Mortgage Rates Hit 11-Month High at 6.69% — What It Means for Homebuyers Now

The U.S. housing market is feeling the squeeze again. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate climbed to 6.69% last week — the highest level since August 2025 — as escalating tensions in the Middle East drove oil prices sharply higher and rattled bond markets. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, the rate ticked up from 6.65% the prior week, a move that wiped out the gains homebuyers had celebrated just weeks earlier when cooler June inflation data briefly pushed rates ...
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Tesla’s Big Earnings Moment: The Real Question Isn’t About Cars Anymore

Tesla's dropping its Q2 earnings after the bell today, and honestly? The delivery numbers already told us the good news. The company crushed expectations with 480,000+ vehicles delivered—way more than Wall Street's 400k-410k guess. So if the headline numbers are already solid, what's actually going to move the needle? Here's the thing: Tesla stopped being just a car company a while ago. Sure, the EV business is humming along nicely. Model 3 and Model Y sales are strong, energy storage deployments ...
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The Market Never Sleeps (And Nasdaq Wants to Prove It)

Remember when the stock market had business hours? Those quaint 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. days are about to get a serious upgrade. Nasdaq just announced it's gunning for 24-hour trading, five days a week—basically turning the market into a 24/5 operation that would make a Las Vegas casino jealous. Here's the pitch: Nasdaq President Tal Cohen says the company's been chatting with regulators and market players about this whole "never close" concept. They're filing papers with the SEC soon, with ...
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When a Stock Soars on Vibes (Not Profits)

Here's a wild market moment: SpaceX is probably going higher. But before you FOMO into it, let me explain why that's actually terrible news for most investors. Last month, SpaceX went public in what Jeremy Grantham—a guy who's been bearish since before it was cool—called "the craziest IPO in the history of man." He's not wrong. The company floated just 5% of its shares, yet somehow commands a market cap rivaling Amazon. That's not a company; that's a financial engineering masterpiece. Here's ...
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The AI Boom’s Biggest Enemy Isn’t What You Think—It’s Politics

Here's the thing nobody wants to admit: New York Governor Kathy Hochul just pulled off the most hypocritical move in recent political history, and it might be a preview of what's coming for your portfolio. Last week, she signed a law pausing new hyperscale AI data centers. The very next day? Her administration announced it's using AI to review every single regulation on New York's books—a process that would've taken five years but now takes months. So she wants AI's benefits. She ...
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Alphabet’s Strongest Seasonal Window Closes Next Week — Here’s What History Says

Seasonality research — the study of recurring calendar patterns in individual stock prices — has become significantly more rigorous as computing power has advanced. Researchers at TradeSmith analyzed 33 years of market history across 5,000 stocks to identify windows when specific names have historically tended to rise or fall. One of the most reliable patterns they found is in Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL): the stock has risen between June 29 and July 30 in 14 of the past 15 years — ...
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China’s Kimi K3 Spooked Chip Stocks — Here’s Why That Was the Wrong Reaction

The moment Moonshot AI released its new Kimi K3 model, Wall Street grabbed the DeepSeek playbook and hit sell. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX), tracked by the iShares SOXX ETF, dropped nearly 10% — its worst weekly decline since April 2025. Investors drew an immediate parallel to DeepSeek: another capable Chinese AI model means hyperscalers are wasting money on AI infrastructure, so sell chip stocks. But that reading misses the most important data point in the entire story: Kimi K3 ...
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ASML and TSMC Beat Earnings — So Why Did Both Stocks Drop 8%?

Something unusual is happening this earnings season: strong results are no longer enough. ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) both beat expectations in their most recent quarters and raised their full-year outlooks — yet both stocks dropped hard. ASML fell roughly 8% the day after reporting, while TSMC slid about 4%. Samsung Electronics delivered a colossal 15-fold surge in operating profit and still got punished with an 8% decline. If great earnings can't lift these stocks, ...
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