👀 The Mag 7 Gap Just Broke!

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The Magnificent Seven's valuation premium over the other 493 S&P companies just shrank from 30% to 10%.

Lowest gap in a decade.

Sounds like the AI trade is cracking. But Phil Camporeale, chief investment strategist at JPMorgan Wealth Management, reads it differently. His line to CNBC: "I think it has more to do with the 493 than the 7."

He think’s everyone else finally showed up to the party.

Camporeale isn't calling the top on AI. He's calling the early innings.

Not a three month trade. He's talking a 3 to 5 year AI trade, then a 10 to 15 year one built on productivity gains.

The semiconductor wobble? Normalisation, not a warning light.

And the maths backs him up. Anyone who got into semis at the start of last year is sitting on returns triple the S&P 500's year to date.

When you're up 3x the index, hitting sell is just profit taking.

Add thin summer liquidity and a wave of retail selling last week, and you get moves that look scarier than they are. August volumes have never been a reliable crystal ball for December.

Financials. Boring, unsexy, quietly printing.

His case:

Both JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs flagged strong capital markets in their recent earnings. When the two biggest players on Wall Street say deal flow is good, that's usually not a fluke.

Camporeale's word for the whole setup: a "high-class problem." Tech isn't falling apart. Everything else is getting more profitable.

Here's a bit of a curve-ball that’s turned up.

The market had a 30% probability on the Fed raising rates. Not cutting. Raising.

Camporeale thinks that's way too high, and he's got receipts. Since the Fed's June 17 meeting:

Three signals pointing one direction, and the market still pricing a hike. Someone's wrong, and it probably isn't the data.

The interesting shift here is breadth. For years, owning the S&P 500 meant owning seven stocks with 493 passengers. That premium closing to 10% suggests the passengers are starting to pull their weight.

For anyone holding a broad index fund, that's actually good news. Your returns stop depending entirely on whether one chip company beats guidance.

It also means the "tech pullback" headlines and the "market is fine" data can both be true at the same time. Rotation looks like weakness right up until you check what money rotated into.

None of which tells you what to do. But it does tell you what the pros are watching.

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Amazon gained more US grocery share than any other retailer last year.

Walmart $WMT ( ▲ 0.99% ) gained share. Costco $COST ( ▲ 0.77% ) gained share. Amazon $AMZN ( ▼ 1.82% ) gained the most.

That's per Numerator's tracking of the twelve months ending June 30. The company that sells you phone chargers at 2am is now the fastest-growing grocer in America.

Amazon is winning groceries and closing its grocery stores at the same time.

The plan is to shut Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go locations, converting some of those sites into Whole Foods.

Amazon Go was the walk-in, grab-stuff, walk-out concept that was going to change retail forever. The future of shopping turned out to be a van.

The growth is coming from the internet, not the aisles.

Amazon's grocery arm now runs across Amazon.com grocery items, Fresh delivery, Whole Foods, and local grocery partners, reaching more than 3,500 US cities and towns.

In 2026 it pushed same-day grocery delivery into even more of them.

Groceries are a zero-sum knife fight. Nobody eats more because a new competitor showed up, so every point of share Amazon takes comes out of somebody else's trolley.

That's the uncomfortable part for Kroger and Albertsons. Grocery runs on razor-thin margins, so volume is the entire business model. Lose the volume and there's nothing underneath it.

For Amazon, the interesting read-through is Prime. Weekly food delivery is about the stickiest habit a retailer can build, and stickiness is what keeps a subscription renewing.

Worth watching whether the Whole Foods conversions land, or whether Amazon just becomes a delivery company that happens to sell avocados.

The FAA wants to waive 13 environmental laws so rockets can fly faster.

The FAA proposed rules letting it skip environmental reviews for certain commercial space licenses and permits.

On the chopping block: NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, chunks of the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act.

Still standing: reviews covering public safety, national security, property and foreign policy. Rockets are still not allowed to land on your house.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pitched it as a second Space Race that America loses if red tape wins. The proposal builds on a Trump executive order aimed at opening up the commercial space industry.

The FAA authorized more commercial space operations in the past five years than in the previous three decades combined.

Fiscal 2025 set a record at 204 operations.

The forecast goes near vertical:

FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford essentially admitted the agency can't keep pace without a rewrite. Right now applicants juggle overlapping reviews from multiple agencies, each requesting the same paperwork in a slightly different font.

The proposal also leans on a unanimous 2025 Supreme Court decision that described NEPA as a "blunt and haphazard tool" used to stall projects. When all nine justices agree on anything, Washington tends to listen.

Faster licensing means shorter timelines, lower regulatory costs and more launches per year.

That is the entire thesis for launch providers, satellite network operators and every supplier feeding them. Flight cadence is the business model, and every week saved in permitting is revenue pulled forward.

The catch: this is a proposal, not a rule. Public comment runs 30 days, then the FAA decides whether to finalize. Environmental groups will not be sending thank-you cards.

Worth remembering too that regulation is only one input. Hardware still has to work, and rockets have never once cared about an executive order.