Japan's Sanae Takaichi has nominated a new BOJ board member seen as holding a dovish view on inflation, a signal that rate hike momentum at the Bank of Japan may face headwinds, per Bloomberg.
$GOOGL saw $11.6M in put flow at 12:19 PM ET, running 15x average. Top prints: two $1.30M puts at the $790 strike and a $998.67K put at $690, all expiring Dec 15.
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The Supreme Court overruled Humphrey's Executor in Trump v. Slaughter, granting the president at-will removal power over SEC and CFTC commissioners — a structural shift in how financial regulators operate.
$CRWD saw $6.0M in call flow at 10:12 AM ET, headlined by three nearly identical trades — $903.34K, $903.32K, and $902.95K — all at the $350 strike expiring Sep 18. Volume running 37x average.
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More central banks plan to cut dollar allocations than increase them over the coming decade — the first time the survey has recorded that balance tipping negative, per Reuters.
$9.1M in call flow hit $ALAB at 9:36 AM ET. Top prints: $4.21M at the $510 strike exp Sep 18 and $4.15M at the $410 strike exp Jul 17, running 49x average volume.
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$BABA saw $176M in unusual flow today, heavily skewed put-side at 62%. The biggest spike hit $88M in puts at 223x normal volume around midday, anchored by a single $55M put trade targeting the $100 strike into Sept 2026.
$MU saw $206M in unusual flow today, skewed 68% calls. The biggest moment was a $103M call spike at 9x normal volume around midday, capped by a single $55M call position targeting Oct 2026.
Moderna surged 13% after unveiling its first in vivo CAR-T program alongside a pipeline expansion, with analysts raising price targets following the announcement.
Alphabet priced what it described as the largest equity capital raise in U.S. corporate history at $84.75 billion, underscoring the scale of capital markets activity among mega-cap tech.
SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere, the developer behind AI coding tool Cursor, in a deal valued at $60 billion — targeting what Elon Musk's company views as its largest potential addressable market.
Martin Marietta has agreed to buy Lhoist North America for $13.5 billion, a deal that would significantly expand the building materials giant's lime and limestone operations.
Comcast plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone public media company, separating its cable and technology businesses into two distinct publicly traded entities.
Amazon's rapid delivery expansion has triggered a $15 billion market cap loss across Eternal and Swiggy, India's dominant food and quick-commerce platforms, per Bloomberg.