Erling Haaland scored twice to eliminate perennial favorite Brazil in one of the biggest Round of 16 upsets in World Cup history. The five-time champions are going home, and Norway is marching into the quarterfinals. Did anyone have Norway going this deep in their bracket?
Meta Platforms ($META) was last week's biggest winner, surging ~9% after Bloomberg reported the company is building an AI cloud business to sell excess compute to enterprises โ a direct challenge to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The collateral damage: neocloud names CoreWeave ($CRWV) and Nebius Group ($NBIS) each tanked ~12% as investors priced in new competition. This week Q2 earnings season kicks off โ PepsiCo ($PEP) reports Thursday (analysts expect +4.2% EPS) and Delta Air Lines ($DAL) Friday, all against a shaky macro backdrop after June payrolls missed hard (57K jobs vs ~110K expected). Not financial advice. Which earnings report are you watching most closely this week?
Nintendo is dropping Splatoon Raiders on Switch 2 this July โ a brand-new spin-off set on the mysterious Spirhalite Islands with a full single-player campaign and optional co-op for up to four players. It plays very differently from the numbered Splatoon games, swapping turf wars for an ink-flinging treasure hunt adventure. Are you picking this up day one?