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Headline Round Up!
*TEXAS! Texas Stock Exchange, TXSE Set to Launch in July. New Uptown Headquarters: Bank of America Tower at Parkside.
*TEXAS! GameStop’s Bid for EBay Results in Insulting Letter to CEO Ryan Cohen: “Neither Credible Nor Attractive.”
*TEXAS! US Crude Exports Jump to Record 6 Million Barrels a Day, Over 5% of Global Demand.
*Q2 Economic Growth Estimated at Healthy 3.7% by Atlanta Fed.
*S&P 500 Profits Up 25% Over Last Year!
*ADP: April Net New Private Payroll Jobs Up 109,000. BLS Up over 115,000.
*Inflation Spike! Consumers, 3.8%, Producers, 6% Over Past 12 Months.
*Yield Spike: 20 Year and 30 Year US Treasuries Yields Spike Over 5%.
*China! Trump Brings Heavy CEOs to Summit. Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, BlackRock, Blackstone, Boeing, Cargill, Citi, GE Aerospace, Goldman Sachs, Micron, and Qualcomm.
*China! Technology and Economy Updates.
*SpaceX Raising $75 Billion at $2 Trillion Valuation!
*Brazilian Waxing! 8 Million Firms Behind on Debt Payments.
*Memory Makers Making Too Much Money!
*AI Bots for Wall Street Trading Losing Money?
*Paul Tudor Jones: AI Bull Market Has “Another Year or Two to Run”.
*$30 Million Paydays for OpenAI Team Members!
*Futures Market for Computing Power On The Way from CME Group.
*Repo Market Blockchain.
*Elon Musk’s Grok Losing Ground in AI Race?
*SpaceX and Google in Talks to Launch Orbiting Data Centers.
*Palantir: 85% Revenue Growth!
Atlanta Fed GDPNow GDP Forecast (1/5/2026 – 5/8/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Standard and Poor’s 500 Sector Earnings (2/16/2026 – 5/15/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
United States Consumer Price Index Urban Consumers Year over Year Not Seasonally Adjusted (5/31/2021 – 4/30/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Generic Gasoline Future Price (12/31/2025 – 5/14/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
United States Crude West Texas Intermediate Future (2026 – 2036)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Department of Energy Cushing Oklahoma Crude Oil Total Stocks Data (5/21/2021 – 5/8/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Thirty Year Bond Rate Yield Index (12/31/2025 – 5/14/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
State Street Standard and Poor’s Depositary Receipt Dow Jones Industrial Average Exchange Traded Fund Trust (12/31/2025 – 5/14/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Invesco QQQ Trust Series One (12/31/2025 – 5/14/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Salesforce Incorporated versus Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated Price Comparison (12/31/2025 – 5/14/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Standard and Poor’s 500 Member Ranked Returns Top 10 Bottom 10 (2/13/2026 – 5/14/2026)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
