🆕 Newsmakers 3:30p ET — new news — 2026-07-17
🆕 Newsmakers — 3:30p ET, 2026-07-17 — new since last alert
📰 NEW MARKET THEMES: • Natural Gas, WTI Oil, Brent Oil Forecasts – Oil Rallies 3% As Iran Targets Kuwait's Water And Power Plants Oil markets tested new highs as traders focused on fighting in the Middle East. — fxempire.com · 07/17 3:01p https://www.fxempire.com/forecasts/article/natural-gas-wti-oil-brent-oil-forecasts-oil-rallies-3-as-iran-targets-kuwaits-water-and-power-plants-1611188 • Top Oil Stocks Built To Withstand Energy Uncertainty The energy sector continues to be one of the more volatile sectors in the market this year. As geopolitical tensions reaccelerate in the Middle East, uncertainty grows. This lineup provides safety across the oil supply chain, whose business models are designed to absorb oil shoc… — seekingalpha.com · 07/17 2:55p https://seekingalpha.com/article/4923115-top-oil-stocks-built-to-withstand-energy-uncertainty • Iraq and Syria sign agreement to restore oil pipeline that would provide alternative to Strait of Hormuz Iraq, the second largest oil producer in OPEC, has suffered heavily from the disruption to tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Baghdad is reliant on its southern port city of Basra on the Persian Gulf due to limited pipeline options to bring its oil to global markets. — cnbc.com · 07/17 2:47p https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/iran-war-iraq-syria-oil-pipeline-strait-hormuz.html • Dan Ives on the AI Sell-Off: Gut Check, Not a Warning Sign Dan Ives of Yorkville Ives & Company breaks down why he believes the AI trade is still in the early innings, what's driving the recent sell-off, and the key signals he's watching—including enterprise AI demand, Big Tech CapEx, cloud growth, and what could actually change his bul… — youtube.com · 07/17 2:40p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMXRAoS_OXw • Financials Stay Hot And Extremely Overbought The S&P 500 Financials sector extended its overbought streak to 24 trading days and made a new all-time high as of yesterday's close. The sector has now also risen for 6 straight days, with each close occurring in extreme overbought territory (at least 2 standard deviations abov… — seekingalpha.com · 07/17 2:28p https://seekingalpha.com/article/4923104-financials-stay-hot-extremely-overbought
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LCID +15% $7.46 (2.4B cap) LCID DEADLINE ALERT: Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Reminds Lucid Group (LCID) Investors of Securities Class Action Lawsuit Deadline on July 28, 2026 LCID DEADLINE ALERT: Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Reminds Lucid Group (LCID) Investors of Securities Class Action Lawsuit Deadline on July 28, 2026 Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Securities Litigation Partner James (Josh) Wilson Encourages Investors Who Suffered Losses In Lucid Group To Contact H… — newsfilecorp.com · 07/17 3:19p https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/305463/LCID-DEADLINE-ALERT-Faruqi-Faruqi-LLP-Reminds-Lucid-Group-LCID-Investors-of-Securities-Class-Action-Lawsuit-Deadline-on-July-28-2026
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ETON +13% $41.95 (1.1B cap) (no fresh news today — likely technical / low-coverage move)
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XNCR +12% $16.76 (1.2B cap) Xencor Announces Proffered Paper Oral Presentation at ESMO 2026 for Phase 1 Clinical Study of XmAb819 in Advanced Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xencor, Inc. (NASDAQ:XNCR), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered antibodies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced that results from a Phase 1 study of XmAb819, an ENPP3 x CD3 T-cell eng… — businesswire.com · 07/17 9:11a https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260716029119/en/Xencor-Announces-Proffered-Paper-Oral-Presentation-at-ESMO-2026-for-Phase-1-Clinical-Study-of-XmAb819-in-Advanced-Clear-Cell-Renal-Cell-Carcinoma/
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