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$FLY Hit an All-Time Low 24 Hours Before Landing a $1.3 Billion Engine Deal: What the Headline Number Is Really Made Of, the Burn Clock It Resets, and the Zones From $14.44 to $26.86 Into Tuesday's Earnings

Firefly Aerospace fell to $14.44 Wednesday, then jumped 36.8% Friday on a $1.3B AST SpaceMobile engine deal and a NASA CLPS 2 seat, with Q3 earnings due Tuesday after the close. The $400M cash vs locked-stock split, the $106M quarterly burn it lands on, and scenario zones from $14.44 to $26.86.

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The ISS Comes Down in 2030. The Race to Replace It Just Got a Deadline.

NASA's final solicitation for commercial space stations is out and bids are due December 8. Four companies are in, the crew-transport math is unsolved, and only one public stock carries direct exposure to the April award.

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Top 10 Stocks We're Watching This Week — Inflation Week Edition

Tuesday's CPI arrives with no annual rate, CoreWeave prints Tuesday night, Take-Two reports ten days before GTA VI ships, and Cisco and Applied Materials close the week Thursday. Brent just crashed from $117 to $98. Nine of ten report earnings; the tenth is the policy trade the midterms created.

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The First Drug That Might Slow Huntington's Finally Has an FDA Date. The Market Sold the News.

uniQure's one-time gene therapy just got priority review and a May 1, 2027 decision date — the first in Huntington's history. The stock fell anyway. At $750 million of enterprise value net of cash, the gap between milestone and market is the trade.

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The Last Major Central Bank Just Joined the War Economy

The Bank of England raised rates for the first time since 2023 — 8 to 1, with the dissent wanting double. Gilts above 5%, a 25% energy-cap jump landing in January, and a December meeting that is suddenly live.

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Every Central Bank Is Hiking. Mexico Just Cut.

The same day the Bank of England joined the global hiking cycle, Banxico defied every forecast with a 3–2 cut to 6.25%. The peso fell, stocks rallied, and the carry cushion over the Fed is down to 225 basis points. Here's what the divergence is pricing.

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76 Million Americans Just Got a Raise. The Fund That Pays It Has Six Years Left.

Social Security's 3.6% COLA is the largest since 2023 — and a live readout of reaccelerating inflation. The fund paying it burned $200 billion last year, and the official clock now stops in 2032.

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$IONQ Printed a $564 Million Profit at a 52-Week Low While Losing $433 Million From Operations: The Warrant Math, the Real Growth Rate, and the Wall at $69.46

IonQ beat on revenue, raised 2026 guidance to $515M, and reported its first GAAP profit, a day after hitting a 52-week low. The $896M warrant gain that created the profit, the acquired half of the 336% growth, the $3.7B war chest, and scenario zones from $24.92 to $69.46.

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On Black Friday, the FDA Rules on a Disease That Has Never Had a Drug

BridgeBio lost 72% in a day in 2021. Five years later it runs a $1 billion-rate heart drug and faces three FDA decisions in seven months — starting November 27, with the first potential approval for any form of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.

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$SEZL Raised Guidance a Fourth Time With 23% of the Float Short: The 955,000 Subscribers, the 2.7% Loss Line, and What 19 Times Next Year Is Pricing

Sezzle beat on revenue and earnings, raised 2026 guidance a fourth time, and guided 2027 above consensus, with 23% of the float still short. The take-rate machine, the credit-loss math, the falling share count, and scenario zones from $136.69.

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Turkey's Stock Market Lost $128 Billion. The Man Who Ran It Is in Jail.

A $19 billion fund freeze, 455,758 trapped investors, the Borsa Istanbul chief jailed for bribery, and MSCI weighing demotion: inside the scandal stress-testing Turkey's entire capital market.

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Disney's New CEO Wants 20% Back. Thousands of Jobs Are the Down Payment.

Seven months into Josh D'Amaro's tenure, Disney is preparing thousands of layoffs and asking managers for 20% cost cuts — while the stock sits near a 52-week high and a double-digit EPS promise comes due November 17.

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$SMCI Just Printed a $19.9 Billion Quarter and the Market Shrugged: The 44% Customer, the 12% Margin, and What Six Times Earnings Is Pricing

Supermicro grew revenue 298% and raised its full-year guide, yet trades at six times forward earnings. One customer was 44% of the quarter, gross margin fell to 12.7%, and operations burned cash. The concentration math, the balance sheet, and scenario zones from $31.

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Amazon's Space Internet Is Ready. The Rockets Aren't.

On November 13, ULA's grounded Vulcan rocket flies again — carrying 40 satellites for Amazon's answer to Starlink. What the launch means for AMZN, BA, LMT, and NOC.

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Energy Featured

Why Data Centers Are Buying Old Jet Engines

Gas turbines are sold out to 2032 and prices are up 50% in a year — so data centers are bolting retired jet engines to concrete. Inside the first quarter where the scarcity trade blinked.

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$INO: A 268% Pop, a Going-Concern Warning, and 91 Million Warrants Nobody Counted

The FDA approved Inovio's VOCERYQ and the stock nearly quadrupled overnight. The approval is real. So are the going-concern warning and 91 million warrants struck between $1.10 and $3.76. The dilution math, the November 4 Precigen read-through, and scenario zones for the week.

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Defence Featured

America Can't Forge Its Own Artillery Shells

A $469 million plant was supposed to deliver two-thirds of US 155mm shell capacity. As of March, it has produced zero compliant rounds. The Pentagon's own watchdog explains why — and which defense primes carry the risk.

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Top 10 Stocks We're Watching This Week — Election Week Edition

Apple and Palantir report Monday, the midterms land Tuesday, AMD and Arista print Tuesday night, Uber and Qualcomm Wednesday, Devon Thursday, and nonfarm payrolls Friday. Ten fresh names for election week.

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Americans Spent $158 Billion on Their Pets. The Companies That Sell Them Everything Are Trading Like a Recession

Americans Spent $158 Billion on Their Pets. The Companies That Sell Them Everything Are Trading Like a Recession The marketing deck says pets are family. Industry executives repeat it on earnings calls as if it were a law of physics. Hallmark built a greeting-card category around it. The 2024

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Japan Finally Got the Inflation It Wanted. Now Comes the Bill.

After nearly 14 years, the Bank of Japan says its 2% inflation target is reached. With the 10-year JGB at 1996 levels, the yen at 157, and a December hike on the table, the world's cheapest money is going away.

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You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. The Real Number Is $219.

Americans estimate they spend about $86 a month on subscriptions. Survey data puts the real figure at $219. The gap between the two isn't carelessness — it's the business model.

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Indonesia Is Eight Months From Being Deleted

MSCI has proposed expelling Southeast Asia's largest economy from its Emerging Markets index — the benchmark for $10 trillion. The verdict lands by June 2027, and the forced-selling math starts now.

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The Man Who Chaired Wendy's for 17 Years Just Bid $7.35 for What's Left

Nelson Peltz spent two decades shaping Wendy's — activist, acquirer, chairman. Now his Trian consortium is bidding $1.4 billion to take it private, below the price his own fund called 'undervalued' in February. The spread, the committee, and the November 5 catalyst.

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Geopolitics Featured

The War's First Working Ceasefire Is One City Wide

Russia and Ukraine's first ceasefire that has actually held covers one starving town of 2,000 people. The market's non-reaction is the real story — and November's talks calendar prices the next move.

Finance Featured

America Just Finished the Rulebook for Digital Dollars. The Clock Reads 80 Days.

The OCC just finalized the first federal rulebook for stablecoins under the GENIUS Act. What changes on January 18, 2027, the yield question it left deliberately vague, and why the regulator quietly cut its own $2 trillion forecast.