Published on: December 19, 2025

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Q:    What did this week’s inflation numbers tell us and how did the financial markets react?
Q:    What are some intelligence implications for investors from the delayed jobs reports just released?
Q:    What is the real story on the current U.S. economy based upon recent retail sales?  
Q:    What is Deep Value investing and why is it important for us to understand it?

 

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Headline Round Up!

*TEXAS! Red Hot Texas Gets Swamped with Data Center Grid Connection Requests, But Experts See a Bubble?
*TEXAS! Austin Based Oracle’s $248 Billion in Commitments at the Center of Tech Sector’s $500 Billion AI (Artificial Intelligence) Spending Spree!
*Is AI About to Empty Madison Avenue?
*CoreWeave’s Staggering Fall From Grace Highlights AI Bubble Fears?
*Blue Owl Financing Excluded From an Oracle’s $10 Billion Data Center Deal as Negotiations Stall.
*White Collar Workers Count Your Blessings: Wall Street Journal Says, “Office Workers Hanging On to Their Jobs for Dear Life”.
*Wall Street Journal Newsroom Let AI Run Their Vending Machine and It Lost Hundreds of Dollars!
*Rivian Ditches Nvidia While Unveiling Its Own AI Chip for Automated Driving?
*EV (Electric Vehicle) Bust Leads to Ford’s Massive Loss of $19.5 Billion.
*Zillow Shares Crushed This Week as Google Becomes a Competitor? Is Zillow a bargain or a value trap?
*Insomnia Anyone? Nasdaq, Inc. Seeks SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) Approval for 23 Hour Trading During Weekdays.
*Private Credit Warning: Dallas Based Tricolor Executives Charged with Fraud in Federal Indictment This Week.
*Bloomberg Economics’ Gives Big Calls/Predictions for 2026!
*Citigroup’s Bold 2026 S&P 500 Index Forecast!

 

Profit Report

Tax Tips for 2026!

 

Oracle Corp. (12/31/2024 – 12/19/2025)

– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP

C.B.O.E. Short Term Interest Rate Index & 10 Year Treasury Note Index (01/03/2025 – 12/19/2025)

– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP

Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (12/19/2024 – 12/19/2025)

– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP

Invesco S&P 500 Index Equal Weight Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) (12/31/2024 – 12/19/2025)

– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP

U.S. Job Openings by Industry Total, Seasonally Adjusted (10/31/2022 – 10/31/2025)

– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP

 

Research Round Up!

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*Eaton Vance: The 2026 Outlook.
*AllianceBernstein: Tracking the Great Shift to Value.
*PIMCO: Five Investment Ideas for 2026.
*Cohen & Steers: Global Infrastructure Opportunities

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