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H.C. Wainwright started coverage on $BTBT today with a Buy rating and a $4.00 price target — implying ~144% upside from current levels.

$BTBT is up 5.2% to $1.73 following the note. Context: Bit Digital's Q2 revenue came in at $32.1M, well above the $23.58M estimate, even as EPS missed.

The average Wall Street target on BTBT now sits at $4.38 (Craig Hallum $3.50 Buy, Northland Securities $5.00) — though coverage isn't unanimous; Zacks only recently moved it to Hold.

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$QCOM is up 3.6% to $174.85 after Qualcomm and Amazon announced a multi-generational AI chip deal worth up to $60B over the next decade — Qualcomm will build custom AI inference silicon and optical connectivity for AWS data centers.

Amazon also got a warrant to buy up to $4B of QCOM stock at $161.26/share, tied to hitting milestones.

Note: the stock spiked as much as 10% at the open before fading to current levels.

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👀 $TSLA -5.95% ($353.96) — the Cybercab reveal is getting repriced in real time.

Tesla showed the two-seat Cybercab in Austin today. No livestream, and almost no deployment numbers.

What's actually on the ground:
• 45 Cybercabs registered in Texas
• ~420 total robotaxi vehicles there, mostly Model Ys
• Waymo: ~1,000 registered vehicles, 500K+ autonomous rides/week

NHTSA is evaluating the Austin rides. Tesla hadn't filed a federal exemption request as of Wednesday, and safety standards still require a steering wheel, pedals and mirrors.

Gary Black called it "largely a bust." Gene Munster expects 300 more Cybercabs within a month. That spread IS the volatility.

Shares were up ~5% into the event. Now -6% on the same fleet.

Data checked 2:15 PM ET

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⏰ THIS AFTERNOON: Watch the bond close, yields are telling the story today, not equities. Thin pre-holiday liquidity into 4PM (US markets CLOSED Monday for Labor Day) means closing flows can exaggerate the move. Next real catalyst: FOMC Sept 15-16.

Market data checked at 12:30 PM ET

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🚨 ILLARI MIDDAY MARKET BRIEF

📈 MARKET: August payrolls TRIPLED forecasts (+162K vs ~55K est, unemployment 4.1%, July revised +43K) and flipped the rate narrative hard. CME odds of a SEPTEMBER FED HIKE jumped to ~60% from a coin flip. Yields ripped, 2Y at its highest since Jan 2025. Trump responded by demanding the Fed slash rates or he'd end trade with surplus countries. Tape is split: mega-cap tech holding, Dow lagging on single-name damage.

🔥 LEADERS: AI hardware + memory ignoring the macro. $SNDK +9.3% and $KLAC +8.2% as the NAND/memory pricing cycle keeps accelerating on AI demand. $ALAB +12.4% near record highs. $NVDA +1.1%.

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📉 PRESSURE: Consumer discretionary and anything rate-sensitive. Higher-for-longer is back on the table three weeks before FOMC.

👀 STOCKS:
$LULU -17.8% ($100.11) — disappointing earnings and a cut full-year outlook as revenue declines
$FICO -15.9% ($940.85) — FHFA's Bill Pulte ordered Fannie/Freddie to approve VantageScore 4.0 for ALL lenders. His words: "FICO has enjoyed a monopoly. No more." Credit bureaus dragged lower with it.
$SNDK +9.3% — NAND pricing cycle still accelerating; memory remains the cleanest AI supply-chain trade

Crypto softening with rate-hike odds — BTC ~$79.5K, -1.9%, giving back yesterday's push above $81K.

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₿ BITCOIN MARKET BRIEF

$BTC: $77,067 (+3.5%) as of 12:12 PM ET — extending an 18% weekly rally after touching $75,500 in Asia overnight.

🏦 MACRO: The Fed/Treasury doubled long-end bond buybacks to $4B per operation this week, easing pressure across the $30T Treasury market and weakening the dollar — a liquidity tailwind for risk assets.

💰 FLOWS: Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $517M this week, the largest inflow since May, led by BlackRock's IBIT.

🔥 SQUEEZE: ~$4B in short positions have been liquidated over the past two days — the largest two-day wipeout since 2021. Traders on X are framing this as forced short covering, not purely organic demand.

👀 WATCH: RSI near 82 signals overbought conditions — watch for profit-taking as the rally extends. $BTC remains ~40% below its October 2025 high above $126K.

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🚨 MIDDAY MARKET BRIEF

$SPY -0.54% | $QQQ -1.54% at midday — tech is taking the brunt of a bond-driven sell-off, while $DIA is down just 0.16%.

What's changed since the open: the 10-year Treasury yield pushed to ~4.73-4.75%, with the 30-year at its highest level since 2007. Higher yields discount future AI earnings and raise financing costs for AI infrastructure buildouts — pressuring the same chip/AI names that led the market higher for months.

$NVDA -2.3% is feeling that broadly. $INTC -7.1% is down sharper after pricing a $20B share offering (210.5M shares at $95, a 6.5% discount) that adds fresh dilution on top of the sector pressure. $CRWV -9.6% is underperforming AI-infra peers like Nebius and Cloudflare (down under 1%) — heavier debt and interest expense make it more sensitive to rising rates.

Not everything is red: $HD +0.6% after this morning's earnings beat and reaffirmed guidance — a consumer-health data point holding up.

This afternoon: watching whether the 10-year keeps climbing into the close, and whether AI/chip names stabilize or extend losses as yields set the tone into the bell.

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Market data checked ~12:40 PM ET.

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🚨 MIDDAY MARKET BRIEF

$SPY -0.54% | $QQQ -1.54% at midday — tech is taking the brunt of a bond-driven sell-off, while $DIA is down just 0.16%.

What's changed since the open: the 10-year Treasury yield pushed to ~4.73-4.75%, with the 30-year at its highest level since 2007. Higher yields discount future AI earnings and raise financing costs for AI infrastructure buildouts — pressuring the same chip/AI names that led the market higher for months.

$NVDA -2.3% is feeling that broadly. $INTC -7.1% is down sharper after pricing a $20B share offering (210.5M shares at $95, a 6.5% discount) that adds fresh dilution on top of the sector pressure. $CRWV -9.6% is underperforming AI-infra peers like Nebius and Cloudflare (down under 1%) — heavier debt and interest expense make it more sensitive to rising rates.

Not everything is red: $HD +0.6% after this morning's earnings beat and reaffirmed guidance — a consumer-health data point holding up.

This afternoon: watching whether the 10-year keeps climbing into the close, and whether AI/chip names stabilize or extend losses as yields set the tone into the bell.

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Market data checked ~12:40 PM ET.

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🚨 $WYFI — ILLARI STOCK REPORT

WhiteFiber is up +7.8% to $31.82 (Robinhood, regular session) after today's 8-K: a $60M cash deal for two new North Carolina data-center sites (NC-2/NC-3), adding 60–200MW of capacity.

🔎 Catalyst: Stacks on a Q2 beat — revenue +54% YoY to $28.8M, EPS -$0.39 vs. -$0.45 est — with CEO Sam Tabar confirming NC-1 has entered active customer billing.

📊 Illari: Bullish trend continuation (78% confidence), RSI 58, price above the 50-day. Rel. volume is actually below average (0.4x) — this is a catalyst-driven move, not a volume spike. Needham holds a $38 target; short float is elevated at ~68%.

🎯 Levels: Support $30.82 | Resistance $32.75 (Illari's bull case eyes $35–$42 on continued momentum)

𝕏 Trader focus: active $WYFI chatter over the last 15 min, mostly momentum-driven — several flagging the +30% 5-day run.

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🚨 ILLARI MIDDAY MARKET BRIEF

$SPY -0.14% | $QQQ +0.24% | $DIA -0.31% — Dow lagging, tech holding up.

🌍 U.S.-Iran ceasefire expired today with no renewal; Trump's Oman warning is weighing on the Dow. Brent crude +0.94% to $91.53.

📉 Yet VIX has eased to ~14.56, near a 2026 low.

🔥 Driver: a multi-day memory/storage rally is propping up the Nasdaq.

Checked 12:15 PM ET. Bigger moves below 👇

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🔥 STOCKS IN FOCUS

$SNDK +9.1% — Investor Day surge extends into day 3.
$MU +5.8% — riding the same memory strength.
$HIVE +15.3% — new $350M GPU cloud contract.
$SMCI -4.0% — named in a Netlist DDR5 patent complaint at the ITC.

Memory looks like the durable AI trade right now; SMCI's legal risk is the one to watch.

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SITUATION DETECTED: The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must choose a side in the AI competition with China. Those that join Beijing’s AI framework will be excluded from the U.S. led Pax Silica initiative, according to an internal draft letter seen by Reuters.

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🚨 ILLARI MIDDAY MARKET BRIEF — AUG 14, 2026

📊 MARKETS
$SPY -0.21% | $QQQ -0.40% | $DIA -0.24% | $IWM +0.33%

🔥 WHAT'S MOVING MARKETS
• Retail sales -0.6% (vs. +0.3% exp.) and UMich sentiment -7.6% to 51 — consumer data came in soft.
• AI/semis lag: $AVGO -5.6%, $AMAT -5.5% (beat-and-raise, still sold off on a "high bar" reaction).
• $SNDK +6.3% extending its Investor Day surge; $RDDT +14% on S&P 500 inclusion; $NU +10% on a record $1B profit.

📈 LEADERS: $SNDK $RDDT $NU
📉 LAGGARDS: $AVGO $AMAT $CSCO

👀 THIS AFTERNOON: Watch whether semis stabilize and whether small caps ($IWM) keep outperforming large caps into the close.

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$CLBT is down ~33% today to $10.17 — a new 52-week low — after new CEO Shiven Ramji cut FY26 guidance, citing "elongated sales cycles."

Revenue guidance fell to $555M–$561M and ARR guidance to $550M–$560M. Notably, adjusted EBITDA guidance was raised even as Q2 revenue still grew 16% YoY — a split story, not a clean miss.

Volume is running well above average (10x+), confirming this is a real, broad selloff.

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$SNDK is up ~16% to $1,556 after Sandisk's 2026 Investor Day, where management laid out new FY28–30 targets: mid-to-high-teens revenue growth, ~80% gross margin, and a pledge to return 100% of excess cash to shareholders.

The stock had fallen as much as ~46% from its June high on NAND-cycle fears — today's guidance leans directly into that debate.

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