Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) Increases Cash Holdings as Bitcoin Premium Faces Banking Sector Adoption Test
Strategy Inc. raised $263.5 million from the sale of 2.73 million common shares last week. No bitcoin was purchased.
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) Approaches $1 Trillion Mark Amid Growing Capital Requirements
JPMorgan Chase closed the week at a valuation 7.8% shy of $1 trillion. Moving forward, maintaining high returns will be critical as capital requirements increase.
Annaly’s 13% Yield Seen Under Pressure Ahead of Q2 Results
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. starts earnings week carrying a 13.0% forward yield and little margin for mistakes. U.S. markets did not trade on Saturday. The stock closed Friday at $23.01, falling 1.75%. This leaves Annaly 16.1% higher than its March book value.
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) Supports Estimated $2.5 Billion Shipbuilding Agreement
JPMorgan Chase & Co. will provide $24 million for shipbuilding efforts in Philadelphia. The total accounts for 0.96% of Rhoads Industries’ projected deal. The funding aims to address bottlenecks affecting the project.
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) Guidance Trade-Off Tests Its Valuation Premium
JPMorgan Chase shares edged lower on Thursday. Its higher interest-income outlook arrived with an equal expense increase. Both revisions were $2.5 billion.
Five Stocks to Watch as Earnings Quality Moves Market by 34 Points
International Business Machines Corp, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Citigroup Inc, Wells Fargo & Co, and JPMorgan Chase & Co are on the watchlist for Wednesday, after Tuesday’s results spread out a 34.2-point gap from top to bottom performers. Investors weren’t just chasing earnings beats—they put money behind repeatable revenue and walked away from preliminary numbers or companies with muddy cost outlooks.
Bank stocks mixed as market eyes guidance over profit beats
Goldman Sachs surged 9.0% at the close Tuesday, while Citigroup dropped 5.3%. That’s a 14.3-point spread. Investors seemed to look past just the latest results and price in the next two quarters. Both banks topped second-quarter profit estimates.
Dow Jones live: Small decline masks 936 points of single-stock swings
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 96.05 points, or 0.18%, to 52,402.59 at 11:55 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, but the modest loss hid a much larger fight inside the index. International Business Machines, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase produced about 936 points of gross movement — gains and losses counted before they offset — based on near-noon share prices. The headline move understated the churn.
JPMorgan Filing Puts Q1 Selling at Almost 2x SEC’s Reported Data
Three new institutional holdings alerts for JPMorgan Chase & Co. are showing nearly twice the selling compared to the numbers reported in filings from Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group, LMCG Investments, and Steigerwald Gordon & Koch. The news stories say these managers sold off 724,719 shares in Q1. But if you look at the SEC filings, it’s a drop of 376,930 shares, or 5.6%. The real story is all about data quality here.
JPMorgan Earnings Week Puts $35 Billion at Stake; Citi Hikes Buyback Target
JPMorgan Chase options are pricing in a possible $35 billion move in market value tied to Tuesday’s results. Weekly options suggest a 3.77% swing through Friday, which translates to $34.9 billion on the bank’s $925.1 billion market cap. JPMorgan shares slipped 0.7% to $334.27 on Monday afternoon.
Fed’s Bowman Calls for Flexible Global Rules, Says U.S. Banks May Hold $320 Billion Extra
Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman told the Financial Stability Board on Monday that global rules should be flexible and based on risk, not hard standards. She warned in London that a one-size-fits-all system “erodes the FSB’s effectiveness.” The FSB, which handles coordination of financial regulation for big economies, plans to put out draft modernization principles for consultation this fall before sending a report to the Group of 20.
Top Stocks to Watch Now: The Bank-and-Chip Test That Could Decide Wall Street’s Next Move
Wall Street’s next move hinges on whether profits can broaden beyond artificial intelligence, not on another easy headline beat. The answer is cautiously positive, but the bar is high: year-forward S&P 500 earnings estimates have risen 21% in 2026, roughly twice the index’s gain, while projected second-quarter profit growth has been revised to 23.4% from 15.2% in January. That lifts the growth hurdle by about 54%. Technology earnings are expected to jump more than 65%, so Tuesday’s banks will test whether the rally can spread; chip-equipment and contract-manufacturing leaders later in the week will test valuation. “Earnings are even stronger,” Nationwide strategist Mark Hackett said.
The Biggest Earnings Reports This Week: Banks, TSMC and Netflix Put Wall Street’s Profit Boom on Trial
The market’s central question is whether the profit surge can broaden beyond artificial-intelligence chips and energy without exposing weaker credit. The evidence points to a cautious yes: analysts expect S&P 500 second-quarter earnings to rise 23.4% from a year earlier, and this week’s bank slate will test loan demand and consumer health. The answer still hinges on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. defending its high-growth, heavy-investment outlook. Guidance — management’s forecast for coming quarters — matters more now than another round of backward-looking beats.
JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) edges close to 52-week high after Q1 profit beat
U.S. markets were shut Saturday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. finished Friday’s session at $336.47, about 2% off its 52-week high from June 25 at $343.4485. At a $901.58 billion market cap on Friday, regaining that high would tack on around $18.7 billion in value, topping the $16.5 billion JPMorgan booked in Q1.
Cheesecake Factory (CAKE) Stock Touches All-Time High on Citi’s $90 Target; One Target Still Higher
The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated finished Friday at an all-time high of $82.76, rising 5.5% after Citi, part of Citigroup, bumped its target to $90 from $76 and maintained a Buy call. The stock hit $84.17 earlier in the session, trading nearly 2.29 million shares.
SpaceX Faces $154 Billion Selloff While Index Boost Stands at $4.3 Billion
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. dropped 2.2% to $148.74 in Friday afternoon trading, bringing the stock 7.3% under its July 6 close. That was the last session before it joined the Nasdaq-100. Based on the new share count after the offering, the loss wipes out about $154 billion in equity over four sessions.
ETFs All Pick SCHD, But 85-Basis-Point Yield Gap Changes the Story
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF landed on three separate new lists released from July 8 to Friday, the only fund to do so after a strong first half that topped the broad U.S. market. The lists may signal agreement on income, but dig deeper and it looks more like a sector shift out of mega-cap tech.
SpaceX Stock Up 2.6%, Bond Yields Shift 30 bps
SpaceX shares fell about 1% to around $150.60 ahead of Friday’s open, pulling back after a 2.6% jump to $152.16 on Thursday. Shares recovered even as the company’s 2036 bonds dropped for a fourth straight day, leaving shareholders and lenders moving in opposite directions.
Gold nears JPMorgan Q3 cap with Fed hike odds steady
Gold has bounced back from dropping under $4,000 in June, but traders say there’s not much room to run. Spot gold fell on Monday as a stronger dollar weighed, though it stuck close to a two-week high after soft U.S. jobs numbers dimmed the odds of an interest rate hike. COMEX gold futures saw solid trading during the Bengaluru session, while U.S. ETF action was waiting for the NYSE to open at 9:30 a.m. ET.
JPMorgan stock: $50 billion buyback gives JPM a July earnings yardstick
JPMorgan Chase & Co. goes into the U.S. holiday weekend with the stock near its late-June high and a fresh $50 billion buyback in force. The New York Stock Exchange listed Friday, July 3, as the Independence Day observed holiday. JPM last traded Thursday. It closed at $334.47, up 0.12%, on 8.42 million shares.