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☕️ GM Munchers! Happy Little Friday. It's the participation trophy of weekdays, not quite the weekend, but close enough that I'm allowing myself an extra coffee and a little optimism.

On today’s menu:

• 📱 Apple Finally Made A Foldable

• 📅 Trump Says Cheap Gas Is Coming

• 💻 Hunter Biden's Meme Coin Disaster

• 🤖 Meta Launches A Personal AI Agent

• 😂 $10 Million House In Iowa Vs Palo Alto

Yesterday’s numbers:

BREAKING NEWS

📱 Apple Finally Made A Foldable, Seven Years After Samsung

Apple unveiled its first-ever foldable phone yesterday at its "Surprise and Shine" event, the debut keynote for new CEO John Ternus and absolutely nothing was surprising about it. They launched the iPhone Duo. Closed, it's a normal-sized 5.4-inch phone. Open it up and you get a 7.6-inch screen, the largest display ever on an iPhone, roughly the size of a small iPad. It starts at $1,999 and lands October 23.

Here's the part Apple won't say out loud. This isn't innovation, it's imitation. Samsung has sold foldable phones since 2019 and still owns roughly 64% of the global foldable market. Apple is showing up seven years late. The extra-awkward twist? The crease-free screen Apple is bragging about is reportedly built on Samsung display technology, meaning Apple's headline feature comes from the very rival it's copying. This is the same pattern we saw with Tim Cook: Apple rarely invents the category, it just waits and polishes.

• 🏆 Apple's real skill is timing, not inventing: It didn't create the smartphone, smartwatch, or wireless earbuds either, but it made all three mainstream after others went first.

• 💰 The price protects margins, not customers: At $1,999, Apple matched Samsung's foldable price almost exactly rather than undercutting it, a clear sign this is about profit, not market share.

• 📈 Investors have been rewarding the playbook anyway: Apple is up 16% year to date, beating the S&P 500's 11.3%, even though the stock slipped 3.5% over the last five days heading into the event.

The Munch Take: Here's the honest read. Apple's foldable is late, expensive, and built partly on a competitor's tech, which is peak "Apple doesn't innovate anymore." And let’s not forget that just a few years ago, you could buy a used car for how much this phone is costing. But here's the thing that keeps working: Apple doesn't need to be first, it needs to be Apple. Its customers have swallowed a 50% jump in average iPhone prices since 2015 and kept buying more phones anyway. We're not chasing the stock up here after a strong run, but writing Apple off for being late has been a losing bet for two decades. Boring, late, and profitable is still profitable.

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NEWS OF THE DAY

📅 Trump Says Cheap Gas Is Coming, Just Not Yet

Here's a strange thing to say out loud. Trump told reporters yesterday that oil and gas prices won't fall until "right after" the November midterm elections, adding that the Iran war would end "immediately after the election" too. Read that twice. The president is essentially saying he knows relief is coming, but it just so happens to line up perfectly with a political calendar rather than any actual battlefield event.

We think that's a bit silly. Either a war ends because of facts on the ground, or it doesn't. Tying the finish line to an election date, roughly two months away, suggests the timing is about politics more than diplomacy. Meanwhile the Iran war is now in its seventh month, closing in on 200 days, with no clear resolution in sight. Oil felt all of that yesterday, with Brent crude topping $101 for the first time since July.

• ⛽ The pump problem is real: The U.S. has drained its strategic oil reserves below 300 million barrels this year, down over 100 million since January, just to keep prices from climbing even higher.

• 🗳️ It's a political risk, not just an economic one: Elevated gas prices heading into the midterms are exactly the kind of thing that swings voter mood and, by extension, control of Congress.

• 📊 Rate-hike odds keep creeping up: Polymarket now shows a 53% chance the Fed hikes rates by a quarter point this month, as climbing oil threatens to reignite inflation.

The Munch Take: Forget the election talk. The only thing that actually matters this week is Friday's CPI inflation report. With oil back over $100, a hot inflation number could seal a Fed rate hike, while a cool one keeps hope alive for a hold. That single data point carries more weight than any campaign-trail prediction about when gas gets cheap. Watch Friday. Everything else is noise until then.

MARKET OVERVIEW

🍿 Tasty Movers & Shakers

💰️ Bonus Report from Stock Earnings: 5 Stocks Hiding Behind the Robot Revolution

🤖 $META Meta climbed 6.55% after launching Muse, its new personal AI agent app. The market is treating every fresh AI product from Meta like a reason to pile back in.

🏦 $CHYM Chime rallied 6.93% on a $590 million deal to buy its longtime partner Stride Bank, a move that turns the fintech into an actual bank. Owning the bank instead of renting it means more control and better margins down the road.

🛡️ $NET Cloudflare surged 10.55% after rolling out a new AI cybersecurity service built on OpenAI's models. The stock is now up 60% this year.

⛽ $CASY Casey's General Stores dropped 14.24% even after beating estimates, because "good" wasn't good enough for a stock priced this richly. When expectations get sky-high, a solid quarter can still disappoint.

🐾 $CHWY Chewy fell 10.83% as shrinking liquidity overshadowed a mixed quarter and a raised full-year outlook. Investors clearly cared more about the cash concerns than the brighter forecast.

📺 $CMCSA Comcast sank 6.61% after warning that its broadband customer losses aren't likely to get better anytime soon. Losing internet subscribers in a competitive market is exactly the kind of slow bleed Wall Street hates.

NEWS OF THE DAY

💻 Hunter Biden's Meme Coin Went From $190 To Basically Zero

Hunter Biden launched a crypto meme coin yesterday called $LAPTOP, a wink at the infamous laptop scandal that followed him for years. He pitched it as "reclaiming" the symbol. What actually happened was a bloodbath. The coin opened trading above $190, then face-planted more than 98% within the first hour, crashing to around $2. If you had put $1,000 in at the top, you'd be staring at roughly $10 now.

Here's the mechanics of why these things detonate. A meme coin has zero underlying business, no product, no revenue, nothing. Its price is pure hype. Early insiders and the founders load up cheap before launch, the hype pulls in retail buyers at the top, and then the insiders dump into that demand. The price collapses, and the regular people holding the bag eat the loss. It's musical chairs where most players never had a chair.

• 🪑 The founders got theirs for free: Hunter and the other founders hold 30% of the supply at zero cost, so even after the crash, anything they eventually sell is pure profit, while buyers lost real money they paid in.

• 🎭 The scam attracts more scams: At least 14 fake copycat $LAPTOP coins appeared across other networks within an hour, racking up $6.9 million in trading volume off the confusion.

• 🏛️ Politicians keep doing this: Trump and Melania launched their own meme coins in 2025 and reaped about $1 billion combined, while most investors who bought lost money.

The Munch Take: This is exactly why crypto gets a bad name, and it's frustrating for those of us who actually believe in the real stuff. Bitcoin has a fixed supply and a genuine thesis. A politician's laptop meme coin is a cash grab dressed up as a movement, and everyday buyers are the ones who get fleeced every single time. Hunter walks away holding 30% of the supply. The people who bought his story walk away with pennies. Don't confuse the casino for the asset. They just happen to share a parking lot.

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🚀 Pre-Market Fuel

1. 🤯 Dell’s stock chart is insane.

2. 🥛 Milk prices fell to a 2 month low.

3. 💀 Is AI going to kill all of us?

4. 😂 $10 million house in Iowa vs Palo Alto.

🍪 Munchy Memes

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