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Three Morning Movers: Apple Downgraded, Nvidia Target Raised, SpaceX Rated a Buy
Key Bank cuts Apple to underweight, lifts Nvidia to $330, and Evercore starts SpaceX at outperform with a $230 target.
CPI Cools on Falling Energy Prices While IBM's Warning Rattles Software Stocks
June CPI fell on a 23% drop in crude, core inflation eased, and IBM's weak preview sank software stocks while big banks beat.
The 20-Year Bet on SpaceX: Rockets, Starlink, and Data Centers in the Sky
Why SpaceX at its IPO price looks like a 20-year hold, built on three businesses and one long-shot bet on space data centers.
TSMC Posts Record June Revenue as AI Demand Drives 68% Jump Ahead of Earnings
TSMC reported record June revenue up 68% year-over-year on AI demand, with earnings due Thursday and a tight options trade setup around key support.
Monday Movers: Storage Stocks, AmEx Upgrade, and a Diller Bid for MGM
Citi lifts Seagate and Western Digital targets on AI storage demand, JPMorgan upgrades AmEx, and Barry Diller pursues a $12.4B MGM takeover.
Markets Can't Shake U.S.-Iran Risk as Earnings Season Begins
Geopolitical risk keeps pressing on markets as CPI data, bank earnings, memory-chip selloffs, and an Apple-OpenAI suit crowd the week.
Iran Tensions, Memory Selloff, and Apple's OpenAI Suit Set a Tense Market Week
Rising U.S.-Iran tensions, a sharp memory-chip pullback, and Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI open a week dominated by bank earnings and inflation data.
Three Mega Trends and the Companies Best Placed to Ride Them
A macro framework tied to three long-run trends, and why SpaceX, Apple, and Eli Lilly stand out as best-positioned plays.
Mid-Year Market Review: AI Disruption, Small Caps, and the Beaten-Down MAG 7
A mid-year read on how AI is reshaping market leadership, why small caps are quietly winning, and where value now sits in tech.
Why Gold's "Falling Price" Is a Buying Signal, Not a Warning
A conservative case for gold and precious metals built on downside protection, dollar debasement, mean reversion, and mining production economics.
CrowdStrike: Betting Big on the AI Cybersecurity Wave
A close look at CrowdStrike's strong Q1 FY2027 results, its AI-native Falcon platform, high valuation worries, and bullish chart.
The Power Bottleneck Behind AI: Why Data Centers Must Make Their Own Energy
AI's real limit is power, not chips, and the fix is self-powered campuses, natural gas turbines, fuel cells, and small nuclear reactors.
Why a 1973 Chart Points to $8,000 Gold by End of 2026
A 1973 gold-bottom pattern suggests a 100% rally to $8,000 by December 2026 while Bitcoin and AI stocks deflate.
The Clarity Act and the Crypto Mega Trends Set to Explode
How the pending Clarity Act could unlock institutional crypto money, and the tokenization and decentralized-AI trends already growing before it passes.
Meta's AI Bet Pays Off and SK Hynix Lands Strong in Its U.S. Debut
Meta rose on AI cloud and chip news despite an EU probe, SK Hynix jumped 13% in its U.S. debut, and next week brings bank earnings and CPI.
Big Options Bets on Nvidia, SpaceX, and Intel
Large options trades this week show bullish bets on Nvidia and SpaceX and a bearish bet against Intel amid CPU and AI chip news.
Silver Vanishing From Comex: The Quiet Shift From Paper to Physical Metal
Record physical metal withdrawals, China's control of key exchanges, and a proposed gold-backed bond point to a quiet rewiring of the money system.
Why the Gap Between Cloud Giants and Chipmakers Holds the Key to AI Stocks
An AI investment case built on closing the hyperscaler-chipmaker gap, custom ASICs, cheap cloud giants, and a strong consumer.
China Tech's Turn: Rotation, AI Software, and a Memory Chip Boom
Why Alibaba, JD, Baidu and Chinese memory chip makers like CXMT are rallying on rotation, AI cloud growth, and IPO spin-offs.
Peter Schiff: Real Rates Are Falling and the Trade Gap Is the Real Warning
Why rate hikes still count as cuts, why tariffs failed to close a record trade gap, and why government cannot hand out what it does not produce.