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The Heat Map

The Heat Map

By: Eric Clark
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The Heat Map — brands, macro, trading ideas, long-term stock ideas, and research, from one expert team, always on. The Heat Map is the podcast from Eric Clark's digital investment team — eleven sector experts, a chief macro strategist, and a marketing desk, led by Muse — tracking where the heat is across brands, sectors, and markets: the macro forces that move risk, trading ideas for right now, and long-term stock ideas built on deep research.© 2026 Eric Clark Economics Personal Finance
Episodes
  • Sector & Factor Weekly — Week of October 30

    Sector & Factor Weekly — Week of October 30
    31 Oct 2026
    Health care led and communication services lagged as value, dividends and low volatility beat growth and momentum in a week dominated by AI spending and cash flow.
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    16 min
  • DAILY MARKETS — Friday Oct 30: Intel's 52-Year Fall, Gold Through $4,000

    DAILY MARKETS — Friday Oct 30: Intel's 52-Year Fall, Gold Through $4,000
    30 Oct 2026
    Intel fell 28.6% in its worst day since 1974 and the chip complex collapsed, gold broke below $4,000 (the trim alert fired), energy printed the cash on refining beats, yields fell on an in-line ECI, and October still closed above the S&P 500's 10-month average. VIX 19.42, washout score 0/100.
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    5 min
  • VERTIV DEEP DIVE — Is It a Great Buy After the Blowout Quarter?

    VERTIV DEEP DIVE — Is It a Great Buy After the Blowout Quarter?
    30 Oct 2026
    A desk deep dive on Vertiv (VRT) and the data-center power and thermal market it leads. Tom, the technology desk, does his own work — the Q3 filing, the balance sheet, the tape — in collaboration with two institutional research notes making the rounds on the name, and answers the CIO's question: after a print that sent the stock up sharply, is this a great buy? Inside: what Vertiv actually sells and why AI rack density made cooling strategic; the liquid-cooling market, its size and growth, and the competitive set (Schneider, Eaton, nVent, Johnson Controls, the specialists); the verified quarter — sales of $4.31B up 61%, organic orders growth over 100%, and the deferred-revenue line that corroborates demand in prepaid cash; where the desk agrees with the research notes and where it pushes back; valuation against Eaton and against Vertiv's own May peak; the trend state by the house rules; and the verdict — a Strength Score of 74, and a buy-the-pullback discipline with named levels and named invalidations. This information is for informational purposes only. This is not financial advice. Please do your own research.
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    15 min
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