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• @amitisinvesting neutral 2525 eng

  A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY. Here's a full recap: 1. A major end-of-Q2 rebalancing wave could hit global markets, with JPMorgan estimating institutional investors may sell up to $165B of equities and rotate the same amount into bonds by quarter-end — the largest rebalance in at least four years. The biggest expected sellers include Japan’s GPIF at roughly $60B, Norway’s Norges Bank at around $40B, U.S. defined benefit pensions at about $55B, and the Swiss National Bank at up to $25B. Balanced mutual funds may partially offset the pressure with an estimated $15B of equity buying, but overall, quarter-end flows could create significant selling pressure across global stocks. 2. SpaceX $SPCX reportedly signed a major compute deal with open-source AI startup Reflection AI, giving it access to Nvidia $NVDA GB300 chips at Colossus 2, per CNBC. Reflection is expected to pay SpaceX about $150M per month starting July 1, 2026, which could total roughly $6.3B if the agreement runs through 2029. The deal adds Reflection to SpaceX’s growing AI compute customer list, alongside Anthropic, Google, and Cursor. 3. Retail investors have poured roughly $150B into the largest equity ETFs over the past month, marking the second-biggest inflow in history. The move shows just how aggressive retail demand for equities has become, even as markets continue to digest major macro and positioning risks. 4. Palantir $PLTR has secured a foundational role in the U.S. Army’s NGC2 data layer. The Army established the NGC2 common data layer baseline, a major step in modernizing command-and-control systems. Palantir Foundry will serve as the cloud data layer, while Anduril Lattice will serve as the tactical data layer, giving the Army a scalable foundation for AI-enabled tools, interoperability, and faster battlefield decision-making. 5. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $TSLA with 3.3M contracts, $NVDA with 2.9M contracts, $SPCX with 1.2M contracts, $AMZN with 1.1M contracts, $AAPL with 990K contracts, $GOOGL with 970K contracts, $MSFT with 917K contracts, $NFLX with 717K contracts, $INTC with 621K contracts, and $PLTR with 587K contracts. Tesla led options activity with more than 3.3M contracts traded, followed by Nvidia at 2.9M, while SpaceX and Amazon both saw volume above 1M contracts. 6. BofA now expects the Fed to hike rates three times this year, reversing its prior view of no changes. The firm sees 25 bps hikes in September, October, and December, taking the Fed funds range to 4.25%–4.5% by year-end. BofA now expects the first Fed rate cuts to come in 2028. 7. Qualcomm $QCOM is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup Modular in a deal that could value the company around $4B, per Bloomberg. No final agreement has been reached, but an announcement could come in the next few weeks. Modular last raised $250M at a $1.6B valuation in September 2025, meaning the reported deal would mark a major step-up in value. 8. Trump signed two quantum-focused executive orders aimed at accelerating U.S. leadership in the space. One order pushes for a U.S. quantum computer $INFQ $QBTS $IBM $RGTI $IONQ $QNT capable of major scientific calculations, along with quantum sensors and networks, within five years. The other directs federal agencies to transition to post-quantum cryptography by 2031, strengthening cybersecurity against future quantum threats. 9. Google $GOOGL is investing about $75M in A24 as part of a multi-year AI research partnership between Google DeepMind and the film studio. The deal marks Google’s first equity stake in a studio, with A24 and DeepMind working on AI tools for film production and distribution. The agreement does not give Google access to A24’s film and TV library, while A24 Labs is already developing an AI-generated storyboard tool. 10. Micron $MU signed a strategic agreement with Anthropic covering AI memory and storage architecture, multi-year supply, Claude enterprise adoption, and an investment in Anthropic’s Series H round. Micron will provide data center memory and storage products, including HBM, DRAM, and SSDs, while the two companies work together to optimize Anthropic’s AI infrastructure for performance, energy efficiency, and token economics. 11. Nvidia $NVDA launched Halos for Robotics, a full-stack safety system for robotics and physical AI. Agility will be the first to integrate parts of Halos into the safety architecture for Digit, its humanoid robot used in logistics, manufacturing, and warehouses. The system combines Nvidia IGX Thor, Holoscan Sensor Bridge, Halos OS, external-camera safety monitoring, and an ANAB-accredited AI Systems Inspection Lab, with 40+ companies participating in the lab program. 12. Chevron $CVX signed a 20-year power deal with Microsoft $MSFT to supply natural gas-fired electricity for a proposed West Texas data center. The project, called Kilby, is expected to deliver first power by 2028 and eventually ramp to 2.67 GW. Chevron will use Permian Basin gas to power GE Vernova turbines, with the project designed to generate its own electricity instead of drawing from the grid. Chevron is developing Kilby with Engine No. 1 and expects to make a final investment decision later this year. WALL STREET IS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

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• @amitisinvesting neutral 1918 eng

  A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY. Here's a full recap: 1. $DELL DELL delivered another huge beat and raise, reporting record quarterly revenue of $47.0B versus $44.9B expected, up 58% YoY. Adjusted EPS came in at $7.04 versus $4.91 expected, up 203% YoY from $2.32. AI server revenue reached $16.4B, roughly doubling YoY, while Dell booked a massive $60.9B of AI server orders during the quarter. AI backlog surged to a record $95B, up from $51.3B last quarter, one of the biggest numbers in the report. Infrastructure also remained strong, with traditional servers and networking revenue up 122% YoY to $10.5B and storage revenue up 26% to $4.9B. Dell raised its FY27 revenue outlook sharply to roughly $192B, compared with its prior $165B–$169B range. If Dell's earnings are any insight into the AI trade, demand continues to be scaling rapidly. 2. Elon Musk’s G20 address today focused on one core idea: AI growth is now being constrained by power, not just chips. He said the world already faces an AI power crisis, citing a potential 15 GW shortfall by 2027, with AI chip production growing 40%–50% annually while power outside China grows only 10%–20%. Musk argued this creates a major opportunity for countries that can build new electricity capacity, host AI data centers, and monetize that infrastructure. He also said digital AI alone could lift the global economy by 20%–30%, or roughly $20T–$30T per year, with AI potentially becoming “Stockfish-level” at software and engineering within 12–18 months. On robotics, he said physical AI $TSLA $SPCX will take longer but could ultimately drive the economy up by 10x or more, especially once humanoid robots begin making more robots. 3. Two oil supertankers were reportedly hit by unknown projectiles while exiting the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, according to maritime security firm Marisks. The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem also warned Americans in the Middle East to exercise heightened vigilance amid the risk of further regional escalation. The 10-year treasury passed 4.8%, reaching the highs from January 2025 and $WTI crude oil surpassed $90/barrel for the first time since July 23rd. 4. Treasury Secretary Bessent said the Strait of Hormuz will be “bypassed” within 2 years, arguing that oil will increasingly move through land pipelines instead of the Strait. He said that in two years, Hormuz will be like a “worthless piece of water,” while also noting the U.S. has held private discussions with China on Iran. On sanctions, Bessent said the Treasury is looking at airline leasing companies and that new bank sanctions on Iran are likely coming this week and next. 5. Palantir $PLTR won a new U.S. Army TITAN production contract, with the Army awarding Palantir a prime agreement to produce and deliver 8 new TITAN ground station systems: 4 Advanced and 4 Basic. TITAN is the Army’s next-generation AI/ML-powered deep-sensing platform, combining data from space, high-altitude, aerial, and terrestrial sensors to generate targeting intelligence for mission command and long-range precision fires. Palantir will serve as the prime contractor, overseeing manufacturing, delivery, and the software powering TITAN, alongside partners including Anduril, L3Harris, Sierra Nevada, Strategic Technology Consulting, and World Wide Technology. Palantir USG President and CTO Akash Jain said, “TITAN was shaped by the Soldiers who used it, in the conditions they used it in, against the standard they set. That is the only way a system like this earns its place in the field.” 6. Meta $META is exploring whether its AI glasses can be classified as an assistive device, a move that could potentially allow Medicare and Medicaid coverage for eligible blind and low-vision users. Meta’s wearables VP said the company is “very interested” in pursuing assistive-device classification through the U.S. government. Separately, Meta made Muse Voice Transcribe available through its model API, priced at $3 per 1,000 audio minutes, expanding access to its voice transcription capabilities for developers. 7. Apple claims in a new court filing that OpenAI is actively destroying crucial evidence in a trade secrets case, according to Bloomberg. Apple’s lawyers said an initial forensic review of an Apple-issued MacBook used by a former iPhone engineer found evidence that he and others at OpenAI were aware of his alleged unauthorized access to Apple’s cloud storage providers. The filing also claims he sent instructions for destroying evidence, escalating the dispute between Apple and OpenAI around alleged trade secret misuse. 8. Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, with Fable 5.1 positioned as its most advanced model yet for coding, knowledge work, long-running agents, and scientific research. The biggest gains came in agentic and coding benchmarks. Anthropic says the larger step-change is in long-running work, with Fable 5.1 better at staying on task for hours, verifying its own work, and finding root causes instead of surface-level fixes. 9. Options activity is cooling, but the mix remains heavily skewed toward calls. The 5-day moving average of call volume has fallen to roughly 6.6M contracts, the lowest since early May, down 1.7M contracts or 20% since mid-July. Put volume has also declined, with the 5-day moving average falling to about 5.3M contracts, the lowest since February. As a result, the equity call-to-put volume ratio has climbed to 1.25x, near the highest level in 5 years and a reading that has been higher only 11% of the time since 2010. 10. Chevron $CVX is reportedly finalizing a deal to significantly expand its operations in Venezuela as part of President Trump’s push to increase Venezuelan oil production, according to Bloomberg. The deal would add 2 giant oil fields in the Orinoco Belt to Chevron’s operations and give the company operating rights to fields holding billions of barrels of oil. It is expected to be the largest of several agreements announced in the coming days as Trump encourages more U.S. investment in Venezuela’s oil industry. The deal is separate from negotiations for the U.S. government to take a direct stake in Venezuelan oil fields. 11. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 2.5M contracts, $AAPL with 2.1M contracts, $TSLA with 1.8M contracts, $MU with 838K contracts, $AMZN with 665K contracts, $META with 614K contracts, $SPCX with 541K contracts, $INTC with 508K contracts, $PCG with 394K contracts, and $GPRO with 372K contracts. 12. Trump said the U.S. is currently striking Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, calling the strikes “large and powerful” and saying they are retaliation for Iran’s failed attempt to place sea mines in the Strait and for launching 8 missiles at a U.S. military base in Jordan, all of which he said were intercepted. He said the Strait currently has no mines after they were “completely removed or detonated,” and warned that if Iran retaliates, it will be hit again at a “much harder and higher level.” Trump also said he “couldn’t care less” about Iran, likes the U.S. position on the Strait, and questioned when the Iranian people will “stand up and fight.” WALL STREET IS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

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• @WOLF_Financial neutral 704 eng

  HERE ARE THE WORLD'S 50 MOST VALUABLE COMPANIES AS OF JUNE 2026 TECHNOLOGY (22 of the top 50): NVIDIA $NVDA: $4.8T Apple $AAPL: $4.3T Alphabet $GOOGL: $4.2T Microsoft $MSFT: $2.8T SpaceX $SPCX: $2.1T TSMC $TSM: $2.3T Broadcom $AVGO: $1.8T Samsung: $1.5T Meta $META: $1.4T SK Hynix: $1.2T Micron $MU: $1.2T AMD $AMD: $848B Intel $INTC: $665B ASML $ASML: $685B Arm $ARM: $391B Cisco $CSCO: $478B Oracle $ORCL: $476B Applied Materials $AMAT: $465B Lam Research $LRCX: $464B KLA $KLAC: $319B Tencent: $485B Kioxia: $313B CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY: Amazon $AMZN: $2.5T Tesla $TSLA: $1.4T Home Depot $HD: $324B ENERGY: Saudi Aramco: $1.7T ExxonMobil $XOM: $579B Chevron $CVX: $350B FINANCIALS: Berkshire Hathaway $BRK: $1.1T JPMorgan Chase $JPM: $895B Visa $V: $625B Mastercard $MA: $431B Bank of America $BAC: $411B Morgan Stanley $MS: $357B Goldman Sachs $GS: $323B China Construction Bank: $382B Agricultural Bank of China: $326B ICBC: $308B HSBC $HSBC: $328B CONSUMER STAPLES: Walmart $WMT: $950B Costco $COST: $425B Procter & Gamble $PG: $351B Coca-Cola $KO: $346B HEALTH CARE: Lilly $LLY: $987B Johnson & Johnson $JNJ: $576B AbbVie $ABBV: $415B UnitedHealth $UNH: $372B INDUSTRIALS: Caterpillar $CAT: $453B P&G $PG: $351B (also listed under consumer staples) GE $GE: $372B (Photo Credit: VisualCapitalist)

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• @StockSavvyShay neutral 664 eng

  NEXT WEEKS EARNINGS ARE MASSIVE • Monday | $APLD, $NVTS, $CDNS, $AMKR • Tuesday | $BE, $KLAC, $PYPL, $V, $TER, $ENPH • Wednesday | $MSFT, $META, $HOOD, $ARM, $QCOM, $SOFI, $VRT, $LMND, $LRCX, $VKTX, $FTNT, $CVNA • Thursday | $AAPL, $AMZN, $COIN, $RBLX, $RDDT, $TEM, $RIVN, $FSLR, $MA, $PGY, $MSTR, $AXTI, $NXT • FRIDAY | $CVX, $XOM, $ABBV, $CCJ, $MRNA

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• @StockSavvyShay neutral 591 eng

  $MSFT signed a 20 year power deal with $CVX to supply natural gas-fired electricity for its proposed data center in West Texas. The project is expected to deliver first power by 2028 and scale to 2.67GW using $GEV turbines for on-site power instead of drawing from the grid. https://t.co/qjXl3WSnBe

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• @WOLF_Financial neutral 105 eng

  HERE ARE AMERICA'S 🇺🇸 50 LARGEST COMPANIES BY REVENUE IN 2026 RETAIL: 👑 Amazon $AMZN: $717B Walmart $WMT: $713B Costco $COST: $275B Home Depot $HD: $165B Walgreens: $148B Kroger $KR: $148B Target $TGT: $105B Lowe's $LOW: $86B HEALTH CARE: UnitedHealth $UNH: $448B McKesson $MCK: $403B CVS Health $CVS: $402B Cencora $COR: $321B Cigna $CI: $275B Cardinal Health $CAH: $223B Elevance Health $ELV: $199B Centene $CNC: $195B Humana $HUM: $130B Johnson & Johnson $JNJ: $94B TECHNOLOGY: Apple $AAPL: $416B Alphabet $GOOGL: $403B Microsoft $MSFT: $282B Meta $META: $201B NVIDIA $NVDA: $216B Dell $DELL: $114B FINANCIALS: Berkshire Hathaway $BRK: $371B JPMorgan Chase $JPM: $182B Fannie Mae: $153B StoneX $SNEX: $132B Freddie Mac: $122B Bank of America $BAC: $113B State Farm: $123B Progressive $PGR: $88B AUTOMOTIVE: ExxonMobil $XOM: $332B Ford $F: $187B GM $GM: $185B Tesla $TSLA: $95B ENERGY: Chevron $CVX: $189B Marathon $MPC: $133B Phillips 66 $PSX: $132B Valero $VLO: $123B Energy Transfer $ET: $86B MEDIA & TELECOM: Verizon $VZ: $138B AT&T $T: $126B Comcast $CMCSA: $124B Walt Disney $DIS: $94B INDUSTRIALS & LOGISTICS: PepsiCo $PEP: $94B Boeing $BA: $90B UPS $UPS: $89B RTX $RTX: $89B FedEx $FDX: $88B

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• @wallstengine bullish 104 eng

  CHEVRON $CVX Q2'26 EARNINGS HIGHLIGHTS 🔹 Revenue: $70.1B (Est. $61.97B) 🟢; +56% YoY 🔹 Adj. EPS: $6.06 (Est. $5.56) 🟢; vs $1.77 in Q2'25 🔹 Adj. Earnings: $12.0B (Est. $10.61B) 🟢 🔹 FCF: $18.1B (Est. $13.92B) 🟢; vs $4.9B in Q2'25 Segment Earnings: 🔹 Upstream: $8.2B; vs $2.7B in Q2'25 🔹 Downstream: $4.9B; vs $737M in Q2'25 Other Q2 Metrics: 🔹 CFFO: $22.6B; vs $8.6B in Q2'25 🔹 ROCE: 21.4%; vs 6.2% in Q2'25 🔹 Worldwide Production: 4,070 MBOED; +20% YoY — record U.S. production 🔹 U.S. Refinery Crude Throughput: Record; 97% utilization 🔹 Capex: $4.5B; +22% YoY 🔹 Shareholder Returns: $6.6B ($3.5B dividends + $3.1B buybacks) 🔹 GAAP EPS: $6.11; incl. $230M asset-sale gain, $86M pension settlement cost Key Updates: 🔸 Signed 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center 🔸 $3B structural cost-reduction run-rate hit six months early; $1.5B Hess synergies delivered within one year of closing Comments: 🔸 "Our strong second quarter performance is a result of disciplined investment and strong execution that drove record U.S. upstream production, record crude throughput in our U.S. refineries, and exceptional reliability across key assets."

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• @wallstengine neutral 101 eng

  $CVX signed a 20-year power deal with $MSFT to supply natural gas-fired electricity for a proposed West Texas data center. The project, called Kilby, is expected to deliver first power by 2028 and ramp to 2.67 GW over time. Chevron will use Permian Basin gas to run GE Vernova turbines, with the project designed to generate its own power instead of drawing from the grid. Chevron is developing the project with Engine No. 1 and expects to make a final investment decision later this year.

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