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๐Ÿ“ฐ Market Headlines

  • Wall Street rallied on Fed's rate-cut hint, with Powell declaring September reduction "could be on the table"

    • The S&P 500 and Nasdaq soared 1.6% and 2.6%, respectively, while the Dow rose a modest 0.2%.

    • Tech stocks bounced back with Nvidia surging 12.9%, and Advanced Micro Devices rallying 4.4%.

  • The United Auto Workers union officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for US president.

  • CrowdStrike faces a shareholder lawsuit over the global software outage that crashed 8 million computers, wiping out $25 billion in market value.

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Is Boeing the greatest turnaround story in the history of the world?

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Winners and losers

Earnings, upgrades, and acquisitions

  • Meta beat Q2 revenue expectations with $39.1 billion, up 22% year-over-year; shares rallied 4%.

  • Boeing rose 3% despite reporting a wider-than-expected Q2 loss and weaker revenue.

  • Mastercard beat Wall Street estimates for both profit and revenue, pushing share price up 3.6%

  • Qualcomm jumped 8% after beating Q3 estimates with adjusted EPS, driven by a 12% rise in handset sales.

  • Arm exceeded Q1 expectations but issued light earnings guidance causing shares to plummet over 13%.

  • Carvana surged 14% after beating Q2 estimates and projecting a record 2024 adjusted EBITDA.

  • Humana beat second-quarter adjusted EPS estimates, yet stock price plummeted 10%.

  • The Kraft Heinz Company rose 4% despite the company's second-quarter revenue falling short of expectations.

Market movers

  • Delta Air Lines faces $500 million in costs from a global tech outage, including lost revenue and passenger compensation.

  • Boeing named aerospace veteran Kelly Ortberg as CEO to steer its turnaround.

  • Reddit CEO called on Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity to pay for scraping the site's data, following deals with Google and OpenAI.

  • A CIO canceled its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI subscription, citing high costs and low value.

  • Bungie laid off 220 employees, representing 17% of its workforce, and moved 155 to other Sony departments.

Ideas, trends, and analysis

  • A study found Gen X and millennials are at higher risk of developing 17 types of cancer compared to past generations.

  • US labor costs increased moderately by 0.9% in Q2, with private sector wages growing at the slowest pace in 3.5 years.

  • Recent surveys showed 94% of institutional investors and 83% of retail investors are long-term believers in digital assets.

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๐ŸŒ Global Perspectives

  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an airstrike in Tehran, escalating tensions in the Middle East.

  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United Airlines and Delta Airlines suspended flights to Tel Aviv due to security concerns.

  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukraine's air force repelled one of Russia's largest drone attacks of the war, shooting down all 89 drones launched.

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Myanmar's military junta extended emergency rule for another six months due to escalating conflict.

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Thousands gathered in London to protest after three young girls were killed in a knife attack in Southport.

๐Ÿ“Š Crypto

  • Grayscale's Bitcoin Mini Trust (BTC) began trading on NYSE Arca with a 0.15% fee, the lowest among spot Bitcoin ETFs.

  • US spot Ethereum ETFs saw $33.7 million in net inflows, ending a streak of negative flows.

  • The Bahamas passed DARE 2024, new crypto legislation aimed at restoring its status as a digital asset hub post-FTX collapse.

๐Ÿง  Errata

  • deadly wildfire in Colorado claimed a life, while California's Park Fire became the state's fifth-largest blaze in history.

  • Louisiana bizarrely banned the iconic Amanita muscaria mushroom, sparking confusion and conspiracy theories.

  • About 150 people were sickened and one person died after eating grilled eel from a Yokohama department store.

๐Ÿ“บ What to Watch Today

Somebody get Smokey The Bear.

Thatโ€™s all for today. Did I miss anything? Smash the reply button to let me know.

Cheers,

Wyatt

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