SPY
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE Arca: SPY), the primary barometer for the health of the U.S. equity market, faced a turbulent start to the third week of 2026. As traders returned from the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on January 20, 2026, the fund
AI
The immediate implications are stark: production of Google’s sixth and seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and Amazon’s custom Trainium and Inferentia chips are now directly bottlenecked by raw material availability rather than chip design or foundry capacity. With supply lines for the highest-grade "T-Glass" (Low Coefficient
geopolitics
The intricate web of global technology supply chains, once optimized for efficiency and cost-effectiveness, is now being fundamentally rewoven under the intense pressure of geopolitical tensions. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical sector of chip manufacturing and distribution, a foundational element for virtually every modern industry. The