May 10, 2026

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🥳 Happy Sunday.

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In this newsletter we're diving into:

🤖 A chip deal rumor hit the market and one stock went vertical in one day

📦 A tech giant stepped into somebody else's lane and two "safe" stocks caught a 10% fade

🏋️ A brand everybody knows dropped 30% off one report and folks started looking for the exit

Plus, a household-name drug just got its first real copycats in North America, and the trigger for a 65% price cut is sitting right there.

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Make yourself comfy 🛋️ and let's get into it...

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Market Crowd​
​How the market did this week.

Dow 49,609.16 +109.89 +0.22%

S&P 7,398.93 +168.81 +2.33%

Nasdaq 26,247.08 +1,132.64 +4.51%

*As of market close on Friday, May 8th.

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Pre-Market Play​
​A market beat to start your week.
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💻 Intel has been on a historic run...

And Apple might have turned up the volume.

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Intel (INTC) jumped 14% on Tuesday, hitting a new all-time high.

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The move came on a Bloomberg report that Apple (AAPL) is exploring deals with Intel and Samsung Electronics to build the main processors for its devices inside the U.S.

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Apple has long relied on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM), the company that physically makes the chips powering most of the world's top tech products, for its chips.

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This wasn't INTC's first headline this year.

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In April, INTC jumped 114%, its best month in 55 years, pushing the market cap past $470 billion. The stock's up 330% since the U.S. government took a 10% stake in August 2025.

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Nvidia (NVDA) put $5 billion into Intel in September. Google (GOOGL) expanded its partnership in April.

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Toupee Fiasco (Trump) posted on Truth Social claiming credit for Intel's gains, saying the U.S. made $30 billion on its position in 90 days.

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And our algorithm is already tracking a seasonal upswing building for INTC in late May.

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🥡 The Takeaway: Watch for Apple to confirm or deny the chip deal in the next few weeks, because that's what tells traders whether INTC holds the new high or gives it back.

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🚚 When Amazon pulls up to your block...

Everybody loses customers.

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UPS (UPS) and FedEx (FDX) both closed down about 10% on Monday after Amazon (AMZN) announced it's opening its logistics network to outside businesses.

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The new service, Amazon Supply Chain Services, lets companies across healthcare, manufacturing, and retail use Amazon's freight, warehouses, and delivery fleet.

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That's a direct shot at UPS and FedEx's core business.

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Amazon's got over 100 cargo planes and a warehouse network that took two decades to build.

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Now any company can rent access to it.

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Procter & Gamble (PG), 3M (MMM), and American Eagle (AEO) are already in.

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Neither UPS nor FedEx responded to requests for comment. My name Bennett and I ain't in it!

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Amazon has been scaling back its use of UPS and FedEx for years, handling more deliveries in-house.

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Now instead of being their customer, Amazon is becoming their competitor.

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🥡 The Takeaway: Watch UPS heading into their next earnings report. If AMZN pulls even 5% of their shipping volume, that's billions in lost revenue for a company already dealing with slowing package growth.

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🏋️ Planet Fitness got checked...

And the stock had its worst day ever.

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Planet Fitness (PLNT) fell 30% after Q1 earnings showed that sign-ups, the one number that matters for a gym chain, came in below expectations.

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Revenue was up 21.9%.

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Same-club sales grew 3.5%.

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On paper, not bad.

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But CEO Colleen Keating said the company saw a "slower than expected start" in member growth and hit pause on a planned price hike for Black Card members.

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Here's what the full-year forecast looks like now...

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Revenue growth? Cut from 9% to 7%.

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Same-club sales? Cut from 4-5% to 1%. Ouch.

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Net income? Went from growing 4-5% to shrinking 2%.

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Keating blamed four things... marketing that missed, competition, weather, and the economy.

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Here's the kicker...

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She admitted the company's messaging had been aimed at fitness enthusiasts and left the beginners behind.

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That's a problem when your whole brand is built on being the gym for people who don't go to the gym.

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🥡 The Takeaway: PLNT lost a third of its value in one day. Watch whether it finds a bottom in the next few sessions or keeps falling, because drops this big on bad numbers (not fraud, not scandal) tend to bounce.

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💫 TMYK
​A quick pop quiz to help you learn about the market. The more you know!​
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The official end-of-day price used for many funds’ valuations is the closing “______”.

Click your answer below:

a.) print

b.) whisper

c.) memo

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Gimme some mo'
​More news from 'round the market.
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🤖 Palantir posts 85% growth, raises everything
PLTR beat earnings estimates, grew revenue 85% (fastest since going public), and told Wall Street to expect $7.65B for the year while the stock sits 18% lower the numbers behind the disconnect →

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​💊 Generic Ozempic lands in Canada
Health Canada approved two generic versions of Novo Nordisk's (NVO) Ozempic, with a 65% price cut kicking in when a third clears approval why this matters for the whole market →

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​⛽ Shell wins big off Iran war
Shell (SHEL) beat earnings estimates by $800M as the Iran war sent oil prices up 40%, but the company also cut buybacks and grew its debt by $7B see the trade-off →

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​🚴 Peloton beats revenue, loses riders
Peloton (PTON) topped revenue estimates with $630.9M and landed a Spotify deal, but subscribers dropped again to 2.66 million see what the Spotify play means →

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​🧠 Memory chips are the new gold
Micron (MU) is up 35% in one week and 750% in a year thanks to a global memory shortage that has AI data centers fighting over supply the numbers are wild →

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🤳🏾 Let me check my palm pilot
​Earnings events on deck this coming week.

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Market Outlook
​A look at how the market does historically over the next week.

Dow Down 8 out of 15 years

S&P Up 8 out of 15 years

Nasdaq Up 8 out of 15 years

Data provided by Swingset.

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Trend of the Week

Hershey (HSY) has a trend of going up over the next week.

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It's gone up 13 out of the last 15 years moving an average of and projected to repeat this move May 7-14.

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