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• Macroeconomic pressures and AI monetization skepticism contribute to Meta’s downward valuation trend. • High capital expenditure requirements for AI initiatives concern institutional investors regarding profitability. • Regulatory scrutiny and antitrust risks create operational uncertainty, increasing market volatility for Meta.

• Intel shares declined due to execution risks and high capital expenditure in foundry services. • Slow recovery in enterprise PC markets impacts Intel's core client computing group revenue. • Technical indicators show a sell signal with a MACD value of -7.155.

• Semiconductor sector retreat is driven by investor rotation and persistent high interest rates. • Potential trade restrictions on computing hardware create risks for global supply chains. • Increased competition and normalizing growth rates have led to revised analyst price targets.

TradingKey - UnitedHealth beat Q2 2026 EPS by 30%, reported an 86.7% medical cost ratio (down from 89.4%), and raised full-year guidance to $19.50 to $20.00 per share. At $425 in a rising channel, here’s what $454 needs and why the DOJ investigation still matters.

TradingKey - On July 17, Eastern Time, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on the social platform X, stating that the company's performance over the past 12 months fell short of expectations and taking primary responsibility for the outcome. Altman pledged that the coming year would be the best-performing period in the company's history since its founding. He also stated that the ultimate goal of AI is to empower more people with freedom, autonomy, and wealth, rather than driving user choices through fear.

TradingKey - On Friday, SpaceX (SPCX) slumped over 4% in pre-market trading, with its share price breaking below $130 and expected to hit a new post-listing low after the market opens. The trigger was the last-minute cancellation of the company’s scheduled 13th Starship test flight just before launc

• Heavy rainfall in Brazil's Center-South region is delaying sugar harvesting and crushing operations. • A stronger Brazilian Real discourages exports, supporting higher international sugar prices. • India's export restrictions and domestic ethanol policies limit global sugar market supplies.

• Geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are driving USOIL price gains. • Tightening global crude inventories and OPEC+ production discipline support market price rallies. • A softening US Dollar and Gulf Coast weather risks provide additional upward pressure.

TradingKey - Netflix fell 8% after Q3 guidance of $12.86B came in below the $13B estimate. Q2 EPS beat at $0.80 but revenue slightly missed. Down 21% YTD, NFLX is at $67. RSI 21. $66.50 is the immediate floor and $65 opens below it.

• Widening interest rate differentials and Federal Reserve policy expectations are strengthening the U.S. Dollar. • Banxico’s move toward an accommodative policy is reducing the Peso’s carry trade appeal. • Trade-related uncertainty and cooling manufacturing data are pressuring the Mexican Peso.

TradingKey - On July 17 ET, during U.S. pre-market trading, the three major stock index futures slumped collectively. As of press time, Nasdaq 100 Index futures fell 1.67%, S&P 500 Index futures dropped 0.79%, and Dow Jones Index futures were down 0.52%.

TradingKey - TSMC reported Q2 revenue of $40.2B, gross margin of 67.7% (a record), net profit up 77%, and raised full-year guidance to >40% growth. Then the stock fell 5%. JPMorgan called it: no bad news, just an impossibly high bar. Here’s the setup at $406.

TradingKey - Netflix (NFLX) shares fell as much as 10.5% in pre-market trading after the company’s third-quarter revenue and earnings guidance both missed market expectations, sparking renewed investor concerns over its growth prospects.

TradingKey - On July 16, Eastern Time, Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI officially released its next-generation large language model, Kimi K3, on Thursday. With a total scale of 2.8 trillion parameters, it is currently the world's largest open-source AI model.

• Cocoa futures rose due to poor crop prospects in Ivory Coast and Ghana. • Global cocoa demand remains resilient despite reaching historically high price levels. • Low market liquidity and algorithmic trading accelerated the upward price movement.

TradingKey - During the Asian trading session on July 17, Japanese media reported that SoftBank Group plans to issue approximately 60 billion yen (about $369 million) in bonds to Japanese institutional investors this month to raise funds for AI-related investments.

TradingKey - On July 14, Eastern Time, IBM (IBM) shares plummeted more than 25%, marking its largest single-day decline in nearly 60 years. The century-old tech giant, positioned at the forefront of both AI and quantum computing, saw approximately $69 billion in market capitalization evaporate in a single day. Behind this crash, a structural change is being revealed: AI computing hardware is increasingly squeezing enterprise software budgets.

TradingKey - JPMorgan’s (JPM) Global Markets Strategy team warns in its latest report that the deleveraging process initiated by US investors in June remains ongoing. Leveraged equity ETFs, options markets, and margin accounts all have room for further risk exposure reduction, which could serve as a significant headwind for US and global equity markets in the coming months.

The last-minute cancellation of Starship V3's 13th test flight sent SpaceX shares tumbling once again, and the stock price is expected to remain under continued downward pressure.

TradingKey - As a core product of Alphabet's (GOOGL) (GOOG) artificial intelligence strategy, Gemini 3.5 Pro was originally met with high market expectations. However, according to several people familiar with the matter, the release of this flagship model has been delayed by several months from its original schedule.