The US launched strikes on Iranian radar and air defenses Tuesday evening. The strikes came hours after Iran downed a US Apache near Oman. The IRGC promised a heavy response. Futures are lower this morning. Oil is bouncing. The dollar is firmer. The Kospi fell sharply overnight. The Nikkei dropped.

Tuesday told its own story. The S&P dropped more than two percent intraday on Trump's strike threats. Then it clawed almost all of it back. The index closed down a fraction. The Dow finished green. The Nasdaq fell nearly a percent as chips gave back Monday's bounce.

Oracle (ORCL) reports tonight. That print lands into the sharpest reversal session in months.

Market Implication

The two-percent intraday drop and near-full recovery says the market has priced one more strike cycle. It hasn't priced two. Tuesday's recovery was built on deal hope. The same evening's strikes spent that cushion. If the IRGC follows through, there is no deal-hope reserve left to buy the dip. The next leg down finds a different floor.

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WTI dropped sharply after the Energy Secretary said Hormuz traffic was rising. The market priced a deal. Then the helicopter went down. Then the strikes hit.

This is the pattern. Every signal toward peace gets tested by force within hours. Monday brought deal hope. Tuesday brought the oil crash. Tuesday evening brought bombs.

Oil is the input that feeds into CPI. CPI feeds into the Fed path. The Fed path sets the floor for yields. When oil whips sharply in one day, the entire chain resets.

May CPI drops at 8:30 this morning. The print is expected to step up from April. Core is seen holding. But the headline carries the oil signal. And the oil input flipped overnight.

Structural Setup

Yesterday's thesis was that lower oil opens the door for rate-sensitive names. That thesis lasted eight hours. If CPI prints hot this morning with oil back near last week's levels, the rate-hike path firms. Duration stays under pressure through July.

The Dow gained while the Nasdaq fell nearly a percent. Small caps rose. The Russell added ground. The shift out of mega-cap tech into value and defense ran for a third straight day.

The chip bounce lasted one session. SMH gave back Monday's pop. Every tech rally fades within a day right now. That's not panic. That's capital clearing out ahead of SpaceX.

The V-shape was the bigger signal. The S&P's intraday plunge tested every stop. Then it came back before the close. The selling was fast and sharp. The buying was slower but steady. Breadth held better than the headline number showed.

Sector Read

Value and defense are catching the capital that tech is shedding. Watch whether that trade survives a hot CPI. If it does, the shift is real. If rate-sensitive value names crack on a hot print, the rotation has no safe landing zone.

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SpaceX prices Thursday night. OpenAI filed for an IPO. Anthropic filed its own. Three of the most prized private tech firms are heading to public markets at the same time.

Apollo (APO) and Blackstone (BX) closed a massive deal to acquire Google chips and lease them to Anthropic. Broadcom (AVGO) is backing the residual value of the hardware. It's a new asset class: AI chips as collateral, sliced into tranches like bonds. If chip prices fall or AI demand softens, Broadcom is the name holding the residual risk. That exposure is not yet priced into the stock.

The total equity supply hitting in weeks is vast. SpaceX alone needs investors to free up cash. That selling shows up first in the most liquid names.

Watch Signal

SpaceX prices Thursday. If the book fills at the top of the range, it confirms the money just rotated. If it struggles, demand for new AI equity at current valuations is being tested at the worst possible time. That is the signal worth watching, not the IPO price itself.

API data showed an eighth straight weekly drop in US crude stocks. Last week's draw was the largest in months. The US has been the world's swing supplier since the Strait closed. Exports to Asia and Europe have surged. Every barrel shipped is one less in storage.

That math has a limit. Eight weeks of draws means the cushion is shrinking fast. If the Strait stays closed another month, US stocks drop toward levels last seen during the SPR drawdown. Deal hope keeps pushing oil down on headlines. But the draw data keeps pulling the floor up.

Refiners are running near full capacity to meet export demand. That leaves no room to ramp if another shock hits.

The Read

The EIA report lands today at 10:30. If it mirrors the API draw, the US supply cushion is thinner than deal-hope pricing shows. Valero (VLO) and Marathon (MPC) are running hot. That works until stocks hit a level where exports slow. Every week the Strait stays closed, that threshold gets closer.

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Economic Data: MBA 30-Year Mortgage Rate, Inflation Rate/Core Inflation Rate, CPI, EIA Crude Oil and Gasoline Stocks Change

Earnings: Oracle (ORCL)

Overnight: Nikkei −1.89%, Shanghai Composite -0.42% FTSE −0.45%, DAX −0.82%

Two prints land today. CPI at 8:30. Oracle after the bell.

CPI tells us if the war premium leaked into core prices or stayed locked in energy. A hot print with oil bouncing back means the rate-hike path holds. A soft print with oil still high means the economy is absorbing the shock better than feared.

Oracle tells us if AI demand held through the worst tech rotation in a year. The stock has dropped sharply since last quarter's blowout. Reaffirming tonight would mean the spend thesis survived the selloff. Missing would mean the demand story broke at the same time as the multiple.

Both land in one session. The market hasn't faced a two-sided test like this in weeks.