okay besties, the market served some serious looks today with tech queens absolutely slaying the runway while some of our financial services girlie pops had a bit of a moment. and by moment i mean the kind where you accidentally wear white after labor day.
the gainers 💅
google is absolutely glowing today, climbing 3.97% to $399.04 because apparently everyone's finally realizing she's not just a search engine anymore, she's a whole ai ecosystem. took y'all long enough honestly. hitting a high of $399.93 before pulling back slightly because even queens need to catch their breath.
texas instruments said "hello, i'm still here" with a gorgeous 3.78% pop to $306.34, proving that chip royalty comes in all forms. sometimes the steady earners are the ones who age like fine wine while everyone's chasing the flashy new trends.
johnson & johnson decided to remind everyone she's pharmaceutical royalty with a 2.75% jump to $230.42, because healthcare never goes out of style. literally the little black dress of dividend stocks.
tesla bounced 2.73% to $445.27 despite all the elon drama in china, because apparently chaos is just her natural habitat now. honestly the fact that she's up while her ceo is globe-trotting with politicians is peak tesla energy.
eli lilly served us a 2.61% gain to $1,015.75, staying comfortably above that psychological $1,000 level like the pharma princess she is. diabetes and weight loss drugs are literally printing money and she knows it.
megacap tea ☕
microsoft is out here playing 4d chess, laying off about 5% of linkedin staff while simultaneously going all-in on ai infrastructure spending. it's giving "sorry linkedin babies, mama needs to buy more gpus" energy. the stock didn't move much but this strategic pivot is giving me major long-term vibes.
nvidia just became the world's second-largest asset at $5.52 trillion market cap, officially bigger than silver. yes bestie, a chip company is now worth more than an actual precious metal that humans have coveted for millennia. meanwhile she's still trying to figure out how to sell h200 chips to china without getting in trouble with uncle sam.
tesla's whole china situation is giving me whiplash - elon's apparently both a "visionary" and "occasional villain" over there, which honestly sounds about right. plus he left for china with trump despite some judge's orders about the openai trial, because why handle one controversy at a time when you can juggle twelve?
today felt like the market finally remembered that fundamentals matter, with google leading the charge while some of the more speculative plays took a breather. sometimes the tortoise really does beat the hare, especially when the tortoise has ai and the hare has questionable fundamentals.
not financial advice. for entertainment only. past vibes do not indicate future vibes.