Markets are breaking records again as investors cheer strong tech earnings and easing tariff fears. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both hit fresh highs Monday, while gold smashed yet another record on (you guessed it) persistent inflation and geopolitical tension.

More interesting: Japan’s widow-maker trade, the best-performing bond maneuver with the worst bonds in the world.

Meanwhile, Amazon’s AWS outage knocked out everything from Reddit to Coinbase, Apple is flirting with a $4 trillion market cap, and President Trump’s rare‑earth deal with Australia has trade desks buzzing again.

Plenty to unpack today: from gold’s climb to biotech’s AI boom. Let’s get into it.

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Markets soared Monday with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hitting fresh records

Apple stock rose 3.9% to an all-time high for the first time this year, bringing the company within striking distance of a $4 trillion valuation. The surge came after data showed iPhone 17 sales jumped 14% compared to iPhone 16 in the first 10 days of availability across the US and China. The base iPhone 17 model outpaced expectations with better chips, improved displays, and higher storage at the same price point.

The “widow-maker” trade from Japan is tearing it up right now. It’s a simple trade where people essentially short Japanese government bonds (JGBs); traders buy JGBs, sell them, and then buy back when prices have dropped and keep the cash. This trade got its name from “piling up losses for debt investors during the country’s long years of ultra-loose monetary policy,” according to Bloomberg. JGBs have fallen 4% this year, making them the worst-performing bonds in the world by far.

Intel’s earnings are expected this Thursday, and markets are expecting INTC to move 10% up or down, according to options prices. This earnings call is essentially “prove it” time for Intel: the company has been buoyed by investments from the US government, Nvidia, and SoftBank recently, but are its raw financials actually improving? Analysts are on the whole skeptical, according to Yahoo Finance. Bears are pricing a move down to $32 for INTC and bulls are looking at $42.

Twitter analyst Traderstewie sees trading setups for ASMC and RMBS. He sees ASMC rising as much as 21% and RMBS as much as 23%.

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EOSE is currently up 20% pre-market ahead of a visit from PA Governor Josh Shapiro at 1 PM today. Traders are anticipating announcements of funding or expansion for the company.

Amazon's AWS cloud service suffered a massive outage that knocked out thousands of websites and apps including Snapchat, Reddit, Coinbase, and Robinhood for over nine hours. Many people (including Elon Musk) are using the outage as a reason to knock centralized servers, but some people see the widespread effects of the outage as a case for Amazon’s strength as a company and stock.

President Trump outlined his top demands for China ahead of trade talks this week, specifically targeting rare earth minerals, fentanyl, and soybeans. He threatened an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods starting November 1 if Beijing follows through on new export controls for rare earth materials. To counter China's leverage, President Trump signed a rare earth deal with Australia on Monday.

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