Stocks & Trading Update – August 04, 2026

Articles of Interest while having coffee at Panera.

Pre-Market / Extended Hours Market:

3:45 AM: The 😽 Overlord demanded food and petting.

4:00 AM: The market looks green with a hint of red.

Regional breakdown:
🇺🇸 US: Mostly green
🌏 Asia: Mixed
🇪🇺 Europe: Mostly green

Stock watch:

• SpaceX: Still no high valuation (but climbing!)

• AMD & Intel: Green

• Palantir: Up

• SpaceX: Up (yes, again!)

• AAPL: A solid pick right now—closed low, and Bank of America just bought a ton of shares. Plus, it pays dividends!

Articles of Interest:

Aramco’s Q2 net income jumps 44% to $32.7B

[Baha]

Oil up 2% amid mixed signals on Iran

[Baha]

US futures mostly up with major earnings coming up

[Baha]

The sneaky economics of healthwashing

[NPR]

Jensen Huang’s Push for Open-Weight AI Models Is Really a Bet to Expand Nvidia’s Total Addressable Market

[Yahoo Finance]

Has Apple’s Stock Peaked?

[Yahoo Finance]

Bloomberg Radio Links:

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[New York] https://stream.revma.ihrhls.com/zc6286

[Washington] https://stream.revma.ihrhls.com/zc7094

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