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This is Porter & Co.’s Sunday Investment Chronicles. Every week, the Porter & Co. research team pores over thousands (and thousands) of articles, reports, social media posts, analyses, regulatory filings, and anything else we can get our hands (and eyes) on to understand what’s happening in the world of investing and finance – and to uncover the most original, compelling, and double-head-fake ideas…
… and we curate the best of those here. We do it all the old-fashioned way: Hours of reading and brainpower (no AI curation here). We read everything – for you.
In Case You Missed It… What We Published Last Week
It was a big week for Porter in the Daily Journal. He dedicated the issues to a practice he has exercised annually for more than two decades… issuing Report Cards for the newsletters that he publishes. He believes that honest and thorough feedback is the key to earning trust and ensuring straightforward financial analysis and recommendations. As Porter likes to say: it’s the information he’d like to receive if the roles were reversed.
On Monday, he issued grades to our flagship publication Complete Investor (formerly The Big Secret On Wall Street) as well as for Best Buys – the publication we spun off from Complete Investor that shares three holdings that we feel are at a particularly attractive buy price. You can find that issue here.
On Wednesday, Porter reviewed our two key newsletters – Marty Fridson’s Distressed Investing and Erez Kalir’s Tech Frontiers (which until September was named Biotech Frontiers). Both finish a very strong year. You can find those grades here.
And on Friday, he completed the grading, with three more of our advisories: the newly launched Trading Club, the Partner-only service Asymmetry, and Porter’s Permanent Portfolio. You can find those scores here.
The Complete Investor team also released a new issue of Porter & Co.’s Best Buys – bringing two new companies into the mix. One, from our Legal Monopoly sector of the portfolio, has been battered by job and spending cuts in the U.S. federal government – and we feel is set to rebound. The other is a liquefied natural gas exporter that has been hit with a few legal setbacks that sent shares down.
The Best Things We Read Last Week
Out of the hundreds of sources of investment, finance, and economics news and insight we regularly review – our Bloomberg terminal, hedge-fund letters, annual reports, the financial news media, Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings, investment newsletters, newspapers, X (Twitter) threads, conferences, podcasts, and more – here’s what we’ve read that we think you might find interesting.
Markets And Economics
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Hedge fund titan Bridgewater Associates believes the AI boom has entered a “resource grab” phase.
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Here’s a roundup of 2026 market outlooks from the world’s top investment firms.
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Financial services firm State Street takes a look at inflation trends in the U.S.
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Are we heading for another “great rotation” in the months ahead?
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A look at the best and worst new exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) of 2025.
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Take some time over the holidays to find some “lost loot” for your family.
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The “K-shaped” economy is taking a toll on lower-income consumers.
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Energy
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China reportedly joined the shale oil revolution with a deep fracking breakthrough.
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West Texas Intermediate (“WTI”) crude oil closed below $55 last week for the first time since 2021.
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Just as global oil production is rolling over, global oil demand is booming.
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Surging barrels at sea are spooking oil markets more than Russia or Venezuela.
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The U.S. House passed a bill to speed up permitting for big energy projects.
Bitcoin And Crypto
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Crypto asset manager Grayscale also shared its 2026 Digital Asset Outlook.
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Bitcoin’s silent exodus hits crypto as long-time holders cash out.
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Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR) now holds 3.3% of the Bitcoin supply.
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Crypto fund manager Bitwise shared its top 10 predictions for 2026.
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JPMorgan’s tokenized dollars are quietly rewiring how Wall Street moves money.
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Crypto market sentiment is nearly as negative as it was at the 2022 bear market bottom.

