of 41% was uncharacteristic, but she had enough pace and aggression in her groundstrokes to rush Swiatek. That was demonstrated in the crucial 12th game. Rybakina fought back from 0-30 with deep returning - drawing loose sprays from Swiatek - and explosive winners to take the opener. Momentum stayed with Rybakina as she immediately took control of the second set. In perfect 22C sunny conditions following Tuesday's heatwave, her groundstrokes continued to fly through the court and Swiatek was unable to solve the problem facing her.
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iPhone and iPad maker Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday after market close. Here’s what investors should know. Apple beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $102.5 billion, up 7.9% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with We were also happy its revenue narrowly outperformed Wall Street’s estimates and a ...
iPhone and iPad maker Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday after market close. Here’s what investors should know. Apple beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $102.5 billion, up 7.9% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with We were also happy its revenue narrowly outperformed Wall Street’s estimates and a narrow beat of analysts’ revenue estimates. Is Apple a buy or sell going into earnings? Read our full analysis here, it’s free for active Edge members. This quarter, analysts are expecting Apple’s revenue to grow 11.1% year on year to $138.1 billion, improving from the 4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.67 per share. Apple Total Revenue Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Apple has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 1.3% on average. Today’s young investors likely haven’t read the timeless lessons in Gorilla Game: Picking Winners In High Technology because it was written more than 20 years ago when Microsoft and Apple were first establishing their supremacy. But if we apply the same principles, then enterprise software stocks leveraging their own generative AI capabilities may well be the Gorillas of the future. So, in that spirit, we are excited to present our Special Free Report on a profitable, fast-growing enterprise software stock that is already riding the automation wave and looking to catch the generative AI next.
Apple (AAPL) Q4 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For iPhone and iPad maker Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday after market close. Here’s what investors should know. Apple beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $102.5 billion, up 7.9% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with We were also happy its re...
Apple (AAPL) Q4 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For iPhone and iPad maker Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday after market close. Here’s what investors should know. Apple beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $102.5 billion, up 7.9% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with We were also happy its revenue narrowly outperformed Wall Street’s estimates and a narrow beat of analysts’ revenue estimates. Is Apple a buy or sell going into earnings? Read our full analysis here, it’s free for active Edge members. This quarter, analysts are expecting Apple’s revenue to grow 11.1% year on year to $138.1 billion, improving from the 4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.67 per share. Apple Total Revenue Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Apple has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 1.3% on average. Today’s young investors likely haven’t read the timeless lessons in Gorilla Game: Picking Winners In High Technology because it was written more than 20 years ago when Microsoft and Apple were first establishing their supremacy. But if we apply the same principles, then enterprise software stocks leveraging their own generative AI capabilities may well be the Gorillas of the future. So, in that spirit, we are excited to present our Special Free Report on a profitable, fast-growing enterprise software stock that is already riding the automation wave and looking to catch the generative AI next.
iPhone and iPad maker Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday after market close. Here’s what investors should know. Apple beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $102.5 billion, up 7.9% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with We were also happy its revenue narrowly outperformed Wall Street’s estimates and a ...
iPhone and iPad maker Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday after market close. Here’s what investors should know. Apple beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $102.5 billion, up 7.9% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with We were also happy its revenue narrowly outperformed Wall Street’s estimates and a narrow beat of analysts’ revenue estimates. Is Apple a buy or sell going into earnings? Read our full analysis here, it’s free for active Edge members. This quarter, analysts are expecting Apple’s revenue to grow 11.1% year on year to $138.1 billion, improving from the 4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.67 per share. Apple Total Revenue Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Apple has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 1.3% on average. Today’s young investors likely haven’t read the timeless lessons in Gorilla Game: Picking Winners In High Technology because it was written more than 20 years ago when Microsoft and Apple were first establishing their supremacy. But if we apply the same principles, then enterprise software stocks leveraging their own generative AI capabilities may well be the Gorillas of the future. So, in that spirit, we are excited to present our Special Free Report on a profitable, fast-growing enterprise software stock that is already riding the automation wave and looking to catch the generative AI next.