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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: Cooling Oil, Micron's AI Verdict, and the PCE Test — June 22–26, 2026

Oil's collapse on Iran de-escalation has handed equities a tailwind heading into a light data week — but Thursday's PCE print, Micron's HBM verdict, and the Fed's bank stress-test results will decide whether the rally has legs. Here are the ten names we're watching.

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Boeing Is Quietly Becoming a Cash Machine Again

After six years of crisis, the FAA cap is off, the backlog is a record $695 billion, and free cash flow has turned positive. The market is still pricing the trauma — not the turn.

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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: Warsh's Debut and the Post-SpaceX Reset — June 15–19, 2026

Kevin Warsh's first FOMC press conference and the rotational aftershocks of the largest IPO in history collide in a holiday-shortened trading week. Here are the ten stocks investors should be watching — and why.

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The Pentagon Just Made Anduril a Prime

The Army just handed Anduril a sole-source, $20 billion enterprise contract — and two months later the Series H closed at a $61 billion valuation. The Pentagon now has a sixth prime, and the legacy five just got structurally re-rated.

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The Internet Runs on 600 Cables. Almost Anyone Can Cut Them.

A handful of state-sponsored sabotage incidents have exposed the most under-protected piece of critical infrastructure in the world — and a small cluster of public companies now own the only fix.

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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: AI Capex Reckoning Meets Hot CPI — June 8–12, 2026

A blowout jobs print sent yields back to 4.54%, Alphabet's $85B AI raise spooked the hyperscaler complex, and a May CPI poised to print near 4% lands Wednesday. Here are the ten names we are watching this week.

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Why the Pentagon Is Quietly Abandoning Its Defense Primes

Anduril just signed its biggest Pentagon contract yet. Boeing missed another KC-46 deadline. The $80 billion defense reshuffle isn't coming — it's already here.

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The War Beneath the Waves

Ninety-seven percent of intercontinental data — and roughly $10 trillion in daily financial transactions — runs through cables on the ocean floor. Russia, China, and the Houthis have all figured this out. Wall Street is about to.

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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: AI Earnings, Jobs Data, and the Hormuz Wildcard — June 1–5, 2026

The S&P 500 just posted its ninth consecutive weekly gain. This week, a gauntlet of AI earnings, a pivotal jobs report, and simmering geopolitical risk in the Persian Gulf will determine whether the rally has room to run.

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Inside the Quiet War Over the World's Undersea Cables

A handful of fragile pipes on the seabed carry 95% of intercontinental data — and $10 trillion in daily financial transactions. Russia, China, and Yemen's Houthis have figured this out. The fleet that fixes them hasn't.

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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: The Beijing Summit and the Inflation Test — May 11–15, 2026

The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, Tuesday's CPI print, and oil near $100 make this week a gauntlet for investors. Here are 10 stocks positioned across the crosscurrents.

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The Iron Paradox: North Korea Is Arming Its Border — and South Korea Is Turning It Into a $24 Billion Export Empire

South Korea's defense industry is having its moment. And it's not a coincidence. On May 8, North Korea announced it will deploy new 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzers along the southern border before year's end — weapons capable of striking Seoul from 37 miles away.

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The $340 Billion Paradox: Inside Palantir's Flawless Execution — and the Enormous Bet the Market Is Making

Palantir just posted 85% revenue growth and raised guidance by $800 million. NATO is deploying its battlefield AI across 32 nations. The stock trades at 150 times earnings. Something has to give.

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The Revolt Inside: Google DeepMind Workers Unionize to Block Military AI — and It Could Reshape the Entire Industry

DeepMind's London researchers have voted 98% in favor of unionizing to block Pentagon and Israeli military contracts — the first organized labor action at a frontier AI lab. For Alphabet investors, the talent risk is real and the market is underpricing it.

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The Kill Decision: Inside the $75 Billion Race to Build Autonomous Weapons — and How to Invest

The Pentagon just admitted it's losing the autonomous weapons race to China and Russia. A $75 billion spending surge is coming — and three companies are positioned to capture it.

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The Port Empire: Inside China's Quiet Conquest of Global Shipping Infrastructure — and the $200 Billion Scramble to Respond

Chinese state enterprises now control or hold stakes in over 100 port terminals spanning every major shipping lane on Earth. The West is finally waking up — and the investment implications are enormous.

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The $12.7 Billion AI Pilot: Inside Shield AI's Bid to Become the Brain of American Air Power

Shield AI just raised $2 billion and flew its Hivemind AI pilot on the Pentagon's most important drone program. At $12.7 billion, it's either the most important defense startup in a generation — or the most overvalued.

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The $60 Billion Insurgent: Inside Anduril's Bid to Become America's Next Defense Prime

Anduril just secured a $20 billion Army contract, opened a hyperscale weapons factory, and is building America's first mass-produced combat drone. At a $60 billion valuation, Palmer Luckey's company is no longer a startup — it's a direct threat to the defense establishment.

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The Royal Rescue Mission: King Charles Is in Washington to Save the Most Important Alliance in the World

King Charles III is addressing Congress today as US-UK relations face their deepest crisis in decades. The Iran war has fractured the special relationship — and billions in defense contracts, trade deals, and investment flows are quietly at stake.

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Blood Alliance: North Korea Just Built a War Memorial for Its Troops Killed Fighting Russia's War — and It Changes Everything

Kim Jong Un just inaugurated a memorial for 6,000 North Korean casualties in Ukraine. The blood-for-technology pipeline between Pyongyang and Moscow is reshaping the Indo-Pacific security order — and investors need to pay attention.

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The Alliance Is Cracking: A Pentagon Email Just Revealed How the Iran War Is Tearing NATO Apart

A leaked Pentagon memo floats suspending Spain from NATO over Iran war dissent. The transatlantic alliance hasn't faced a fracture this deep since its founding — and the market implications are just beginning.

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The Silicon Underground: Inside the Billion-Dollar AI Chip Smuggling Crisis — and What It Means for Investors

Six federal indictments. $2.5 billion in diverted Nvidia GPUs. Congress marking up chip-tracking legislation today. The AI export control regime is in crisis — and the investment implications are massive.

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NATO's Hidden Fault Line: The Turkey-Greece Aegean Crisis Is Heating Up — and Billions Are at Stake

Fighter jets intercepted, F-16s deployed to Cyprus, Chevron drilling in disputed waters, and a €25 billion arms race between NATO allies. The Aegean confrontation is producing real investment consequences — here's what's at stake.

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The Great AI Heist: Inside the Espionage Wave Reshaping America's Technology Security — and Where to Invest

The FBI's counterintelligence arrests have surged 112% in 2026 as foreign agents target America's most valuable AI secrets. From convicted Google engineers to a $2.5 billion chip smuggling ring, the great AI heist is reshaping national security — and creating a new investment thesis.

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The Arms Pipeline: Russia Is Arming Iran Mid-War — and the World Just Found Out

The ceasefire between the United States and Iran expires at midnight GMT tonight. As the world holds its breath, a parallel drama unfolded at the United Nations on Monday — one that may shape the next chapter of this conflict far more than any peace talks in Islamabad. The United States