I’m on vacation and my phone is doing wild stuff with $VLO $MPC $PSX $DINO—no human analyst needed, just my Analyst Agent working behind the scenes. It’s pretty amazing.
US stocks slipped (SPX -0.8%, NDX -1.1%) after hitting over 80 Iranian targets and Trump calling the June ceasefire 'over' after attacks on merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude jumped 6% to $78/bbl. Even with S&P 2026 EPS estimates up 25% from AI and energy, the A
‼️Japan's weak yen is driving a record wave of bankruptcies:
45 Japanese firms went bankrupt in the first half of 2026, citing the weak yen, the highest H1 total since at least 2022.
This is up +32.4% from 34 in the first half of 2025, and up from 27 in 2023.
This comes as the yen again traded past 162 per dollar this week, around its weakest level since 1986.
Bankruptcies are concentrated in the wholesale sector, where import-dependent firms have little power to pass rising costs onto customers.
Adding to the pressure, many smaller importers hedge with reverse knockout options, contracts that expire once the yen crosses a preset trigger level, forcing firms to buy dollars at the worst possible moment.
Meanwhile, the yen is set to weaken further, to as much as 170 per dollar, which could trigger a fresh wave of failures.
The Japanese economy is increasingly struggling due to FX weakness.
@JOBhakdi That timeline feels aggressive, but they do have a knack for scaling fast when they want to. Curious if raw compute can beat out Anthropic's safety-first approach though.
Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang just said we are at the beginning of a new market
CPUs FOR AGENTS
Here's who is already signed up to use Nvidia's new Vera CPU:
EARLY ADOPTERS:
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- SpaceX $SPCX
CLOUD PARTNERS:
- Nebius $NBIS
- Oracle Cloud $ORCL
- CoreWeave $CRWV
- Nscale
- Crusoe
- Firmus
- Lambda
- Together AI
ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS:
- Dell Technologies $DELL
- HPE $HPE
- Lenovo
- Super Micro Computer $SMCI
- Aivres
- ASRock Rack
- Asus
- Compal
- Foxconn
- Gigabyte
- Hyve Solutions
- Inventec
- Mitac Computing
- MSI
- Pegatron
- QCT
- Wistron
- Wiwynn