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🌙 Stocks That Never Sleep
⏳ The Robots Are Running Late
🤝 Trump Said It. Elon Did It.
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🌙 Stocks That Never Sleep
The NYSE's owner wants stocks trading 24/7.
On the blockchain. Weekends included. Christmas included.
OKXICE, a joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (the parent of the New York Stock Exchange), just filed with the SEC to launch a tokenized stock platform.
60+ US companies at launch, including the Magnificent 7.
Their shares become tokens that trade on-chain through a liquidity pool. You still get the normal shareholder perks: dividends and voting rights.
If you can't beat crypto, apparently you form a joint venture with it.
🔓 Why Now?
Two weeks ago, the SEC quietly rolled out the welcome mat.
After the Clarity Act collapsed in Congress, the SEC issued an order loosening the rules for tokenized stocks. The short version:
Certain trading venues no longer count as an "exchange"
Certain liquidity providers no longer count as a "dealer"
The relief runs for five years while the SEC works out permanent rules
Congress couldn't pass a bill, so the regulator built a side door. Classic.
Coinbase Vice Chair Ryan VanGrack called tokenization "the biggest upgrade to financial infrastructure" since Wall Street swapped paper for electronic trading.
Understated as ever, the crypto industry.
The upside sounds great:
Faster (or even instant) settlement
Access from anywhere in the world
Leaner, more efficient plumbing behind the scenes
The fine print is where it gets spicy:
Tokens could be issued by third parties that are hard to audit or control
Fragmented markets and price dislocation (the token drifting away from the real stock price)
Open questions over regulatory safeguards
Every tokenized stock is paired with a stablecoin like USDC, Global Dollar (USDG) or Tether (USDT)
That last point is sneaky important.
Your "stock" trade now leans on a crypto dollar holding its peg. Two moving parts where there used to be one.
🧠 What It Means For You
The wall between stocks and crypto is getting thin, fast.
When the people who own the NYSE start building blockchain rails, this has stopped being a fringe experiment.
But 24/7 trading creates a fun new problem.
Big news drops at 2am on a Saturday. The token moves. The actual exchange is closed. So which price is the real one come Monday morning?
Nobody fully knows yet. That's what the five-year SEC window is for.
For anyone curious about tokenized shares, the useful questions are simple: who issues the token, which stablecoin it trades against, and what happens when the token and the real stock disagree.
Round-the-clock markets also mean round-the-clock temptation to check your portfolio. Your sleep schedule has been warned. 🫡
Stocks on the blockchain are...
Forget Elon's Gadget. Buy the Companies Behind Its Tech.
Every breakthrough device runs on chips, parts, and materials from other companies — most of them public and overlooked. Our analyst named 3 positioned to profit from Elon's July 22 launch, plus the most undervalued name in the supply chain.
Oil just cleared $100 a barrel. One oil major is set to get paid twice.
Once on price. Once on volume.
Last quarter, higher prices alone added $3.1 billion to its earnings. That was before triple-digit oil.
Here's why the setup exists. About 20% of the world's oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, which is now under blockade. The G7's 100 million barrel release is a bucket of ice in a hot tub.
Meanwhile, this company grew production 5% quarter-on-quarter. A recent acquisition handed it 30% of an offshore field holding 11 billion barrels.
More barrels, sold at panic prices.
Analysts are scrambling to keep up: 11 upward EPS revisions vs 4 down in 90 days.
Earnings land later this month. Has the share price caught up with $100 oil yet?
Today's Premium+ breakdown covers what we're watching into the report:
Is the current valuation already pricing this in?
What capital-return move could come with earnings?
What is consensus missing about the volume story?
The exact signal that would change our mind
⏳ The Robots Are Running Late
Robots could replace 300,000 US jobs right now.
Out of 160 million. That's less than 0.2% of the workforce, or roughly three sold-out Wembleys.
Not exactly Skynet.
That's the estimate from a new Anthropic paper, and Apollo's chief economist Torsten Slok says the robot takeover is running very, very late.
🔧 The Hard Jobs Are The Boring Ones
The work robots can't touch is the stuff that looks ordinary.
Nurses. Repair techs. An electrician threading cable through a finished wall. A home health aide lifting a frail patient.
Today's robots can do almost none of it.
The catch? Most jobs are a bundle of simple and fiddly tasks. A robot that handles the easy slice still can't do the job.
Or as the argument goes: the mess is the moat.
⏳ The 40-Year Waiting Room
Slok says that even under aggressive assumptions, replacing physical workers at scale would take decades.
How many? At historical rates of cost decline, robots need about 40 years just to hit cost parity on 10% of jobs.
Ten percent. Forty years.
A baby born today would be shopping for a midlife-crisis convertible before robots matched humans on one job in ten.
🤖 Most Of It Isn't Even AI
Much of the automation showing up this decade has little to do with chatbots.
Think:
Car washes that scan your vehicle
Warehouse sortation lines
Autonomous vehicles
All of these grew out of sensing and control tech that was improving well before the AI boom. They'd probably have arrived anyway.
So when the machines do show up, send the thank-you card to decades of mechanical engineers. Silicon Valley can wait in line.
💰 What It Means For Your Money
Slok's read: job losses stay modest, held back by:
Cost
Fine motor work robots still fumble
Regulation
People who simply prefer human hands
And that's only one side of the ledger. US business formation is at a record, and new firms are where new jobs come from.
His bottom line? The net effect on employment is likely positive by a wide margin.
So what about the "robots kill the consumer" doom story?
For now, the numbers don't back it up. Change looks slow, uneven and grounded in old-school engineering. Very few jobs are a single task a machine can swallow whole.
🤝 Trump Said It. Elon Did It.
AI is out. Super intelligence is in.
Elon Musk says SpaceX will rename its AI unit from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI. The "S" stands for super. Obviously.
It started at the UN.
Last month, Trump told the UN General Assembly that US government documents would swap "artificial intelligence" for "super intelligence."
His reasoning? "Super" is the "much more accurate term." He added that he hopes the rest of the world follows.
Somewhere, a thesaurus is feeling very seen.
🔁 Enter Elon
On Sunday, a user on X asked Musk whether SpaceXAI would become SpaceXSI.
His full reply: "Yes, we will make that change."
No timeline. No explanation. No new logo. One sentence on X, and a whole division got a new name.
As of publication, SpaceXAI's X account still had the old name. So renaming a company is officially harder than tweeting about it.
🧠 Why Should You Care?
The technology doesn't change. Call it AI, SI, or Gerald, and the chips still do the same work.
The signal is the interesting part. SpaceX trades publicly under $SPCX ( ▲ 7.63% ), and its boss is lining up with White House language within weeks of the speech.
SpaceX already does a lot of business with the US government. Staying on the same page as Washington, down to the vocabulary, is rarely bad for that relationship.
The other thing to watch: does "SI" catch on? If other tech companies start rebranding too, "super intelligence" could become the next buzzword investors see in every earnings call.
And if it doesn't? SpaceXSI becomes a fun trivia question at the pub.