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Dow Jones Futures: AI stocks rallied, with Astera, Bloom Energy and Tesla higher. But SpaceX stock dropped ahead of Nasdaq-100 inclusion.

Lucid Group, Inc. LCID and Rivian Automotive, Inc. RIVN, two U.S.-based EV companies, have released their production and delivery results for the second quarter of 2026.Lucid manufactured 4,774 vehicles during the second quarter, up from 3,863 produced in the same period last year and delivered 3,953 vehicles, up from 3,309 in the same period last year.Lucid also unveiled organizational and leadership changes under CEO Silvio Napoli aimed at streamlining operations, strengthening accountability and improving execution. As part of the restructuring, the number of executives reporting directly to the CEO has been reduced by half.Rivian produced 12,613 vehicles at its Normal, IL, manufacturing facility in the second quarter, up from 5,979 vehicles in the same period last year. It delivered 12,194 vehicles, up from 10,661 vehicles in the same period last year. Its deliveries exceeded its quarterly guidance of 9,000 to 11,000 vehicles, driven by strong sequential growth in EDV and R1 deliveries, along with the launch of R2 deliveries.Reflecting its progress and expectations for the second half of the year, Rivian raised its full-year 2026 delivery forecast to 65,000-70,000 vehicles from its previous outlook of 62,000-67,000 vehicles. LCID currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), while RIVN has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.Electric vehicle maker Tesla, Inc. TSLA also reported its second-quarter production and delivery figures. Tesla produced 451,758 vehicles during the quarter compared with 410,244 in the year-ago period and delivered 480,126 vehicles, up from 384,122 a year earlier. Tesla also deployed 13.5 GWh of energy storage products during the quarter. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Lucid Group, Inc. (LCID) : Free Stock Analysis Report Rivian Automotive, Inc. (RIVN) : Free Stock Analysis Report Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research (zacks.com). Zacks Investment Research

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Tesla (TSLA) shares were down Thursday even as the company's second-quarter deliveries beat Wall Str

(Bloomberg) -- Cboe Global Markets Inc. is seeking US regulatory approval to list all-or-nothing options tied to corporate earnings results, allowing traders to wager on figures ranging from SpaceX revenue and Nvidia data-center sales to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s credit-loss provisions. Most Read from Bloomberg Meta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing Power Krafton Agrees to Pay ‘Subnautica 2’ Bonuses as Developer’s CEO Resigns US Decides Against Renewing USMCA, Shifting to Rolling Talks SpaceX IPO Left Mirae With No Shares on Misunderstanding Democratic Socialist Ousts 15-Term House Incumbent in Colorado The proposed “binary KPI options” would settle based on whether a company’s reported financial or operating metric met a preset threshold, rather than on the movement of its stock price, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The contracts, which would be similar to binary yes-or-no bets already available on prediction market exchanges, would track 23 companies and more than 100 possible metrics. The proposal comes as exchange operators like Cboe are racing to list products that give traders new ways to hedge risk, while also competing with the likes of Kalshi and Polymarket for retail interest in event-style contracts. Other company metrics listed in the filing include Apple Inc. iPhone sales, Coinbase Global Inc. trading volume and Tesla Inc. model 3 and model Y production. Unlike Kalshi and Polymarket, which are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Cboe is a securities exchange operator and therefore overseen by the SEC, which has stricter rules about listing new products. Traditional exchange operators have nonetheless sought to roll out a raft of new contracts in recent months, seeking to capture growing demand for event-driven trading while keeping that activity on time-tested venues. Cboe said last week it brought back a type of contract that allows customers to place yes or no bets on the S&P 500 reaching a certain threshold, after a hiatus of more than a decade. Nasdaq Inc. has regulatory approval to launch binary index options contracts, which are expected to list later this year, while Intercontinental Exchange Inc., owner of the New York Stock Exchange, is adding new futures contracts tied to global monetary-policy decisions and US natural gas storage, Bloomberg reported earlier this week....

Cboe Global Markets Inc. is seeking US Securities and Exchange Commission approval to list binary op

Fung reports Anthropic engineers ship 8x more code quarterly, with AVGO and NVDA tied to the AI infrastructure enabling that throughput. As code generation costs collapse, verification and observability become the scarce resources, benefiting MSFT and hyperscalers hosting the underlying models. Fung's team has designers and PMs directly committing code, collapsing the traditional boundary between technical and non-technical engineering roles. Don't wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. See the full list FREE now. A recent appearance by Fiona Fung, who manages the Claude Code and Cowork teams at Anthropic, on Lenny Rachitsky's Podcast offered a window into how one of the world's most prominent AI labs approaches software engineering when its engineers are AI-native. Her headline claim is that today, "Coding is no longer the bottleneck." Fung referenced an internal chart showing Anthropic engineers shipping 8 times as much code per quarter today compared with 2021 through 2025 levels. For two decades, software engineering productivity has been measured in proxies like pull requests, lines shipped, and cycle time. Fung's argument is that the cost of producing code has collapsed inside Anthropic, and the constraints have moved elsewhere. As she put it, "Now it's all about, where has that shift happened? Not only are more people checking in code, but like different disciplines, but also the throughput is so high, how do we think about verification?" When a team can generate a quarter's worth of code in a week, the scarce resource becomes the human and automated judgment needed to confirm the output behaves correctly, secures customer data, and matches intent. Code review, test infrastructure, observability, and post-deployment monitoring become the gating activities rather than raw code development. Don't wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. See the full list FREE now. Fung described a team composition that would have been unusual even a year ago. "We also have designers, PMs, everybody on the [Claude Code] team checks in code," she said. If accurate as a description of practice, it implies that the traditional career ladder, where coding is a gated specialist activity, is being rewritten inside AI-native firms. Product managers prototype features. Designers ship UI changes direc...

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) today is down -0.15%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) is up +0.23%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is up +0.30%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26) are down -0.17%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQM26) are up +0.24%. Stock indexes are mixed today, with the Dow Jones Industrials posting a new all-time high. Strength in chipmakers is leading the overall market higher. Stocks also garnered support on better-than-expected US economic reports on US May retail sales, a sign of resilient consumer demand, and May pending home sales. Weakness in telecommunication and trucking stocks is limiting gains in the overall market. Rocket Lab vs. Redwire: 1 Stock Has the Stronger Growth Story for the Next Decade Dear SpaceX Stock Fans, Mark Your Calendars for June 16 Dear Western Digital Stock Fans, Mark Your Calendars for June 22 Our exclusive Barchart Brief newsletter is your FREE midday guide to what's moving stocks, sectors, and investor sentiment - delivered right when you need the info most. Subscribe today! Stocks also have carryover support from Monday after the US and Iran agreed to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, knocking crude oil prices down to a 3.5-month low and stoking risk-on sentiment in asset markets. The market’s focus will be on the conclusion of today’s 2-day FOMC meeting, the first under the leadership of new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. While the Fed is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, the spotlight will be on how Mr. Warsh navigates the post-meeting press conference and the outlook for inflation. US MBA mortgage applications fell -3.8% in the week ended June 12, with the purchase mortgage sub-index down -3.4% and the refinancing mortgage sub-index down -4.5%. The average 30-year fixed rate mortgage was unchanged from last week at 6.60%. US May retail sales rose +0.9% m/m, stronger than expectations of +0.6% m/m. Also, May retail sales ex-autos rose +0.8% m/m, stronger than expectations of +0.6% m/m. US May pending home sales rose +3.8% m/m, stronger than expectations of +0.9% m/m and the biggest increase in 20 months. WTI crude oil prices (CLN26) recovered from a 3.5-month low today and are moving higher as prices consolidate following this week’s plunge. The eventual resumption of vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could lead to the release of more than 100 laden ships ca...

Dow Jones Futures: Broadcom, Micron, Nvidia and Sandisk were big winners Monday. Credo plunged on earnings late.

Earnings season is winding down, but we still have a couple of big name companies reporting. This week we have Broadcom (AVGO), Crowdstrike (CRWD), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Medtronic (MDT) and Ciena Corp (CIEN) all reporting. Before a company reports earnings, implied volatility is usually high because the market is unsure about the outcome of the report. Speculators and hedgers create huge demand for the company’s options which increases the implied volatility, and therefore, the price of options. Jobs Data, Tech Earnings and Other Key Things to Watch this Week Northrop Grumman Just Hiked Its Dividend, But Its Stock Has Tanked - Time to Buy NOC? Dell Stock Could Be Worth 30% More - Based on Strong AI Demand and FCF Our exclusive Barchart Brief newsletter is your FREE midday guide to what's moving stocks, sectors, and investor sentiment - delivered right when you need the info most. Subscribe today! After the earnings announcement, implied volatility usually drops back down to normal levels. Let’s take a look at the expected range for these stocks. To calculate the expected range, look up the option chain and add together the price of the at-the-money put option and the at-the-money call option. Use the first expiry date after the earnings date. While this approach is not as accurate as a detailed calculation, it does serve as a reasonably accurate estimate. Monday HPE – 17.7% CRDO – 18.8% Tuesday PANW – 11.2% Wednesday AVGO – 9.6% CRWD – 10.3% MDT – 5.1% Thursday CIEN – 16.4% Friday Nothing of note Option traders can use these expected moves to structure trades. Bearish traders can look at selling bear call spreads outside the expected range. Bullish traders can sell bull put spreads outside the expected range, or look at naked puts for those with a higher risk tolerance. Neutral traders can look at iron condors. When trading iron condors over earnings, it is best to keep the short strikes outside the expected range. When trading options over earnings, it is best to stick to risk defined strategies and keep position size small. If the stock makes a larger than expected move and the trade suffers a full loss, it should not have more than a 1-3% effect on your portfolio. We can use Barchart’s Stock Screener to find other stocks with high implied volatility. Let’s run the stock screener with the following filters: Total call volume: Greater than 5,000 Market...

Li Auto reports a first-quarter per share loss of 15 cents while Wall Street was looking for a loss of 13 cents. XPeng reports a loss of 13 cents; Wall Street expected a loss of 10 cents.

Earnings season is winding down, but we still have a couple of big name companies reporting. This week we have Dell Technologies (DELL), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Snowflake (SNOW), Salesforce (CRM) and Costco (COST) all reporting. Before a company reports earnings, implied volatility is usually high because the market is unsure about the outcome of the report. Speculators and hedgers create huge demand for the company’s options which increases the implied volatility, and therefore, the price of options. Micron Stock is Up over 133% From Its Lows - But Is MU Still Undervalued? Nvidia Hikes Its Dividend and Buybacks Based on Surging FCF - Is NVDA Too Cheap? Real Money Flows + Fed Pause + Seasonal Timing: The AUD Setup Traders Are Watching! Markets move fast. Keep up by reading our FREE midday Barchart Brief newsletter for exclusive charts, analysis, and headlines. After the earnings announcement, implied volatility usually drops back down to normal levels. Let’s take a look at the expected range for these stocks. To calculate the expected range, look up the option chain and add together the price of the at-the-money put option and the at-the-money call option. Use the first expiry date after the earnings date. While this approach is not as accurate as a detailed calculation, it does serve as a reasonably accurate estimate. Monday Memorial Day Holiday Tuesday Nothing of note Wednesday MRVL – 13.5% SNOW – 13.5% PDD – 6.5% CRM – 8.7% SNPS – 8.5% Thursday DELL – 11.7% COST – 3.7% Friday Nothing of note Option traders can use these expected moves to structure trades. Bearish traders can look at selling bear call spreads outside the expected range. Bullish traders can sell bull put spreads outside the expected range, or look at naked puts for those with a higher risk tolerance. Neutral traders can look at iron condors. When trading iron condors over earnings, it is best to keep the short strikes outside the expected range. When trading options over earnings, it is best to stick to risk defined strategies and keep position size small. If the stock makes a larger than expected move and the trade suffers a full loss, it should not have more than a 1-3% effect on your portfolio. Stocks With High Implied Volatility We can use Barchart’s Stock Screener to find other stocks with high implied volatility. Let’s run the stock screener with the following filters: Total call v...