YouTube's Finance Gurus Are All Screaming the Same Thing: Chips Are Toast, Aluminum Is the Trade, and Jamie Dimon Is Very Concerned
Bloomberg, Fundstrat, Seeking Alpha, and CNBC creators find rare consensus — and some wild disagreement — on inflation, chips, and the next big trade
Ticker Ratings
| Ticker | Rating | Entry Price | Current | $ Gain | % Gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCOM QUALCOMM INC/DE | hold | $220.99 | — | — | — |
| INTC INTEL CORP | sell | $124.50 | — | — | — |
| AA Alcoa Corp | buy | $68.50 | — | — | — |
| CME CME GROUP INC. | buy | $284.18 | — | — | — |
| UAA Under Armour, Inc. | sell | $5.03 | — | — | — |
| HIMS Hims & Hers Health, Inc. | hold | $24.97 | — | — | — |
| WEN Wendy's Co | buy | $7.86 | — | — | — |
| GME GameStop Corp. | sell | $22.43 | — | — | — |
| LLY ELI LILLY & Co | hold | $984.66 | — | — | — |
| SOL | buy | $95.69 | — | — | — |
| BTC Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF | buy | $81235.00 | — | — | — |
| SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF TRUST | buy | $740.07 | — | — | — |
Let's start with the elephant in the room: the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 3% on the day — down as much as 6.8% intraday — and basically every Bloomberg Podcasts clip this week features someone explaining why a $440 billion, six-week chip rally was always going to need a nap. $QCOM logged its worst single day since March 2020. $INTC, up nearly 220% year-to-date, became the most-shorted name in semis almost overnight. The dot-com comparison is no longer a Reddit hyperbole — CNBC's segment flagged the SOX sitting 60% above its 200-day moving average, a level not seen since 1999. Yikes.
Meanwhile, while everyone obsesses over chips, Bloomberg's Timna Tanners is quietly pointing at aluminum like it's a winning lottery ticket nobody wants to cash. Iran-related conflict has damaged Middle Eastern smelters far more than markets realize — some needing 12–18 months to rebuild — effectively doubling the pre-war shortfall to over 2 million tons. $AA got an overweight upgrade with a $70 price target, and the Midwest premium is hitting all-time highs. This is the trade that's hiding in plain sight while everyone debates Nvidia's next move.
On the macro front, creators are in rare agreement: CPI at 3.8% (highest since 2023), WTI crude above $101, and a newly confirmed Fed Chair Kevin Warsh who is — per Bloomberg's Michael McKee — effectively "handcuffed" from cutting rates. Ed Yardeni is still bullish (Dow 60,000, S&P 8,250 target), Jamie Dimon is doing his concerned-dad thing warning about "too much exuberance," and somehow both of them are right about different parts of the market at the same time. Oh, and $CME just made GPU compute time a tradeable futures contract — because apparently we needed one more thing to speculate on.