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JT Cool

@jtcool.bsky.social

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Retired. Commentary. Humor. Photography. Dogs. Vegan. Walker. Traveler. Friend. Activist. Florida. Oregon.

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JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 20

Danger level heat

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 20

More than an hour before sunrise and the heat index in Central Florida is 87°

On our way to projected heat index of 110° this afternoon

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 17

Florida’s in a summer COVID wave driven by the highly contagious Nimbus variant. (per CDC)

ER visits for COVID and respiratory illness are rising in the Orlando area, though hospitalizations remain low.

A main symptom of this COVID wave is very sore throat.

Reposted by JT Cool

BonFire @bonfire25.bsky.social · Jul 10

HOT DAMN DENMARK-THIS IS THE WAY!

#EconSky

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

TSLA + 4.7% on AI, Robotaxi Push

TSLA hits $309+ on robotaxi expansion in Austin, San Francisco

xAI’s Grok 4 integrated into vehicle next month

Analyst ups target to $404

China sales ease Q2 delivery dip (-14%)

👉 if your vehicle is your AI assistant, what is your phone?

#stocks

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

Prime Week Mixed

Day 3 intraday:
KSS +4%, BBY +2.6%, BABA +2.5%

AMZN, COST, TJX flat/slightly down

Shoppers buying budget items (~$25.23 avg, ‑11% YoY), spending $126.26/household days 1–2

👉 AMZN fizzle, rivals sizzle

#stocks #retail

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

CNBC story

www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/p...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/pentagon-to-become-largest-shareholder-in-rare-earth-magnet-maker-mp-materials.html

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

MP +43% on Pentagon Purchase

Patriot missile crisis averted?

DoD buys 15% of a mine:
-No water for processing
-Radioactive wastewater ponds
-No expertise in terbium separation
-America’s last lab exploded in 2019

👉 Ready by 2027! (trust us bro)

#stocks #rareearth #REE

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

Les Anglophones dominent l’etape 6 du Tour

Victoire ecrasante de Ben Healy, suivi de Quinn Simmons et Michael Storer

Les six premiers sont tous anglophones, peut-etre une premiere dans l’histoire du Tour !

1. Healy 🇮🇪
2. Simmons 🇺🇸
3. Storer 🇦🇺
4. Dunbar 🇮🇪
5. Yates 🇬🇧
6. Barta 🇺🇸

#TDF2025 #Cyclisme

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

So 10 companies eat 40% of the pie, 490 fight for crumbs

👉 concentration risk got renamed efficient markets

#stocks

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Jul 10

APOLLO: “.. The concentration in the S&P 500 has returned to extreme levels, with the top 10 companies accounting for 40% of the index’s market capitalization and a record-high share of earnings.”

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

BTC Soars to Record High

Bitcoin hit $112,152
(up 15% YTD)

Companies hold 847k BTC in Q2, chasing higher yields over low-return treasuries

Top holders: Strategy (597k), MARA (47.5k), Tesla (11.5k)

👉 Corporates bet big on BTC

#Stocks #BTC #crypto

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

Singapore Stocks Hit Record High, Vietnam Seals Trade Deal

Singapore’s STI marks 4th straight record day, +0.3%

Banking (half the index) gains on safe haven inflows. REITs strong

Vietnam signs US deal, cuts export tariff to 20% from 46%

VN-Index +0.3% post JPMorgan upgrade

#Asia #stocks

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

Airlines Soar in Premarket

DAL +10%, AAL +7%, UAL +5%, JBLU +3%

Delta Q2 beat ($1.99 EPS) + strong 2025 outlook lifts sector

Premium seat sales strong despite soft demand & tariff concerns

👉 Temporary tailwind?

#stocks

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

Prime Week Sales Soar, Amazon Stumbles

US day 1 online sales across all retailers reached $7.9 Billion, a 9.9% increase YoY

Biggest e-commerce day of 2025, and surpassing Black Friday $6.1B

But Amazon-only day 1 sales down 41%

👉 Shoppers hunting deals

#Stocks

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

Premarket: KLG +50% on Italian Buyout

Candy maker Ferrero Rocher nearing $3 billion deal to buy US cereal maker behind iconic brands like Froot Loops

Nutella buys Kellogg. Mama Mia!

👉 Finally we can admit those cereals really are just candy

#stocks

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 10

Trade War on Brasil

Trump wants to decide who can run Brasil. But his guy is banned until 2030, cuz he started a coup after he lost

Trump demands Brazilian courts stop standing up to big tech & their AI-spewn disinfo

Brasil leads the BRICS on de-dollarization

👉 US dominance fading,
BRICS rising

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 9

Means ICE stays north of Skeeters Last Chance Saloon 👇

ACLU of Florida @aclufl.bsky.social · Jul 8

Under Florida law, Key West is not required to enter or maintain a 287(g) agreement with ICE.

EYES OF A NATION ON KEY WEST OVER ANTI-ICE POLICY

The Key West community spoke and its leaders listened, voting on June 30 to void the city’s agreement with the federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency that would have […]

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 9

Kévin Vauquelin, le nouveau héros français !

5ᵉ du contre-la-montre de Caen

3ᵉ au classement général du #TDF2025

Le Normand signe la meilleure performance tricolore depuis Alaphilippe en 2019 ! 💙🤍❤️

Chapeau pour ton chrono monstre contre Pogačar et Evenepoel

📷 Getty
#ViveLeVélo #Cyclisme

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 9

Why do folks think buyers weren’t buying?

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 9

Amazon Prime Day Flop?

Day 1 sales tanked 41% vs. 2024 (Bloomberg)

Day 2 of the four-day summer sale, and the market is mostly up

AMZN +1.5% | TGT +0.5% |

WMT -0.2% | BBY -0.1%

#stocks

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 9

AES +19.7% on Takeover Talk

Brookfield and BlackRock circling

AES helps power AI data centers for MSFT and AMZN

AI boom is chips, server farms, cloud services, clean energy too

👉 power needs are massive

#stocks

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 9

Consumer sentiment now implies a 1-in-5 chance of a downturn in the next year, so 3x the usual odds

👉 trust the people buying groceries

#econsky #recession

Jesse Felder @jessefelder.bsky.social · Jul 9

‘The spread between the Conference Board and U. Michigan consumer surveys suggest there’s a significantly elevated chance that a U.S. recession will begin within the next 12 months.’ www.marketwatch.com/story/this-e...

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 9

Timeline:

Grok blames Musk&Trump for Texas flood deaths (now 119+)

Musk tinkers with AI to make Grok less woke

Grok immediately goes full Nazi, praises Hitler

Linda Yaccarino resigns as Twitter/X CEO

👉 Pattern: Musk breaks systems, someone else pays

#AI

JT Cool @jtcool.bsky.social · Jul 9

OpenAI just Absorbed io Products for $6.5B

So hardware & UI will save OpenAI from its massive burn rate, and not be a flop like Humane/Rabbit

👉 Ive’s iPhone cred is legit, but AI gadgets again, really?

#AI

A letter from Sam & Jony

Building a family of AI products for everyone.

Reposted by JT Cool

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · Jul 9

Good news here — two-year high for mortgage purchase applications: