Today is Chick-fil-A’s Cow Appreciation Day, its first since before the pandemic. If you love fried chicken more than your dignity, you can receive one free chicken entrée if you visit the chain dressed like a cow. (If you’re wondering what happens when Cow Appreciation Day falls on a Sunday, the celebration seems to historically take place on the second Tuesday in July.) 

The S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and Russell 2000 closed lower yesterday as the US and Iran exchanged strikes, sending oil prices higher. Information technology was the worst-performing sector as chip stocks fell, while energy was the best. 

By Luke Kawa

It’s fitting that a nuclear fusion company would go public via a merger with a blank-check company.

General Fusion, which counts Jeff Bezos among its investors, became the first pure-play company of its kind to hit public markets on Monday via a SPAC merger, gaining more than 25%.

Nuclear fusion is something that’s incredibly easy to wax poetic about (“you almost need to recreate conditions similar to the Sun and the stars,” per Twinney) and see massive potential in. The CEO called fusion a “trillion dollar market opportunity,” noting that amid an AI boom where “there’s a lot of capital flowing into these other areas, underneath all of that, we’re still gonna need energy.”

In the long term — which always seems to be a bit longer than its proponents hope — nuclear fusion could be a truly revolutionary technology.

(Heck, if it’s on a quick enough timetable, would we really need data centers in space?)

But in the here and now, it’s a good litmus test on how willing traders are to embrace risk in an environment where the biggest AI beneficiaries of 2026 have been rolling over, and equity supply and cash flows have become top-of-mind considerations.

General Fusion is a zero-revenue company; so too is Oklo, which engages in the “easier” type of nuclear power. Being tied to “the energy source of the future” has made Plug Power the most interesting stock chart in history, by my money — and that’s with hydrogen fuel cells having fewer engineering challenges than nuclear fusion. But “interesting” hasn’t made long-term holders any money.

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For a brief moment Sunday morning, it looked like the tennis world was in the midst of a paradigm shift. What once was considered a clean torch-passing from the longstanding Big Three of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic to the younger duo of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner — five titans who had won 17 straight Slams (and 34 of 36) going into Roland Garros earlier this year — seemed like it needed to make room for Alexander Zverev, who won the French Open and took the opening set from Sinner at Wimbledon. But Sinner proved better as the match progressed, winning each of the next three sets (7-6, 6-3, 6-4) to clinch his fifth career major win, locking Zverev (for now) out of the five-man club that has won 78 of the past 92 Slams (85%) over the previous 23 years:

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Adults whose spicy food intake averages six or seven days a week have a 14% lower relative risk of dying than those whose intake averages less than once a week.

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