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• @StockSavvyShay bullish 2116 eng

  10 stocks near 52-week lows where the stock is broken but the business isn’t: 1. $PLTR | Palantir 2. $MSFT | Microsoft 3. $META | Meta 4. $SOFI | SoFi 5. $MELI | MercadoLibre 6. $SE | Sea Limited 7. $UBER | Uber 8. $NFLX | Netflix 9. $MA | Mastercard 10. $GRAB | Grab

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• @amitisinvesting neutral 1341 eng

  A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY. Here's a full recap: 1. Nebius $NBIS reported Q2’26 revenue of $582.3M, beating estimates of $573M and up 454% YoY. Adjusted EBITDA came in at $236.2M versus $175M expected, compared to -$21M last year. AI Cloud revenue surged 514% YoY to $575M, operating cash flow reached $2.25B, and cash stood at $8.04B. Nebius reaffirmed FY26 guidance, now expects customer prepayments of more than $9B in 2026, and raised contracted capacity to 5 GW from prior guidance of more than 4 GW. Management said it could sell its entire 2027 capacity today, but is deliberately holding some back for higher-value immediate customer demand. $NBIS finished up 34% on the day. 2. July CPI came in cooler, with headline inflation rising just 0.1% MoM after falling 0.4% in June. Over the last 12 months, CPI rose 3.4%, down from 3.5% in June. Shelter increased 0.1% and accounted for roughly two-thirds of the monthly increase, while food also rose 0.1% and food away from home climbed 0.3%. Energy prices fell 1.5% on the month. Core CPI, excluding food and energy, rose 0.2% after being flat in June, while annual core inflation eased to 2.5% from 2.6%. Energy remains the biggest annual pressure point, up 14.7% YoY, while food is up 3.0% over the last year. 3. Bank of America $BAC plans to deploy $250B through mid-2027 across AI data centers, semiconductors, hardware, power generation, energy storage, and critical minerals, according to WSJ. The initiative will span lending, investing, capital markets, banking, and advisory work. BofA said equity investments are not the focus, but has not ruled them out for the right projects. The push also extends beyond AI infrastructure into transportation, natural gas, and water infrastructure. 4. Institutional investors are reducing U.S. tech exposure. Hedge funds, asset managers, and other large investors sold $21.6B of Nasdaq futures in the week ending August 4, the largest weekly sale on record, according to Goldman Sachs. Short sales drove the move, accounting for 72% of total selling. Hedge funds sold $11.9B, while asset managers sold $7.4B. As a result, combined institutional positioning in Nasdaq futures fell to -$5B, turning negative for the first time since May 2025 after reaching as high as +$54B in October 2025. 5. South Korea is tightening rules on single-stock leveraged ETFs again, requiring new investors to complete at least 5 days of mock trading totaling 5+ hours before buying these products. The rule takes effect August 19 and applies to investments both locally and abroad. The move follows a sharp retail wipeout in leveraged ETF products, after regulators already raised the minimum cash deposit requirement to 30M won or roughly $21,000, and extended mandatory online training for new investors to 3 hours. 6. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 3.6M contracts, $TSLA with 2.2M contracts, $SPCX with 1.7M contracts, $MU with 1.3M contracts, $AAPL with 1.2M contracts, $OWL with 908K contracts, $INTC with 903K contracts, $META with 796K contracts, $HTZ with 725K contracts, and $SMCI with 720K contracts. 7. OpenAI’s run-rate revenue from business customers grew 32% MoM in July, outpacing 20% growth in overall run-rate revenue, according to DealBook. The gap highlights how quickly enterprise demand is becoming a larger driver of OpenAI’s growth as companies scale paid usage across AI tools, APIs, and workflow integrations. 8. Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management is reportedly preparing a potential take-private bid for Wendy’s $WEN, according to FT. Trian is Wendy’s largest shareholder with a 16% stake and is assembling a consortium that could include BlueFive Capital and major franchisee Flynn Group. A formal offer could come in the coming weeks, though talks could still change or fall apart. 9. Google $GOOGL unveiled the Pixel 11 lineup, including the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold, while raising prices by $100 versus the prior generation due to a “severe” memory crunch. The lineup now starts at $899, while the foldable starts at $1,899. Google also introduced the Pixel Watch 5 at $399, adding insulin-resistance tracking, which it says is a first for the category. 10. Bill Ackman is back in Netflix $NFLX. He first bought the stock in 2022 around $350/share, investing roughly $1.1B, before selling a few months later for a 40% loss and taking a roughly $400M hit. He redeployed the capital into Google, which worked, but Netflix went on to rise about 650% from its lows. Now, with the stock down roughly 50%, Ackman is back in. His thesis is that Netflix can compound revenue at a double-digit rate, grow content costs more slowly than revenue, continue expanding margins, and use its buyback program to help drive earnings growth near 20% annually. Ackman says the current valuation is a substantial discount for a business with Netflix’s growth profile and dominant market position. He also added $V, $MA, $ICE, $ALC, and $SPGI to his portfolio. 11. The financial industry cut 14,000 jobs in July, bringing payrolls down to 9.09M, the lowest level since July 2022. This marks the sector’s 5th straight monthly decline, with total job losses of 59,000 over that stretch. Since May 2025, financial industry payrolls are down 121,000, the largest drawdown since the 2020 pandemic. Excluding the pandemic, this is the biggest contraction in financial-sector employment since the 2008 Financial Crisis, as firms accelerate AI adoption to boost productivity and reduce labor costs. 12. The S&P 500 has historically kept climbing after major breakouts to new all-time highs. Over the last 30 years, the index has risen in 13 of 17 similar instances, gaining an average of roughly 6.3% over the next 6 months. The only exceptions were 2000, 2007, 2018, and 2019, with 2000 and 2007 preceding major bear markets. Most recently, after a similar breakout in 2025, the S&P 500 gained 12.3% over the following six months. The index has now posted 26 all-time highs in 2026, following 39 record closes in 2025 and 57 in 2024. WALL STREET IS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

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• @amitisinvesting neutral 1323 eng

  A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY. Here's a full recap: 1. President Trump said Iran “will never have a nuclear weapon” remains the administration’s only objective, adding that he has a “big decision” to make regarding the conflict. He also reiterated that he believes the U.S. and Iran will reach a deal after the U.S. election, while saying he would “give no credence to the election” when making decisions on Iran. The remarks come as the administration continues weighing both military and diplomatic options amid ongoing talks with Tehran. 2. Meta $META continues expanding Muse’s ecosystem through new partnerships aimed at turning the AI assistant into a broader consumer platform. The latest integrations include Instacart for grocery shopping and delivery, PayPal for shopping and checkout, Expedia for trip planning and hotel bookings, and Shopify for shopping across millions of merchants. The partnerships significantly expand Muse’s ability to complete real-world tasks directly within conversations, moving beyond simple chat into a full AI commerce and productivity assistant. 3. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 2.1M contracts, $TSLA with 1.5M contracts, $AAPL with 1.2M contracts, $MU with 964K contracts, $META with 936K contracts, $INTC with 816K contracts, $AMZN with 682K contracts, $GOOGL with 662K contracts, $SPCX with 644K contracts, and $AMD with 622K contracts. 4. SoFi $SOFI has become the first U.S. national bank to go live with stablecoin settlement across Mastercard’s $MA network. The company is moving its full debit and credit card program—representing more than $25B in annualized payment volume—to blockchain-based settlement using SoFiUSD, a stablecoin redeemable 1:1 for U.S. dollars. Merchants will not need to hold stablecoins or build new infrastructure, with funds able to settle directly into a SoFi Bank account and be withdrawn as cash. SoFi also said it is in discussions with major U.S. retailers and technology platforms, while it and Mastercard are exploring cross-border payments and remittances as the next phase of the partnership. 5. SanDisk $SNDK jumped 7% after Rosenblatt initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $2,400 price target, calling it “not your father’s SanDisk.” The firm argues AI is transforming NAND from a commodity storage product into a system-critical component of AI infrastructure, creating a significantly stronger long-term growth story. Rosenblatt also highlighted that SanDisk recently joined the S&P 100, a milestone that could increase institutional ownership and index-related demand for the stock. 6. Michael Burry said he is now at full size across several positions, calling current market prices “rather attractive.” He added to short positions in Micron $MU, Nebius $NBIS, the Semiconductor ETF $SOXX, and Palantir $PLTR, while increasing long positions in QXO $QXO, Build-A-Bear Workshop $BBW, Sprouts Farmers Market $SFM, Birkenstock $BIRK, and MercadoLibre $MELI. Burry wrote, “I find the prices offered by the market rather attractive. All these positions are full positions for me now.” 7. AppLovin $APP was reiterated Buy by Citi with a $600 price target after new data pointed to accelerating e-commerce adoption. Citi said the platform had 13,105 global e-commerce clients as of September 18, up 5.1% week over week, the fastest growth rate in 5 months. International merchant growth accelerated 11.5% week over week, outpacing the U.S., while quarter-to-date weekly growth averaged 2.0%, implying roughly 11,600 e-commerce stores on the platform by Q3 2026. 8. Apple $AAPL unveiled a new Mac mini and Mac Studio, with a major focus on on-device AI performance. The new Mac mini features the M6 chip and delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, starting at $899. The new Mac Studio is powered by the M5 Max or M5 Ultra, with the top configuration offering up to 512GB of unified memory, 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth, an 80-core GPU, and the ability to run large language models entirely on-device. Apple is also introducing Thunderbolt 5 with RDMA, enabling multiple Mac Studios to be linked together for up to 3x faster distributed AI inference. The Mac Studio starts at $2,499, while the M5 Ultra model starts at $5,499. 9. IonQ $IONQ said it has demonstrated what it calls the industry's first end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder running on a standard off-the-shelf CPU. The system was tested on benchmark circuits simulating up to 408 logical qubits and more than 31.5M quantum operations, while adding as little as 0.02% processing overhead. The decoder runs continuously in the background, enabling quantum error correction without interrupting quantum execution. IonQ said the milestone supports its Walking Cat architecture and its roadmap toward quantum systems capable of controlling thousands of qubits. 10. China imported 1,141 tonnes of gold during the first 8 months of 2026, the largest amount ever recorded for that period and already more than the country's total gold imports for all of 2025. At the current pace, annual imports are on track to exceed 1,700 tonnes for the first time. Chinese gold ETFs also added 44 tonnes over the first eight months of the year, up 18% year over year. The surge has been driven by strong investment demand, economic uncertainty, and a stronger yuan, which has made overseas gold purchases more attractive. 11. Spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $999M in inflows on Monday, their largest daily intake since October 2025 and the 9th-largest daily inflow since U.S. Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024. The move followed another strong session on Friday, when the funds brought in $433M. Demand was led by $IBIT, which attracted $381M, its third-largest daily inflow since launch, bringing its total over the last 3 trading days to $665M. So far in September, spot Bitcoin ETFs have attracted $1.3B in inflows after pulling in $3.5B during August, highlighting continued institutional demand for Bitcoin exposure. 12. President Trump disclosed 1,156 securities transactions made on his behalf in July, totaling roughly $79M–$270M, including at least $43.6M in purchases and $35.6M in sales. The largest disclosed transactions were $5M–$25M sales of $MSFT Microsoft and $AMZN Amazon on July 20, followed three days later by smaller purchases in both companies. Other notable moves included selling $1M–$5M of Oracle while buying stocks such as $NVDA Nvidia, $INTU Intuit, $MRVL Marvell, $CRM Salesforce, and $CHD Church & Dwight, alongside significant rotation through ETFs, Treasuries, municipal bonds, and international bond funds. The White House said the portfolio is independently managed by third-party financial institutions and that neither President Trump nor his family directs the trades. The July filing follows 1,051 disclosed transactions in June, while Trump's 2025 annual financial disclosure reported more than 21,000 trades across 8 accounts. WALL STREET IS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

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• @wallstengine neutral 1284 eng

  $SOFI BECOMES FIRST U.S. NATIONAL BANK TO GO LIVE WITH STABLECOIN SETTLEMENT ACROSS MASTERCARD’S NETWORK SoFi is moving its full debit and credit card program, expected to process more than $25B in annualized volume, onto blockchain-based settlement using SoFiUSD, which is redeemable 1:1 for U.S. dollars. Merchants won’t need to hold stablecoins or build new infrastructure. They can receive funds directly into a SoFi Bank account and withdraw them as cash. SoFi is also in discussions with major U.S. retailers and technology platforms, while it and Mastercard $MA are exploring cross-border payments and remittances next.

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• @StockSavvyShay bullish 816 eng

  10 STOCKS TRADING NEAR DECADE-LOW VALUATION MULTIPLES 1. $MSFT | Microsoft 2. $NFLX | Netflix 3. $MA | Mastercard 4. $MELI | MercadoLibre 5. $SE | Sea Limited 6. $PYPL | PayPal 7. $NVO | Novo Nordisk 8. $CRM | Salesforce 9. $ADBE | Adobe 10. $LULU | Lululemon

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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 843 eng

  $SOFI just moved stablecoin settlement onto its $25B card program with $MA taking SoFiUSD into live payment infrastructure. Anthony Noto says businesses can now get “faster access to their money via the speed of blockchain, with the safeguards of a bank.” https://t.co/dKKtd7SHej

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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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