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Latham Group (SWIM), the largest designer, manufacturer, and marketer of in-ground, residential swimming pools in North America, Australia, and New Zealand, and produces custom pool liners and automatic safety covers. Nearer and longer-term driver remains the structural shift toward fiberglass pools, which continues to take share from concrete. Fiberglass represents approximately 76% of Latham’s pool sales, yet remains underpenetrated in key growth markets

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Micron Technology Inc., the largest US maker of computer memory chips, delivered a sales forecast that topped Wall Street estimates after AI-fueled shortages of the components sent prices soaring.
Revenue will be approximately $50 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, which runs through August, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Analysts estimated $43.2 billion on average. Excluding some items, profit will be about $31 a share, compared with a projection of $25.31.

The shares climbed about 5% in late trading after the report was released. They had already more than tripled this year, outpacing all other major chip stocks.

Micron and its peers in the memory space — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. — have become major beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom. A spending spree by data center operators has stoked the appetite for both conventional memory and a newer variety called high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, that works with AI systems.

On this episode, Carol Massar Tim Stenovec speak with:
Ed Ludlow, Bloomberg Tech Host AND Jake Silverman, Bloomberg Intelligence Semiconductor Analyst
Katie Hubbard, President, U.S. Capital Markets for Walton Global on state of the US housing market
Ellen Wald, President of Transversal Consulting and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
Len Tannenbaum, Founder, Tannenbaum Capital Group AND James Crombie, Bloomberg News Senior Editor, Credit on private credit latest
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In an industrial park a half-hour outside Prague, Peter Magic finds himself at the center of a gold rush. In the 15 years since he started his business as a teenager in his parents’ garage in Slovakia, it’s developed into a fast-growing company with almost nine figures in annual revenue and an international clientele. He isn’t training a new kind of agentic artificial intelligence that replaces your employer’s legal department or building the next online prediction market. His company, Janoshik Analytical, does purity and sterility testing for black-market anabolic steroids, an obscure niche Magic found during his own foray into weightlifting. His search for other lifters online took him to 4chan and Reddit, where many talked freely about their pharmaceutical experimentation but fretted about what might be in their drugs. Magic figured testing steroid samples couldn’t be that hard. “It took a couple of years, actually, before we got all the processes perfected, because obviously, legally, this is pretty thin ice,” he says. Among connoisseurs, his testing has become the gold standard. Outside, in his lab’s parking lot, he has the shimmering purple Ferrari to prove it.
As it turns out, Magic’s reputation for running a legitimate business evaluating illicit substances has positioned him perfectly for a new black market: the global trade in peptides. For more on the show, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec, spoke with Amanda Mull, Bloomberg Businessweek Senior Reporter and Madison Muller, Bloomberg News US Health Care Reporter
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Tuesday’s stock-market slide was what one Wall Street strategist called a “chip-wreck.”The semiconductor companies that have led this year’s stock-market advance with triple-digit percentage gains were suddenly hit with a wave of doubts about the sustainability of the AI-driven rally.
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On this episode, Tim Stenovec and Carol Massar speak with:
Amanda Lyons, Head of Research, Energy Group Capital
Sean Gadd, CEO of Latham Group
Katherine Kostereva, CEO of Creatio
Gracelin Baskaran, Director, Critical Minerals Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
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SpaceX is selling investment-grade bonds for the first time in what’s expected to be the start of a massive borrowing spree to fund the company’s AI ambitions following its record $75 billion IPO.
Banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are arranging calls with investors on Monday, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because they’re not authorized to speak publicly. A bond sale is expected to follow, with maturities of between five and 30 years, according to the person.

For more, Carol Massar Tim Stenovec speak with Robert Schiffman, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Credit Analyst
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