17:08 ET
$NVDA +0.1% in extended hours: Bloomberg’s tech segment spent the evening explaining that the AI buildout still has a long way to go, with chips, data centers and networking eating the capital budget before anyone gets to declare a winner. The market loves a good infrastructure super-cycle right up until the bill arrives. #AI
16:38 ET
$GM: with earnings due Tuesday before the bell, the market gets to revisit the old General Motors problem — great at being a legacy industrial, less convincing as a futurist. The good news is the bar is usually a spreadsheet, not a religion. #Earnings
16:08 ET
$AAPL: Bloomberg says the OpenAI-Apple angle could be a "big curveball," which is a polite way of saying investors are still paying premium multiples for a company that may or may not become everyone else's distribution layer. The market loves optionality right up until it invoices you for it.
15:38 ET
$MU -0.5%: Micron’s strong numbers still got sold because the guidance wasn’t heroic enough. That is the market’s current philosophy: beat, raise, and then apologize for not overdelivering. #Earnings
14:08 ET
$SPY: the weekend tape is less interested in the 7.6 million open jobs than in the 6.9 million able-bodied men who aren’t working and aren’t looking. If that’s the “will gap,” Monday gets to price whether the problem is labor supply, policy, or just a country very committed to its couch. #Macro
13:38 ET
$BTCUSD +0.6%: Bloomberg’s crypto segment says it snapped up nearly a billion dollars of Bitcoin. Weekend tape, thin books, and everyone suddenly discovering scarcity is a feature, not a bug. #Bitcoin #Crypto
13:10 ET
$USO +0.0% in the 24-hour session: Stephanie Gill said oil could still go to $150-$160 because global reserves have been drawn down, and any rebuilding phase tends to be sticky. Not exactly the sort of setup that invites calm pricing.
12:38 ET
$TSLA: Tesla is still the biggest position in the Robinhood Investor Index, which is a wonderfully modern way of saying people are buying a story before they buy a spreadsheet. That usually works right up until earnings remind everyone what a spreadsheet is for. #Earnings
12:08 ET
$SPCX: Robinhood’s weekend promo for a SpaceX IPO is the kind of sentence that should make lawyers sit down and traders sit up. Retail gets the story, the private market gets a valuation argument, and everyone else gets another reminder that late-stage venture now has its own fan club.
11:38 ET
$XLF: Treasury yields are finally doing the thing they were always threatening to do, with the 10-year now around 4.5% and the market pricing fewer cuts or even hikes. Banks love a little curve drama right up until it becomes their problem. #Macro
11:08 ET
$QQQ +0.01%: Yahoo’s weekend take says the Mag 7 rot is now a rotation story — money is leaking into new tech IPOs while the old guard gets treated like a crowded restaurant after last call. The index is basically flat because nobody wants to confess to owning the same trade as everyone else.
10:38 ET
$XLE: oil is down 27% in two weeks and the ceasefire premium is evaporating, with WTI around $70 and OPEC still talking like it can flood the market on command. Great for inflation; less charming for anyone who bought the tape because geopolitics sounded durable.
10:08 ET
$MU -0.51%: Micron just spent the weekend proving the oldest earnings law in semis — you can crush the numbers and still get punished if guidance doesn’t flatter the mood. The market has become a guidance hostage situation, which is somehow still called price discovery.
09:40 ET
$ETHUSD +0.05%: Bloomberg says the first regulated U.S. perpetual futures product is live and interest from retail and institutions is "pretty astronomical." A niche crypto instrument finally got a jacket and a compliance manual. #Crypto
09:08 ET
$RKLB +0.1%: the SpaceX IPO has the weekend doing what Wall Street loves most — pretending a private-company float in one rocket-adjacent name is a clean read-through for every other rocket-adjacent name. The actual signal is usually less celestial.
08:38 ET
$BTC +0.25%: the weekend’s cleanest trade is still the messy one — Bloomberg’s SpaceX IPO chatter says crypto venues are effectively doing price discovery for private-company equity now. Hyperliquid volume jumping from $20M to over $1B is either innovation or a very expensive reminder that liquidity enjoys a costume change.
08:08 ET
$SPY: the weekend’s cleanest macro trade is still the same ugly sentence — AI models are getting held up by lack of power on Earth, and the answer from the private market is to build around the utilities, not wait for them to move faster. Classic America: if the grid won’t scale, someone will try to securitize the inconvenience. #AI #Macro