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Amazon surged 13% on AWS growing 37%. Apple fell 8% despite its strongest June quarter ever. Tim Cook delivered his final earnings call. The week ends with a clear verdict on which AI strategy the market respects.
Apple has the best supply chain on earth and it still could not absorb the price of memory. Amazon raised its building budget for the same reason the same night. The AI buildout has started sending its bill to companies that are not building it.
Chips had their best day in months. The 30-year yield hit a 19-year high. A hedge fund blew up. The war reached Egypt.
Microsoft spent more than ever last quarter and still cleared real cash. Meta grew revenue by nearly a third and cleared almost none. Amazon reports tonight with the biggest buildout of the three.
The Fed held but three members wanted to hike immediately. Iran struck Iraq and Jordan simultaneously. Microsoft beat, guided Azure growth higher, and jumped 8% after the close. The Dow fell 800 points into the decision. Meta and Microsoft reported. One got rewarded. The other did not.
SK Hynix posted the biggest quarter in its history and still came up short of the model. The stock fell hard enough to take the whole index down with it. Best ever wasn't the bar.
Nvidia announced $750 billion in AI deals in a single week and its own CDS costs surged. Corning fell 20% because wireless carriers are cutting spending. Sherwin-Williams, UPS, and Coca-Cola all raised guidance.
General Motors raised guidance last week and called the consumer resilient. Ford reports tonight into falling sales and a fresh tariff bill. Both sell trucks into the same economy.
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The pause in US-Iran strikes sent oil lower. But chips sold off anyway. The Dow gained. The Nasdaq didn't.
The US and Iran held their fire a second straight day, and crude gapped lower at the open. But the risk didn't leave, it moved. The Houthis hit Saudi oil facilities on the Red Sea this weekend, and tankers are already turning around rather than run the gauntlet.
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WTI dropped sharply after Pakistan pushed for new Iran-US talks. Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on 60 countries overnight. The week closes messier than it opened.
Intel just delivered its fastest revenue growth since 2011 and jumped meaningfully after hours. Lockheed raised guidance and marked a record backlog. Both were bid on a day the megacap tape fell.
Alphabet and Tesla both beat revenue estimates. Both fell hard. WTI broke above $90 on a tanker explosion near Hormuz. Memory stocks rose anyway. The market is now punishing spending, not rewarding growth.
Lockheed and Raytheon report this morning, with nightly US strikes on Iran now in a second week and fresh threats of more. The same oil spike freezing the Fed is a tailwind for the defense primes and a tax on everything that burns diesel.
Super Micro nearly doubled its margin guidance and took in $60 billion in new orders. September hike odds jumped to 74%. Reddit fell 9% on reports it may cancel its Google AI content deal.
Kazakhstan stopped pumping crude to the Black Sea after four tankers were hit in four days. Saudi tankers turned around mid voyage in the Red Sea. Every route built to survive the Hormuz closure came under attack in the same week.
GM sold fewer cars and made more money. Dimon said publicly he wouldn't buy stocks or Treasuries right now. Goldman says oil could hit $120 if Hormuz stays shut. Alphabet and Tesla report tomorrow.
General Motors reports this morning with profits rising and sales falling in the same quarter. That split is the tell for the whole week. The banks are done. Now the companies that build cars, drill wells, and frame houses show whether the economy took a quarter of costly oil and tariffs in stride.
Alibaba released its second Chinese AI model in a week. BlackRock is leading $12 billion in debt for Meta's Texas data centers. The Houthis declared a maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia.
