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  • 🇬🇧 FTSE 100-1.33%
  • 🇩🇪 DAX-1.55%
  • 🇫🇷 CAC 40-1.60%

London held up best in a red European session, shedding 192 points while Paris and Frankfurt each gave back more than 1.5%. With the Bank of England now leaning hawkish, UK rate sensitive names are the ones to keep an eye on.

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Amazon's AI Bet is Already Starting to Pay Off

AWS just posted its fastest growth in 18 quarters while Amazon is burning through capex at a rate that swung free cash flow negative. Here is why that tension keeps me adding shares instead of walking away.

QCOMQualcomm
Regular session
$182.18
-5.17%open $192.12

Qualcomm is down 5.17% to $182.18, a rare single-session drop for a $195 billion chipmaker that usually trades far calmer. The $192 open is now the level bulls need to reclaim.

GMGeneral Motors
Regular session
$82.21
-4.79%open $86.35

A 4.8% intraday slide to $82.21 knocks roughly $3.5 billion off the automaker's $74.4 billion market value in a single session. Whether the $86.35 open gets reclaimed by the close is the level to keep an eye on.

Bitcoin's biggest ETF outranking gold's at 5th in all-ETF volume is the clearest sign yet that the debasement trade is rotating toward crypto, and Balchunas says the volume leaderboard now doubles as the year's theme list.

$IBIT having one those days.. 5th in overall ETF volume with its BFF (Best Frenemy Forever) $GLD in 9th spot (normally GLD has higher rank, prob btc price up more today). Btw the Top 10 is a perfect snapshot of this year: VOO & Chill + AI Mania + Debasement Trade https://t.co/gXW5A4rlsz
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AMD’s Biggest Growth Opportunity May Still Be Ahead

AMD just posted the most consequential quarter in its history and Lisa Su says the company is tracking ahead of its own targets, yet the stock sits 5% below its peak with Wall Street split on what comes next. Here is the case for why the real breakout has not happened yet.