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Earnings · Aug 31, 2026
Frontline Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever. The CEO Called It a Storm. He Meant That as a Good Thing.

Record $659M net profit, VLCCs earning $153K/day, and FFA paper for 2028 trading near $100K/day. The geopolitical mechanics behind the generational tanker market.

6 min read
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Earnings · Aug 31, 2026
BJ's Wholesale Club Made More Money This Quarter Than It Did in All of 2018.

$6.1B revenue, adjusted EPS up 19.3%, 8.5M members at an all-time high. The gas moat, the Texas expansion, and the SKU reduction strategy most coverage missed.

6 min read
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Earnings · Aug 31, 2026
ZKH Just Posted Its First Operating Profit. The Number Is RMB 4M. The Direction Is What Matters.

GMV up 18.9%, gross margin expanding, semiconductor GMV up 100-fold. China's largest industrial MRO marketplace finally turned profitable — here's what the business actually does.

6 min read
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Earnings · Aug 31, 2026
Jiayin (JFIN) Lost RMB 183M Last Quarter. It Also Has RMB 504M in Cash and a Pivot Strategy Worth Understanding.

Revenue down 61%, transaction volume down 74% — but cash jumped from RMB 43M to RMB 504M in one quarter. The AI technology pivot has more specifics than the headlines suggest.

5 min read
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Insider Trading · May 19, 2026
The 10% Owner of This Obscure REIT Just Spent $5.7 Million Buying More Shares. Here's Why It Matters.

Ernest Rady bought 271,168 AAT shares across four tranches. He already owns 13M shares and controls the company. When a founder buys more of something he already owns at this scale, that's the strongest insider signal that exists.

6 min read
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Congressional Trading · May 19, 2026
Trump Made 3,642 Stock Trades in 90 Days. Here's What Nobody Is Connecting.

Trump's Q1 2026 OGE filing disclosed 3,642 trades worth $220M–$750M. The smaller positions — trucking, payroll, energy — overlap with White House policy decisions in ways the headline coverage keeps missing.

7 min read
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