Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Palantir's after-hours blowout — EPS $0.41 vs $0.35 est, revenue $1.94B (+93% YoY), full-year guide raised $500M to $8.15–8.16B — has NQ futures +0.60% and XLK pre-market +1.22%, but the real stakes arrive tonight: AMD ($11.32B, 8.5% implied swing) and SpaceX's first-ever public earnings ($6.88B, 17% implied) report after close, with 911.5M insider shares unlocking Thursday.

The morning's defining event is already resolved before the open. Palantir delivered on every axis — government AIP, US commercial (+149% YoY), and a $500M guide raise — confirming that enterprise AI software can convert adoption into revenue at scale, not just at the hyperscaler layer. The stock's +16% premarket move ($145.90) is the clearest single-stock catalyst in weeks, and it lifts the entire AI software complex: SNOW PT targets moving from $320 to $500 (Wells Fargo), MSFT added to Goldman Sachs conviction at $640.Caterpillar delivered the session's other earnings shock: $8.17 adj EPS vs $6.20 est (+32%), $20.5B revenue — the first $20B+ quarter in company history — on Power & Energy +17%, Construction +35%, Resource Industries +20%. This is not a tariff-pass-through story alone; it is AI data-center power infrastructure spending flowing through the physical equipment layer. Eaton (ETN) upgraded Evercore ISI to Outperform ($502 PT) with the same thesis. William Blair added GE Vernova (GEV) and Generac (GNRC) to conviction, calling power grid buildout "the most underestimated component of the AI theme."Iran remains the dominant macro frame — and the one that hasn't changed: no formal Hormuz deal signed as of Tuesday pre-market, tankers still being attacked, Polymarket at 77% probability of a green Tuesday open (not 95%). Oil is partially recovering (WTI ~$79.62, USO +1.94%), which means Monday's energy sector selloff has stalled without reversing. The relief trade is real but capped until a deal is signed.The week's binary risk center is tonight: AMD Instinct MI350 guidance (Q3 Helios ramp, not the Q2 print, is what the market prices) and SpaceX's inaugural earnings plus the structural shadow of 911.5M shares unlocking Thursday. Friday's July NFP (~80K consensus, prior 57K) closes the week as the Fed rate catalyst — three hawkish dissents at the July 28–29 FOMC hold (3.50–3.75%) signal that a second consecutive weak print raises September hike probability from the current implied level.

1. Market Snapshot

Key backdrop: Monday's session delivered S&P +1.48% to 7,600.50 — 0.12% from the June 2 ATH of 7,609.78. The ISM Manufacturing beat (55.6 vs 54.0 est; highest since May 2022) compounded the Iran-relief bid into a broad risk-on session, with the Dow closing at a record high (+693 pts). Today's pre-market is led by NQ (+0.60%) on the PLTR blowout; SPY pre-market $758.48 (+0.11%). The index is within ATH range; risk sentiment is constructive. Tonight's AMD and SPCX earnings are the next binary events. Structural overhang: 10Y at 4.70%, three FOMC hawkish dissents at the July 28–29 meeting, and Friday's NFP.

2. Asia Recap

Tuesday, August 4 closes.

Net read: Asia broadly stabilized after Monday's dramatic splits. KOSPI's +1.62% continuation is the AI memory bid holding — the PLTR US Commercial +149% YoY print is direct confirmation that the enterprise AI cycle consuming high-bandwidth memory is real and accelerating. Nikkei's modest +0.32% reflects yen stabilization post-intervention (USD/JPY anchored ~156.51) without a fresh catalyst; Kioxia's +6% is the overnight NAND/AI derivative of the PLTR beat. Hang Seng quiet — Monday's BABA Qwen surge has digested. Relevant: korean_chaebols, china_tech_rebound.

3. Europe Now

At open, Tuesday August 4.

Read: Europe continues Monday's rotation template — DAX and CAC leading on reduced energy input costs and AI momentum, FTSE lagging on its energy-heavy composition and BoE policy uncertainty (6-3 hawkish split at July 30 hold). The FTSE's underperformance is a clean daily read on the sector impact of the Iran diplomatic pause. State Street upgraded broad financials sector from neutral to positive for Q3 2026, citing Iran-risk premium reduction as the trigger. Relevant: uk_european_banking.

4. Economic Calendar

Context: Fed (Warsh) held 3.50–3.75% at Jul 28–29 with 3 hawkish dissents (wanted +25 bps); dot-plot median year-end at 3.8% implies hike risk. BoE held 3.75% (6-3 hawkish split, Jul 30). BoJ held 1.0% (8–1 vote; Takata dissented, Jul 31). No FOMC this week. Next FOMC: Sep 15–16. This week is dominated by the July labor market trifecta: ADP Wed → Claims Thu → NFP Fri. Monday's ISM Manufacturing 55.6 (✅ beat 54.0 est) is complete.

Upcoming (out of week)

5. News & Events

Palantir Q2 — Sovereign AI Converts to Revenue (+93% YoY, Guide Raised $500M)

Palantir reported Monday AH: EPS $0.41 vs $0.35 est (+17%), revenue $1.94B vs $1.81B est (+93% YoY), US Commercial +149% YoY, GAAP operating margin 47%, adjusted operating margin 62%. Full-year revenue guidance raised to $8.15–8.16B (from $7.65–7.66B) — a $500M uplift at the midpoint. CEO framing: "sovereign AI is winning." This is the enterprise software confirmation of the hyperscaler AI revenue thesis established last week by MSFT Azure (+43% CC) and AMZN AWS (+37%). Piper Sandler raised PT to $230, Rosenblatt to $225. PLTR is trading +16% premarket (~$145.90). The drift trade is live: a 9th consecutive beat at this magnitude typically sustains 2–3 session post-earnings momentum. Relevant: ai_infra_picks_shovels, earnings_surprise_drift.

Caterpillar Q2 — First $20B+ Quarter in History; Power & Energy +17%

CAT pre-market +1.68% on a blowout beat: $8.17 adj EPS vs $6.20 est (+32%), revenue $20.5B vs $19.31B est — the first $20B+ quarter in the company's history. Adj operating margin 21.9% vs 17.6% prior year. Power & Energy +17%, Construction Industries +35%, Resource Industries +20%. OCF $4.4B. Raised 2026 FY revenue growth guidance to mid-to-high teens (prior: low-double-digit); no EPS dollar-amount guidance issued. Baird cut to Neutral ($900 PT, from $1,200) on July 29, flagging 2027–2028 data-center regulatory risk — a pre-earnings call that proved prescient against the strong Q2 print — and the Q2 beat is broadly bullish for the industrial AI infrastructure chain. ETN upgraded Evercore ISI to Outperform ($502 PT) with the identical AI data-center power thesis. GEV and GNRC added to William Blair conviction on power grid buildout. Relevant: infrastructure_boom, ai_infra_picks_shovels.

Iran / Strait of Hormuz — Fragile Pause, No Deal Signed

No material change overnight. Trump's Sunday (Aug 2) halt on Iran strikes triggered Monday's WTI −5.97% selloff, but as of Tuesday pre-market, no formal Hormuz deal has been signed. Iran continues to threaten tanker passage. Roughly 25% of global maritime crude trade remains constrained. WTI has partially recovered to ~$79.62 (from Monday's $80.34 close). Polymarket at 77% for a green Tuesday open — high confidence but not certainty. Any CENTCOM or State Department statement on Hormuz progress or tanker incidents is the live catalyst. Relevant: geopolitical_crisis, warflation_hedge.

SpaceX First Earnings + 911.5M Share Lockup (AH Tonight, Unlock Aug 6)

SpaceX (SPCX) reports its first-ever public earnings tonight AH: revenue est $6.88B, Starlink 10.3M subscribers as of Q1 (+105% YoY; ~12M projected for Q2 per Morgan Stanley), EPS range −$1.26 to +$0.33. Options price a 17% implied move (roughly $204B market cap swing). The structural event is what follows: 911.5M insider shares become eligible for sale Thursday, August 6 — one of the largest lockup expirations in recent market history — creating structural selling pressure regardless of tonight's result quality. SPCX is −49% from its post-IPO intraday high, trading ~39× 2026E sales. Morgan Stanley maintains $300 PT. The lockup shadow is the primary risk. Relevant: pre_ipo_innovation_funds.

AstraZeneca / Bristol-Myers — $400B Merger Talks Ongoing

Reports of merger talks between AZN and BMY remain unresolved. AZN pre-market ~−7%, BMY ~+6%. No formal announcement as of Tuesday morning. Antitrust concern is real — combined oncology revenue represents ~40–50% of each firm's sales. AZN 30d IV at 27 (52W range 20–42); BMY call/put leaning put-heavy (arb hedging). Combined entity would be the world's fourth-largest drugmaker by market cap. Relevant: global_pharma_pipeline, merger_arbitrage.

Goldman Sachs August Conviction Reshuffle

Goldman added MSFT ($640 PT; "AI monetization phase shift"), AMAT (semiconductor capex), DAL, ORLY, VIK, UPS, and AON ($430 PT) to its US Conviction Buy list. Removed AVGO ("AI infrastructure frenzy expected to cool"), DKS, JNJ, and NOW (valuation stretched). European conviction adds: ASML (EUV cycle), Sika, Puig. Separately, Oppenheimer simultaneously downgraded GS, MS, BAC, and C ("valuations not compelling despite strong trading backdrop") — a four-bank sweep cut on the same day that Piper Sandler initiated V, MA, COF, AFRM, and AXP at Overweight (payments sector sweep). The divergence is notable: large-cap bank holding companies are getting cut while transaction-infrastructure payments are being accumulated. Relevant: global_financial_infra.

6. WSB/Retail Sentiment

Retail sentiment Tuesday is moderately bullish with an AI-earnings tilt, the PLTR blowout resolving Monday's cautious optimism into directional conviction. PLTR is now dominating WSB alongside AMD (reporting AH tonight, +126% YTD per AltIndex), SPCX (once-in-a-generation event framing on Reddit), and SNDK (up 54% in Reddit mentions over 24 hours — historically a precursor to short-term price action ahead of Wednesday's earnings). MU, AMZN, and NVDA anchor the top of the most-mentioned tracker with broadly bullish AI infrastructure framing. TSLA remains the contrarian drag — down 17% since Q2 miss — with persistent retail selling. XLE short theses, seeded Monday, continue gaining traction as the Iran-deal narrative holds.Options flow confirms the tone: Equity P/C at 0.55 (most bullish reading in recent weeks, below Jul 14's 0.62); Index P/C 0.88; ETP P/C 1.04. The 0.55/0.88 divergence signals a sophisticated structure: single-stock call buying (PLTR, AMD) coexisting with index-level tail hedging (SPY/QQQ puts). VIX at ~15.57, day 80+ of steep contango (+13.1% spot to August front-month), with the curve pricing NFP Friday and the AMD/SPCX binary as forward vol events, not near-term crisis. Overall Stocktwits tone: moderately bullish, AI-focused, one-day-trade mentality around tonight's AMD and SPCX prints. Relevant: vix_mean_reversion, sentiment_reversal.

7. Commodities & Currencies

Energy: WTI's partial premarket recovery (USO +1.94%) reflects mean-reversion buyers after Monday's −5.97% single-session collapse, but the structural backdrop is unchanged — no Hormuz deal signed, OPEC+ supply normalization from September still pending. The energy sector (XLE +0.46% premarket) is recovering tactically, not reversing the fundamental headwind. Cheaper crude feedstock benefits PSX (refining) and broad consumer non-energy names. Relevant: oil_down_tech_up, energy_seasonal.

Gold and DXY: Gold at ~$4,061 (Tuesday AM) remains below Monday's predicted $4,070–4,140 floor, confirming that a single-session WTI −6% move can overpower gold's rate-hedge bid. Silver's +1.83% outperformance on a soft-DXY day is the cleaner safe-haven/industrial hybrid read. DXY at a 7-week low (sub-100) is the yen-intervention effect persisting into the week. Relevant: gold_bug.

8. Earnings This Week

Reported BMO today (Tue Aug 4):

Reported AH Monday (Aug 3):

Reporting AH tonight (Tue Aug 4):

Wednesday Aug 5 — DIS, LLY, UBER:

Thursday Aug 6 — COP, NET, ROKU, DKNG:

COP (BMO; WTI −6% headwind; +108% EPS YoY on Marathon Oil assets; cash return vs oil-price sensitivity). NET, DKNG, ROKU all AH.

Friday Aug 7: No major earnings — full focus on July NFP (8:30 AM).

Guidance watch: LLY's Q1 was $1.58 above consensus — the bar has adjusted, but Mounjaro/Zepbound volume surprise remains the swing factor. SPCX lockup creates structural selling pressure regardless of tonight's result quality. AMD: Q2 print is de-risked; Q3 guidance for the Helios ramp is the incremental signal that the market prices for the night. Relevant: glp1_obesity, earnings_gap_and_go.

9. Strategy Triggers

AI Software Revenue Confirmed — Enterprise Layer Joins Hyperscalers

PLTR's +93% YoY revenue growth with GAAP operating margin of 47% closes the argument that AI revenue is only a hyperscaler story. Three weeks of earnings data now show revenue acceleration at every layer: infrastructure (AMD, NVDA), cloud platform (MSFT Azure +43%, AMZN AWS +37%, BABA cloud +38%), and enterprise software (PLTR US Commercial +149%). Goldman's conviction add of MSFT at $640 with an explicit "AI monetization phase shift" thesis and SNOW PT upgrades to $500 (Wells Fargo) confirm the institutional position is building in the software layer, not just hardware. The ai_infra_picks_shovels and ai_mega_ecosystem triggers are both active and reinforcing each other through tonight's AMD print. If AMD Q3 guidance for Helios ramp confirms the hardware-layer demand, the AI revenue verification cycle completes its first full loop.

Power Infrastructure — The AI Theme's Underpriced Leg

CAT's first $20B+ quarter, ETN's Q2 beat-and-raise (EPS $3.15 vs $3.08, revenue +21.4%, FY guide raised), and William Blair's simultaneous conviction adds in GEV ("most important component of the AI theme is energy infrastructure") and GNRC (data center backup power) are pointing to a single fact the market has partly missed: AI's physical buildout is constrained by electricity capacity before it is constrained by chips. The infrastructure_boom trigger is activating through industrial names rather than through REITs or utilities — the distinction matters because it means cyclical margin expansion, not rate-sensitive dividend yield, drives the return. Relevant: infrastructure_reshoring.

Payments Sweep vs. Bank Holdco Cut — Financials Bifurcation

Oppenheimer's simultaneous downgrade of GS, MS, BAC, and C ("valuations not compelling despite strong trading") on the same day Piper Sandler initiated V, MA, COF, AFRM, and AXP at Overweight is a clean institutional signal: money is rotating within financials from large-cap bank holding companies toward transaction-infrastructure payments. The logic is rate-cycle asymmetry — banks benefit from NIM expansion on current rates but face loan-loss risk in a recession; payment networks earn on transaction volumes regardless of rate direction. State Street separately upgraded broad financials to positive for Q3 2026. The global_financial_infra trigger is live but the expression matters: payments over banks. Relevant: boring_compounder.

NFP Friday — The Rate Catalyst That Overrides Earnings

Three hawkish FOMC dissents at the July 28–29 hold are the context: the median committee is one strong labor print away from hiking. ADP consensus at ~210K Wednesday (vs +98K June — a large divergence that may not hold) and JOLTS at 10:00 AM today (7.4M est) are the leading indicators. Scenario map for Friday's NFP: below 60K = recession fear overrides hike odds, bonds rally, XLRE/XLU bounce; 60–90K = range-bound, dissents remain vocal; above 120K = September hike becomes base case, 10Y retests 4.74–4.75%, rate-sensitives sell off. Relevant: nfp_momentum, fomc_announcement.

Insider Signal — Quiet Day; Monitor CORZ Float Dynamics

No confirmed Form 4 open-market buys above $500K for August 4. The dominant institutional signal is Two Seas Capital's exit below 5% in CORZ (Core Scientific) — a passive holder that has been consistently trimming from 8.1% (Dec 2025) to 4.4% (Apr 23, 2026). The float overhang matters: Situational Awareness LP (AI hedge fund) holds 9.4% and has not disclosed any further buys. BANR (Banner Corporation) announced a new 1.7M share buyback authorization (~5% of float), with CEO citing "attractive value proposition." The prior-day Jardine Matheson and WEX cluster buys from the Monday brief remain the highest-conviction recent insider signals. Q2 2026 13F filings are due mid-August; the surge of institutional disclosures arrives August 11–14. Relevant: insider_buying_real, buyback_yield_systematic.

10. Monday's Predictions — Scorecard

11. Trade Ideas

Observations from the research briefs — not investment advice.

PLTR — Earnings Drift Long (Post-Blowout, +16% Premarket) | EVENT DRIFT

The post-blowout drift is the trade, not the pre-print position. PLTR delivered EPS +24%, revenue +93% YoY, and a $500M guide raise — the kind of result that historically generates 2–3 sessions of institutional FOMO buying from underweight funds that missed the print. The framework: a 9th consecutive beat at this magnitude with a credible AIP enterprise flywheel narrative sustains momentum through the early week. The risk is Tuesday's gap fill on the initial +16% move — a shallow consolidation toward $135–$138 is a better entry than chasing $145 premarket. Piper Sandler $230 and Rosenblatt $225 define the new institutional PT cluster. Relevant: earnings_surprise_drift, ai_infra_picks_shovels.

MLM — Martin Marietta Materials (52W Low, Q2 Beat, Rate Noise) | STRONG BUY (8/10)

MLM at its 52-week low ($525–$540) despite just posting record second-quarter revenue and adjusted EBITDA is a textbook macro-punished fundamental dip. The selloff is entirely rate-driven (10Y spiked post-ECI, compressing infrastructure cyclical multiples) — not demand-driven. The underlying business: revenue +14.8% TTM, record EBITDA, ~61% of 23 covering analysts (14 of 23) rated Buy, consensus PT $682–$697 (25–30% implied return). Stifel raised PT to $681, BofA target $643. CAT's first $20B+ quarter today is a direct read-through confirming construction and aggregates demand is intact. The optimal entry is tomorrow or Thursday if AMD/SPCX reaction creates another risk-off episode — today's risk-on tape may lift MLM 3–5% intraday and compress the entry advantage. Entry zone: $525–$545. Stop: $495. Target 1: $620. Target 2: $680. Relevant: infrastructure_reshoring, contrarian_fallen_angels.

MU — Micron Technology (−28.7% in July, AI/HBM Thesis Intact) | STRONG BUY (7.5/10)

MU's 28.7% July decline is the CXMT IPO fear overshoot. The threat is being priced as if CXMT is a 30% DRAM market-share player; it is at 8% (vs MU 24%, SK Hynix 29%, Samsung 39%). The Apple-CXMT DRAM test applies to commodity mobile LPDRAM — not HBM3e, which is Micron's highest-margin product and where CXMT has no at-scale production. 45-analyst consensus at $1,507 average PT (81% upside) is virtually unanimous. RSI ~40 and falling — a move below 30 would confirm extreme oversold conditions ideal for staged entry. AMD's AH Q3 guidance tonight is a binary input: bullish AMD (Instinct ramp confirmed) = AI chip demand sustained = MU DRAM demand sustained. Staged entry: 1/3 at $820–$860 now, 1/3 at $750 on further weakness, 1/3 at $700. Stop: $680. Target 1: $1,000. Target 2: $1,507 (12-month). Relevant: semiconductor_value, contrarian_fallen_angels.

MAR — Marriott International (Geo-Shock Dip, Raised FY Guidance) | WATCH

Marriott's Monday −7% selloff is a geo-shock overreaction: the company beat EPS ($3.19 vs $3.09 est), raised full-year EPS guidance ($11.64–$11.81 vs $11.61 consensus), and the revenue miss is entirely attributable to Middle East RevPAR −43% from the Hormuz-related travel disruption. Once Middle East tensions stabilize, RevPAR normalizes. StochRSI at 17 (deeply oversold short-term). TD Cowen PT $420, Wells Fargo $449 — both 20–30% above current. Wait for one more stabilization day before entry. Watch zone: $340–$355. Entry target: $345 with no further geo escalation. Stop: $315. Target: $385–$420. Relevant: global_airlines_travel.

AMD — Tonight's Binary ($500 Gamma Pin, 8.5% Implied) | EVENT PLAY

AMD's Q2 is pre-guided ($11.2B ±$300M) and largely de-risked. The question is the Q3 guidance for the Helios MI350 GPU ramp. Options show 8.5% implied move with a gamma pin at $500 — market-maker delta-hedging will dominate intraday tape. Explosive move if price clears or breaks $500 decisively. No pre-print position; observe the Q3 revenue guide. A Helios ramp above $13B Q3 guide → chain trade into MU and NVDA supply-chain beneficiaries. A cautious guide → memory/AI chip sentiment reset. Relevant: ai_infra_picks_shovels, semiconductor_value.

The Day Ahead in One Paragraph

Tuesday opens with NQ leading (+0.60%) on the PLTR blowout and a market sitting 0.12% from its all-time high, but the session's real alpha events are stacked after close — AMD (8.5% implied; Q3 Helios ramp is the number, not Q2) and SpaceX's inaugural earnings (17% implied; lockup of 911.5M shares unlocks Thursday regardless of result).The morning is front-loaded with CAT's first $20B+ quarter validating the industrial AI infrastructure chain alongside BP's beat and PFE's guidance raise — three BMO beats that set a constructive tone for the open, with XLK +1.22% and XLF +0.67% leading sectors while IWM lags (risk-on rotation favoring large-cap tech over small caps, reversing Monday's pattern).JOLTS at 10:00 AM ET (7.4M est vs 7.6M prior) is the session's primary macro event — a reading below 7.0M would soften the 10Y and ease rate-sensitive pressure ahead of Friday's NFP; a strong reading above 7.8M re-arms the hawkish dissent camp and lifts yields.The AZN/BMY $400B merger thesis remains live and unresolved — AZN −7% / BMY +6% are the arb trade watching for a formal announcement; the combined oncology franchises face real antitrust risk.The week's frame has not changed: NFP Friday (~80K consensus, prior 57K) and three hawkish FOMC dissents define the rate ceiling that no amount of AI earnings can dissolve — position into tonight's binary events with discipline, carry dip ideas (MLM, MU) on a timeline beyond this week's noise, and wait for the SpaceX lockup pressure to resolve before committing capital to SPCX.

Today's Predictions

1. S&P 500 closes green but in a tighter range than Monday, +0.2%–0.7% — the PLTR surge drives an initial gap-up open, but the index is 0.12% from the ATH and needs tonight's AMD print to sustain through 7,609.
2. Nasdaq 100 (NQ) outperforms the Dow (YM) for the session — PLTR's +16% premarket and AMD anticipation give tech the directional edge; yesterday's Dow-leads-NQ pattern reverses on the AI earnings momentum.
3. AMD reports Q3 Helios MI350 revenue guidance above $12.5B AH — the pre-guided Q2 print de-risks the beat; the Q3 guide is what moves the stock; 8.5% implied move resolves to the upside.
4. JOLTS Job Openings at 10:00 AM prints 7.2M–7.6M (near the 7.4M consensus) — a benign read that neither accelerates rate-hike odds nor signals labor market collapse, and the tape grinds modestly higher through midday.
5. VIX closes below 16.0 if AMD beats AH — the steep contango (+13.1% spot-to-front) begins compressing toward the spot as the AI earnings beat streak absorbs forward risk; a flat or miss AMD result spikes VIX to 17+.
6. XLK remains the best-performing SPDR sector ETF — PLTR's morning drift and AMD AH anticipation hold tech in the lead; XLC (Communication Services) is the closest follower on PLTR/SNAP momentum.
7. SpaceX (SPCX) closes tonight's AH print above current premarket levels but reverses Thursday on lockup-driven structural selling — the lockup of 911.5M shares creates mechanical supply regardless of the earnings quality.
8. Gold closes in a $4,020–$4,080 range — the partial geopolitical premium remains unwound, DXY sub-100 provides a soft floor via currency channel; the range trades below Monday's predicted floor for the second consecutive day.
9. WTI crude closes above $80/bbl by end of session — USO +1.94% premarket and mean-reversion buyers absorb Monday's overshooting, but the structural cap from the Iran diplomatic pause keeps crude below $82 without a deal announcement.
10. The AZN/BMY merger talk produces no formal announcement before Tuesday's close — complexity of a $400B cross-border pharma deal, antitrust review requirements, and board-level process make a sub-48-hour announcement structurally improbable; AZN stabilizes, BMY holds most of its premium.

Sources
- Benzinga — Stock Market Today Aug 4, 2026
- Benzinga — Palantir Q2 earnings
- FXLeaders — PLTR Q2 beat
- BusinessWire — Pfizer Q2 guidance raise
- CNBC — AZN/BMY merger talks
- Benzinga — SPCX earnings/$204B swing
- Yahoo Finance — SpaceX earnings date
- Yahoo Finance — Aug 4 live
- TradingKey — Japan/South Korea markets Aug 4
- TradingEconomics — Hang Seng Aug 4
- India TV News — Sensex Aug 4
- Yahoo Finance UK — European stocks advance
- Rio Times — Gold/Silver Aug 4
- Britannica — 2026 Iran war
- AltIndex WSB
- Cboe Daily Market Statistics
- ISM Manufacturing PMI Jul 2026 — PR Newswire
- TheStreet — Aug 3 close
- Seeking Alpha — CAT Q2 preview
- Benzinga — Polymarket S&P open Aug 4
- Reference: agents-assemble/knowledge/premarket-research/20260803.md

Disclaimer

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