Best Week in a Decade? More Like a House of Cards
A Sugar Rush Before the Crash?
So, Black Friday's done, and apparently, the stock market had its best Thanksgiving week in over a decade. The Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq – all up. Everyone patting themselves on the back. But let's be real, does anyone actually believe this is sustainable?
Stock Market News Today, 11/28/25 – U.S. Stock Futures Rise, Marking Best Thanksgiving Week in Over a Decade
I mean, come on. A few days of gains fueled by "renewed optimism in AI stocks" and "heightened expectations for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut"? That's like saying your uncle's conspiracy theories are suddenly legit because he got a like on Facebook.
And what about the fact that stocks are still poised for a monthly decline? Oh, right, that gets buried on page six. A drop in tech shares is "pressuring the major indexes," they say. Pressuring? More like suffocating. These AI firms are about as profitable as a lemonade stand in Antarctica.
Stock Buybacks: Smoke and Mirrors for Execs?
The Buyback Mirage
Then you've got CRH plc, patting themselves on the back for buying back shares. "Strategic effort to enhance shareholder value," they claim. It's always the same corporate BS. Newsflash: buying back your own stock doesn't magically make your company better. It just makes the execs look good for a quarter or two. And who ultimately pays the price? You guessed it, the average Joe holding those shares long-term.
It's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Sure, it looks nicer for a little while, but you're still sinking. Are investors really so easily fooled? Or do they just *want* to be fooled?
And COSOL Limited...oh man, where do I even start? Some director, Scott McGowan, gets 1,600,000 performance rights. Performance rights! For what? Showing up to work? Breathing? And they call that "transparency and regulatory compliance." Give me a break. The "most recent analyst rating" is HOLD with a 50 cent price target. Technical sentiment? Sell. Market cap? A measly A$74.62M. This whole thing stinks.
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Asia's Mess and a Tower Fire
And while we're at it, let's take a quick trip over to Asia. Markets are mixed. Japan's inflation is hotter than expected. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is down because of a deadly tower fire. A deadly tower fire! And we're talking about stock prices? Sometimes I think we're all just living in some kind of sick simulation. It's like watching a clown show while the world burns.
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is up, oil's near $59, and gold's at almost $4,200 an ounce. It's like the market's trying to tell us something. Inflation's not dead, the economy's shaky, and everyone's running to safe havens. But hey, let's celebrate a few days of gains because...reasons?
Offcourse, maybe I'm just being cynical. Maybe this is the start of a new bull market. Maybe AI will save us all. Maybe pigs will fly. But I doubt it. I really, really doubt it.
This Smells Like a Trap
