Davide Marcotti @Dafne17: "Good morning legends ☀️ Weed out..."

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Good morning legends ☀️ Weed out the noise. Here's your selection of the real key market movers of the last 24 hours 🌍 Macro 🔴 Oil $OIL jumped as geopolitical tensions flared again, reviving inflation concerns and triggering hawkish Fed repricing ahead of Friday's jobs report. 🔴 Fed Governor Lisa Cook said inflation is still too high and she's prepared to act on a rate hike, crushing September cut hopes. 🟢 Treasury Secretary Bessent announced the US is in active talks with Iran, cooling military escalation fears that have gripped markets all week. 🟢 The ECB raised all three key rates by 25 basis points in June with the deposit facility now at 2.25%, maintaining a hawkish stance against war-driven inflation. 🔴 Yields rose alongside wholesale fuel prices as investors reassess the prospects for restoring shipping through Hormuz, weighing on risk appetite. 🟢 Gold held near record levels above $4,000 as hard assets continue benefiting from ongoing debasement fears and persistent geopolitical uncertainty. 📈 Crypto 🟢 Bitcoin $BTC held above $64,000 despite weakness in AI-linked tech, showing resilience as it shrugs off the correlation that has defined this cycle. 🟠 Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for $104.7 million at an average price of $63,957 to fund dividends and buybacks, signaling a shift from pure accumulation mode. 🟢 Ethereum tested $1,880 as Trump's comments about a potential Hormuz deal reduced near-term risk across digital assets. 🟢 BitMine Immersion Technologies reported holdings of 5.79 million ETH tokens as of July 26, representing 4.8% of circulating supply in aggressive accumulation. 🟢 Grayscale added BNB at a 30.6% weight in its Smart Contract Fund ahead of Ether and Solana during Q2 rebalance, a major validation for the Binance ecosystem. 🟢 Goldman Sachs is exploring direct Bitcoin and Ethereum investments for its balance sheet as institutional demand for crypto exposure accelerates. 🏦 TradFi 🔴 The S&P 500 $SPX500 fell 0.2% on Thursday as energy price surges revived Fed hike fears, snapping a four-day win streak. 🔴🔴 SpaceX plunged 13% after its first earnings as a public company revealed capex jumped sixfold to $18.4 billion in Q2, rattling investors on AI spending efficiency. 🔴 AppLovin tanked 16% after Q3 EBITDA guidance of $1.71-1.74 billion missed the $1.75 billion consensus, another blow to the ad-tech setup. 🔴 Western Digital slumped over 10% on weak current-quarter projections, adding to the memory sector selloff that's pressured the group for weeks. 🟢 Palantir surged 29% earlier this week as defense and AI software demand drove a blowout quarter, showing the trajectory for data analytics remains hyper bullish. 🟢 Caterpillar jumped over 5% and surpassed its intraday record from last month as industrial fundamentals stay strong despite macro headwinds. 🤖 AI & Tech 🟢🟢 Nvidia $NVDA (NVIDIA Corporation) popped over 3% after Elon Musk said SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia processors for all AI infrastructure builds going forward. ✅ in the portfolio 🔴 AMD shares fell premarket despite beating revenue by 50% and doubling its data center business, as guidance failed to satisfy sky-high expectations. 🟢 Safe Superintelligence Inc and Nvidia announced a long-term partnership to accelerate SSI's strategic growth, deepening Nvidia's AI ecosystem moat. 🟢 The Trump administration told AI developers it will not impose new restrictions on model development, removing a key regulatory overhang. 🟢 SK Group and Nvidia announced plans for a $500 billion-plus partnership to establish AI infrastructure serving surging global compute demand. 🔴 Alphabet faces more AI brain drain as talent exits continue, though the core advertising and cloud businesses remain resilient enough to offset concerns. Geopolitical whipsaws are back — oil, yields, and growth expectations all repricing in real time while liquidity stays tight. $EURUSD @Tori , anything else I have missed? Stay sharp - follow if you want the key market movers in your feed every morning 🙏

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