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The Strait Is a Balance Sheet Now
Renewed U.S.-Iran attacks turned a shipping corridor into an instant oil, defense and credibility premium. America’s advantage is optionality.
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Tomorrow’s Triple Test: GDP, Inflation and Two Megacap Reports
At 8:30 a.m., growth and PCE. After the close, Amazon and Apple. July 30 will test the economy, the Fed’s patience and the AI capital cycle.
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The Fed Held. The Market Didn’t.
A steady policy rate collided with an oil spike, a steeper yield curve and an AI perfection tax. Today’s selloff was a repricing of uncertainty.
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Amazon’s Two Engines and One Giant Check
Retail is producing cash, AWS is accelerating and AI capex is consuming nearly all of the free cash flow. Tomorrow’s report will test the return on the build.
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The Arsenal-and-Barrel Trade Returns
Oil repriced the Strait in one session. Defense backlogs reveal the longer cycle: a world that can expend munitions faster than it can replace them.
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The Quiet Rotation in White Coats
Healthcare absorbed today’s selloff better than technology. The opportunity is not a sector slogan—it is a choice among toll roads, hospitals and pipelines.
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The Chip Selloff That Mistook Scarcity for Symmetry
Micron’s 10% drop says peak cycle. Its HBM4 ramp, binding agreements through 2030 and record guidance say the market may be using the wrong map.
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Five Machines and a Half-Trillion-Dollar Signal
China’s reported DUV milestone and CXMT’s extraordinary debut do not erase ASML’s lead—but they change the probability map for export controls, memory competition and the semiconductor supply chain.
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The Memory Boom Meets Its Mirror
Micron’s record margins, $50 billion revenue guide and Monday selloff expose the core debate: structural AI scarcity or the most powerful memory cycle yet.
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Before the Bell: Tuesday Opens Under a Semiconductor Shadow
Early futures lean lower as China’s chip advance weighs on technology, oil keeps sliding and investors await consumer data, Boeing and a live Federal Reserve meeting.
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When a Decade Becomes a Line Item
Johnson & Johnson’s proposed $5.5 billion talc resolution could convert years of courtroom uncertainty into a measurable cash obligation—but finality still has conditions.
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The Rally That Lost Its Engine
Oil relief lifted the open, chip anxiety split technology, and a broad advance beneath the S&P 500’s flat finish revealed a market rotating faster than its indexes.