You could've held a McChicken and outperformed Ethereum
Source: StockTwits
Only 2 months left to buy the Magnificent 7 before the cash flow explosion begins???
Source: Patient Investor @patientinvestor FT
World's Most Cash Rich Companies
Source: The Market Mind @Market_Mind_
The US dollar has OUTPACED every G10 currency this month.
Source: Steve Hanke @steve_hanke
The Magnificent 7 just lost nearly $3 TRILLION in market value.
June is shaping up to be their worst month on record. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF ($MAGS) has plunged -12.9% month-to-date, including -5.9% this week alone. But this isn't just another tech selloff. Apple has raised MacBook prices. Microsoft has increased Xbox prices. Both point to the same culprit: rising memory costs driven by the AI infrastructure boom. For the first time, AI CapEx is flowing through the entire value chain and showing up in consumer prices. Now investors are asking a different question How long will markets keep rewarding record AI spending before demanding stronger returns? If confidence fades, the market won't just reprice Big Tech. It will start pricing in AI CapEx cuts. That would lower growth expectations for hyperscalers, hit semiconductor demand, and could trigger a much broader market selloff. The AI trade has been built on ever-higher investment. What happens if Wall Street starts expecting less? This is a key downside risk to monitor. Which also means that you need to be broadly diversified. Source: Dow Jones, Global Markets Investors
Stairs up, ELEVATOR down in US space stocks:
The equal-weighted basket of 10 space sector stocks has COLLAPSED -50% since its peak, the largest drawdown since April 2025 and the 2nd-largest since the 2022 bear market. SpaceX, $SPCX, alone is down -32% since its mid-June peak. This comes after retail investors purchased $405 million of SpaceX shares during its first 5 trading days after its June 12 IPO, the largest first-week retail purchases of any IPO ever. Mom-and-pop investors also piled into leveraged ETFs linked to SpaceX, purchasing $65.8 million of the 2x Leveraged Long SpaceX ETF, $SPCH, over its first few trading sessions. The fund is down -56% since the June 16 peak, posted on the 2nd trading day after its launch. Source: Thomas Callum, Topdown charts
"The Russell 2000 small-caps index is outperforming the S&P500 by ~1,240 bps thus far in 2026: if this holds it would mark the largest year of Small Cap outperformance since 2003" - GS
Source: zerohedge
The US can't afford much higher interest rates.
Here's why: Over the next 12 months, the US Treasury must refinance roughly $8 trillion of debt. The average interest rate on that debt is about 3.3%. Today, the 1-year Treasury yields around 4%. Simply refinancing that $8 trillion at current rates would increase annual interest costs by roughly $50 billion. And that's before accounting for interest on an ongoing $2 trillion annual budget deficit. This is why today's fiscal backdrop is fundamentally different from the early 1980s. When Paul Volcker raised rates into the double digits, the US had already benefited from years of high inflation that dramatically reduced the debt burden relative to the economy. Today, debt levels are far higher. Every percentage point increase in borrowing costs has a much larger impact on the federal budget. The Fed isn't just fighting inflation anymore. It's operating with one eye on a balance sheet that has become increasingly sensitive to higher rates. The higher rates stay, the more expensive America's debt becomes. Source: Lukas Ekwueme @ekwufinance FT
