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On today’s menu:

• 📈 Every Treasury Yield Just Hit A 24-Year High

• 🏎️ Porsche Is Cutting 9,000 Jobs

• 📉 This Stock Just Crashed 19%

• ₿ Bitcoin Flushed The Bulls Again In A 20-Minute Nosedive

• 🍎 Is Apple About To Release A New Product?

Yesterday’s numbers:

BREAKING NEWS

📈 Every Treasury Yield Just Hit A 24-Year High

Here's a number that quietly screams danger. U.S. Treasury yields just ripped to their highest levels since 2002. Not one of them, all of them. The 10-year yield hit 5.35%, the 20-year is at a 2002 high, and the 30-year climbed to 5.72%. When the entire lineup of government bonds is this stretched at once, that's not a blip. That's the bond market sending a serious message.

The damage showed up fast in stocks. About $510 billion got wiped off U.S. stocks yesterday alone. Here's the simple reason why: when safe government bonds pay 5% or more, investors have way less reason to take risks on stocks, so money quietly rotates out of the market and into bonds.

So what's driving yields this high? A pile-up of worries. Investors are nervous about stubborn inflation, high oil prices, and the mountain of debt the government keeps piling up. Every time the U.S. borrows more, it floods the market with new bonds, and buyers demand a higher payout to take them on. That pushes yields up.

• 🏠 Your wallet feels it: The 10-year yield sets mortgage, car loan, and credit card rates, so this keeps borrowing painful for regular people.

• 🌍 It's a global problem: France, the U.K., and Japan are all seeing bond yields spike too, so this isn't just an American story.

• ⚠️ 5.5% is the danger zone: Analysts warn that above 5.5% on the 10-year, stock valuations start getting squeezed hard, and the 30-year is already well past that.

The Munch Take: Here's the thing everyone staring at record stock highs keeps ignoring. This is, ultimately, terrible news for the debt market, and that matters more than most people realize. The U.S. government is drowning in debt, and now it has to borrow at the highest rates in a generation. Think about that: the more they owe, the more it costs to borrow, and the more they have to borrow just to pay the interest. That's not a cycle that ends quietly. When the people running the money machine have to pay this much just to keep the lights on, something eventually has to give, whether that's the dollar losing value or the printer roaring back to life. That's exactly why we keep coming back to assets that can't be printed into oblivion. We're not reacting to one bad day, and we're not selling a thing. But this is the single most important storyline in all of finance right now, and it deserves your full attention. Watch the bond market closely. It usually knows something the stock market hasn't figured out yet.

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NEWS OF THE DAY

🏎️ Porsche Is Cutting 9,000 Jobs To Chase The Ferrari Playbook

Porsche is hitting the brakes hard. The German sports-car maker announced it will cut around 9,000 jobs, roughly one in five workers, as part of a major overhaul. The reason is simple and painful: sales in China, once Porsche's goldmine, have collapsed by about a third, and its electric vehicle push stalled out. The result was brutal, with the company's profit margin crashing from a juicy 18% in 2024 to a measly 1.1% last year.

So what's the plan to fix it? Porsche is pivoting to a strategy it calls "value over volume," which is a fancy way of saying "sell fewer cars, but charge a lot more for them." The company plans to raise prices on its top models by about 20% by 2030, trim the number of versions it offers, and build a brand-new supercar that sits above the legendary 911. It's also lowering the number of cars it needs to sell just to break even.

If this sounds familiar, it should. This is almost exactly the Ferrari playbook, and Ferrari’s stock has done very well over the last 5 years by keeping its cars rare and its prices sky-high. Porsche is openly copying its homework.

• 🇨🇳 China is the wound: Porsche once sold a third of its cars to Chinese buyers. That's now shrinking toward just a tenth by decade's end.

• ✂️ The cuts run deep: 30% come from the factory floor and a hefty 40% from management, as Porsche slashes development costs by about 20%.

• 🎯 The goal is a comeback: These moves aim to drag the profit margin back to the 10% to 15% range over time, a long way from 1.1%.

The Munch Take: Honestly, it's about time Porsche shook things up, because the stock has been a genuine dud, down about 48% over the past five years. Copying Ferrari's exclusivity-over-everything model is a smart move on paper, since rarity is exactly what makes a luxury brand command premium prices and premium stock valuations. But let's be real, this is a long, slow turnaround, not an overnight fix. Cutting 9,000 jobs and rebuilding your entire pricing strategy takes years, and the China hole is deep. We like the direction and we respect the Ferrari-style thinking, but we'd want to see real proof the margins are actually recovering before getting excited about the stock. Great brand, smart plan, long road ahead. Watch the margins, not the headlines.

MARKET OVERVIEW

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🎧 $SPOT Spotify rose 5.08% after expanding its audiobook service to more than 180 markets around the world.

🍺 $STZ Constellation Brands gained 2.33% on the back of strong quarterly results. Beer, wine, and spirits still pay the bills nicely when the numbers come in clean.

🚜 $CAT Caterpillar dropped 5.75% and $DE Deere fell 3.80% after federal regulators opened an inquiry into competition in the farm equipment business. Nothing spooks industrial giants like regulators poking around their turf.

📉 $BULL Webull cratered 19.09% after a congressional report flagged its China ties as a national security risk. When Washington starts using the phrase "national security," investors tend to head for the exit fast.

🔩 $WS Worthington Steel slid 7.08% after fiscal first-quarter earnings came in well below last year's levels. A sharp drop from where you were a year ago is never the look Wall Street wants.

CHART OF THE DAY

₿ Bitcoin Flushed The Bulls Again In A 20-Minute Nosedive

Bitcoin just reminded everyone why leverage is a portfolio killer. The price dropped nearly $2,000 in about 20 minutes, slicing below $84,000 and triggering a brutal chain reaction. In under an hour, more than $400 million worth of bullish bets got wiped out, and a jaw-dropping 97% of those were longs, meaning traders betting the price would go up.

Here's how these flash crashes work, in plain English. A lot of traders borrow money to make bigger bets, which is called leverage. When the price dips even a little, those borrowed bets get automatically closed out, forcing a wave of selling. That selling pushes the price down more, which triggers the next batch of forced sales, and the whole thing snowballs fast. It's a cascade, and it can happen in minutes.

Bitcoin now sits around $83,500, its lowest level in a few weeks. The drop lined up with rising oil prices from the Iran tensions and fading hopes for a Fed rate cut, which pulled money away from risk assets like crypto.

• 💥 This was a leverage problem, not a Bitcoin problem: The crash cleared out overly optimistic traders using borrowed money, not long-term holders.

• 🧹 Flushes like this can be healthy: Wiping out excess leverage often sets up more stable price action afterward, since the fragile bets are gone.

• ⚠️ 104,000 traders got liquidated: That's a lot of people learning the hard way that borrowed money cuts both ways.

The Munch Take: Here's where we stand, and we've never been shy about it. Roughly 50% of our portfolio is in Bitcoin. We are long-term believers, full stop, so a 20-minute flush like this does absolutely nothing to us except make for an interesting headline. We're still sitting in profit, and we're happy to just ride the wave. The only thing that would get us adding more is a real pullback toward the $75,000 level, and we're not there yet. This is exactly the kind of move that shakes out the leveraged gamblers while patient holders don't lose a minute of sleep. Fixed supply, long time horizon, zero panic. That's the whole playbook, and it hasn't changed one bit.

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