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Bo Nichols
Oil crashes 7%. The biggest week of 2026 starts now.

Jul 27, 2026

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Oil crashes 7%. The biggest week of 2026 starts now.

Brent drops below $90. Nvidia offers OpenAI a $250B guarantee. CXMT debuts at $85B. And the Fed meets Wednesday.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Intel crushed it. Oil crossed $100. The market doesn't know which story to follow.

Jul 24, 2026

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Intel crushed it. Oil crossed $100. The market doesn't know which story to follow.

Intel surges 12% after hours on a 25% revenue beat. Brent crude tops $100 for the first time in two months. And the Nasdaq posts its worst day in a month.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Alphabet beat everything. The stock still fell.

Jul 23, 2026

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Alphabet beat everything. The stock still fell.

Cloud grew 82%. Tesla's margins collapsed. SMCI landed $60B in orders. And Trump just put a clock on every pill in your cabinet.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Two earnings calls. $2 trillion in market cap on the line.

Jul 22, 2026

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Two earnings calls. $2 trillion in market cap on the line.

Alphabet's secret EPS trick, Tesla's margin trap, and the oil market just lost its third escape route.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
The $6 trillion week starts now

Jul 21, 2026

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The $6 trillion week starts now

GM reports at 6:30 AM. SpaceX has lost $1 trillion. Korea triggered another circuit breaker. And Alphabet's capex number could reset the AI trade.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Oil breaks $90 and so does the AI story

Jul 20, 2026

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Oil breaks $90 and so does the AI story

A third American serviceman is dead, Brent is back above $90, Moonshot just gave semiconductors a DeepSeek flashback, and Uber goes shopping in Berlin.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Buffett calls the market a casino.

Jul 17, 2026

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Buffett calls the market a casino.

TSMC beats, raises capex, and gets sold anyway. Netflix disappoints again. UnitedHealth finally has a good day.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Korea's chip stocks just blinked. Should you?

Jul 16, 2026

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Korea's chip stocks just blinked. Should you?

Kospi's AI wobble, Waller's hawkish curveball, three record bank quarters, a $10 trillion wealth milestone, and more in today’s issue.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
IBM lost a quarter. ASML found one. CPI changed hike expectations.

Jul 15, 2026

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IBM lost a quarter. ASML found one. CPI changed hike expectations.

IBM crashes 25% on a capex confession. ASML raises guidance a third time. Goldman prints. CPI cools. And a Bitcoin miner just became an AI landlord.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Data packed morning: inflation and earnings from five banks

Jul 14, 2026

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Data packed morning: inflation and earnings from five banks

June CPI and JPMorgan, Citi, BofA, Wells and Goldman all land at 8:30, oil jumps on a fresh Iran blockade, and a $26 billion chip debut just cratered.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
The strait finally stopped arguing back

Jul 13, 2026

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The strait finally stopped arguing back

Iran declares Hormuz closed, ships obey, Brent nears $79. CPI and Warsh land tomorrow. SK Hynix opens as a US stock. Bank earnings begin.

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Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
"I think it's over. They're scum."

Jul 9, 2026

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"I think it's over. They're scum."

Trump ends the Iran ceasefire, oil hits $79, Dow drops 577. Fed minutes reveal a committee arguing about hikes. Pepsi opens earnings today.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
The war nobody wanted to reopen just did

Jul 8, 2026

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The war nobody wanted to reopen just did

US strikes Iran after three tankers burn in Hormuz, oil +5%, chips break again on DeepSeek silicon, FOMC minutes land this afternoon.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
The AI trade just found its receipt

Jul 6, 2026

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The AI trade just found its receipt

Chips -12% in two days. Microsoft sends 6,000 engineers into customers. Tesla beats and drops 7%. Q2 earnings in focus.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
The First Six Months Repriced Almost Everything.

Jul 3, 2026

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The First Six Months Repriced Almost Everything.

Markets are closed today for the observed Fourth of July holiday. The first half of 2026 was less about surprises than transitions. A new Fed chair. Trade policy in the courts. A war that reshaped energy. AI that moved from narrative to contracted demand. Capital markets that reopened. Here is the recap, and the questions that carry forward.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Zuck picked the wallet up off the table

Jul 2, 2026

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Zuck picked the wallet up off the table

Meta goes cloud, CoreWeave loses 10%, Warsh scolds prices in Portugal, and jobs day arrives a day early.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Nike says the quiet part. The market isn't listening yet.

Jul 1, 2026

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Nike says the quiet part. The market isn't listening yet.

Nike falls after hours, Constellation's flagship beers shrinking, JOLTS hotter than forecast, Warsh in Sintra today.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
The Dow crosses 52,000. Now what?

Jun 30, 2026

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The Dow crosses 52,000. Now what?

Comcast splits itself in two. Rocket Lab buys its way past Iridium. And a Belgian cookie company quietly outran the Mag 7.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
The ceasefire had the worst weekend of its life

Jun 29, 2026

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The ceasefire had the worst weekend of its life

Iran struck Bahrain and Kuwait. Trump threatened annihilation. And then both sides blinked. Markets open with oil rising and talks moving to Doha.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
PM Slate: The IPO that broke the queue

Jun 26, 2026

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PM Slate: The IPO that broke the queue

OpenAI blinks. Nasdaq drops four straight. Healthcare runs. And oil keeps falling.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
The Dow is winning the week. Caterpillar wrote the script.

Jun 26, 2026

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The Dow is winning the week. Caterpillar wrote the script.

CAT hits an all-time high. Nasdaq falls for a fourth day. Oil back at pre-war levels. And 54 supertankers are sitting in the Persian Gulf waiting to move.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
PM Slate: The market read the inflation number and shrugged

Jun 25, 2026

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PM Slate: The market read the inflation number and shrugged

PCE hits 4.1%. Apple raises prices. Micron soars 17%. The S&P goes up anyway.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
Memory just had the best quarter in semiconductor history

Jun 25, 2026

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Memory just had the best quarter in semiconductor history

Micron's $41.5B beat rewrites the AI memory story. Qualcomm goes to war with Nvidia's software moat. And Reddit tried to save Wendy's.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1
The week the market gets its big answers

Jun 24, 2026

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The week the market gets its big answers

BofA says three rate hikes. FedEx beats but warns. Cerebras stumbles on margins. And Micron reports tonight.

Dio Pouerie
Bo Nichols
Dio Pouerie, +1

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