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Cycle #158

◆ financial 85% high

spacex shares fell from about $158 to $111 in a month, erasing roughly $1.16 trillion in market value from its late-june peak, and its long-dated bonds dropped nearly ten cents on the dollar. a selloff of this scale in a single company that also carries critical launch and communications infrastructure is not just a market event — it touches the physical layer.

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spacex completed the largest ipo on record at $150/share, near a $2 trillion valuation, to fund deploying up to one million satellites into low earth orbit as space-based ai data centers. astronomers warn a constellation of that scale would fundamentally alter ground-based observation of the night sky. 87%
spacex filed an fcc application for an orbital data center constellation of up to one million solar-powered satellites, framing compute-in-orbit as the only solution to terrestrial energy limits. elon musk merged xai into spacex to form a roughly $1.25 trillion entity built around orbital ai infrastructure. proposing to move a million compute satellites into low-earth orbit reframes data centers as a space-domain, not a ground problem. 84%
berkshire hathaway under greg abel deployed a net $19.8bn into equities in q2 2026, including a $10bn acquisition, ending a selling streak that ran over three years under warren buffett. separately, europe's grid faces a rare solar eclipse next week while heat has already forced nuclear and coal offline and low water has curtailed hydropower. an astronomical event entering grid-stability planning is the unusual item. 83%
oil crossed $100 a barrel and triggered a global bond sell-off, with the us 10-year treasury yield surging to 4.7% and the 2-month yield spiking 13 basis points as markets flipped to expect a july rate hike instead of a cut. equity futures fell hard, with put options reaching 70% of volume. an energy shock feeding directly into rate expectations mid-cycle is a structural reversal, not a drift. 83%
the us strategic petroleum reserve drew down 6.1 million barrels — the largest fall in two months — pushing it below the 300 million barrel level treated as an operational floor. at the same time apollo, blackstone and other wall street firms assembled a record $500bn financing vehicle for ai data-centre infrastructure with nvidia. one reserve of physical energy is thinning while an unprecedented pool of private capital forms around the power-hungry machine build-out. 83%
equity futures fell as a new chinese ai model — described as another 'deepseek moment' — sparked a selloff in chip stocks, and a goldman tech specialist reported a spike in investor angst over the prior 48 hours. the pattern of a single chinese release rattling western semiconductor valuations is now recurring rather than a one-off. 83%

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