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Apple, Palantir and Alphabet: Big Growth, Bigger Ambitions and One Very Large Electric Bill With Anthropic IPO In The Wings -( $AAPL $EL $GOOGL $LITE $MRVL $PLTR $SATS $SPCX)

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. November 2, 2026 326Views 0Likes

Stronger Earnings, Expanding AI Demand and a $115 Billion Deal Put Business Fundamentals Back in Focus The strongest bullish argument for stocks this November is not that every artificial intelligence project will succeed. It is that several important businesses are already turning…

Futuristic city at sunset with ADT and Crocs branding, a glowing AI optics display, and market tickers highlighting gains, recovery and drugmaker demand.

ADT’s $15.3 Billion Thrive Deal, Crocs’ Comeback and AI Optics Fuel the Bull Case as Drugmakers Show Demand Still Delivers -( $ADT $APO $BMY $CROX $LITE $LLY $MRK $MRVL )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. October 29, 2026 397Views 0Likes

Takeover premiums, stronger earnings and resilient drug demand give Wall Street fresh reasons to look beyond the market’s familiar favorites. Wall Street’s most encouraging stories do not always arrive wearing the same uniform. On October 29, they came dressed as a home-security…

Financial collage showing declining price charts transitioning into colorful upward arrows, skyscrapers and market opportunity headlines.

Inflation Is Narrowing. That Could Be Wall Street’s Next Opening. -( $DIA $IWM $SPY $QQQ )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. October 18, 2026 273Views 0Likes

Cooling price pressures offer a constructive signal for many, even as Washington’s $1.05 trillion interest bill raises the stakes for getting inflation under control. The next bullish development for U.S. stocks may arrive without the customary fanfare of a Federal Reserve rate…

Comic-book illustration of a small-cap stock boxer punching a giant labeled “10-Year Treasury Yield,” symbolizing the Russell 2000’s fight against rising yields.

Small Caps vs. the 10-Year Treasury: Why the Russell 2000 Could Be a Comeback Trade ( $IWM $QQQ $SPY )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. October 18, 2026 469Views 0Likes

Higher borrowing costs have cooled small-cap stocks. A friendlier bond market could give investors a reason to reconsider IWM. Wall Street’s smaller companies have spent the past two months discovering that the bond market can be a rather demanding business partner. It…

Illustration of a bullish investment landscape showing AI-powered ecommerce, healthcare innovation, cybersecurity and market growth. Robots manage online-shopping fulfillment around an ecommerce screen, clinicians and researchers work in a modern medical setting, and professionals point toward rising stock charts and upward arrows, with the phrases “AI Commerce,” “Healthcare” and “Stay Engaged.”

A Resilient Economy, AI Commerce & Healthcare Catalysts Give Many More Than One Reason to Stay Engaged -( $AMWL $AMZN $APPL $CRWD $GOOG $OKTA $PANW $PYPL $SER $SHOP $SMWB $XYZ $ZS )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. September 14, 2026 625Views 0Likes

Many entered the week bracing for a Federal Reserve rate hike, yet the more constructive takeaway may be that policy makers still have room to choose patience. That possibility, alongside fresh evidence of AI-led ecommerce change, government-scale digital-health demand and advancing biotech milestones,…

Illustrated hockey-arena infographic titled “The Gretzky Growth Playbook: Why Relentless Preparation Can Create Winning Investments,” showing Wayne Gretzky skating at center ice amid stock-market symbols and a four-step investment process: research and data, practice and skills, strategy and anticipation, and execution and results.

The Gretzky Growth Playbook: Why Relentless Preparation Can Create Winning Investments -( $AAPL $AAPL $LLY $NVDA $NVO $PANW )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. August 21, 2026 452Views 0Likes

Wayne Gretzky’s enduring observation that hard work in youth can create freedom later is more than a hockey maxim. It is a compact description of how durable companies and long-term investor build advantage: do the unglamorous work early, develop pattern recognition before…

bullish market story examines how rising bond yields

AI, Bond Yields and Big Bets: Why the Bull Case Is Getting More Selective -( $GOOG $NVDA )

by John F. Heerdink, Jr. August 18, 2026 248Views 0Likes

This bullish market story examines how rising bond yields are reshaping—not ending—the investment opportunity set. It highlights **NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)** and its enormous AI data-center ambitions, **Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG)** and the growing strategic value of proprietary business data, and the emerging…

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Apple, Palantir and Alphabet: Big Growth, Bigger Ambitions and One Very Large Electric Bill With Anthropic IPO In The Wings -( $AAPL $EL $GOOGL $LITE $MRVL $PLTR $SATS $SPCX)

ADT’s $15.3 Billion Thrive Deal, Crocs’ Comeback and AI Optics Fuel the Bull Case as Drugmakers Show Demand Still Delivers -( $ADT $APO $BMY $CROX $LITE $LLY $MRK $MRVL )

Inflation Is Narrowing. That Could Be Wall Street’s Next Opening. -( $DIA $IWM $SPY $QQQ )

Small Caps vs. the 10-Year Treasury: Why the Russell 2000 Could Be a Comeback Trade ( $IWM $QQQ $SPY )

A Resilient Economy, AI Commerce & Healthcare Catalysts Give Many More Than One Reason to Stay Engaged -( $AMWL $AMZN $APPL $CRWD $GOOG $OKTA $PANW $PYPL $SER $SHOP $SMWB $XYZ $ZS )

The Gretzky Growth Playbook: Why Relentless Preparation Can Create Winning Investments -( $AAPL $AAPL $LLY $NVDA $NVO $PANW )

AI, Bond Yields and Big Bets: Why the Bull Case Is Getting More Selective -( $GOOG $NVDA )

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