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• @StockSavvyShay neutral 2779 eng

  $SPCX is reportedly considering a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the U.S., which could put it in direct competition with $VZ, $T and $TMUS. SpaceX is trying to move beyond carrier partnerships and turn Starlink into a full consumer connectivity platform. https://t.co/zdY90zGnYT

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• @amitisinvesting bullish 1589 eng

  A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY. Here's a full recap: 1. The Fed held rates steady, as expected, but the decision came with 3 dissents in favor of a 25 bps hike from Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan. Fed Chair Warsh said the move should not be viewed as a “pause,” arguing that markets have already made their judgment and the Fed now has 7–8 weeks of incoming data to assess. He said the June core CPI print did not materially change the decision, with the broader inflation trend now mattering more. Warsh also said the Fed is doing well on the employment mandate, though the AI-driven capex surge makes it harder to judge aggregate supply and demand. 2. Meta $META reported Q2 2026 revenue of $60.8B, up 28% YoY, with advertising revenue rising 27% YoY to $59.4B. EPS fell 13% YoY to $6.18, while Reality Labs posted an operating loss of $4.62B. Daily active people increased 3% YoY to 3.60B, and Meta guided Q3 revenue to $61B–$64B. The stock is under pressure as investors focus on the EPS miss and continued AI infrastructure spending, with FY26 capex now expected at $130B–$145B. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said AI is already accelerating Meta’s core business, powering new products, and opening up new enterprise opportunities. 3. Robinhood $HOOD delivered an exceptional Q2 2026, with revenue up 32% YoY to $1.31B, net income up 48% YoY to $573M, and adjusted EBITDA up 35% YoY to $741M. Transaction-based revenue grew 44% YoY to $776M, while total platform assets rose 32% YoY to $369B. Net deposits hit an all-time high of $21.7B, with $3B already in Robinhood Banking. Gold subscribers increased 39% YoY to 4.8M, with a record 17% attach rate, while ARPU rose 24% YoY to $187. Robinhood also bought back 4.4M shares in the quarter, lowered expense guidance, now has 13 business lines doing $100M+ ARR, and its Gold Card has reached 1M holders with $17B of annualized spend. 4. Retail investors sold a net $243M of single stocks yesterday, marking the largest one-day outflow since the COVID crash, according to Vanda Research. 5. Microsoft $MSFT reported Q2 2026 revenue of $90.0B, adjusted EPS of $4.74, and operating income of $40.6B. Azure and other cloud revenue grew 43% YoY, while Microsoft Cloud revenue reached $59.3B and Intelligent Cloud revenue came in at $39.3B. Capex was $35.8B, reflecting continued AI infrastructure investment. CEO Satya Nadella said Azure revenue surpassed $100B for the first time this year, while Microsoft 365 Copilot reached more than 30M paid seats, showing growing enterprise adoption of Microsoft’s AI stack. 6. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and board chair Bret Taylor reportedly addressed employees in an internal meeting on Wednesday, with Friar telling staff that July annualized recurring revenue was already higher than the entire Q2 level. The update appears aimed at reassuring employees that OpenAI’s business remains healthy as competition intensifies from Anthropic and a growing wave of open-source AI players. 7. SpaceX $SPCX is reportedly weighing acquisitions or a bid in the FCC’s July 2027 Upper C-band auction to secure terrestrial spectrum, per Semafor. The company is looking for airwaves that perform better in cities and dense areas, which could help Starlink compete more directly with $T AT&T, $VZ Verizon, and $TMUS T-Mobile. SpaceX has already bought $17B of EchoStar spectrum licenses, though its latest spectrum strategy remains fluid. 8. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 3.8M contracts, $TSLA with 2.3M contracts, $AAPL with 1.7M contracts, $MU with 1.2M contracts, $INTC with 905K contracts, $SOFI with 802K contracts, $AMD with 654K contracts, $AMZN with 631K contracts, $SPCX with 615K contracts, and $GOOGL with 582K contracts. 9. JPMorgan says Korea’s equity market has gone through an intense deleveraging phase since mid-June, with the KOSPI now down nearly 40% from its June 22 peak. The firm says the selloff was amplified by leveraged ETF flows and hedge fund positioning unwind, but now believes the leveraged ETF unwind is complete and hedge funds are roughly 90% done deleveraging. While some residual selling may continue and investors remain cautious ahead of the FOMC and hyperscaler earnings, JPMorgan says Korea’s positioning setup now looks attractive on balance, supported by cheap valuations and earnings momentum. 10. U.S. senators are warning Apple $AAPL against using Chinese memory chips from CXMT or YMTC, even for devices sold only in China. Lawmakers led by Jim Banks and Chuck Schumer urged Apple to abandon the talks, noting both chipmakers are on a Pentagon list of Chinese military companies, while YMTC is also on the Commerce Department’s Entity List. Senators warned that Apple qualifying the chips could pave the way for broader use later, and asked Apple to commit by August 21 not to use them while disclosing any technical information already shared. The pressure comes as the global memory market remains tight, with potential read-throughs for $MU, $SNDK, and $SKHY. 11. Meta $META is not giving specific 2027 CapEx guidance, saying infrastructure planning remains highly dynamic as it builds for maximum capacity in 2026 and 2027, while keeping room to expand in 2028 and beyond. On AI, Meta said it is optimistic about meaningful growth across its AI businesses and expects to share more soon. The company also said it has received multiple offers to monetize its compute at a meaningful premium to cost, but believes selling intelligence will carry significantly higher margins than selling compute directly. 12. Korea’s government announced an emergency market meeting after the recent equity-market selloff, with the finance ministry also launching a 24-hour market monitoring system. The measures include new restrictions on leveraged ETF trading and caps on retail exposure to these products. Korean stocks have bounced on the news as policymakers move to stabilize markets. I know it's very ugly out there. We all are going through it. It is the greatest show on earth for the reason: you just don't know what's going to happen next. Earnings are amazing so the selloff feels more structural and rooted in deleveraging/bad sentiment around AI vs the entire AI trade itself not being real or having strong fundamentals. Some valuations really got aggressive and the unwind has taken everything down along with the war being a really ugly headwind for the entire market. Stay strong, make sure you aren't too levered, and remember that the broader markets have seen worse and will persist through this. WALL STREET IS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

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• @amitisinvesting neutral 1294 eng

  A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY. Here's a full recap: 1. Markets were under pressure today, with the S&P $SPY down ~1.5%, largely due to a sharp selloff in South Korea. The KOSPI fell 9.9%, its worst day since March, as fears grow around potential taxes on unrealized stock gains, heavy retail leverage, and volatility in popular names like $SPCX. The move is also weighing on U.S. memory stocks ahead of $MU earnings, while renewed rate-hike fears from BofA are adding more pressure. 2. Google $GOOGL is replacing Verizon $VZ in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, adding another mega-cap tech name to the historic index. Google now joins Amazon $AMZN, Apple $AAPL, Microsoft $MSFT, and Nvidia $NVDA as Mag 7 companies included in the Dow. 3. U.S. home prices rose 0.3% MoM in May, the fastest monthly gain since January, and 2.5% YoY, the fastest annual growth in six months, per Redfin. Redfin said the increase reflects deals signed in April, when mortgage rates fell and demand improved. Closed home sales also reached their highest level since 2022 in May. 4. Meta $META is reportedly working on a standalone prediction markets app internally called Arena, per NYT. Zuckerberg directed a small team to build the app after the rise of Polymarket and Kalshi, with users likely predicting outcomes using game-like points instead of money at launch. Meta has not ruled out real-money betting later, and NYT says the company could leverage Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger to scale the product, though the project remains experimental and may never launch. 5. BofA raised its 2030 global semiconductor $SMH TAM forecast to $2.7T, up from $2.3T, saying AI could drive the next $1T in chip sales over the next five years. The firm continues to see AI as the biggest growth engine for the semiconductor industry. 6. More than 6M U.S. children have been enrolled in Trump Accounts ahead of the program’s July 4 launch, according to Treasury. Around 1.4M of those children qualify for the $1,000 Treasury seed contribution. 7. Palantir $PLTR and Zeta $ZETA announced a strategic partnership to build AI infrastructure for enterprise marketing. Zeta’s Data Cloud will be rearchitected on Palantir Foundry, combining governed enterprise data with Zeta’s AI decisioning platform to connect operational intelligence, customer intelligence, and real-time marketing execution. Zeta says the partnership could drive more than $100M in annual revenue in the coming years, creating a trusted platform for agentic marketing and faster, measurable business outcomes. 8. SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son pushed back on Elon Musk’s $SPCX orbital data center vision, arguing the AI race will be won with compute built on Earth. Son said SoftBank is focused on building “formidable” data center capacity, adding that “he who strikes first wins.” While he called Musk a “remarkable agent of change,” Son said space-based data centers face major challenges around launch, maintenance, and communication costs. 9. Rakuten Group is teaming up with AST SpaceMobile $ASTS to form a satellite-to-cell joint venture in Japan. The new JV, expected to be created this year, will purchase and operate satellites to deliver direct-to-mobile coverage, with Rakuten bringing its Japanese telecom footprint and AST providing the satellite infrastructure. The move puts Rakuten and AST in direct competition with SpaceX’s Starlink, which already offers satellite-to-cell service through carrier partnerships. 10. Taiwan’s AI stock frenzy is starting to look like a “buy anything and it goes up” market. The country’s stock market is up 100%+ over the past year, overtaking the UK, Canada, and India to become the world’s fifth-largest equity market. But leverage is flashing warning signs: margin debt tied to stock purchases has jumped 160% in 12 months, nearing pre-2000 crash levels, while brokers are raising rates, demanding more collateral, and stock-trading defaults have more than doubled in June to over NT$2B. 11. GameStop $GME said Ryan Cohen asked the board to remove his proposed CEO Performance Award from the proxy statement as the company focuses on its proposed acquisition of eBay $EBAY. GameStop submitted a non-binding offer to buy eBay for $125/share in cash and stock, while currently owning 4.34M eBay shares and holding option exposure to another 39.05M shares. The HSR antitrust waiting period was satisfied on June 3. 12. Cerebras $CBRS reported Q1 revenue of $193.4M, up 94% YoY and ahead of the $181.4M estimate. The company also raised its FY26 revenue outlook to $855M–$865M, above the $824.8M estimate, and announced major AI infrastructure wins, including a $20B+ OpenAI deal for 750MW of inference compute and a multi-year AWS inference partnership. WALL STREET IS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

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• @amitisinvesting bullish 1148 eng

  $GOOGL REPLACES $VZ VERIZON TO JOIN THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE. Google now joins Amazon $AMZN, Apple $AAPL, $MSFT Microsoft, & $NVDA Nvidia as the other Mag 7's to join the historical index. Maybe this is why Berkshire happily agreed to buy $10B of the stock at $350...

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• @StockSavvyShay neutral 1147 eng

  $ASTS filed for 30 day FCC authorization to test direct to device broadband on 800 MHz spectrum using standard smartphones. The spectrum sits beside the $T and $VZ bands already leased to AST potentially expanding coverage and capacity. https://t.co/bSDnANlhKx

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• @KobeissiLetter neutral 2075 eng

  BREAKING: Alphabet, $GOOGL, is being added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Verizon, $VZ. https://t.co/nhr3Spch6E

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• @StockSavvyShay bullish 344 eng

  Photonics and optical names are ripping today as $VZ and $GLW new multibillion dollar fiber commitment reinforces that AI connectivity demand is spreading well beyond hyperscalers: • $AXTI +14% • $LITE +13% • $VIAV +12% • $AAOI +9% • $COHR +9% • $CIEN +9% • $AEHR +7% I think you’re going to keep seeing more deals like this as the AI buildout expands from inside the data center to between data centers bringing a much broader buyer base into fiber, transceivers, lasers, DSPs and silicon photonics.

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• @wallstengine neutral 229 eng

  ALPHABET $GOOGL TO JOIN DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE, REPLACING VERIZON $VZ https://t.co/8ZvCXKWIcz

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