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Market Meltdowns? Bridgewater Thrives
📊 Bridgewater thrives in chaos, racking up an 11.3% YTD gain—turns out market meltdowns are just another profit opportunity.
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📊 Bridgewater thrives in chaos, racking up an 11.3% YTD gain—turns out market meltdowns are just another profit opportunity.
đź’Ž Signet Jewelers shines while Intel and Baidu struggle to keep up.
🔍 Nvidia-backed Coreweave is gearing up for a multi-billion dollar IPO.
Market Snapshot
Banana Bits
Jensen Huang isn’t intimidated by Deepseek. Not even a little bit!
Nvidia-backed AI startup Coreweave dropped its initial share price ahead of a planned IPO.
The Fed holds rates steady and lifts the market’s spirits with its rosy economic outlook.
Boeing reared its ugly head from the doldrums with some positive news.
Amtrak CEO decides to step down after receiving the ire of Elon Musk.
White House is preparing documents to shut down the Department of Education.
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Macro Monkey Says
Bridgewater’s Performance: When Chaos Is Your Friend
Bridgewater’s flagship Pure Alpha Fund is having a stellar year, up 11.3% in 2025. And what’s the secret? Well, it’s all about embracing the madness.
You know, that lovely combination of market volatility, inflation worries, and trade wars?
You might think these things are more of a headache than a profit opportunity, but not for Ray Dalio and his team. While we’re still figuring out how to reply to emails with "Per my last message," they’re out here turning chaos into cash.
This year, the fund crushed it in January alone, posting an 8.2% gain. That’s after markets had a full meltdown, driven by everything from AI stock sell-offs to political uncertainty.
While most investors were busy panic-Googling “market crash 2025?” Bridgewater was out there cashing in. Why wait for calm seas when you can turn the turbulence into a moneymaking opportunity?
And it’s not just about being a market wizard. Bridgewater also showed off its prowess in the Chinese market, where its China fund rose 35% in 2024. While most funds are still trying to decode what’s happening in China, Bridgewater is busy profiting off it.
So, while other hedge funds like Brevan Howard and DE Shaw’s Oculus Fund are limping along, Bridgewater is out here making volatility look like a walk in the park.
Guess it’s safe to say if you’re not doing what Bridgewater’s doing in 2025, you might be missing out.
Career Corner
Question
One of the responses I got from a cold email was basically just, "If you're interested in the position, send me your CV." This is definitely positive, but I think a phone call would still help me learn about the bank and allow me to speak about that in an interview.
Should I just say yes, I'm interested, and send him the CV, or should I ask again for a quick phone call?
Answer
You definitely have to respond with your CV, and you can follow up by saying you would still love to chat if he/she has time.
Head Mentor, WSO Academy
What's Ripe
Signet Jewelers (SIG) 17.3%
Signet’s sparkling performance had investors swooning. The jewelry giant posted strong earnings and boosted its outlook, which sent shares climbing. It’s all about that retail love—just don’t tell them their stock’s as flashy as their diamonds.
Affirm (AFRM) 9.2%
Affirm cruised into the close as investors are still getting excited about its financial performance. The fintech company saw a bounce after some optimistic analyst upgrades. Just when you think buy-now-pay-later is dead, Affirm proves there's still room to charge forward!
What's Rotten
Intel (INTC) 6.9%
Intel seems to have a bad case of semiconductor shortages, which isn't helping its stock. Investors aren’t thrilled with its growth forecast either, leading to another red day. Looks like the chipmaker can’t quite catch a break in this supply chain mess.
Baidu (BIDU) 4.2%
The Chinese tech giant got caught in a slowdown as regulatory pressures continue to weigh on its outlook. Baidu may be losing some of its sparkle in the AI space, which has left traders shaking their heads and backing away.
Thought Banana
Corweave’s IPO: Renting GPUs for the Future of Computing
Corweave is going public, and it's making waves by renting out GPUs—yes, you read that right. The company is positioning itself as the go-to platform for businesses that need high-powered computing without the hefty price tag of owning the hardware.
Rather than buying expensive GPUs outright, companies can rent them on-demand, using them for everything from machine learning to data processing.
Think of Corweave as the Airbnb of GPUs.
Instead of investing millions in a data center full of GPUs, companies can rent just what they need when they need it. This “cloud-based” GPU rental model is tapping into the rapidly growing demand for more computational power, especially with the rise of AI and big data.
While the concept sounds simple, the market for on-demand, high-performance computing is expected to grow significantly, and Corweave is looking to capture its slice of that market.
Their IPO is generating a lot of buzz, but the real question is whether the demand for GPU rentals will continue to soar or if it’ll be a flash in the pan. Will investors be renting a piece of the future or just another tech fad?
The Big Question: With Nvidia's dominance in the GPU market, could Corweave’s business model face supply chain bottlenecks or price squeezes?
Banana Brain Teaser
Previous
At a certain fruit stand, the price of each apple is 40 cents, and the price of each orange is 60 cents. Mary selects a total of 10 apples and oranges from the fruit stand, and the average (arithmetic mean) price of the 10 pieces of fruit is 56 cents. How many oranges must Mary put back so that the average price of the pieces of fruit that she keeps is 52 cents?
Answer: 5
Today
In order to complete a reading assignment on time, Terry planned to read 90 pages per day. However, she read only 75 pages per day at first, leaving 690 pages to be read during the last 6 days before the assignment was to be completed. How many days in all did Terry have to complete the assignment on time?
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