Apple Beat and Fell 7%. Amazon Beat and Rose 12%.

Both companies beat. One lost seven percent anyway.

Apple fell 7.27% in premarket despite beating on earnings and sales. Amazon rose 12.31% after its own results.

The difference was not the quarter that just ended. It was the sentence about the next one. Apple guided fourth-quarter sales to $111.7 to $113.7 billion against an estimate of $114.8 billion. That gap, roughly one percent, cost it seven.

It was not alone. Reddit tumbled 9.57% despite beating on both earnings and revenue. Coinbase fell 4.46% on revenue of $1.22 billion, down 19% from a year ago and short of the $1.32 billion expected.

Here’s why it lands on your desk: if you hold an index fund, you own all of these. And the market has stopped paying for good results. It is paying only for confident guidance, which is a much harder thing to deliver.

Source: Benzinga / CNBC

The Musk-Backed Startup Growing 23 Times Faster Than Nvidia

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Even though this Elon Musk-backed startup has nothing to do with robots, self-driving cars, or rockets, it’s growing faster than Tesla, faster than SpaceX, and even 23 times faster than Nvidia. Click here to see the details and get the name of this startup, 100% free… or read more below.

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Before it goes public… starting with just $50?

As you know, Elon Musk just took SpaceX public in the biggest IPO ever.

But here’s the crazy part…

While everyone was distracted by the SpaceX IPO…

Elon Musk quietly started backing this NEW AI startup that has been called…

“The fastest-growing business in the history of capitalism.”

Even though this has nothing to do with robots, self-driving cars, or rockets…

Its CEO is projecting growth of 8,000% for this year…

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The economy grew 1.5%. Inflation stayed at 3.7%.

Second-quarter GDP came in below the 1.8% economists expected, and well below the 2.1% of the first quarter.

The inflation picture was the softer half of the report. June PCE fell 0.1% for the month, putting the annual rate at 3.7%. Core PCE, which strips out food and energy, rose 0.1% monthly for an annual 3.3%. Jobless claims came in at 197,000, up 9,000 on the week.

And yet the market still prices a 63% chance the Fed raises rates in September. Slower growth has not bought any relief, because inflation is still running well above target.

If you are holding cash or short-dated bonds, this combination is why the yields look generous and why they may stay that way longer than anyone planned for.

Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis / CME FedWatch

One Rating System Just Put Five Popular Names in the Danger Zone

A major market shift may already be underway.

And one stock-rating system says five popular names could be in the danger zone.

Before the move hits, see which stocks made the blacklist — and the three it favors instead.

July closes on the busiest earnings week of the season

The S&P 500 rose 1.66% on Thursday to 7,437.63, recovering part of Wednesday’s selloff.

The 10-year Treasury yield sits at 4.65% and the two-year at 4.24%. The 30-year remains near levels last seen in 2007, after the Fed held rates on Wednesday with three officials dissenting in favour of a hike.

Chevron, Linde, AbbVie, Colgate-Palmolive and Moderna all report today, alongside the employment cost index, Chicago PMI and the final reading of Michigan consumer sentiment.

The month ends with the same question it started: whether the money going into artificial intelligence is coming back out. Four weeks of results have not settled it.

Source: CNBC / Benzinga

In 1934, the Government Moved Billions Overnight

In 1934, the government executed a legal maneuver that transferred billions in wealth overnight.

Most Americans had no idea it was coming.

A small group who saw it early walked away wealthy.

Everyone else paid for it.

Trump has the same legal authority today. Advisors close to the administration believe he’s considering using it. If he does, the transfer happens fast — and the window to be on the right side of it is already closing.

We put together a free report on exactly what this move is, why the timing points to now, and the one step ordinary Americans can take to position themselves before it happens.

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