<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Clargus insights</title><description>Clargus is a compounding stock market intelligence platform for investors and investment teams. Sample briefings and essays from Clargus.</description><link>https://clargus.com/</link><language>en-us</language><image><url>https://clargus.com/clargus-logo-512.png</url><title>Clargus insights</title><link>https://clargus.com/</link></image><item><title>Humanoid robots burn through batteries. UBTech owns the fleet.</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/ubtech-humanoid-battery-consumable/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/ubtech-humanoid-battery-consumable/</guid><description>A humanoid robot charges its battery more times in a week than your car does in a year. The leaders fixed runtime by swapping packs, and that turns the battery into a consumable.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>MECHANISM</category><category>Robotics, batteries</category></item><item><title>SpaceX bought spectrum, and T-Mobile fell 13% in a day</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/carriers-starlink-mobile/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/carriers-starlink-mobile/</guid><description>Your phone company lost 13% in one day. Not because of earnings. Because a rocket company bought radio spectrum, and the carriers’ own satellite partner was outbid for the same band.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>REPRICING</category><category>Telecom</category></item><item><title>Moderna is up 600% on a cancer vaccine. Its partner Merck hasn&apos;t moved.</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/moderna-one-drug-two-tapes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/moderna-one-drug-two-tapes/</guid><description>Moderna’s revenue fell from $18 billion a year to $145 million a quarter. The stock is up more than 600% this year. The company that owns half of the reason has not moved.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>PAIR DIVERGENCE</category><category>Biotech</category></item><item><title>Humana is dropping 600,000 customers. The stock hit a 52-week high.</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/humana-wins-by-shrinking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/humana-wins-by-shrinking/</guid><description>Humana is dropping about 600,000 Medicare customers next year. The stock closed at a 52-week high, up 70% this year. Here is how a health insurer wins by getting smaller.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>MECHANISM</category><category>Health insurance</category></item><item><title>A company that makes nothing wants to buy Mattel, the maker of Barbie</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/mattel-licensing-bid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/mattel-licensing-bid/</guid><description>On October 1 Mattel’s chief executive left for Paramount and Authentic Brands Group approached the board with an offer reported near $6 billion against a $3.6 billion market value. The gap is the board.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>TAKEOVER</category><category>Consumer, toys</category></item><item><title>Europe halved Chinese hybrids. Renault is safe, Stellantis exposed.</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/renault-stellantis-same-deal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/renault-stellantis-same-deal/</guid><description>Europe just cut Chinese hybrid imports by more than half. Every European carmaker is on the same side of that deal. Their shareholders are not.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>POLICY SHIFT</category><category>Autos, Europe</category></item><item><title>Faster search is not the same as better investment research</title><link>https://clargus.com/blog/retrieval-is-not-intelligence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/blog/retrieval-is-not-intelligence/</guid><description>Finding a source is useful. Knowing what it changes about an investment is the harder job. A research process needs to do both, and remember the answer.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Research process</category></item><item><title>Your research should survive the next quarter</title><link>https://clargus.com/blog/signals-fade-between-quarters/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/blog/signals-fade-between-quarters/</guid><description>The investment memo captures a view at one moment. The assumptions, sources, and unresolved questions need a life beyond that moment.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Research continuity</category></item><item><title>Different holdings can hide the same risk</title><link>https://clargus.com/blog/second-order-exposures/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/blog/second-order-exposures/</guid><description>Sector labels do not tell the whole story. Shared suppliers, customers, financing, or regulation can connect investments that look unrelated on a portfolio screen.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Portfolio research</category></item><item><title>Indian Oil, at a low, owns 52% of a refiner that is up 87%</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/india-refining-divergence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/india-refining-divergence/</guid><description>Two Indian oil stocks. One at a 52-week low, the other up 87% this year. The first owns 52% of the second. The hidden story is not oil prices. It is who gets to keep the margin.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>PAIR DIVERGENCE</category><category>Energy, India</category></item><item><title>PBF is up 216% on diesel. Washington just let Russian diesel in.</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/pbf-refining-off-switch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/pbf-refining-off-switch/</guid><description>PBF lost money for four straight quarters into mid-2025, then earned $906M last quarter. The stock is up 216% this year. On Thursday the trade changed character.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>CATALYST</category><category>Energy, refining</category></item><item><title>ZIM trades as a Red Sea bet. It is a $4.2B takeover Israel may block.</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/zim-takeover-under-a-rates-trade/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/zim-takeover-under-a-rates-trade/</guid><description>ZIM is up 46% this year and sits 2% from its high. Most of the market reads that as a rates trade. The graph shows a takeover with a defence minister standing on it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>SPECIAL SITUATION</category><category>Shipping, M&amp;A</category></item><item><title>Vicor gets the power into AI chips. Now it is defending that at the ITC.</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/vicor-ai-power-delivery-patent-fight/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/vicor-ai-power-delivery-patent-fight/</guid><description>Everyone is watching who makes the next AI chip. Far fewer are asking who gets the electricity into it. Vicor builds that stage, and it has just taken a supply chain to the ITC.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>SUPPLY CHAIN</category><category>AI infrastructure</category></item><item><title>A copper search found Eldorado Gold, with a third more gold coming</title><link>https://clargus.com/insights/eldorado-copper-under-gold-label/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://clargus.com/insights/eldorado-copper-under-gold-label/</guid><description>A copper search returned a gold miner. The arithmetic says the label is half right: copper is a tenth of revenue, and the real mislabel is &quot;struggling gold miner&quot;.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>HIDDEN EXPOSURE</category><category>Gold, mining</category></item></channel></rss>