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☕️ GM Munchers! It's Monday, the one day the market and my wife both remind me that the weekend is officially over and it's time to get to work.

On today’s menu:

• ☕ The Busiest Week Of The Summer Starts Now

• ⚖️ Apple, OpenAI, And Elon Walk Into A Courtroom

• 💉 Moderna’s Glory Days Are Over

• 🇺🇸 The President's Portfolio Is Also A Watch List

• 🇦🇷 Argentina’s Currency Has Collapsed

Friday’s numbers:

BREAKING NEWS

☕ The Busiest Week Of The Summer Starts Now

Welcome to what might be the busiest week of the summer. Stocks closed last week on a quiet, positive note, riding the AI wave to another weekly win even as trouble bubbled overseas. But the calm might not last, because three big storms are all rolling in at once.

Let’s start with the scariest one. Over the weekend, the U.S. struck Iran for the third time in a week, and Iran fired back at several of its neighbors. The two sides can’t even agree on a basic fact: Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is closed. The U.S. says it’s open and that Iran doesn’t even control it. The truth is somewhere in the messy middle. A southern lane is still letting some ships through, but big shipping companies are avoiding the area, insurance costs have exploded, and oil climbed 4% last week. It’s a tug-of-war over one skinny stretch of water that is moving gas prices worldwide.

The one bright spot to end the week was SK Hynix, the Nvidia memory supplier we told you about, popping over 14% in its record-smashing U.S. debut. It was proof that even with war headlines swirling, investors are still hungry for anything tied to the AI boom.

So here are the three things that matter most this week:

• 🛢️ The Strait of Hormuz. The ceasefire is broken and shipping is a mess. Any bigger flare-up spikes oil and rattles everything.

• 📈 Inflation data. June CPI drops Tuesday and PPI Wednesday. Inflation is already hot at 4.2%, and a bad number could push the Fed toward a rate hike, which stocks hate.

• 🏦 Earnings season kicks off. The big test of whether companies are really making the money their stock prices promise.

When the biggest names report:

• 🏦 Tuesday, July 14 (the banks): JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs all report, with Morgan Stanley following Wednesday. Their results are a health check on the whole economy: loans, spending, and credit.

• 💻 Thursday, July 16 (tech and streaming): Chip giant TSMC and streaming king Netflix both report. TSMC is the big one to watch, since it tells us whether the AI boom is still going strong.

• 👀 The quick cheat sheet: Watch the banks for the economy's pulse, and watch TSMC for whether the AI hype is backed by real demand.

The Munch Take: Weeks like this can dictate what the market will do for the next few months. With a war risk, an inflation report, and the start of earnings season all landing at once, big swings are almost guaranteed but the smart money is watching two simple questions. Is inflation cooling or heating up, and are companies actually making the money their stock prices promise? Everything else this week is just noise. Tune out the drama, watch the real numbers, and let everyone else lose sleep over the headlines.

⚖️ Apple, OpenAI, And Elon Walk Into A Courtroom

Grab the popcorn, because the biggest names in tech spent the weekend at war. Apple just sued OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, claiming it stole Apple's secrets to build a new AI gadget.

Here’s the juicy part. Apple says two of its former employees jumped ship to OpenAI and took confidential files with them. One allegedly found a bug that let him peek into Apple's private files after he left, and even messaged a buddy, "LOL, I found out I can access the network storage, so funny." Not a great thing to put in writing.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk spent the same weekend trading insults with OpenAI boss Sam Altman online. Elon helped start OpenAI years ago, then sued it, then lost that fight in May. Bad blood everywhere.

Here's the money angle:

• 📱 Apple's stock barely flinched. Apple is worth $4.6 trillion. This lawsuit is a rounding error to them, more about pride and blocking a rival than dollars.

• 🚀 Elon's companies are fine too. This drama doesn’t really touch Tesla or SpaceX. It’s personal, not financial.

• 💰 The real stakes are OpenAI's IPO. Altman wants to take OpenAI public at a jaw-dropping $1 trillion, but he may have to wait until 2027. A messy lawsuit right before your big debut is exactly the kind of headache that spooks investors.

The Munch Take: This is a soap opera with billion-dollar stakes, and it’s fun to watch, but don’t confuse drama with a trading signal. Apple will not budge on this news, and neither will Tesla. The one to actually watch is OpenAI, because a company trying to convince the world it’s worth a trillion dollars really does not want "stole trade secrets" in the headlines right before asking you to buy its stock.

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🍿 Tasty Movers & Shakers

🤖 $META Meta jumped 5.97% after Bank of America said its giant AI spending bill might come in cheaper than Wall Street feared. When the scariest part of your story turns out to be less scary, the stock breathes a sigh of relief.

🛠️ $WDFC WD-40 sprayed higher by 10.65% after strong demand for its famous squeaky-hinge fixer beat earnings expectations. Turns out the stuff in everyone's garage is a quietly great business.

📱 $VOD Vodafone jumped 12.54% after French billionaire Xavier Niel revealed a 16% stake, making him the biggest shareholder. When a billionaire buys a big slice, the market usually assumes he sees something everyone else missed.

🎬 $NFLX Netflix slipped 2.78% after saying it’s exploring live TV channels and streaming bundles to keep people watching. Investors got a little nervous that the streaming king is starting to look for new tricks.

💉 $MRNA Moderna tumbled 10.83% after JPMorgan repeated its Sell rating, arguing the good news about its cancer vaccine is already baked into the price. Sometimes the hype gets so far ahead that even great news is not enough.

STOCK OF THE DAY

🇺🇸 The President's Portfolio Is Also A Watch List

Here is a pattern worth knowing about. Every week, President Trump talks up certain companies, and it turns out he owns a whole lot of those same companies. His financial disclosures show up to $25 million each in some of these names. So when he mentions them, we should watch the stocks closely.

This week the spotlight hit two groups: drug makers and defense companies.

A quick breakdown of the names:

• 💊 Drug makers (LLY and MRK). Eli Lilly is the weight-loss drug king, up about 13% this year and sitting near record highs. A new government program just made its drugs cheaper for millions of seniors, which is rocket fuel.

• 🛡️ Defense (LMT, RTX, BA, NOC). His biggest bet is Lockheed Martin, the missile and fighter-jet giant. With wars flaring up, Lockheed just landed a massive $35 billion missile deal. War is terrible, but it is very good for defense stocks.

• 🚗 One curveball (TM). Toyota got a shoutout too, after announcing it is moving some production from Mexico to the U.S.

🐂 The bull case: These are strong, real businesses. Weight-loss drugs are flying off shelves, and governments worldwide are spending huge money on defense. These trends are powerful and could run for years.

🐻 The bear case: Many of these stocks have already climbed a lot, so you would be buying near the top. And a stock that rises mostly because a powerful person keeps naming it can fall fast when the spotlight moves on.

Let's talk real numbers, because they are jaw-dropping. In just the first three months of 2026, Trump's accounts made between $220 million and $750 million worth of trades. And copying him would have paid off big. Portfolios that track his trades have captured almost three times the gains of the S&P 500, helped by scooping up stocks at the March bottom right before a huge rally. Look at the individual names and it gets crazier. Dell jumped 107% between the day his account bought it and the day he told everyone to buy it. Intel is up over 150% since the government took a stake. Meanwhile the plain old S&P 500 is up just 10% this year.

The Munch Take: So yes, following him would have beaten the market by a mile. But here is our honest take: most of these stocks have already made their giant moves, so we are not chasing them now. Buying something after it has already tripled is how the little guy ends up holding the bag while the early birds cash out. Watching what powerful people buy is smart. Blindly copying them after the party is half over is not. The easy money in these names was made months ago, and we would rather find the next story than pay top dollar for the last one.

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