☕️ SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 this week

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In today's newsletter:

🚀 SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 this week

🛢️ Oil slips as OPEC+ raises August output

🚫 Nvidia's next-gen AI rack slips to 2028

💾 AI memory chip giant SK Hynix debuts on Nasdaq at $29B

Plus: 🌍 5 macro news, 🏢 5 corporate news, 💰 4 deal flow, and 📑 5 research & reports.

📊 Before The Bell

📰 Top News

• SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 before Tuesday's open, entering the index of the 100 largest non-financial companies on the exchange, a move expected to spur buying as passive funds tracking the benchmark build positions in the stock.
• The shares have swung sharply since their June 12 debut, briefly topping $225 — lifting SpaceX's market value above Amazon's — before sliding to a low of $147 and closing last week at $162, with analysts expecting continued volatility.
• The week also ends the mandatory quiet period after SpaceX's IPO, meaning research firms can now publish their first analysis and recommendations on the company, assessments that could meaningfully move the share price.

• Oil prices edged down Monday, with Brent crude off 24 cents (0.33%) to $71.88 a barrel and US WTI down 11 cents to $68.58, after OPEC+ agreed to raise output targets again from August.
• The producer group, which includes Russia, will lift targets by 188,000 barrels per day from August, adding to similar increases for June and July, though analysts note the hikes are largely theoretical given post-conflict production constraints.
• Actual supply is now recovering through the Strait of Hormuz: OPEC output jumped to 19.43 million bpd in June and Gulf exports topped 10 million bpd, though that remains 40% below pre-war levels.

• Nvidia's Kyber rack system, designed to house its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips, has slipped by more than a year to 2028, according to SemiAnalysis, the latest reported setback to the AI chipmaker's product roadmap.
• The delay stems from manufacturing difficulties with a specialized circuit board at the system's core, while a fallback plan of bolting two current racks together was scrapped after cloud customers rejected it as awkward and costly to run.
• SemiAnalysis says the gap could hand rivals AMD and Google a rare opening at the high end, though Nvidia's current Rubin systems ship this fall to eight cloud partners and its data-center revenue may run 20% above Wall Street forecasts.

• SK Hynix will list on the Nasdaq around July 10 in a $29 billion share sale, potentially the largest-ever US debut by a foreign company, aimed at winning American investors chasing AI memory-chip stocks.
• The South Korean firm has long traded below US rival Micron, currently at 6.2 times expected earnings versus Micron's 7 times, and the listing should narrow that gap by opening direct access during US market hours.
• SK Hynix is forecast to post net income of 221 trillion won ($144 billion) on sales of 355 trillion won ($231 billion) in 2026, though analysts warn the memory industry's boom-bust history raises the risk of a future supply glut.

🌍 Macro News

• The dollar hit a 12-week low after weak June hiring data. LINK
• The ECB signals a possible pause after eurozone inflation eased to 2.8%. LINK
• ESMA added 37 crypto firms, bringing MiCA-registered providers to 280. LINK
• Several ships reversed near the Strait of Hormuz before resuming Iranian-lane transits. LINK
• Wood Mackenzie sees Henry Hub gas prices near $5 by 2035. LINK

🏢 Corporate News

• Alibaba banned staff from using Anthropic's Claude, pushing its own Qoder tool. LINK
• EasyJet shares jumped 10.5% on a £5.5 billion Castlelake takeover deal. LINK
• Foxconn's Q2 revenue rose 39.8% on strong AI hardware demand. LINK
• Lockheed Martin leads bidding to acquire Ultra Maritime for $3.5 billion. LINK
• Starling Bank will cut 130 jobs while boosting AI investment. LINK

📈 Stocks

📑 Research & Reports

• Goldman Sachs doubled its 10-year S&P 500 annual return forecast to 7%. LINK
• JPMorgan sees gold reaching $4,500 an ounce by late 2026. LINK
• Forecasters diverge on how fast Middle East oil supply will recover. LINK
• Goldman sees over 20% upside for South Korea's Kospi index. LINK
• IMF warns tokenized asset trading could fracture global financial markets. LINK

💰 Deal Flow

• Micron started building a $9.3 billion memory chip plant in Japan. LINK
• Shanghai Biren seeks up to $838 million via Hong Kong share sale. LINK
• Morpho raised $175 million to expand blockchain lending infrastructure. LINK
• Wafr Technologies raised $100 million for water-saving AI data-centre cooling tech. LINK

📅 Market Calendar

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