Mag 7 four-way reaction: GOOGL +6% (cloud +63%, $190B capex), META -5% (Q2 guide held flat), MSFT -3% (AI run rate $37B), AMZN -3% (beat anyway)
SPX still grinding the range, premium sale short strike intact / RUT bear breakout extends, first swing exit banked / Premium Poppers two back-to-back losses, called it a day
8:30 ET triple drop: Q1 GDP advance / March PCE (last 2.7%) / Employment Cost Index / ECB decides this morning / Apple closes the bell
GEX 7,150 ceiling and 7,100 floor again / oil bid hard at Brent $111.49 / VIX 18.81 +5.5%
Alphabet beats and lifts capex to $190 billion. Shares rally 6%. Meta, Microsoft, Amazon all sold. Three beats. Three punishments. The tape has standards now.
SPX closed 7,135.95 Tuesday, polite and flat. VIX rose 5.5% to 18.81. Today’s GDP, PCE, and ECI prints arrive together at 08:30 ET, no warm-up.
Bitcoin holds the $75,000 zone quietly. ETF streak snapped Monday with $263 million in outflows. Ethereum sits at $2,300 while one company hoards the float weekly.
Brent at $111.49 a barrel. US gasoline averages $4.10 a gallon, up 27% since the war began. Powell calls this “transitory” only when it suits him.
Apple closes the Mag 7 gauntlet after today’s bell, the last hyperscaler still given a microphone this week. ECB decides this morning. Lagarde follows, gamely.
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...SPX -0.49% Tuesday to 7,138.80 / ricocheted off Monday’s 7,200 call wall / Tuesday’s bull swing BWB closed -54.5% / -$43 after the gap down
RUT broke down out of the range to the downside / bear breakout territory / bear swing setup now in play / bull TnT briefly delayed while the breakout unfolds
Plan B on SPX is on the table: break back into the range and a bear swing setup in line with RUT
FOMC today 2pm / hold 100% priced / Powell 2:30 / Warsh confirmation 10am / four Mag 7 + QCOM report after-close
Futures held narrow ranges into Powell’s last FOMC. Hold priced 100%. The press conference is the only thing left in the day that can move the tape.
Brent settled $111.26 Tuesday. WTI nearly cracked $100. Gas $4.18 nationally. Iran rejected Trump’s Hormuz terms. UAE walks out of OPEC Friday with capacity unused.
Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon all report after the close. Three sit up 26 to 31% on the month. Microsoft is down 12%. The bar: perfection.
Bitcoin entered FOMC at $77,075, up 21% from the April low. Eight-week ETF streak snapped Monday with $263 million out. Coinbase Premium negative. Sell-the-news armed.
Warsh confirmation vote at 10:00 ET. FOMC at 14:00 ET. Powell’s final mic at 14:30. Four hyperscalers after the bell. Three central events. Zero margin.
SPX closed 7,173.91 Monday at fresh ATH made by 13 names / Nasdaq 24,887.10 also record / Dow -62.92 / breadth deteriorating with only 188 of 500 climbing last week
Two-day FOMC opens today / Wednesday 2pm hold at 100% priced / Powell at 2:30 / Warsh successor confirmation Wednesday 10am, four and a half hours earlier
Brent +2.75% to $108.23 on Iran-Hormuz framing / SPX RSI near 70 / chip RSI past 85 / divergence between price and breadth widening
Earnings cluster Tuesday pre-open: UPS, GM, Coca-Cola, Visa, Spotify, T-Mobile, Booking / Wednesday night: MSFT, META, AMZN, GOOGL, QCOM / Apple Thursday
Powell delivers a 100 percent priced hold Wednesday. Twelve voting members, two days, one statement, all to confirm what the curve filled in by Friday. The eulogy is the trade.
Five Mag 7 land Wednesday night. The names that dragged MAGS to minus 11 percent year to date now tell the rest of the year what AI capex actually buys.
SPX 7,173.91, record made by thirteen. Of 500 names, 188 climbed last week, against 406 the first week of April. The S&P 500 is increasingly an S&P 13.
Brent $108. Iran offered Hormuz back. Trump declined. Goldman raised oil forecasts Sunday morning. Investment banks now charging for the war they couldn’t price the first time.
BTC $77,500. Eight days, $2.1 billion in, BlackRock 75 percent. Bitcoin moved from $68K to $77K, then stopped exactly where $80,000 told it to stop.
SPX closed 7,165.08 Friday at fresh ATH / ES at 7,195 in pre-market printing new NATHs / NQ following with NATHs / YM and RTY still lagging
SPX swing chart broke out of the week’s compression range / question is whether this is a solid continuation or another push back inside / RUT remains in its range
GEX suggests 7,200 as the week’s ceiling / 7,150 cluster as the new floor / new range zone possible if both hold
Heaviest tape week of 2026: FOMC Wednesday 2pm with Mag 7 reporting same evening / Apple Thursday plus PCE plus Q1 GDP advance / sleep is optional
TL;DR – The Bottom Line
Wall Street pre-paid for a peace that didn’t arrive Friday. Records held. Iran’s foreign minister spent the weekend in Oman and Russia. Oil moved on what the headlines wouldn’t.
FOMC Wednesday 2 p.m., hold at 3.50 to 3.75% expected despite PCE forecast 3.5% versus 2.8% prior. Powell at 2:30, same evening four mega-caps report.
Q1 GDP advance Thursday morning after Q4 2025 was revised to a sluggish 0.5%. PCE same release window. Apple Thursday close. Exxon and Chevron Friday.
Bitcoin near $78,500 after fourth straight week of $824 million ETF inflows. BlackRock IBIT took $733 million. One fund did roughly 89% of the bid.
Magnificent Seven down 11% year-to-date whilst the S&P prints fresh records. The 493 carries the load. Wednesday’s mega-cap capex commentary tests whether the rotation holds.
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