$VIX
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Thursday, September 10, 2026
Overnight the US–Iran conflict crossed from attrition into open supply war — the US destroyed five Iranian oil tankers, Iran retaliated with missiles on a US base in Jordan and attacks on shipping nea…
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Overnight US strikes near Kharg Island — Iran's primary crude export hub processing roughly 90% of its exports — lift the US-Iran conflict from tanker attrition to production-infrastructure threat, pu…
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
The first post-Labor Day session opens with crude oil holding the geopolitical premium and FOMC rate-hike odds locked near 60%, pinning the S&P squarely in range-chop territory — while copper hits an …
Monday, September 7, 2026
US cash equities are CLOSED today for Labor Day; the tape that matters is the US-Iran tanker-war escalation over the weekend, Friday's +162K payrolls shock, and a semiconductor-led surge in Asia (KOSP…
Sunday, September 6, 2026
The week of August 31–September 4 delivered the most consequential data sequence of the quarter in compressed form: Waller's surprise dovish pivot on Thursday set up August CPI as the single decisive …
Friday, September 4, 2026
Waller's late-Thursday pivot — "I would support holding at September if August CPI cools" — cut FOMC hike odds from ~63% to ~50% in a single speech, powering Bitcoin to a four-month high at $82,200 (+…
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Broadcom's Q3 beats every line but a 0.7% Q4 guidance miss claims the week's most-watched binary — AVGO −5% AH, recovering to ~$366 pre-market — while Snowflake's +23% AH blowout reframes AI cloud spe…
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Fresh US airstrikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz drive Brent above $95 and the US 10-year yield to 4.81% — its highest since November 2023 — as a deepening global bond sell-off hammers…
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
The US-Iran conflict escalates to a two-front exchange overnight — a tanker struck by three projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's IRGC simultaneously retaliating against US military positions…
Sunday, August 30, 2026
The week of August 24–28 delivered three seismic data points in rapid succession — NVIDIA's $96.2B Q2 print (+106% YoY, Q3 guide $108B) confirmed the AI capex supercycle on Wednesday AH, lifting the S…
Friday, August 28, 2026
Warsh steps to the podium at Jackson Hole at 10:00 AM ET — his inaugural address as Fed Chair arrives simultaneously with the BLS preliminary benchmark revision (street estimates: −200K to −600K cumul…
Thursday, August 27, 2026
NVIDIA delivered the AI infrastructure verdict overnight — $96.22B in Q2 revenue, a Q3 guide of $108B resetting the entire AI capex cycle upward, and a 5th consecutive EPS beat — yet the 2.6:1 call sk…
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
The most information-dense morning of the quarter has arrived: PCE and GDP's second estimate hit the tape at 8:30 AM ET — the Fed's last hard inflation gate before Warsh speaks Friday at Jackson Hole …
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Operation Economic Outcast landed Monday afternoon as promised — Treasury Secretary Bessent issued five formal sectoral sanctions determinations covering digital assets, technology, gold, aviation, an…
Monday, August 24, 2026
US–Canada trade talks collapsed Friday evening after Trump added last-minute terms on vehicles and cultural sovereignty protections; 50% tariffs on $28 billion of Canadian goods took effect at midnigh…
Sunday, August 23, 2026
The three-week S&P 500 winning streak ended as 30-year Treasury yields spiked to 5.34% — their highest since 2007 — and the US national debt crossed $40 trillion for the first time, swamping the FOMC …
Friday, August 21, 2026
ROST's Thursday-after-hours blowout — EPS $2.66 vs $1.94E (+37%), comps +10%, FY guide raised, CEO calling off-price "the winning sector" — closes the week's consumer narrative with the clearest beat …
Thursday, August 20, 2026
The single event that rewired the tape was not an earnings print or the Fed minutes — it was the Treasury's decision to more than double its long-end debt buybacks, which pulled the 10-year from a 20-…
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
FOMC minutes arrive at 2:00 PM ET into a tape where beating estimates is no longer enough — KEYS fell ~7% during the session ahead of a 24% EPS beat (then rose ~4% after hours), MRCY fell ~10.6% after…
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Trump's rejection of the Iran ceasefire extension has closed the diplomatic off-ramp, sent Brent to $91 and the 30-year Treasury yield to its highest level since 2007 (5.31%), converting Tuesday's tap…
Monday, August 17, 2026
Weekend Hormuz escalation — fresh tanker incidents Saturday plus Houthi ballistic missiles targeting Mokha port Sunday — erases Friday's predicted energy underperformance and installs XLE as the sessi…
Sunday, August 16, 2026
The week of August 10–14, 2026 delivered a split verdict that will define the next two weeks: three consecutive macro data misses — PPI flat (0.0% MoM, below the +0.2% consensus), Retail Sales −0.6% M…
Friday, August 14, 2026
AMAT's record Q3 and blowout Q4 guide ($10.25B, +51% YoY) broke the "sell the news" playbook that consumed CSCO and COHR earlier in the week — the stock is essentially flat in premarket at ~$550 rathe…
Thursday, August 13, 2026
The AI infrastructure earnings cascade reached its "sell the news" phase overnight — CSCO beat and raised FY27 to $72.8B, COHR posted its first $2B quarter with a Q1 guide ~8% above consensus (midpoin…
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Three simultaneous AI infrastructure beats — CoreWeave, Super Micro, and Lumentum — delivered the AI capex supercycle's most decisive empirical validation of 2026 overnight, collapsing September hike …
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Iran's foreign minister publicly denied any direct talks with the United States to end the Hormuz crisis, triggering a crude oil surge that catapulted the week's dominant theme from AI euphoria to inf…
Monday, August 10, 2026
Friday's record S&P close (7,757.64, +0.62%) and gold's strong weekly close (~$4,342) carry into a Monday where the calendar is light and the week's weight falls on three prints — CPI Wednesday (conse…
Sunday, August 9, 2026
The most dramatic labor-market reversal of the 2026 cycle arrived Friday, August 7: July nonfarm payrolls shed 23,000 jobs versus an 80,000 consensus — the first negative headline print of the entire …
Friday, August 7, 2026
July Nonfarm Payrolls at 8:30 AM is the session's single pivot: a soft +73K print (vs ~80K consensus, unemployment holding 4.2%) with a combined ~258K in downward May–June revisions lands directly aga…
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Eli Lilly's $8.38 EPS blowout (+28% vs $6.55 est, $23.0B revenue +48% YoY, FY guidance raised to $85–87B) gives healthcare the morning's clearest catalyst, while Treasury Secretary Bessent's Hormuz de…
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 a…
Monday, August 3, 2026
Trump's weekend decision to halt planned military strikes on Iran has triggered the sharpest oil selloff in months — WTI −6.2% to $79.47, Brent −5.0% to $83.50 — releasing the geopolitical war premium…
Friday, July 31, 2026
Month-end, and the AI trade has flipped the tape from fear to euphoria: Amazon's first-ever $200B quarter with AWS +37% has it up +11%, Apple is down −7% on a soft Services/China guide, June Core PCE …
Thursday, July 30, 2026
The morning after a genuinely hawkish hold: the Fed held 9–3 with three presidents dissenting for a HIKE, the S&P fell −1.52% and the Nasdaq-100 slid into correction — and now Big Tech has split down …
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
The mirror flips again: Iran shatters the three-day ceasefire overnight with a ballistic-missile strike on US forces, snapping oil +4.7% and unwinding the entire week's disinflation trade in a single …
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Yesterday's oil-relief rally flips inside out — a chip/memory rout crashes Korea's Kospi 10.84% (8th circuit-breaker of 2026) and drags Nasdaq 100 futures −1.11%, even as strong non-tech earnings lift…
Monday, July 27, 2026
Futures rip higher into the busiest week of the quarter — S&P 500 +1.01%, Dow +1.07%, Nasdaq 100 +1.64% — as a second straight day of paused US–Iran strikes sends oil crashing ~7% (WTI $83, Brent ~$90…
Sunday, July 26, 2026
The US and Iran both held their strikes for a second consecutive day Sunday — the longest lull in direct military exchanges since the war began February 28 — as Omani mediators reported "useful progre…
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Your Saturday morning market coffee. A week that opened with markets trying to explain away the prior week's worst semiconductor rout in over a year — sell-side desks calling China's Moonshot AI "Kimi…
Saturday, July 25, 2026
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Saturday, July 25, 2026
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Saturday, July 25, 2026
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Friday, July 24, 2026
Futures try to steady the ship after Thursday's rout — S&P 500 +0.20%, Dow +0.43%, Nasdaq 100 +0.05% — as WTI slips back below $90 (Brent under $100) on US–Iran ceasefire chatter and Intel rips ~+3–4%…
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Futures slip a third straight session — S&P 500 –0.26%, Nasdaq 100 –0.28% — as the two biggest names from last night's tape, Alphabet (–3.63%) and Tesla (–5.52%), both "sell the news" despite beats, a…
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Futures give back part of Tuesday's chip-led rebound — S&P 500 –0.31%, Nasdaq 100 –0.77% — as Brent crude builds toward a six-week high near $94 on an 11th consecutive night of US strikes on Iran and …
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Futures point to a real chip-led rebound — S&P 500 +0.52%, Nasdaq 100 +1.39% — as the semiconductor complex stages its cleanest recovery since last week's rout, with Micron and Marvell both up ~6% pre…
Monday, July 20, 2026
Futures point to a relief bounce — S&P 500 +0.2%, Nasdaq 100 +0.4% — after the semiconductor complex's worst week in over a year, but Friday's real trigger wasn't the crowded-positioning story flagged…
Saturday, July 18, 2026
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