Markets spent the week lurching between ceasefire hope, blockade panic, and earnings-season brutality, with the S&P still managing to close at record highs by Friday. Software got wrecked for being merely good, chips reclaimed main-character status, and every Middle East headline kept sloshing money between energy panic and risk-on relief. Underneath the rally, the uglier truth stayed intact: consumer sentiment is falling apart, guidance is getting punished, and this market is still trading vibes at full volume.📉

Monday 😬: Stocks slipped after Friday’s all-clear party as the Hormuz standoff snapped back into focus and traders realized the ribbon-cutting opening ceremony was, in fact, canceled. The S&P barely held 7,100 while guidance fear kept hanging over tech ahead of a huge earnings week, with the post-earnings punishment in streaming still setting the tone. After the bell, Apple’s succession plan and Amazon’s deeper AI tie-up with Anthropic gave the market fresh reasons to obsess over who is actually building durable AI infrastructure.

Tuesday ⚠️: Markets slipped Tuesday as ceasefire talks between Iran and the U.S. teetered on collapse, with Trump extending the deadline to Wednesday only to have reports surface that talks may be off entirely. Energy was the sole green sector as oil priced in renewed conflict, while airlines slashed guidance, Capital One missed on both lines, and Avis squeezed another 17% on a locked float. After the bell, Bloomberg reported unauthorized users accessed Anthropic's Mythos model, the AI system the company says can exploit vulnerabilities in every major operating system.

Wednesday ⚠️: Stocks pushed higher and the major indexes hit fresh highs, even as crude ripped nearly 4% and the Hormuz situation looked less like peace and more like traffic jam warfare. The market finally had room to care about earnings again, but the lesson stayed the same: beats are not enough when guidance, geopolitics, or valuation vibes get in the way. After the bell, Tesla limped past lowered expectations, ServiceNow got smoked for a conflict-driven wobble, and deal mania hit everything from coding AI to Spirit Airlines.

Thursday 📉: Earnings season swallowed the market whole Thursday as the S&P 500 hit an intraday record and then reversed, with software stocks getting obliterated after ServiceNow's clean beat still got sold 18%, dragging the entire SaaS complex down hard. Intel was the lone bright spot, ripping +16% after hours on its sixth straight earnings beat and a credible AI pitch from new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Cannabis got rescheduled, the Navy got orders to shoot Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz, and Wall Street decided none of the good news was good enough.

Friday 🚀: Stocks closed at record highs after the DOJ walked away from its criminal probe of the Fed chair, clearing the political runway for Kevin Warsh's confirmation and letting peace talk headlines run. Intel capped it with a blowout print that snapped a 25-year technical ceiling and dragged the entire chip complex along for the ride. The catch: consumer sentiment printed its worst reading on record, setting up a nasty tension between beat-heavy earnings and a macro that's quietly falling apart.

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