🧨 Powell's in the hot seat, markets on edge

😎 Market Vibes

🎭 Rate Cut Theater Enters Act II.
It's one of those days where everything feels like it's about to pop - or flop. Powell's back on Capitol Hill dodging rate cut questions, oil's trying to shake off its worst drop since 2022, and Nvidia's AI rocket just blasted to a fresh high. Somewhere between cautious optimism and delusional FOMO, Wall Street's walking a tightrope - and the wind's picking up.

🧨 Powell's in the hot seat, markets on edge

• 📈 S&P 500 Inches Toward Record High: The index is flirting with fresh all-time highs as traders brace during Jerome Powell's testimony. Optimism is colliding with caution - and nobody wants to be the last one in or the first one out.

• 😬 Consumer Confidence Sinks Again: June's sentiment numbers took a hit, reversing the hopeful May bounce. Shoppers are getting jittery just in time for Q3 - and that's not the vibe the market wanted.

• 🛢️ Oil Edges Higher on Fed Speculation: Crude ticked up to ~$65 as traders bet on a potential Fed pivot rather than reacting to the Israel-Iran ceasefire. Rate cut hopes are fueling the rally more than geopolitics - and energy bulls are loving it.

• 📦 FedEx Tumbles on Ugly Earnings: Shares dropped hard premarket after a revenue miss and weak guidance. Cost cuts aren't covering soft demand - and investors are starting to smell broader economic rot.

• 🏠 Eyes on New-Home Sales and Earnings: Fresh housing data drops today, along with more Q2 peeks from big names. It's "wait and watch" mode for the market... again.

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💸 Trade Talk

Nvidia just ripped to a new all-time high at $151, fueled by Loop Capital slapping a $250 price target on it - the highest on the Street. That implies a $6 trillion market cap, up from $3.6T today. Insane? Maybe. But in this market, reality is optional. Micron earnings next could either keep the AI party going or kill the vibe.

🧠 Big Brain Energy

$65.16 - That's where WTI crude landed this morning, bouncing over 1% after getting absolutely smoked earlier this week. We're talking a 13% drop in just two sessions - the nastiest oil slide since 2022. Now it's clawing back losses as traders pivot from geopolitical doom to Fed daydreams. Rate cut whisper campaigns are giving crude a second wind... for now.

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🧨The Outrage Meter

Jerome Powell just told Congress that the Fed's practice of paying banks to park their cash is absolutely essential - and unwinding it would be a "long and bumpy and volatile road."

Translation: Wall Street's free-interest lunch isn't going anywhere, and don't even think about saving money by pulling the plug. So much for belt-tightening - Powell's basically saying the Fed is addicted to its own plumbing.

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