BARRON’S MAGAZINE ———- JUNE 1, 2026 PREVIEW

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Chip Stars’ – The rally for chip makers will eventually end. Five stocks will be left standing.

The Chip Rally Has Gone Parabolic. It’s Time to Separate the Pillars From the Pretenders.

A furious rally for chip stocks has raised fears of a new bubble. If and when the party ends, five stocks will be left standing. They all remain undervalued.

Walmart and 5 More Consumer Stocks to Buy After a Solid Retail Earnings Season

Walmart and Target are among the retailers that should be capable of finding their niche in an ever-shifting consumer landscape. 

Private Credit Really Is More Than Loans to Leveraged Buyouts

Investors are worried about loans that private-credit funds have made to fund buyouts, but the funds do a lot more than that.

How AI Could Kill Charles Schwab and the Brokerage Industry’s Cash Cow

Shares of Charles Schwab and other firms have swooned on concerns that AI tools could erode the profit they derive from cash that clients hold in so-called sweep accounts.

If It Walks Like a Bubble and Quacks Like a Bubble, Then It’s Probably a Bubble

When looking at the stock market right now, the increasingly obvious question is to paraphrase that catchy 1940s tune: “Is you is, or is you ain’t, in a bubble?”

Indisputably, there are signs—some of which hark back to the dot-com era—that it is. For instance, take a gander at this not-so-little equation: $1.75 trillion divided by $18.674 billion equals 93.71 times.

That’s the expected midrange market capitalization of SpaceX’s initial public offering ($1.75 trillion), divided by the company’s 2025 revenue ($18.674 billion), with the quotient of 93.71 being SpaceX’s price-to-sales ratio. Which is ridiculous. (The S&P 500 index’s ratio is just 3.38—and that’s with stocks at record highs.)

THE NEW YORK TIMES – SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2026

Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It

A remote gold mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo is under siege, as medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections.

Is JD Vance the 2028 Front Runner? Trump Has Questions.

President Trump appears to see the matter of his heir as unsettled, adding a layer of tension to his relationship with the vice president.

Across the Middle East, Muslims Mark Eid Amid War and Crisis

From Iran to Gaza, Eid al-Adha celebrations were muted as war dragged on and shortages of food and fuel roiled the region.

Hegseth’s Message to Asian Partners: Do More to Get More

At a security conference in Singapore, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Asian military leaders how they could get to “the front of the line” for U.S. assistance.