Two macro forces are shaping markets this morning. Oil jumped sharply after the US and Iran escalated tit-for-tat strikes, raising fears over Strait of Hormuz oil flows. Separately, Asian memory chipmakers tumbled hard. TSMC, SK Hynix, and Samsung — which together make up nearly 29% of the MSCI Emerging Markets index — dragged broader Asian indices lower. South Korean stocks fell over 5%.
The biggest event this week is Thursday's NFLX Q2 report. The streaming giant carries a $309B market cap. Options markets are flashing caution ahead of the print. Short interest sits at 2.4% of free float — bears aren't fleeing. BAC kicks off US bank earnings tomorrow morning pre-market. BNY follows on Wednesday. European lender Nordea Bank also reports H1 results this week.
Bears piled into AI cloud stock CoreWeave, pushing short interest to 33.1% of free float — up 4.8 points in a week. Chewy remains one of the most-shorted mid-caps in the US at 74.8%. Wolfspeed hit an extreme 103.1% short interest, with borrowing costs running at 8.3% APR.
Medtech names took small target cuts. ISRG and PODD both saw trimmed price targets despite heavily bullish consensus ratings. On the other side, industrial names HON and UNP picked up modest upgrades, pointing to continued rotation out of healthcare and into cyclicals.
BABA President J. Michael Evans filed a $68.4M share sale, one of the largest single US insider disposals this month. At CBRS, multiple C-suite executives filed sales totalling over $13M across late June.
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