$VIX
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
Three structural facts rewired the overnight tape: Iran formally declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all commercial shipping under military enforcement — an explicit escalation from weeks of pract…
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
The session's entire directional fate hangs on one number printing at 8:30 AM ET — May CPI at consensus 4.2% YoY, the highest since April 2023 — against an overnight tape where US-Iran kinetic escalat…
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
The two-session chip bounce continues — Polymarket gives 89% odds of a higher open, ES is +0.35% and NQ +0.70% — but Tuesday arrives with three complications Monday didn't have: NFIB small business op…
Monday, June 8, 2026
The weekend Iran-Israel missile exchange — Iran's first direct barrage at Israel since the April 8 ceasefire, answered by Israeli airstrikes on Iranian petrochemical facilities and US CENTCOM strikes …
Sunday, June 7, 2026
The week that ended Friday June 6 was defined by two earthquakes of opposite sign: May's nonfarm payrolls printed 172,000 — more than double the 85,000 consensus and one of the largest monthly beats o…
Friday, June 5, 2026
May nonfarm payrolls printed +251K — three times the ~85K consensus and nearly double the ADP 122K print — transforming Chair Warsh's June 16–17 FOMC debut from a data-neutral hold into a hawkish one,…
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Iran's overnight ballistic missile attacks targeting Kuwait and Bahrain — intercepted but immediately triggering US CENTCOM retaliatory airstrikes on Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf — mark the most d…
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Two overnight prints confirm the AI infrastructure cycle has entered a phase where execution matters more than narrative: HPE's Q2 FY2026 delivered EPS $0.79 vs. $0.53 estimated (+49% beat) and revenu…
Monday, June 1, 2026
SoftBank's €45 billion (~$52B) first-phase AI infrastructure commitment to France — driving Tokyo shares +14% — cements June's opening thesis that the AI capex supercycle is now global, not just Ameri…
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Nine consecutive S&P 500 winning weeks, all three major indices at all-time highs, and a month-end close that saw the Dow cross 51,000 for the first time and WTI post its worst May since April 2025 (~…
Friday, May 29, 2026
Dell's $43.84 billion quarter — AI server revenue $16.1 billion (+757% YoY), EPS beating by 65%, FY2027 guide raised to $165–169B from $138–142B, backlog $51.3B — arrives with a 39–40% pre-market gap …
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Snowflake's +37% after-hours surge on a $6 billion AWS infrastructure pact — confirming 34% product revenue acceleration and 126% net revenue retention — arrived in the same pre-dawn window as fresh U…
Monday, May 25, 2026
NYSE, Nasdaq, and US bond markets are closed full session for Memorial Day. Next trading day: Tuesday, May 26, 2026. This report covers all developments from Friday May 22's close through Monday's hol…
Sunday, May 24, 2026
The week of May 18–22 ended with the S&P 500 posting its eighth consecutive winning week (7,408→7,473.47, +0.9%) after NVIDIA delivered the most comprehensive earnings beat of the AI era — $81.62B rev…
Friday, May 22, 2026
Workday and Ross Stores delivered the week's cleanest post-earnings setups overnight — WDAY +10.8% AH on doubled AI-agent customer counts and ROST's historic +20% EPS beat — but today's session is def…
Thursday, May 21, 2026
NVIDIA delivered its most comprehensive beat in two years — $81.6B revenue, $91B Q2 guide, $80B buyback, and a 25x dividend hike — yet traded down 1% after the close as the market processed the parado…
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
The dual binary that has suppressed three consecutive S&P losses arrives today: FOMC April Minutes drop at 2:00 PM ET revealing the 8-4 dissent's rate-hike language, and NVIDIA Q1 FY2027 prints after …
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Monday's three simultaneous shocks — Moody's Aaa→Aa1, UAE Barakah nuclear plant strike, China April data triple-miss — sent the S&P slightly lower (~−0.07%), ending the prior winning run. Tuesday begi…
Sunday, May 17, 2026
The week that began at S&P 500 ATH 7,398.93 ended at 7,408.50 — nominally flat — but the path was anything but: CSCO raised its AI orders full-year guidance to $9B, AMAT printed a record quarter, Wars…
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Cisco's AI infrastructure orders nearly doubled in one quarter — from $5 billion to $9 billion — pushing the S&P 500 to a new all-time high on a day when PPI printed +1.4% MoM (the largest monthly sur…
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Jensen Huang's last-minute addition to Trump's Beijing delegation — flying to Alaska to board Air Force One — sent MU +6%, NVDA +2%, and SMH +2.2% pre-market, rewriting Wednesday's session from CPI-ha…
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Iran's ceasefire is "on massive life support" — Brent ~$105/bbl pre-market as Trump called Tehran's counterproposal "a piece of garbage" on Day 74 of the Hormuz closure — while April CPI, the week's m…
Monday, May 11, 2026
Trump's Sunday "TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE" rejection of Iran's peace counterproposal sent Brent back above $104 and buried the clean-reopening trade for the second time in a week — while a US-China tariff …
Sunday, May 10, 2026
NFP April landed at +115,000 — a double-beat above the ~60K consensus — sending the S&P 500 to a fresh record of 7,398.93 (+0.8%) and Nasdaq to a new ATH on Friday, capping six straight weekly gains. …
Friday, May 8, 2026
April delivered 115,000 new jobs — nearly double the 62–80K consensus — but the morning's second data point landed harder: UMich's preliminary May survey showed 1-year inflation expectations at 7.3%, …
Thursday, May 7, 2026
ARM's −6% AH retreat on a soft FY27 guide — the first meaningful miss from an AI royalty bellwether this cycle — splits the semiconductor earnings narrative on the morning after AMD's best post-earnin…
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
AMD delivered the most decisive earnings beat of the quarter — $10.3B revenue vs $9.84B consensus, data center +57% YoY, Q2 guide $11.2B — driving the stock +13% AH and triggering Goldman's highest-pr…
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Iran drone strikes on Fujairah and the US sinking six Iranian patrol boats in the Strait overnight shattered the ceasefire fiction; Palantir crushed every Q1 metric by the widest margin in its history…
Monday, May 4, 2026
US DoD denied an Iranian missile hit on a destroyer near Jask island but Brent whipped $103→$113 before settling ~$108; S&P futures oscillate -0.1% to +0.2% with the first 30 minutes the day's binary …
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Iran submits a 14-point war-end proposal. Trump says he's "reviewing the concept." A new bulk carrier is attacked near Hormuz hours later. The S&P closed Friday at an all-time high of 7,230. Japan and…
Friday, May 1, 2026
The morning after a record-setting April close (S&P +1.02% to 7,209.01, Nasdaq +0.89% to 24,892.31 — best month since 2020 (S&P best since November 2020; Nasdaq best since April 2020)). Apple capped M…
Friday, May 1, 2026
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Monday, April 27, 2026
Verizon beats, consumer lives. Iran blinked through Pakistan, Araghchi's on a plane to Putin. The biggest earnings and macro week of 2026 loads with flat futures and a geopolitical tail option that no…
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Trump blows up the Islamabad talks. Araghchi reroutes to Moscow. The week that ends with "indefinitely extended ceasefire" starts with envoys sent home.
Friday, April 24, 2026
Intel +25% on a revenue blowout. Trump tells reporters "don't rush me" on Iran. Brent breaks $105. Bitcoin back at $78K. The Nasdaq is dragged higher by a single semiconductor while oil tells another …
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Tesla beat and fell on a $25B capex surprise. IBM beat and fell harder on held guidance. Iran seized two ships in Hormuz while calling US talks a "waste of time." Brent broke $101. Lufthansa is ground…
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
The ceasefire was supposed to die tonight. Trump extended it instead. Now Boeing opens the day with a loss, Tesla closes it with a showdown, and oil pulls back just enough to make the bulls hopeful ag…
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Tim Cook exits Apple. Vance flies to Islamabad. Defense earnings before the bell. Retail Sales at 8:30. And the ceasefire expires tomorrow night. It's all happening at once.
Monday, April 20, 2026
Vance, Witkoff, and Kushner are wheels-up to Islamabad. The ceasefire expires Wednesday. Iran says it's impossible to pass the strait. Oil is surging again. Whatever happens this week will define the …
Sunday, April 19, 2026
The Strait opened Friday. Iran closed it Saturday. The Navy seized a ship Sunday. Futures are bleeding. Welcome to the most dangerous week of the war.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Your Saturday morning market coffee. The week Iran opened a strait and Wall Street opened champagne.
Friday, April 17, 2026
Nasdaq's 12-day winning streak -- longest since July 2009. S&P 500 at record 7,041. But Netflix is tanking in premarket after weak Q2 guidance, TSMC sold off despite crushing earnings, and Asia pulled…
Thursday, April 16, 2026
S&P 500 above 7,000 for the first time. Nasdaq on an 11-day winning streak. The Iran war is "very close to over." TSMC just crushed earnings. And China GDP beat. This is a market that refuses to stop.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Nine straight sessions green. S&P 500 within 1% of its all-time high. The tape is begging for a reason to pause -- but earnings keep delivering.