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This week:

  • 📉 Investors Question Safety of Long Bonds

  • 🏚️ Insurers Enjoy Windfall After Storm Season

  • 🛒 Budget Shoppers Love Dollar General Right Now

  • ⚛️ Meta Locked Down 2 Decades of Nuclear Energy for AI

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📉 30-Year Treasurys Are Losing Safe Haven Status

The long end of the Treasury market is flashing red as investors (understandably) balk at the idea of lending to the US government for three whole decades.

Major bond managers like Pimco and DoubleLine are pulling back from 30-year bonds, citing poor risk-reward and growing concerns about America’s fiscal trajectory. Will demand rebound, or will the Treasury be forced to change its name to the Trashery? Neither is likely, but one can hope.

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🏚️ Insurers Post Record Profits From Disasters

Despite a surge in natural disaster losses, US property and casualty insurers just had their best year in over a decade. We’re not sure who (if anyone) to be happy for, so we’ll just tell you what happened.

After years of underwriting losses, the industry nearly doubled its profits to $171 billion in 2024 thanks to aggressive premium hikes. Homeowners are feeling the squeeze, especially as many are unable to sell their homes due to the recent market swell.

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🛒 Dollar General Cashes in on Strong Earnings

Dollar General is winning over cost-conscious shoppers, and Wall Street is taking notice. When dollar stores do well, it can mean consumers are anxious about the economy—or that they couldn’t make it to Walmart in time for toilet paper.

The discount retailer beat Q1 earnings expectations with an 8% jump in EPS and stronger-than-expected revenue and same-store sales. CEO Todd Vasos has several thoughts on why his budget-friendly dollar store chain posted such big gains:

⚛️ Meta Signs 20-Year Nuclear Deal to Power AI

Constellation Energy stock surged after announcing a 20-year deal to supply nuclear power to Meta’s expanding AI data centers.

The agreement will support a 30 MW expansion at the Clinton nuclear plant in Illinois and secure over 1,000 local jobs. Meta’s AI push is fueling a wave of clean energy deals, with Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle all making nuclear moves to meet rising power demands.

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