Crypto Pulse—US Stocks

Executive Summary:SPCX trades near $131, down over 30% from its June 16 all-time high of $225.64Shares closed below the $135 IPO price for the first time since the June 12 debut, a symbolic and technical breachShort interest has climbed to roughly 181 million shares (28% of float), with shorts sitting on an estimated $8.7 billion in mark-to-market gainsA failed Starship V3 test flight and a September 2 lock-up expiration are compounding the technical damageA close back above $135 would neutraliz

Executive Summary:VLO trades near $300, a fresh all-time high, after surging from the low-$230s just weeks agoShares are up over 86% in the past year, powered by widening 3-2-1 crack spreads tied to U.S.-Iran tensionsWall Street is racing to catch up: Jefferies raised its target to $312, while the Street average sits near $270, below the current priceQ1 2026 net income surged to $1.3 billion from a $595 million loss a year earlierWith price now trading above most analyst targets, the setup is a

What the technicals say about the world's most-watched AI stock right now Data snapshot as of market close, July 20, 2026. Prices and technical readings are approximate and will move intraday; confirm current levels before trading. Nvidia's fundamental story hasn't gotten worse. If anything, it's gotten louder. CEO Jensen Huang continues to talk up trillion-dollar data center spending projections, and NVDA briefly touched a $5 trillion market cap earlier this year. The chart has finally started

What the technicals say about one of the market's hottest AI optical component plays right now Data snapshot as of market close, July 20, 2026. Prices and technical readings are approximate and will move intraday, confirm current levels before trading. Lumentum has quietly become one of the market's purest ways to play the AI infrastructure buildout. The company makes the optical components, transceivers, and lasers that move data inside and between AI data centers, and demand tied to hyperscale

What the technicals say about one of the market's hottest AI memory plays right now Data snapshot as of market close, July 20, 2026. Prices and technical readings are approximate and will move intraday, confirm current levels before trading. Micron's story has shifted fast this year. The company has moved from a cyclical memory chipmaker to one of the more direct beneficiaries of the AI buildout, as demand for high bandwidth memory used in AI accelerators keeps outpacing supply. That shift has p

Alphabet, Tesla, IBM and Intel will lead this week’s technology earnings calendar. Alphabet, Tesla and IBM will report or discuss their second-quarter results on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. Intel will follow after the market closes on Thursday, July 23.The four reports cover several major parts of the technology market, including digital advertising, cloud computing, electric vehicles, energy storage, enterprise software and semiconductor manufacturing.The main questions will be whether AI investm

News briefTSMC reported strong second-quarter 2026 earnings on July 16. Revenue reached US$40.20 billion, while net income rose to a record NT$706.56 billion. The company also raised its full-year revenue outlook and increased its capital spending plan.The results offer clear evidence that demand for advanced AI chips remains strong. However, the most important part of the earnings report was not the record profit alone. TSMC also reported higher margins, a larger share of revenue from advanced

OverviewAlphabet’s Q2 2026 earnings date has now been officially confirmed. The company will hold its quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time, or 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.For international investors, the Alphabet earnings call will begin at 8:30 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on July 22 and 4:30 a.m. Beijing time on July 23.The Q2 results will cover both Alphabet share classes traded on the Nasdaq: GOOG and GOOGL. Although the tickers represent differe

News BriefSK Hynix’s Nasdaq-listed American depositary shares briefly traded at a 52.5% premium to the value implied by the company’s Seoul-listed ordinary shares on July 14, 2026. One session later, the gap had compressed to approximately 26%. The sharp reversal shows that the premium was not simply a new fundamental valuation for the AI-memory leader. Strong U.S. demand encountered a limited initial supply of SKHY shares and an arbitrage channel that could not immediately create enough new sec

ASML Q2 2026 Earnings OverviewASML released its second-quarter 2026 earnings report, delivering stronger-than-expected financial results and raising its full-year outlook as demand for advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment continued to grow.For Q2 2026, ASML reported revenue of €9.33 billion, net income of €2.92 billion, a gross margin of 54.0%, and diluted EPS of €7.58. Compared with Q2 2025, ASML revenue increased from €7.69 billion to €9.33 billion, while net income increased from €2