Pre-Market Brief | Monday, August 3, 2026
Futures: S&P 500 futures up 0.63 percent. Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.59 percent. Dow futures up 0.49 percent.
Friday closed strong with the S&P at 7,489.72 after Amazon rallied 15 percent on cloud strength.
Macro: Trump called off a planned strike on Iran over the weekend. Talks resume this afternoon.
Oil is plunging: WTI down 6 percent to $79.54, Brent down 5 percent to $83.32.
Kospi swung wildly overnight after Friday's 18 percent surge.
ISM Manufacturing at 9:45 AM ET.
And according to the Financial Times, Sam Altman called its CEO and said out loud: "Please, please, please... make us something."
In fact, he's also put his own money behind it.
And aerial footage confirms Elon Musk is now in on this technology, too.
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Tickers To Watch:
PLTR: Reports after the close, webcast at 5 PM ET. Consensus is $1.81 billion in revenue (up 80 percent) and $0.34 EPS.
Stock trades near $123, down 30 percent year to date. Options pricing a 12 percent swing.
Eight straight quarterly beats. Watch commercial revenue and any FCF guide revision.
I hope you have enjoyed the relative stability of the stock market during first half of 2026 to the fullest.
Because two massive economic forces are colliding in real-time, and the result is set to upend everything we thought we knew about investing. The first force:
We're living through the fastest rate of technological change in human history.
AI isn't just disrupting a few tech companies , it's threatening to make the world we know unrecognizable in just a few years.
I've identified a little-known company that was just tapped as Nvidia's self-driving partner..
already putting them miles ahead of Tesla in the autonomous driving race.
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BMY, AZN: Bristol-Myers surging, AstraZeneca lower on merger reports.
XLE, XOM, CVX: Energy names giving some back as crude collapses.
300 S&P 500 companies have reported with 85 percent beating estimates, and Palantir's after-hours print will set the AI-software tape for the week.
It's at the center of a paradigm shift that Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis says could be "nothing less than the dawning of a new age for humanity."
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Best,
Greg
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