A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY.
Here's a full recap:
1. Marvell is up around 50%, on pace for its best day ever and adding more than $80B in market cap, after Jensen Huang called $MRVL “the next trillion-dollar company” at Computex.
2. OpenAI Codex now has 5M+ weekly users, with roughly 20% coming from non-developer roles, according to Bloomberg. OpenAI is expanding Codex beyond software engineering with new plugins for public equity investing, banking, sales, internal workplace apps, and professional document editing, with legal and corporate finance tools reportedly coming next.
3. US JOLTS job openings came in at 7.62M in April, well above the 6.87M estimate.
4. $META Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking tool after staff backlash, according to The Information. The tool, called the Model Capability Initiative, collects computer usage data to help train AI models on how employees complete tasks. Meta is now adding stronger privacy protections, some employee exemptions, and a 30-minute pause option, while saying activity will be summarized instead of capturing exact words typed and raw data access will be limited to a small group of engineers.
5. Iran says the IRGC Aerospace Force has carried out “precise and intensive missile strikes” on U.S. military bases in Kuwait in response to U.S. strikes on Qeshm Island, marking another major escalation in the region. Kuwait’s air defenses reportedly intercepted incoming missiles and drones, while oil prices are hovering near $95 a barrel and U.S. futures are moving lower as markets price in rising geopolitical risk.
The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 3.6M contracts, $TSLA with 1.8M contracts, $AAPL with 1.1M contracts, $MSFT with 856K contracts, $GOOGL with 757K contracts, $INTC with 685K contracts, $NOK with 638K contracts, $META with 637K contracts, $MSTR with 618K contracts, and $AMZN with 615K contracts. Nvidia led the market by a wide margin with nearly 3.7M options contracts traded, while Tesla followed with 1.8M and Apple crossed 1.1M.
6. $BTC Bitcoin sold off sharply after Strategy $MSTR disclosed a rare sale of 32 BTC for about $2.5 million, its first Bitcoin sale in years, with proceeds reportedly used to fund preferred stock dividend payments. The sale rattled crypto sentiment because Michael Saylor has long been viewed as the market’s most committed “never sell” Bitcoin holder, and investors saw even a tiny sale as a symbolic shift. Bitcoin fell below $68,000, while $MSTR dropped more than 9% as the market questioned whether Strategy could be forced to sell more BTC if funding pressures rise. Analysts noted the sale was financially small compared to Strategy’s overall holdings, but the psychological impact was much bigger because it challenged the company’s core Bitcoin-holding narrative.
7. Palo Alto Networks $PANW reported a strong Q3, with revenue rising 31% YoY to $3.0B and adjusted EPS of $0.85, both ahead of estimates. Its next-gen security ARR grew 60% YoY to $8.1B, while RPO rose 36% to $18.4B. The company also raised its full-year outlook, guiding for about $11.4B in revenue and adjusted EPS of $3.77 to $3.79, as demand accelerates from customers securing AI deployments at scale.
8. A $CRWV CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900M in high-yield debt, according to Bloomberg. The 5-year bonds priced at par with a 7.5% yield, with proceeds funding a build-to-suit hyperscale data center near Chicago that is fully leased to $CRWV for 15 years, representing about $2.2B in future revenue. AI data center developers have now raised more than $27B from junk bonds this year.
9. Foreign ownership of U.S. stocks has climbed to a record $20 trillion, now representing about 19% of the entire U.S. equity market, nearly triple its share in 2000. Passive funds have also reached a record, with mutual funds and ETFs now holding $17 trillion, or roughly 15% of U.S. equities, after tripling their ownership share since the 2008 financial crisis. Meanwhile, active mutual funds continue to lose ground, with ownership falling to $11 trillion, or about 10% of the market, the lowest share since the early 1990s.
10. Elon Musk’s SpaceX shares would reportedly be locked up for 366 days after the company’s IPO. At the current $SPCX valuation, Elon is set to become the world's first trillionaire later this month.
11. $UBER Uber is capping AI coding tool spending at $1,500 per employee per month after reportedly burning through its 2026 AI budget in just four months.
12. GameStop $GME reported its highest quarterly net income ever at $389.6M, along with record Q1 operating income of $143.3M. Net sales rose 14% YoY, driven by collectibles, while cash, securities, digital assets, receivables, and pledged collateral totaled $9.7B. $GME approved a $2 billion share repurchase authorization through June 2, 2029, while Shopify $SHOP increased its buyback program by $3 billion, bringing the total authorization to $5 billion.
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