I’ve been watching the memory semiconductor cycle for years now, and I can’t stop thinking about a comment from a market analyst this week. On a recent TV segment, the analyst argued the selloff in memory and semiconductor names has been completely overdone, and the data backs that up hard. “DRAM contracts this month, quarter ... DRAM prices surged 90-95%, memory suppliers booked two years out
I’ve been watching the memory semiconductor cycle for years now, and I can’t stop thinking about a comment from a market analyst this week. On a recent TV segment, the analyst argued the selloff in memory and semiconductor names has been completely overdone, and the data backs that up hard. “DRAM contracts this month, quarter ... DRAM prices surged 90-95%, memory suppliers booked two years out
Alexander Sikov/iStock via Getty Images Overview When I previously covered the BlackRock Science and Technology Term Trust ( BSTZ ), I issued a buy rating due to the attractive outlook at the time. Since then, there have been some shifts within the technology sector, and sentiment has rapidly changed. Investors are a bit concerned about the moat of SaaS companies, which sparked a sell-off of the i...
Alexander Sikov/iStock via Getty Images Overview When I previously covered the BlackRock Science and Technology Term Trust ( BSTZ ), I issued a buy rating due to the attractive outlook at the time. Since then, there have been some shifts within the technology sector, and sentiment has rapidly changed. Investors are a bit concerned about the moat of SaaS companies, which sparked a sell-off of the indices. However, BSTZ has held up a bit better than the rest of the market, so I wanted to revisit the overall value proposition through 2026. Additionally, the fund has released an updated annual report that provides some insights into the fund's earnings. At the time of my last coverage, BSTZ traded at a discount to NAV of 7.6%. Following the same pullback in the fund, BSTZ now trades at a slightly larger discount to NAV of 9.22%. Referring to the red line in the graph below, we can see that BSTZ trades at the higher end of its five-year price-to-NAV range. Despite this, I believe that the discount window will eventually close as interest rates trend lower and operating spreads improve. BSTZ is also directly aligned to participate in the expansion of the AI market through its exposure to semiconductor companies. CEFData.com What makes BSTZ unique is the high starting dividend yield of 8.8%. The fund issues those payouts on a monthly basis, and the latest annual report indicates that its portfolio strategy was capable of generating sufficient earnings without an issue. However, there are still some vulnerabilities that investors must be aware of. If the fund is unable to capture net realized gains from its positions, BSTZ may be faced with the scenario of paying out more than it earns. This can lead to NAV erosion and the inability to provide attractive returns. Fund Strategy According to the latest fund overview , BSTZ has total managed assets of $1.67B that are spread across 82 different positions. One of the defining features of BSTZ is the fact that it focuses on findi...
The Slack messages began arriving at 5:47 a.m. on a recent Monday. Three sales proposals had gone out the previous week and none of the team members had scheduled follow-ups. The reminders were crisp, professional and relentless — and they hadn’t been sent by a human. They came from Junior, an AI employee from the startup Kuse AI. Xiankun Wu , the company’s founder, is creating the kind of workpla...
The Slack messages began arriving at 5:47 a.m. on a recent Monday. Three sales proposals had gone out the previous week and none of the team members had scheduled follow-ups. The reminders were crisp, professional and relentless — and they hadn’t been sent by a human. They came from Junior, an AI employee from the startup Kuse AI. Xiankun Wu , the company’s founder, is creating the kind of workplace that feels both inevitable and unsettling. He’s offering a new type of colleague who is entirely virtual and behaves uncannily like the most driven new hire you’ve ever worked with. Wu, 31, designed Junior for almost any business, equipping it with the ability to tap into company data and communications challenges, along with the organizational memory it needs to know who does what and how colleagues are connected to each other. Wu is now courting global corporate customers, offering Junior as a full-fledged AI colleague capable of managing work processes within small and medium enterprises — at a cost of $2,000 a month. Junior has its own phone number, email and Slack account. It can join every Zoom call. “Getting used to the AI agent can be exhausting,” said Wu, who splits his time between Silicon Valley, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Since its unveiling on March 13, more than 2,000 companies have joined the waiting list to check it out. Demo slots, which require a $500 deposit to deter the merely curious, are fully booked. The proposition is blunt: it’s labor, but AI-defined. Junior drafts marketing campaigns, updates customer relationship management systems, monitors inboxes, tracks deadlines across departments and generates reports. It does so proactively: Instead of waiting for prompts, it scans internal communications, identifies gaps and relentlessly nudges employees to close them. Junior is built upon Silicon Valley and China’s latest obsession: an open-source framework called OpenClaw that’s used for building AI agents, which can control computer systems and execute ...
US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Markwayne Mullin was confirmed Department of Homeland Security secretary, placing the Oklahoma senator in charge of a Trump administration immigration crackdown that has triggered a 37-day funding shutdown of the cabinet agency.
US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Markwayne Mullin was confirmed Department of Homeland Security secretary, placing the Oklahoma senator in charge of a Trump administration immigration crackdown that has triggered a 37-day funding shutdown of the cabinet agency.
(RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market on Wednesday ended the four-day losing streak in which it had plunged almost 1,700 points or 5.3 percent. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 33,170-point plateau and it's expected to extend its gains on Thursday.
(RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market on Wednesday ended the four-day losing streak in which it had plunged almost 1,700 points or 5.3 percent. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 33,170-point plateau and it's expected to extend its gains on Thursday.
Following a five-week market selloff that pushed major averages into correction territory, Gibbens Capital Management CIO Mark Gibbens says the pullback has created a prime buying opportunity for long-term investors eyeing the tech sector. Nvidia At A Discount Despite recent geopolitical headwinds and inflation concerns weighing heavily on the broader markets, Gibbens remains decidedly bullish on ...
Following a five-week market selloff that pushed major averages into correction territory, Gibbens Capital Management CIO Mark Gibbens says the pullback has created a prime buying opportunity for long-term investors eyeing the tech sector. Nvidia At A Discount Despite recent geopolitical headwinds and inflation concerns weighing heavily on the broader markets, Gibbens remains decidedly bullish on technology. Pointing to the roughly 10% drop across major indices, he noted that fundamentally stron