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Futures tick higher, yields ease, and Macron dials up the G7 on crude. Here's your Friday setup.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

October 02, 2026   |   Read online 🌅 Today's Morning Call S&P Futures 7,757.75 ▲ +15.00 (+0.19%) Nasdaq Futures 30,934.25 ▲ +53.00 (+0.17%) Dow Futures 51,494.00 ▲ +144.00 (+0.28%) 10Y Treasury 5.24% ▼ -0.06% US Dollar 102.02 ▲ +0.09 (+0.09%) Bitcoin $86,450 ▲ +$1,601 (+1.89%) Data as of 8:08 AM ET Good morning! Happy Friday, and welcome to the first trading day of October. The mood is cautiously upbeat, with futures pointing higher across the board and Treasury yields backing off a touch. Energy diplomacy and a flurry of corporate deals are shaping the tape before the bell. Here's your morning rundown. 👀 What to Watch Today Energy is the headline act today. French President Macron is set to call his G7 counterparts about coordinated action on crude and refined product markets, while the Trump administration is pressing Europe to tap diesel reserves as Iran-war disruptions push prices to record levels. Watch energy names and refiners for volatility. On the corporate front, Novartis (NVS) is in focus after agreeing to license a drug from China's Abogen in a deal worth up to $7.8 billion, a potential game-changer for autoimmune treatment. Keep an eye on big pharma peers for sympathy moves. Also on the radar: Amazon (AMZN) headlines twice, with a $1 billion community investment pledge and a reported plan to sell $8 billion of Nvidia (NVDA) chips to investors. That chip story could ripple through the entire AI complex today. Your Phone Is Smarter Than Your Inbox Not every market move can wait. Our text alerts deliver the ones that can't. One short alert, straight to your phone, when something is worth seeing now. No fluff. No noise. No charge. Text Me the Alerts Two paths to universal income. One already exists today. [ad] 🌏 Overnight Recap Global markets leaned constructive overnight as traders digested the energy diplomacy headlines. The dollar index firmed slightly to 102.02, while Bitcoin jumped nearly 1.9% to roughly $86,450, showing risk appetite is alive and well heading into the session. European trade had plenty to chew on. Airbus (EADSY) reportedly delivered just over 70 aircraft in September after a last-minute push helped narrow earlier delays, a welcome sign for the aerospace supply chain. The crude and diesel reserve conversations dominated the macro narrative across the pond. Treasury yields eased across the curve, with the 10-year slipping to 5.24% and the 5-year down to 5.01%. Lower yields paired with green futures set up a supportive backdrop for equities at the open. Elon Musk’s One Stock Retirement Plan [ad] Sponsored Content AI Thursday Payouts: $252. $264. $259. Every week, this ETF deposits income from artificial intelligence stocks directly into your account. Up to $1,051 a month. See exactly how it works here. 📊 Pre-Market Movers Novartis (NVS) is a name to watch at the open after inking a licensing deal worth up to $7.8 billion with China's Abogen, whose lead drug could reshape autoimmune disease treatment. Deals of this size tend to draw attention across the pharma space. Amazon (AMZN) is doing double duty this morning. Its cloud arm pledged more than $1 billion over five years for communities near its data centers, while the FT reports Amazon is looking to transfer about $8 billion of Nvidia (NVDA) chips to investors to strengthen its balance sheet. Consumer names are in the mix too. Burger King parent Restaurant Brands (QSR) is leaning on local franchisees to drive a U.S. turnaround, while Starbucks (SBUX) faces pressure from a U.S. congressman urging it to close its new Xinjiang stores. Buy This AI Company (Ticker Inside) [ad] 🔍 Today's Watchlist Energy names and refiners as Macron and the G7 weigh crude and diesel reserve releases Novartis (NVS) and big pharma peers after the $7.8 billion Abogen licensing deal Amazon (AMZN) on both its $1 billion data center community pledge and reported $8 billion Nvidia chip sale Treasury yields, with the 10-year easing to 5.24% and the dollar holding near 102 Bitcoin momentum after a 1.9% overnight pop toward $86,450 Sponsored Content How Gold Could Become an Income Machine For You Just one click and you could start collecting extra monthly income up to $1,152 per month like clockwork from gold. Click here to discover the $15 fund delivering serious returns. 🎯 The Morning Playbook The play today is keeping one eye on energy and the other on AI. The Macron-led G7 call and the push for Europe to release diesel reserves could swing crude and refiner stocks fast, so position accordingly if you trade that corner of the market. Meanwhile, Amazon's reported move to offload $8 billion in Nvidia chips is a reminder that the AI financing story is evolving. Watch how the broader chip complex reacts, as that signals how investors are pricing the next leg of the buildout. With futures green and yields easing, the setup favors the bulls into the open. Stay nimble, respect your levels, and let the catalysts do the talking. Make it a strong close to the week. Your $29.97 book is free today [ad] 📰 Further Reading The $15 Gold Fund That Pays Up to $1,152/Month (Ad) A $15 fund is quietly paying regular investors up to $1,152 a month from gold's rally. Not mining stocks. Not options. Not a single ounce of physical metal. Something most investors have never heard of. The next payout is just days away. If you're not positioned before it hits, you're watching incom... Discover the gold income fund before the next payout date here Missed the Gold Boom? 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October 02, 2026 Friends, Your special offer expires at midnight tonight. If you're still on the fence about joining Inside Crypto, I want to clear something up. Tonight, you're not deciding whether to join my crypto research service… You're deciding whether you believe the financial system is changing or not. Because that's what's actually on the table here. The SEC has already voted. The "innovation exemption" to accelerate this is already live. TD Cowen puts the shift at $100 trillion by 2030. And 68 of the biggest financial firms on earth are already moving to get in front of it. If you think that's wrong, then nothing I say tonight should move you, and you should delete this email with a clear conscience. But if you think it's right, even partly right… The only thing left for YOU to decide is whether you are finally going to take action… or sit this out… I've been in the financial markets for nearly 40 years. Long enough to know that this is where it's won or lost. 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I showed you how retail investors drove the first wave... How private wealth helped drive the second... And how both opportunities started taking shape during the ugly stretch I call the “lull” – the gap between when one wave ends and the next begins. I promised I’d show you the Third Wave today – and the signal that told me the next group of buyers was getting ready to come in. That signal was BlackRock. In November 2021, bitcoin peaked near $69,000. Then the whole market unraveled. FTX collapsed after Sam Bankman-Fried secretly diverted customer money to his hedge fund, Alameda Research. He was later convicted in a fraud that stole more than $8 billion from FTX customers. More than 1 million creditors were caught in the wreckage. Celsius was another disaster. It froze withdrawals after telling customers they could earn yields as high as 17%, then filed for bankruptcy with a $1.19 billion hole in its balance sheet. BlockFi got dragged down in the same collapse. 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I told my readers that with Coinbase and Binance raking in billions from crypto trading, Wall Street wasn’t going to sit by and watch that money escape them. When there’s that much money being made somewhere, they’re going to find a way to get their cut. They were going to find a way in. The only thing missing was a regulatory-compliant way. You and I could buy bitcoin in a few clicks. But a wealth manager wasn’t going to hand a 70-year-old client a wallet and say, “Here are your private keys. Don’t lose them.” They needed bitcoin packaged in a similar wrapper they already used for stocks and funds. That’s how I knew they were going to build it. In June 2023, BlackRock confirmed everything I had been saying since 2018. Then I Saw the Filing On June 15, 2023, BlackRock filed paperwork with the SEC for the iShares Bitcoin Trust. This was BlackRock, the world’s largest and most prestigious asset manager, with roughly $9.4 trillion under management. I remember looking at that filing and thinking: This is the moment crypto starts becoming a legitimate asset class. Bitcoin was still trading around $25,000, with a market value of only about $500 billion. The entire crypto market was worth roughly $1.2 trillion. That’s the kind of asymmetric setup I live for. Because once Wall Street got its on-ramp, the money came fast. On January 10, 2024, the SEC approved spot bitcoin ETFs. Suddenly, institutions could own bitcoin through the same brokerage and wealth-management accounts they already used for stocks and funds. This was the mass financialization of crypto by Wall Street that I had been predicting since 2018. And my readers were already positioned for it. From the roughly $25,000 level when BlackRock filed, bitcoin eventually ran above $126,000. Its market value exploded from about $500 billion to roughly $2.5 trillion. The entire crypto market grew from around $1.2 trillion to $4.4 trillion at the 2025 peak. And once again, bitcoin acted as a slingshot for the smaller altcoins. My readers had the chance to nearly 6x their money on Solana. My Chainlink recommendation rose 62x. My Binance Coin recommendation climbed as much as 729x. I’d already seen what gains like that could do for people’s lives. Readers had written to me about paying off houses, retiring early and helping their kids. That was Crypto Wealth Wave 3. First came mom-and-pop investors. Then private wealth. Then Wall Street. Who Comes Next? Now look at where we are today. Bitcoin peaked above $126,000 last October and later plunged into the high-$50,000s. Ethereum is still well below its all-time high. Solana is more than 50% below its peak. Then last week, bitcoin ripped from below $75,000 to above $87,000 in six days. Now it’s taking a breather again. And the altcoins are cooling off with it. That brings us right back to the question I’ve been asking since the First Wealth Wave: Where does the next wave of money come from? 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McDonald’s is betting AI can boost margins through smarter pricing—but investors fear personalized prices could trigger a Wendy’s-style customer backlash. With shares down more than 30%, the potential upside may not justify the reputational risk.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

October 02, 2026   |   Read online McDonald’s Stock Slump Makes Its AI Pricing Bet Even Riskier McDonald’s is betting AI can boost margins through smarter pricing—but investors fear personalized prices could trigger a Wendy’s-style customer backlash. With shares down more than 30%, the potential upside may not justify the reputational risk. ONE thing separates top traders from the crowd (From The TradingPub) Key Points McDonald's shares have fallen more than 30% since March and hit a nearly four-year low after unveiling AI-driven menu pricing and customer-engagement tools at its investor day. The strategy echoes Wendy's 2024 dynamic pricing backlash, raising fears that customers could view location-based or personalized pricing as unfair surge pricing. McDonald's has not quantified the specific margin benefit of dynamic pricing, though it ties into broader 2030 goals of higher efficiency and operating margins near 50%. Special Report: Crypto's October streak broke last year. Now what? (From Crypto 101 Media)   McDonald's Corp (NYSE: MCD), the fast-food giant, has had a rough 2026. The stock currently trades just above $230, is down more than 30% since March and is at its lowest level in nearly four years. Its Relative Strength Index (RSI), a momentum gauge that reads oversold below 30, has fallen to 23, and the company is only three weeks out from its next earnings report. If there’s one stock out there, in other words, that could do with some positive headlines, it’s the home of the Big Mac. Unfortunately for McDonald’s investors, however, the company appears to have shot itself in the foot during a presentation last week. Even though one of its top competitors, Wendy's Co (NASDAQ: WEN), faced major backlash over the same thing in 2024, McDonald's is now rolling out its own AI-driven pricing engine and beginning to test dynamic pricing. The question for investors is whether the potential margin upside is worth the risk. AI May Have Evolved Into Your 401(k)’s Biggest Threat (Ad) OpenAI recently revealed that advanced AI agents found ways around its safeguards, gained internet access, and compromised systems belonging to another company. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that within 6 to 12 months, more capable misaligned systems could threaten the internet on a much larger scale, raising new questions about who protects your 401k, IRA, and brokerage accounts. A new guide outlines a legal IRS loophole that lets you transfer vulnerable retirement savings into physical gold and silver without taxes or penalties. Download your free 2026 Wealth Preservation Guide to protect your retirement now. Inside McDonald's Pricing Engine At last week’s investor day, McDonald's laid out two connected tools. The first is a menu-pricing engine that crunches transaction and local market data to suggest prices for each restaurant and each item, while leaving the final call with franchisees. The second is a customer-engagement engine that uses personalized offers and rewards to nudge existing customers to visit more often and trade up to pricier orders. The scale behind that second tool is already sizable. McDonald's counts nearly 220 million 90-day active loyalty members, with its less frequent app users representing a big re-engagement opportunity. A tailored offer might read as a perk the customer chooses to claim, but a higher price than the same Big Mac that’s available two miles away reads very differently. That gap in perception is where the strategy gets delicate. How Much Margin Is Really at Stake Despite the current sell-off being one of the worst in decades, McDonald's is entering this AI-driven pricing strategy from a position of strength, with margins remaining relatively stable over the past year. When a company is already running at a healthy profit, even if growth is slowing, a modest lift in visit frequency or order size can be a meaningful boost. That's the bull case in one line: extract a little more from the existing enormous high-margin base. The catch is that McDonald's hasn't attached a hard number to what location or willingness-to-pay pricing will add on its own. The closest concrete benchmark comes from its broader modernization push, which targets substantial gains in restaurant efficiency, meaningful annual cash-flow improvements per average U.S. restaurant, and operating margins approaching 50% by 2030. Those goals rely on far more than pricing software, so crediting them entirely to dynamic pricing plans would overstate the case. Why Biotech Could Be the Next AI Boom Investors Are Watching (Ad) Biotech indices returned over 56 percent in the past 12 months, outpacing the Nasdaq 100, according to Goldman Sachs. Biotech IPOs have already doubled last year's total in the first half of 2026 alone. AI is now embedded in drug discovery itself. Novo Nordisk runs 600-plus AI staff and 30-plus AI partnerships, Roche is building autonomous AI labs, and Nvidia-backed Iambic just filed for a U.S. IPO around an AI-designed oncology drug. Porter Stansberry calls this convergence the Ignition Point and says the recording comes down at midnight. Watch Porter's full Ignition Point broadcast before it's removed The Wendy's Warning On top of that, the cautionary tale is real. In early 2024, Wendy's CEO at the time, Kirk Tanner, mentioned testing dynamic pricing in passing, but the reaction was instant and brutal. Customers and much of the media instantly read the term as Uber-style surge pricing, the kind that climbs when demand is highest. Boycott threats followed, politicians accused the chain of price gouging, and Wendy's quickly backtracked, clarifying that it wouldn't raise prices during busy periods. McDonald's doesn't even need to look across the street for a warning. The stock has already sunk to fresh lows since last week's presentation, a signal that the market is deeply skeptical of what the company is pitching. Investors are pricing in the risk of a Wendy's-style backlash, with all the potential customer defection, regulatory scrutiny and franchise resistance that could come with it. The real question isn't whether the algorithm works—it's whether customers will accept it, and whether franchisees will implement it when the margin upside isn't guaranteed. The Upside Worth Considering While the market’s reaction has been clear, that doesn’t make the technology a mistake—yet. McDonald's might have the scale, the loyalty data and the margins to make AI-driven pricing work. If used quietly, for example, to guide franchisee prices or sharpen personalized rewards, it very likely will. The trouble starts if the company reaches for the aggressive version and lets prices swing by location or inferred willingness to pay, with no clear value trade for the customer. For investors eyeing an oversold stock near four-year lows, that means this new pricing story could support cautious optimism rather than a signal to keep looking away. The upside potential is real, and with earnings due in less than a month, investors won't have to wait long for a first read on whether smarter pricing is lifting profit or just chasing customers away. Read this article online › Featured Stories Deutsche Bank Makes a Contrarian Call on Netflix—What Does It Mean for Investors? 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