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Key Data Bites Over The Last Week:

Best Fund Managers have been selling these 10 stocks.
Soros CIO says investors will face a painful 18-24 months.
U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February, far below 55,000 job gain estimate.
SoftBank seeks record loan of up to $40B to finance OpenAI stake.
Billionaire Tesla whale purchased 1M Nvidia shares.
Nvidia will invest $4B into photonics Coherent and Lumentum.
Mark Zuckerberg purchased a $170M mansion in Miami.
Apple unveiled 7 new products.
Elliott Management has taken a $1B stake in Pinterest.
Anduril is raising $4B at a $60B valuation.
Record 6% of workers raided their 401(k) savings last year.
Broadcom sees AI chip sales surpassing $100B in 2027.
Robinhood launched a platinum credit card with $695 annual fee.
Accenture purchased Downdetector and Speedtest for $1.2B.

In today's newsletter:

🏃‍♂️ Nvidia Leaped Apple & Microsoft
💰 Berkshire's $373B Cash Pile
📈 Surging International Markets
🏇 Anthropic Is Catching Up
💵 Costco Isn't Cheap

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For the first time ever, Nvidia is now more profitable than both Apple and Microsoft.

Over the last twelve months, Nvidia generated $120B in net income, edging out Microsoft at $119B and Apple at $118B.

A decade ago, it wasn't even close. Everyone saw the stock surge, but few noticed that the profit crown recently changed hands.

Warren Buffett just closed the book on his final quarter as CEO.

Berkshire's operating earnings fell nearly 30% in Q4, driven largely by weaker insurance underwriting results.
At the same time, Berkshire's cash position climbed to a record $373B.

Greg Abel officially took over over Berkshire Hathaway at the start of the year.

In his first annual letter, he signaled that Berkshire's long standing approach will remain intact.
Abel also recently purchased $15M of stock and announced that the company has resumed buying back its own shares for the first time since 2024.

The global leaderboard looks very different over the past year.

While the S&P 500 is up 17%, several international markets have delivered far stronger returns.

South Korea leads the group, with gains driven largely by chipmakers like Samsung and SK Hynix that sit at the center of the AI supply chain.

But the rally has come with volatility.

Rising tensions in the Middle East rattled investors given Korea's heavy reliance on energy imports.
At the same time, elevated leverage in the market triggered waves of forced selling.
Trading was halted multiple times last week as circuit breakers were hit.

Even the top performing market of the past year has not been immune to chaos.

Anthropic is on ChatGPT's heels.

OpenAI still leads, with annualized revenue surpassing $25B.

But Anthropic is closing the gap quickly.

Its run rate has surged to roughly $19B, more than doubling since the end of last year as adoption of its Claude models accelerates.

The momentum comes during a tense standoff with Washington.

Anthropic was labeled a supply chain risk by the Pentagon after clashing with the Department of War over how its AI could be used for surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Hours later, OpenAI struck its own deal with the Pentagon, with CEO Sam Altman later commenting that governments should be more powerful than private companies.
Meanwhile, Claude surged to the top of Apple's App Store as users rallied behind Anthropic.

Can anything stop Costco?

The wholesale giant once again topped expectations this week.

Earnings came in at $4.58 on $69.6B in revenue, both slightly ahead of forecasts.
Comparable sales rose 6.7%, also beating estimates.

The company is also suing Trump after the Supreme Court ruled the administration's global tariffs illegal.

Costco says any refunds could eventually be passed through to customers in the form of lower prices.

Despite the good quarter, the company remains one of the most expensive stocks in the S&P 500.

It trades at more than double Nvidia's forward valuation, despite slower expected future growth.

🇨🇳 Growth Reset^↗ – China has set its lowest economic growth target since the early 1990s.

✂️ Silicon Sacrifice^↗ – Oracle is planning thousands of job cuts to fund AI data centers.

🤝 Compute Deal^↗ – Perplexity signed a multiyear deal to use CoreWeave's data centers.

👎 Risk Dismissed^↗ – Legendary investor Howard Marks said he doesn't see a systemic problem with private credit.

Notable Companies Reporting Earnings Week of March 8, 2026:

Major Trades Published 3/2 - 3/6. Trades may be those of family members. [Source: Capitol Trades]

Buys

Lisa McClain (R)
- Company: BigBear.ai Holdings ($BBAI)
  - Amount Purchased: $16K - $65K
Markwayne Mullin (R)
- Company: Adobe ($ADBE)
  - Amount Purchased: $15K - $50K
- Company: Amkor Technology ($AMKR)
  - Amount Purchased: $15K - $50K
- Company: Citigroup ($C)
  - Amount Purchased: $15K - $50K

Sells

John Hickenlooper (D)
- Company: Sirius XM ($SIRI)
  - Amount Purchased: $50K - $100K
Markwayne Mullin (R)
- Company: Coherent Corp ($COHR)
  - Amount Purchased: $15K - $50K
- Company: Dell Technologies ($DELL)
  - Amount Purchased: $15K - $50K
- Company: Goldman Sachs ($GS)
  - Amount Purchased: $15K - $50K

Major Trades Published 3/2 - 3/6

Buys

Trade Desk ($TTD)
- Insider: Jeff Green (CEO)
  - # of Shares Purchased: 6,000,000
  - $ Amount: $148,101,266
  - SEC Forms: [1]
KKR & Co. ($KKR)
- Insider: Timothy Barakett (Director)
  - # of Shares Purchased: 50,000
  - $ Amount: $4,723,500
  - SEC Forms: [1]

Sells

Palantir ($PLTR)
- Insider: Peter Thiel (Director)
  - # of Shares Sold: 2,000,000
  - $ Amount: $289,707,507
  - SEC Forms: [1]
Warner Bros Discovery ($WBD)
- Insider: David Zaslav (CEO)
  - # of Shares Sold: 4,004,149
  - $ Amount: $113,157,251
  - SEC Forms: [1]

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