06-26-26 spal
35% cash
Have stripped back to "certain" and rock solid holdings for now.
Frontera (now and infrastructure co - mainly Puerto Bahia and the oleducto) ... I am confident it will do fine under the new regime in Colombia. Largest position and adding.
PPIH - thermal covered high tech oil and gas pipe manufacture with manufacturing and contracts in place in the GCC and in Ohio. Joint bet on cooling pipes for data centers and by-pass pipes in the GCC. Both are strategic. Very high backlog. Large position.
Large position on copper (junior miner index COPJ) and Gunnison Copper.
Position in RAIL ... rail car manufacturing ... huge demand for transport (rail) in the interior corridors in US/ Mexico.
MASS - my only tech position. Adding. Hand held mass spectrometers. Killer application IMO.
JOB - special situation (cashed up staffing company with an activist on board).
APPL - best mass scale consumer hotel franchise in the US currently - great brand portolio. This is for domestic middle class and biz travel.
NNBR - turnaround ... likely.
ALVOF - brazil gas ... great contracts.
Watching shipping currently mostly pulling back, but could re-enter.
Market is currently in flux.
How about you?
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06-26-26 panasonic
| Spal, where are your chips right now? |
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06-26-26 spal
| Panas yes - but it all seems very contrary actually. There is a commodity bounce building up again somewhere in all this. |
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06-26-26 panasonic
Spal, besides semis and specifically memory stocks, the tech world is taking a beat.
Nikkei dropped big time tdy.
Anals were pushing oil & precious metals and both went wrong, very...
Now they are pushing financials, maybe me should buy puts... |
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06-26-26 spal
Tech
While tech indices have finally started experiencing high-volume, overdue pullbacks (such as the recent 2% single-day drop in the Nasdaq), tech has remained insulated from the broader commodity and crypto pain.
Why? Because mega-cap tech is no longer treated as a purely speculative risk asset. In a market terrified of structural inflation, high rates, and supply-chain blockages, companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple are treated as sovereign cash-flow monopolies. They have zero debt risk, massive pricing power, and ironclad balance sheets. Capital escaping crypto and vulnerable small-caps has flown straight into mega-cap tech as a defensive proxy, artificially keeping valuations highly elevated. |
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06-26-26 spal
Oil
Futures traders sell the possibility of supply resolution immediately, completely ignoring the fact that Iran has given zero credible assurances of a true opening. The paper market is choosing to price in an incoming wave of supply that does not physically exist yet, leaving oil fundamentally mispriced relative to its immediate, tight physical constraints. |
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06-26-26 spal
| Fed rate hikes for later this year under Kevin Warsh, real yields (bond yields minus inflation) have aggressively spiked. |
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06-25-26 victor
Expertos de la ONU piden a Venezuela que «desbloquee de inmediato» el acceso a redes sociales por los terremotos
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06-25-26 panasonic
| Vic, yes given the poor conditions of infrastructure and lack of capacity to respond, it could fall into chaos pretty fast. |
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06-25-26 victor
pana, sorry.
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Según el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS), un terremoto de magnitud 7,2 sacudió la zona situada a unos 160 km al oeste de Caracas, y menos de un minuto después se produjo otro de magnitud 7,5. “Es probable que haya un elevado número de víctimas y daños extensos, y es probable que el desastre sea de gran alcance”, afirmó el USGS, con una estimación inicial del número de fallecidos que podría situarse entre 10.000 y 100.000. |
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06-25-26 panasonic
Leo, tks.
Infrastructure already was in very poor conditions, damage is considerable, we all hope casualties number stays low. |
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06-25-26 victor
"and there is not to much damage and casualities."
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Al menos 164 muertos y casi mil heridos tras dos potentes terremotos en Venezuela |
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06-25-26 leopardo
Sorry for that Pana.
I hope Vnz can recover quickly and there is not to much damage and casualities. |
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