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$SGML - Institutional Ownership

148 institutions now hold ~48.9M shares — the latest filing added ~12.9M in one step, the biggest jump on record, up ~31% YoY. Point72, D.E. Shaw and Norges Bank are among the holders as shares closed +11.6% Friday. 📈

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🚨 BREAKING: $SPY $QQQ

The US imposed 50% tariffs on ~$20B of Canadian goods, and Canada says it will retaliate dollar-for-dollar with no talks scheduled. A reopened trade front with a top US partner adds fresh supply-chain risk.

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$CRDO - Institutional Ownership

1,605 institutions now hold ~182M shares — the latest filing update added ~29M in one step, the largest jump since 2024, with institutional shares up ~20% YoY as the stock roughly doubled (+102%) over the past year. 👀

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$OPEN - Institutional Ownership

534 institutions now hold ~728M shares — up ~79% from ~407M a year ago, with ~149M added in the latest filing, even as the stock slid ~31% over that stretch. Morgan Stanley, Vanguard and BlackRock lead the book. 👀

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🚨 BREAKING: $SPY $QQQ

Israel says it struck Syria's Abu al-Zuhour airbase after warning Damascus, with its defense minister citing Turkish activity deemed a threat. Escalation between two US partners is the kind of headline that moves oil and defense names into Monday.

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$VRT - Institutional Ownership

3,093 institutions now hold ~417M shares — up ~40% from ~298M in April, with ~61M added in the latest filing update alone. BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street lead the book after a +110% year for the stock. 📈

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$QBTS - Institutional Ownership

783 institutions now hold ~262M shares — up ~141% from ~109M a year ago, with ~53M added in the latest filing update alone. BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street lead the book. Shares jumped 8% Friday. 📈

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$APLD - Institutional Ownership

891 institutions now hold ~293M shares — up ~64% from ~179M a year ago, with ~59M added in the latest filing update alone. Hood River, Vanguard, BlackRock and Jane Street are all on the book. Shares slipped 5% Friday. 👀

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🚨 BREAKING: $SPY $QQQ

Trump says Iran wants a deal with Washington but isn't ready to make the "right" one, and claims the US has "total control" of the Strait of Hormuz. Control of the world's key oil chokepoint feeds directly into crude and risk assets.

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$NBIS - Institutional Ownership

1,344 institutions now hold ~181M shares — up ~107% from ~87M a year ago, with ~61M added in the latest filing update alone. Goldman Sachs and BlackRock lead the book, and shares are up ~219% over that same stretch. 📈

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$SMCI - Institutional Ownership

1,374 institutions now hold ~553M shares, up ~65% from a year ago — with ~147M added in the latest filing period alone. Shares are down ~17% over that same stretch. BlackRock, Vanguard and Jane Street are all on the list. 👀

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$OKLO - Institutional Ownership

1,009 institutions now hold 115M shares, up ~198% from 38M a year ago, with ~14M added in the latest filing period alone. Shares are down ~41% over that same year. BlackRock, Van Eck and Citadel are all on the list. 👀

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$SBET - Institutional Ownership

211 institutions now hold 114.9M shares, up from ~12M a year ago — with ~20M added in the latest filing period alone. BlackRock, Fidelity and Citadel are on the list even as shares sit ~64% below last August. 👀

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🚨 BREAKING: $SPY $QQQ

Canada is suspending trade negotiations with the US, and PM Mark Carney says 50% US tariffs will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Escalation with America's largest trading partner puts autos, steel and industrials back in focus.

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$DNN - Institutional Ownership

356 institutions now hold 752M shares, up ~41% from 533M a year ago — with ~231M added in the latest filing period alone. Shares closed +11.8% Friday and are up ~69% over the past year. Smart money leaning into uranium?

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$IONQ - Institutional Ownership

1,188 institutions now hold 267.8M shares, up ~132% from 114M a year ago — while the stock is up just ~4% over that same stretch. Morgan Stanley, BlackRock and Vanguard lead the book. Shares closed +8% Friday. 👀

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$WULF - Institutional Ownership

807 institutions now hold 482M shares, up ~110% from 229M a year ago — with ~131M shares added in the latest filing round alone. Lone Pine, BlackRock and Citadel are among the largest holders. 👀

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🚨 BREAKING: $SPY $QQQ

Anthropic's bankers have discussed an IPO that could raise more than $100B at a roughly $2T valuation, per NYT. That would be the largest IPO in history and a major test of investor appetite for AI at scale.

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$RGTI - Institutional Ownership

718 institutions now hold 235M shares, up ~117% from 108M a year ago, while the stock is up just ~13% over that stretch. Shares closed up 11% today. Smart money quietly stacking quantum? 👀

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A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY.

Here's a full recap:

1. The Close
$SPY $QQQ finished green to cap a brutal week. 📈 The Dow added 517.60 points (+0.98%) to 53,276.81, the S&P 500 rose 0.43% to 7,674.31 and the Nasdaq gained 0.43% to 26,180.46. The Russell 2000 climbed 0.88% to 3,018.81 while the VIX fell 5.81% to 15.08. All three major indexes still ended the week lower after this week's bond selloff.

2. Bitcoin
$COIN Bitcoin ran as high as $79,400 before settling near $77,000, up about 6% on the day and roughly 24% on the week — its best week since March 2023. 🔥 The squeeze triggered a record $2.7 billion in total crypto short liquidations, including more than $1 billion of bitcoin shorts in about an hour. Coinbase closed +8.3% at $186.58 and Strategy $MSTR rose 6.1% to $119.24.

3. Robinhood
$HOOD was the single best large-cap story of the day, surging 13.7% to $108.13 and adding roughly $11.7 billion in market value. 🚀 The move rode the crypto rally plus renewed optimism on US digital-asset regulation after Wednesday's White House summit with SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Michael Selig. Goldman Sachs raised its price target to $123 from $118.

4. Tesla
$TSLA jumped 5.14% to $362.86 after Nevada regulators cleared it to run up to 5,000 driverless robotaxis in Las Vegas. 🚗 That is the largest slice of the 8,000 driverless vehicles Clark County authorized across Tesla, Waymo and Uber over the next year. Volume hit 58.5 million shares, about 39% above the three-month average of 42.1 million.

5. The Bond Market
$TLT Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doubled long-dated debt buybacks to at least $4 billion per operation starting September 9, after the 30-year yield hit a 19-year high this week. ⚠️ The 10-year closed at 4.647% and the 30-year at 5.196% on the news, then yields snapped back as traders read the move as a limited fix. Bessent told CNBC the point is "signaling here to show that we believe yields don't reflect the underlying fundamentals."

6. Iran
$USO Brent held near $93.28 a barrel after President Trump announced an "economic warfare" campaign against Iran, naming oil smuggling, currency swap lines, ship registries and front companies as targets. 🛢️ WTI settled at $86.72. Bessent lays out the full isolation plan at a Monday press conference, and Trump has threatened consequences for any country still trading with Tehran.

7. Ross Stores
$ROST rose 4.36% to $238.98 on a blowout Q2. 💰 Revenue climbed 13% to $6.26 billion and EPS came in at $2.66 versus $1.94 expected. Comps rose 10% on higher traffic, and operating margin expanded 610 basis points — 405 bps of that from roughly $253 million in IEEPA tariff refunds. Full-year EPS guidance jumped to $8.61-$8.77 from $7.50-$7.74.

8. BJ's Wholesale
$BJ climbed 5.54% to $96.36 after posting Q2 revenue of $6.23 billion, up 15.7%, and EPS of $1.36 against $1.17 estimates. Comparable club sales rose 11.9%, or 3.1% excluding gas. Membership fee income grew 9.9% to $135.6 million and membership hit a record 8.5 million. Full-year adjusted EPS guidance moved up to $4.60-$4.80 from $4.40-$4.60.

9. Ubiquiti
$UI fell 2.59% to $559.00 despite a record quarter — a reminder that beats don't always pay. 📉 Fiscal Q4 revenue rose 23.5% to $937.3 million with adjusted EPS of $4.73 versus $4.03 expected, and full-year revenue of $3.27 billion, up 27.2%. Enterprise Technology grew 27.7% to $868.3 million while Service Provider slipped to $69 million from $79 million. The board declared a $1.00 dividend and extended a $500 million buyback through September 2027.

10. Gold
$GLD Gold futures rose about 2.4% to roughly $4,680 an ounce, the highest level in three months, as the dollar weakened and the Treasury's buyback plan put fresh focus on the fiscal picture. 🪙 The US national debt hit a record $40 trillion earlier this week. GLD itself closed +1.96% at $423.41.

11. Healthcare
$MRK Merck rose 2.37% to $152.52 and $JNJ added 1.1% to $270.30, doing most of the heavy lifting for the Dow. The sector has been running since Merck and Moderna $MRNA reported a successful late-stage trial of their mRNA melanoma treatment across more than 1,000 patients. Moderna closed +8.9% at $145.13.

12. Nvidia
$NVDA slipped 0.96% to $214.76 heading into Wednesday's Q2 report, where the Street is looking for roughly $93-95 billion in revenue, up about 67-75% year over year. 🚨 Nvidia also disclosed an aggregate payment obligation capped at $105 billion tied to its OpenAI data center commitment, and is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy for up to 8 gigawatts of capacity at an Ohio campus. Kevin Warsh gives his first Jackson Hole keynote as Fed Chair two days later.

13. Palantir
$PLTR gained 3.44% to $179.94 and is now up roughly 33% over the past month. Mercury Systems said it will use Palantir software to automate material planning and build a digital twin of its operations, pushing Palantir deeper into US defense supply chains. Q2 revenue was $1.94 billion, US commercial revenue grew 149% year over year, and US commercial total contract value hit a record $2.13 billion.

14. Options
$OWL Blue Owl Capital drew one of the day's most unusual flows, with 100,805 puts traded — nearly all of it tied to a single put diagonal spread between the August 21 and November 20 expirations. 👀 The stock still closed up 2.5% at $11.68.

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