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Recent Briefings
Today on The Tape Reader: NVDA prints into the most crowded semi tape on record — SOX 62% above its 200-DMA with only two historical precedents, both ending badly. BofA's fund manager survey just flip…
Today on The Tape Reader: the bond market is doing the Fed's job, NVDA Wednesday is the gamma linchpin, and the parabolic exhaustion signals in semis keep stacking even as AI-power M&A validates the r…
Today on The Tape Reader: an M&A cluster reprices martech, utilities, and nuclear in a single session (RAMP/Publicis, NEE/Dominion, BWXT upgrade), while breadth keeps thinning under a tape that's lean…
Today on The Tape Reader: the 7,509 support broke, the 10Y hit 4.60%, crude cleared $105, and the SOX dropped 4% — the seven-week melt-up is cracking at the seams heading into NVDA Wednesday. Goldman'…
The inflation thread that started with Tuesday's CPI print now has company: Wednesday's PPI was the hottest monthly gain since the Russia invasion, the 10-year hit 4.54%, and Hormuz risk is back in cr…
Today on The Tape Reader: Cisco rewrites its story with a 20% AH gap and a tripled AI order guide, Wall Street piles $950 targets onto a memory complex that just had its worst session in a year, and a…
Today on The Tape Reader: the AI chip rally is now officially the narrowest leadership tape since 1996, a 3.8% CPI print just buried the June cut, and the earnings gappers keep coming. Exhaustion sign…
Today on The Tape Reader: CPI day with the SOXX trading 62% above its 200-day, a hyperscaler-fueled episodic pivot list deep enough to actually trade, and Burry back on the tape calling the top. The s…