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Macro Featured

Why Zero Job Growth Is the New Full Employment

America's labor force is shrinking — 1.2 million foreign-born workers gone since January and participation at a 50-year low. Breakeven job growth is now near zero, and the most-watched number in markets no longer means what investors think it means.

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Markets Featured

Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Friday, July 31

Samsung warned the memory shortage runs into 2028, AWS grew 37%, and the semiconductor complex just posted its best session in fifteen months. Ten names worth watching into month-end, with the dated August catalysts behind three of them.

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Replimune (REPL): The Panel Voted 10-3, the Stock Doubled Through a Full-Day Halt, and the Cash Runs Out Nine Months Before the Confirmatory Data

Halted all of July 30 at $5.41, reopened at $12.70 after an FDA panel voted 10-3 on the IGNYTE data. The vote settled the science question. It did not move the going-concern date or the confirmatory data timeline, and those sit nine months apart.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Thursday, July 30

Microsoft cleared $100 billion in annual Azure revenue, the 30-year yield hit a 2007 high, and Amazon and Apple report tonight. Ten names worth watching into the 8:30 a.m. PCE print, with levels and triggers for each.

Healthcare Featured

Merck's New Cholesterol Pill Is a Bet on a Drug Class That Already Failed Twice

The FDA just cleared the first cholesterol-lowering pill as powerful as the injectable drugs that flopped a decade ago. Merck needs it to help fill a $30 billion hole — and the math is harder than the headlines suggest.

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The Biggest Launch in Entertainment History Is 16 Weeks Away. Wall Street Just Started Selling It.

GTA VI took a record $260 million of pre-orders in a week and the entire industry cleared out of its launch window — yet Take-Two's stock keeps falling. What a $48 billion market cap already assumes, and where the unpriced money sits.

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Macro Featured

Who Raised Interest Rates While the Fed Held?

The Warsh Fed held into 3.3% core inflation and three hike dissents - and the 30-year Treasury answered with a 2007 high. The bond market is now doing the tightening the Fed won't, and the repricing lands on everything with duration.

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Markets Featured

Xerox (XRX) Raised Full-Year Profit Guidance by Exactly $105 Million. The Supreme Court Tariff Refund Was Exactly $105 Million.

Xerox jumped 28% on a guidance raise of $105 million. The one-time IEEPA tariff benefit it booked in the same quarter was also $105 million. Strip it out and like-for-like operating income went backwards. The bridge, the second-half cash bar, and three scenario price zones.

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Markets Featured

Top 10 Stocks to Watch: Wednesday, July 29

Four blowout quarters landed overnight into a tape that has stopped paying for AI hardware. Add a live Fed hike risk and oil up 5% on Iran. Ten names, with the levels that decide whether the beats hold.

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Defence Featured

Every Country Suddenly Wants Its Own Iron Dome

Greece just bought a $4 billion Israeli sky shield, India tested its S-400 rival, and Washington agreed to license Patriot production to Ukraine — all in one week. Air defense is now the fastest-compounding franchise in the arms market, and the orders aren't going where you'd think.

Infrastructure Featured

America's Infrastructure Decade Ends in 63 Days

The $1.2 trillion infrastructure law — the largest public-works program since Eisenhower — expires September 30 with no successor in place. The funding cliff arrives at the exact moment the money is doing the most work.

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Energy Featured

The World's Widest Energy Arbitrage Is Stuck in Texas

The war deleted 20% of global LNG supply and sent world gas prices to six times the US benchmark — yet American gas keeps getting cheaper. The bottleneck holding the spread apart is the trade, and the EIA has already published the date it breaks.

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Markets Featured

Lemonade (LMND) Beat Its Own Q2 Guidance. Its Own Full-Year Numbers Still Require a $29.8 Million Swing in One Quarter.

Lemonade beat every second-quarter number it guided to and fell 14%. The reason is on page six: full-year in force premium and adjusted EBITDA guidance did not move a dollar from April, which pushes the entire profitability inflection into a single fourth quarter.

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Macro Featured

Why Are Farmers Going Broke While Their Land Hits Record Highs?

Farm bankruptcies are up 46%, row-crop losses hit $34.6 billion, and Washington now supplies 29% of farm income — yet farmland sits at record values. The divergence between the farm and the farmer is the trade.

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Finance Featured

What Happens When a Third of Ethereum Stops Trading?

A third of all ether is now locked in staking contracts — an all-time high, set during crypto's worst month of the year. Wall Street just turned ETH into a yield instrument, and the real trade is who collects the coupon.

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Markets Featured

Top 10 Stocks to Watch: Tuesday, July 28

A Chinese memory IPO just repriced the entire AI hardware complex, and the Fed meets today with a live hike risk. Ten names worth watching, with the levels and triggers that matter.

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Gossamer Bio (GOSS) Doubled in Two Sessions. Its Own Loan Documents Leave About $17 Million of Room Before a Covenant Breaks.

GOSS ran 97% in two sessions on an FDA update that says the agency will read a failed Phase 3, not approve it. The June 4 indenture tells a harder story: a $40 million liquidity covenant tested monthly against $57 million of cash, and a share count authorized to reach four billion.

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Markets Featured

Why the Best Freight Business of 2026 Flies at 35,000 Feet

Missile strikes deleted 12% of the world's air cargo capacity overnight — and handed airlines' forgotten cargo divisions Covid-era pricing the equity market refuses to value. The boom is real. So is the clock.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch: Monday, July 27

Earnings week opens with the AI-power complex bouncing off a brutal Friday and a megacap gauntlet ahead. Ten names on our buy-side radar today, from Bloom and Celestica into their prints to the one Microsoft number that sets the ceiling for the whole trade.

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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: AI Capex on Trial and $100 Oil — July 27–31, 2026

Three central banks, four mega-cap earnings prints, and Brent above $100 — this week decides whether the AI trade stabilizes or the selloff deepens. Ten names positioned for what comes next.

Macro Featured

America's Parents Are Shopping Scared

Back-to-school spending is forecast to hit a record $147 billion — and nearly every number underneath shows a consumer in retreat. The year's first mandatory purchase has become a stress test, and it's flashing a warning for the holiday quarter.

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Markets Featured

Hospitals Spent 20 Years Buying Doctors' Offices. Medicare Just Broke the Math.

Medicare's proposed 2027 outpatient rule guts the two markups that built the modern hospital conglomerate — the facility fee and the 340B drug spread. Budget neutrality means the money doesn't vanish; it moves. Here's who collects.

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Space Economy Featured

Why Are 1990s Satellite Flops Suddenly Worth Billions?

Iridium and Globalstar were the defining bankruptcies of the dot-com era. Ten months and $37 billion later, they anchor Big Tech's land grab for the airwaves between space and your phone — and the FCC just turned those licenses into moats.

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Finance Featured

Bloom Energy (BE) Reports Tuesday. To Reach Even the Low End of Guidance, It Has to Beat Its Best Quarter Ever, Three Times Running.

Bloom Energy fell 14.9% on Friday and sits 47% below its high, yet still trades near 15 times revenue at a company that has never closed a profitable year. Tuesday's print is not really about the quarter. It is about the arithmetic of the back half.

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Markets Featured

Why Is the Strait of Hormuz Still Empty?

The US-Iran ceasefire is five weeks old, yet only 10 tankers a day transit a strait that used to see 130 — and war-risk premiums are rising, not falling. The physical market is pricing a structural premium the equity market refuses to believe.