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Investing Unlocks: How to Capitalize on the Hot Topics From The Last 7 Days
We analyze recent trends and opportunities, offering strategic insights that help you manage risks and identify growth opportunities for your portfolio.
🌪️ Iran Deal and Fed Shock Keep Markets Guessing
Last week, U.S. stocks had a volatile but positive four-day run, with markets closed for the Juneteenth holiday. A surprise U.S.-Iran peace deal reopened the Strait of Hormuz, sent oil prices sharply lower, and lit a fire under equities early in the week, with the Dow hitting a record high and the Nasdaq surging more than 3% in a single session. The mood cooled midweek when the Federal Reserve, in new Chair Kevin Warsh's debut, held rates steady at 3.5%-3.75% but signaled a hawkish tilt, with nine of 18 policymakers projecting at least one rate hike by year-end, sending bond yields higher and trimming gains.
This week, May PCE prices, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, headline a busy Thursday alongside first-quarter GDP, durable goods, and personal spending data. A hot PCE print could reinforce the case for higher rates and pressure growth-sensitive parts of the market. Micron reports mid-week as a live read on AI-driven chip demand, and a strong result there could keep technology sector momentum intact. With geopolitical risk fading, rates are now the bigger variable to watch.
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Hot Topics
Microsoft and Chevron Sign 20-Year Power Deal For Texas Data Center
Bank of England Transforms Stablecoin Regulation with New Framework
Robots will replace 700,000 delivery workers ‘sooner or later’
Trading platform Robinhood to cut 10% of workforce in restructuring
SpaceX to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion
US Data Center Buildout
Cleanview tracks US data centers and power projects from the first permit to completion. Planned facilities now stretch across Texas, the Southeast, the Mid-Atlantic, the Midwest, and parts of the Mountain West, showing that hyperscale demand is expanding well beyond the industry's traditional hubs. The sheer number of planned projects relative to operating facilities suggests the AI infrastructure buildout remains in its early innings rather than nearing saturation.
The map is ultimately a story about electricity demand. Every planned data center represents future load that must be supplied, often years before the grid is ready. As AI infrastructure scales, the key question is shifting from who is building data centers to who can deliver the power. Utilities, independent power producers, transmission developers, and energy storage companies that can solve the power bottleneck may capture as much value as the data center operators themselves.
What matters for investors is that power availability is increasingly becoming the limiting factor for AI growth. That makes grid infrastructure, generation capacity, and interconnection pipelines some of the most important assets in the AI economy.
Earnings Expectations Are Accelerating
FactSet data shows Q2 earnings estimates are rising rather than falling, a rare sign of strengthening fundamentals. The most telling chart shows expected S&P 500 earnings growth increasing to 22.0% from 18.7% since March. That’s unusual because analysts typically lower estimates as a quarter progresses.
Energy and Technology are driving the improvement. Energy earnings growth expectations jumped to 121.8% from 48.3%, while Technology increased to 59.6% from 48.7%. Meanwhile, Health Care swung from expected growth to a 9% decline, highlighting how uneven the earnings recovery remains.
The investor takeaway is that earnings momentum remains strong, but leadership is concentrated. The market’s earnings story is increasingly tied to AI-driven technology profits and higher energy prices, making those sectors critical to sustaining broader earnings growth.
Investing Data Story
As Europe’s reliance on imported LNG deepens and domestic output falls, the conditions favouring investment in local gas supply are becoming difficult to ignore.
Tracked: Europe’s LNG Imports Are Causing A Supply Shift
Earnings Performance
John Wiley & Sons Inc (NYSE: WLY)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: WLY) posted record margins on AI and research growth. The company’s most interesting growth story is emerging outside its traditional publishing business. AI revenue increased from $23 million in fiscal 2024 to $49 million in fiscal 2026, while recurring AI revenue grew from roughly $1 million to $8 million over the past year. Management expects that recurring component to grow another 2-3x in fiscal 2027, suggesting AI is evolving from experimental licensing deals into a more durable revenue stream.
Fiscal 2026 adjusted revenue was $1.68 billion, adjusted EBITDA rose 10% to $440 million, adjusted EPS increased 15% to $4.19, and free cash flow jumped 55% to $195 million. AI revenue grew 23% to $49 million, supported by expanding partnerships across the AI ecosystem.
Other Earnings Updates
Smith & Wesson (NASDAQ: SWBI): Reports 26.7% Q4 Sales Rise
Safe Bulkers (NYSE: SB): Posts Q1 Net Income of $22.2M, Triples YoY
CarMax (NYSE: KMX): Reports Q1 Revenue Rise, EPS Dip
Analyst Strong Buy Ratings This Week! 📈
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