
The Forgotten Themes of 2026
Bulls vs Bears Ep. 132 — The Forgotten Themes of 2026. It's been a quiet week, so the team digs into the thematics that got buried by geopolitics and headlines. Rare earths are down 41% from highs and JT lays out three c

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Bulls vs Bears is a weekly Australian stock market podcast from MPC Markets. Every Friday, Mark Gardner, Jonathan Tacadena, and Kai Chen wrap up the week in markets, what moved, what mattered, and where the opportunities are heading into next week. Part weekly market recap, part investment debate, part Friday afternoon pub chat. The team covers ASX and US stocks, sector themes, commodities, macro trends, and the bull and bear case on the ideas that matter most. New episode every Friday. Subscribe for your weekly market wrap.
MPC Markets hosts Bulls vs. Bears, a business show with 132 episodes published.

Bulls vs Bears Ep. 132 — The Forgotten Themes of 2026. It's been a quiet week, so the team digs into the thematics that got buried by geopolitics and headlines. Rare earths are down 41% from highs and JT lays out three c

EP131: AI & SaaS Bounce as Investors Regain Belief The full crew reunites — JT's back from holiday, Phil's settling in, and markets are at all-time highs across the board. Record ETF inflows, fear & greed stuck at 40, an

Memory chip stocks delivered some of the most violent moves we've ever seen this week — Micron down 9% then up 18%, SK Hynix down 15% then up 29%. The index barely moved. Welcome to Chiplash. We break down the chip carna

We welcome Phil Deloughery to the team and dive straight into the hyperscaler CapEx blowout — Google's first-ever negative free cash flow quarter, Oracle's spend ballooning 26x in five years, and all the major cloud play

Chip stocks are getting hammered. TSMC beat earnings by 10%+ and still dropped. Netflix lost 9% after pulling more transparency. IBM got flogged 37%. Is this the dip to buy — or the start of something worse? Mark, Finn a

The optimists are away — JT's sailing to Japan and Finn's in Tonga with the whales — so the ex-bond traders are running the show. Mark walks through 12 risk factors that have been quietly building: record margin lending,

The best first half in the Dow in fifty years is in the books. Mark, Kai and guest Finn unpack a monster six months — the record SOX rally, why chips just cracked (Micron down 20% in two sessions), and where the money's

Micron beat earnings by $6 billion and hit record highs. Memory chip stocks — MU, SK Hynix, SanDisk, Lam Research — are all running. The catch? It's coming out of the Mag-7's margins. Hyperscalers are paying through the

Bulls vs Bears EP124: The Next Mega IPOs — SpaceX, OpenAI vs Anthropic & What Actually Matters SpaceX just listed. OpenAI is burning $14B this year. Anthropic just hit a $965B post-money valuation. So which one is actual

🚀 SpaceX, OpenAI & Anthropic: Are the 3 MEGA IPOs Signalling a Market Bubble? | Bulls vs Bears In this week's Bulls vs Bears, Mark Gardner and the team dive deep into the biggest financial story of 2026 — the wave of me

Bulls vs Bears Ep 122 | 10-Week Win Streak Starts to Wobble — Dow Rallies, NASDAQ Dips & Software Stocks Update The S&P 500's historic 10-week winning streak is under pressure. In this episode of Bulls vs Bears from MPC

🎙️ Bulls vs Bears Podcast EP121: Fresh Record Highs for Stocks on AI Frenzywith Jonathan Tacadena & Mark Gardner from MPC Markets In this episode of Bulls vs Bears, Jonathan Tacadena (JT) and Mark Gardner (MG) break dow

SpaceX is heading to the Nasdaq — and it could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. In Episode 120 of Bulls vs Bears, the MPC Markets team unpacks the SpaceX IPO: valuation, timeline, and a total addressable ma

Bulls vs Bears: GPUs, CPUs & TPUs Rocket Higher on IOUs | AI Chip Financing Exposed + ASX Budget Reaction In this week's episode of Bulls vs Bears, Mark Gardner and Kai Chen (JT is on tin-foil leave) dive deep into the e

Mark, Kai and JT from MPC Markets are back for Episode 118 of Bulls vs Bears: “Peace, Love and Semiconductors.” This week, the team breaks down record highs across global equity markets, the ASX lagging after the RBA, oi

Mark's living his best life on a boat in Cairns, so Kai and JT are joined this week by crypto-turned-TradFi convert Finn Jadel. The verdict? If you're not building data centres, you're falling behind — and the market is

In this extra-spiky, conspiracy-laden edition of Bulls vs. Bears, the hosts don their tinfoil hats (and look suspiciously like Hershey’s Kisses) to explore whether Trump is a strategic mastermind or simply unhinged. They

a market that continues to hit record highs despite ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, high energy prices, and rising cost-of-living pressures, with skepticism toward repeated claims of an imminent peace d

In this week's Bulls vs Bears episode, the hosts discuss the chaotic Middle East conflict, Trump's rapid "fake ceasefire" announcement via Pakistan, and its immediate market impact, while expressing skepticism over its l

Trump's late-week announcement that US forces would hit Iran "extremely hard" for the next two to three weeks — rather than exit — sent markets sharply lower, with crude oil spiking toward $106 and the NASDAQ futures fal
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