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SpaceX briefly fell below its IPO price today, and the revenue never supported a $2 trillion valuation
SpaceX dipped as low as around $132 on Wednesday, briefly trading below its $135 IPO price for the first time, before closing at $135.27, just pennies above it. With about $18.7 billion in revenue last year, a $2 trillion valuation was always a stretch, and Morningstar said as much before the IPO even priced.
RoboStrategy's CEO bought $10 million of new BOT stock this week, priced at more than 3 times the fund's net asset value
RoboStrategy CEO Andrew Kang bought $10 million of newly issued BOT shares in a board-approved private placement, priced at more than three times the fund's reported net asset value.
AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) sinks close to 13% after hours on its third billion-dollar note sale since October
AST SpaceMobile went back to the debt market for the third time since October, and investors kept selling into the evening, with the stock down nearly 13% after hours despite the company holding $2.7 billion in cash.
Big tech is about to spend $725 billion on AI data centers. That's not what a bubble looks like.
Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta are guiding to roughly $725 billion in combined AI capex for 2026, up 77% from last year. States are moving to regulate the data centers that money builds, but the real risk to watch is that spending now outpaces free cash flow.
ASML raised guidance sharply today. Wall Street barely reacted, and TSMC reports tomorrow.
ASML beat its own Q2 estimate and raised full-year 2026 guidance again, citing surging AI chip demand. The stock barely moved on the news. Since ASML builds the machines TSMC depends on, that muted reaction is worth watching heading into TSMC's own report tomorrow morning.
Semiconductors are having their worst day in weeks. Tomorrow, TSMC gets a chance to reverse it.
Semiconductor stocks are having their worst day in weeks, Micron, SanDisk, and SK Hynix's ADR all down double digits. TSMC reports Q2 earnings before the bell tomorrow, scores an 88 out of 100 on our Stock Scorer, and might be the one print that stops the bleeding.
Money is rotating out of semiconductor stocks and into the Mag 7 today. (July 15, 2026)
The real move Wednesday is money rotating into the Mag 7, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are each up more than 3%. That money is coming out of semiconductor stocks, as SK Hynix's Nasdaq ADR, Micron and SanDisk all give back this week's spike.
A short seller says a third of Sivers Semiconductors' (SIVEF) revenue is dubious. Its CEO and board bought shares anyway.
A short seller says 31% of Sivers Semiconductors' 2025 revenue is dubious and Sweden is probing an information leak. Its CEO and full board bought shares anyway, right as its laser chips landed a real GlobalFoundries partnership.
Producer prices (PPI) fell in June too, a day after CPI's first drop since 2020 (July 15, 2026)
June's Producer Price Index fell 0.3%, cooler than expected and the second straight day inflation data has surprised to the downside. Energy led the drop, gasoline fell 12%, and core PPI cooled to a 5.1% annual rate.
The Close, July 14: IBM lost a quarter of its value, and SK Hynix's Nasdaq stock jumped 27%
IBM lost about a quarter of its value in a single session after a weak preliminary report, and the damage spread across enterprise software. SK Hynix's brand-new Nasdaq stock went the other way, jumping 27% on a day chips broadly rallied.
SK Hynix's new Nasdaq stock rose 20% today. The same company in Seoul only gained 4%.
SK Hynix's week-old Nasdaq stock, SKHY, rose about 21% Tuesday. The company's original Seoul shares gained less than 4% the same day. The difference comes down to a very new, very thinly available ADR, and it is worth understanding before it happens with the next Korean listing.
New York froze new data centers for a year, and TeraWulf just became the day's biggest loser because of it. Nebius, close behind, has nothing to do with New York.
Governor Hochul signed a first-in-the-nation moratorium on new hyperscale data centers today, and TeraWulf (WULF) fell 6.7%, the hardest hit in the group, because it owns exactly the kind of project the order targets. Nebius (NBIS) fell almost as much, and Digital Realty (DLR) also dropped on real New York exposure, but Nebius and CoreWeave (CRWV) have nothing to do with Albany.
Inflation fell for the first time since 2020, the Kospi closed green, and IBM still crashed 23% (July 14, 2026)
June CPI fell 0.4%, the first monthly decline since 2020, and chips bounced. Then IBM missed on preliminary results, lost roughly 23%, and dragged Workday, ServiceNow and Adobe down with it. CleanSpark jumped 8% on a $6.6 billion AI data center lease, and the Kospi closed green before the CPI number even existed.
Gloo (GLOO) sells tech to churches. One of its biggest shareholders is Bill Hwang's foundation.
Grace & Mercy Foundation just bought $3 million more of Gloo (GLOO) stock, bringing its stake to about 18.6%. The foundation was founded by Bill Hwang, the Archegos founder sentenced to 18 years in prison for a fraud that cost banks $30 billion.
A day after the crash, Kospi moved 3% in 15 minutes and Samsung opened green (July 14, 2026)
The Kospi opened Tuesday down 2.8% within ten minutes, then bounced nearly all the way back, a move of more than 3% before 9:15am in Seoul. Samsung opened green a day after the circuit-breaker crash, and the US CPI report lands six hours after the Korean close.
Penguin Solutions (PENG) hit a 52-week high last week. Its own debt sale knocked it down 12% on July 13.
Penguin Solutions announced a $650 million convertible notes offering after Monday's close, and the stock dropped as much as 12% in after-hours trading before clawing back some of the loss. The sale comes less than a week after PENG touched a 52-week high on a blowout earnings beat.
Figma's 12% jump is a short squeeze. Astera Labs fell 13% on no news at all.
Figma led todays gainers on a short squeeze, not sector strength. Astera Labs led losers on no company news at all, dragged down by the same SK Hynix crash rattling memory chips. Here is what todays biggest movers actually tell you.
The VIX is up 8% today. Gold, bonds and Bitcoin are all down anyway.
The CBOE Volatility Index jumped 7.6% today, intraday around 11:30am ET, real fear in the tape. But gold, silver, Treasury bonds and Bitcoin all fell anyway. Energy and oil were the clear winners, technology and small caps the clear laggards.
The Iran war just crashed the Kospi into its 7th circuit breaker of the year. SK Hynix fell harder than Samsung again.
South Korea's Kospi crashed 8.95% and halted trading for the seventh time this year as US strikes on Iran spread to Bahrain, Oman, Jordan and Kuwait. SK Hynix fell harder than Samsung again, and its three-day-old US ADR followed the Seoul selloff down too, though by a smaller margin.
Futures down, oil up just 3% after Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz (July 12, 2026)
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed after the heaviest weekend of US strikes in months. Stock futures opened lower Sunday night and oil jumped about 3.1%. When this war started in March, the same headline took Brent to $126.
Institutions got SK Hynix at $149. The public paid $170 the next day.
SK Hynix's $26.5 billion Nasdaq ADR priced at $149, and ten investors took half the deal. When SKHYV actually started trading, the first print came in at $171.71. Here's how the allocation worked, and why the public never had a shot at that price.
Bullish Watch, week of July 13: the market panicked over a Meta headline, and got it wrong
This week's watchlist, updated through Tuesday: Nebius gave back its early bounce on a data-center headline unrelated to its business, Kraken Robotics is holding up best of the five, Intel swung from a 6% drop to a 4.5% rally in two days, and Rocket Lab and Harmonic are still finding their footing.
Meta (META) jumps 4.7% on Muse Spark 1.1, Zuckerberg's return to X, and the Alberta data center
Meta Platforms (META) closed up about 4.7% on July 9, with the gains accelerating hardest in the final hour of trading. A new coding AI model, Mark Zuckerberg's first X post in three years, and last week's $9 billion Canada data center all fed the same move.
TeraWulf is borrowing $3.5 billion for its Anthropic data center. Here's what that means for the stock (WULF)
TeraWulf is raising $3.5 billion in debt, its first-ever leveraged loan deal, to build the Kentucky campus behind its $19 billion Anthropic lease. The stock is up again today, but the move is more complicated than it looks.