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Markets & Listings

SpaceX Makes History Twice: Joins Nasdaq-100 Under New Fast-Track IPO Rules

Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), which went public on June 12 in the largest IPO ever with a market cap exceeding $2 trillion, officially joins the Nasdaq-100 today — the first company ever admitted under the exchange's newly created "fast-track entry" rules for mega-IPOs. Under those rules, new listings that rank within the top 40 of current Nasdaq-100 constituents by full market capitalization can be evaluated on their seventh trading day and added shortly thereafter, compressing a process that previously took months into as few as 15 trading days. Despite the milestone, SPCX shares remain more than 30% off their record high, and the stock's outsized index weight is already drawing attention from passive-fund managers who will be forced to absorb it.

Technology & AI

Chip Stocks Slide Again as Samsung's Q2 Beat Sparks Demand Doubts and DeepSeek Builds Its Own AI Chip

South Korea's Samsung Electronics reported a big jump in Q2 profit but its shares dropped nearly 7%, dragging the Kospi down almost 5% and pressuring U.S. semiconductor names — the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) fell more than 5% on Tuesday as Micron, KLA, Marvell, Broadcom, and AMD all posted declines. Compounding the pressure, Reuters reported that DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, a move that could reduce the Chinese lab's dependency on Nvidia and Samsung hardware and raises a fresh demand-destruction risk heading into a Q2 earnings season where analyst expectations are already described as "very bullish" against an S&P 500 that sits roughly 1,000 points higher than it did entering Q1 reports.

Equity Markets

Dow Crosses 53,000 for the First Time — But Tuesday's Rotation Shows the Rally Remains Fragile

On Monday, July 6, the Dow Jones Industrial Average surpassed 53,000 for the first time as AI-linked shares rebounded sharply — Western Digital, AMD, and Qualcomm gained roughly 7%, 6.5%, and 6%, respectively, while Tesla led the Magnificent Seven with a nearly 7% rise. By Tuesday, however, investors rotated back out of AI names, with the Nasdaq falling 1.3% and the S&P 500 down 0.5%, as money moved into healthcare, financials, and select large-cap names including Eli Lilly, JPMorgan, and Microsoft — a pattern that underscores how the current bull market's leadership is narrow and subject to sharp, single-session reversals.

Commodities & Geopolitics

Oil Whipsaws: OPEC+ Supply Hike Keeps WTI Near $68, Then Tanker Attacks in the Strait of Hormuz Drive a 2%+ Spike

OPEC+ announced it would raise output targets by 188,000 barrels per day starting next month, holding West Texas Intermediate futures near $68.65 and Brent crude at roughly $71.99 on Monday — but the geopolitical floor reasserted itself almost immediately, with CNBC reporting oil prices rising more than 2% after attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of global oil trade passes. Ukrainian drones also struck Russia's largest oil refinery, with President Zelenskyy stating Siberia is now "within reach," adding a further supply-disruption premium that is keeping energy markets on edge even as the OPEC+ supply overhang weighs on the medium-term price outlook.

Corporate Credit

Amazon Raises at Least $25 Billion in Bond Sale — and Won't Issue More Debt in 2026

Amazon is raising at least $25 billion in a single bond sale and has indicated it will not return to the debt market for the remainder of 2026, a front-loading strategy that signals management's view that current credit conditions — with the 10-year Treasury yield hovering around 4.47% — represent an acceptable, possibly advantageous, borrowing window before any potential rate or spread widening. The deal is one of the largest corporate bond offerings in recent memory and adds to a broader signal that investment-grade issuers are locking in financing ahead of what they perceive as a more uncertain rate environment later in the year.