June 12th Pre-Market

Good Morning

SpaceX trades today in the biggest IPO ever, and oil keeps sliding on hopes the Iran deal gets signed this weekend. The market's all over both. Inflation hit 4.2%.

It's almost all gas pump, core inflation hardly moved, and a weekend peace deal does more about it than anything Warsh says next week.

Let's dig in...

Today's Big Picture

1. Oil's Priced For Peace. Iran's Already Hedging.
   A draft deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift oil sanctions, with a signing floated for this weekend. But Iran's own news agency now says traffic won't return to prewar levels, and oil pared its drop the moment that hit. So crude is pricing a clean reopening the deal may not deliver. Any snag this weekend puts the war premium right back in.
   

2. The SpaceX Story Isn't The Rocket.
   SpaceX priced at $135 and raised $75 billion, the largest IPO ever, and trades today under SPCX. Watch the cash, not the rocket. Perpetual futures are pricing a roughly 30% pop on day one, and retail orders topped $100 billion, a chunk of it raised by selling existing tech, which is why a few AI names are soft this morning. A strong open sends that cash back into the AI trade; a weak one strands it.
   

3. Inflation topped 4%. Oil Won't Fix That.
   Consumer inflation topped 4% in May, the first time in three years, and wholesale prices ran hot too. Stocks and bonds are both rallying like cheaper crude cools all of it. But the prices already in the data don't reverse because oil fell, and the rate-cut trade is gone regardless. A few firms now see a hike, not a cut, as the next move… but we have been hearing about that for weeks.

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Stock Spotlight (pre-market)

Adobe $ADBE ( ▼ 6.25% )  
fell premarket after CFO Dan Durn said he's leaving June 15, the second executive exit in three months after the CEO announced his own departure. The guidance was actually good, AI revenue tripled past $500 million and the full-year outlook went up, but nobody cared.

AMD $AMD ( ▲ 7.97% )  
caught a bid after Citi upgraded it to buy and set a $575 target. The thesis is Meta: Citi thinks it becomes a far bigger AMD chip customer than the street expects.

EchoStar $SATS ( ▲ 11.19% )  
is higher again after owning an estimated 3% of SpaceX made it the cleanest proxy for today's debut. The real driver is mechanical: space ETFs are being forced to buy names like this as cash floods in, which props up the stock no matter what its own business is doing.

Carnival $CCL ( ▲ 8.2% )  
is higher as oil slides, since fuel is a cruise line's biggest swing cost. The whole travel group rides the same Iran headline, so the tailwind is only as durable as the deal.

OneOK $OKE ( ▼ 1.51% )  
is leading energy lower as crude hands back its war premium on peace hopes. Anyone long energy for the conflict trade is now on the wrong side of a signing.

Lennar $LEN ( ▲ 5.68% )  
slipped after revenue missed and deliveries came in light. With rate cuts off the table, builders are stuck paying incentives to keep buyers showing up, and that pressure doesn't ease until yields do.

What to Watch

IPO’s

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Hormuz Won't Reopen Overnight (Watch The Tankers)
A signed deal doesn't clear the strait. Iran reportedly mined it, and the UK and France still have to sweep those mines before traffic normalizes, which officials put at about a month. So oil is pricing a clean reopening it won't get right away. Any stall in the clearing, or in Iran's sign-off, snaps the war premium back into crude.

The Nasdaq-100 Reshuffle (Effective June 22)
Five names join the index before the open on June 22, including Rocket Lab and CoreWeave, and five drop out, including Zscaler and Charter. Index funds have to buy the adds and sell the deletes, which forces flows into and out of those names regardless of fundamentals.

- John

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