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Boeing climbs as FAA expected to ease safety check process, speeding up deliveries

Shares of Boeing are taking off in premarket trading on Friday, following a report that the plane maker could soon face fewer obstacles in delivering its aircraft to customers.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the FAA plans to give Boeing the ability to perform final safety checks on its planes. The agency will also hike the production cap on the 737 Max to 42 jets a month, up from 38.

The move is another sign of recovery for Boeing, which has struggled through years of safety issues, regulator scrutiny, and delivery delays.

The plane maker on Friday also announced that it’s secured two more hefty orders, following the $8.5 billion Uzbekistan Airways deal earlier this week. Turkish Airlines will buy 225 Boeing planes, while Norwegian Air signed a deal to order 30 737 planes. Precise financial details of the deals weren’t disclosed.

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The move is another sign of recovery for Boeing, which has struggled through years of safety issues, regulator scrutiny, and delivery delays.

The plane maker on Friday also announced that it’s secured two more hefty orders, following the $8.5 billion Uzbekistan Airways deal earlier this week. Turkish Airlines will buy 225 Boeing planes, while Norwegian Air signed a deal to order 30 737 planes. Precise financial details of the deals weren’t disclosed.

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GameStop surges as company offers promotions to boost launch of “Pokémon” Mega Evolution set

GameStop is jumping as the company offers promotions to boost interest for today’s North American launch of the Mega Evolution set of the “Pokémon Trading Card Game.”

Options activity is a little more tilted to the bull side than usual. Over the past month, a little less than four calls have changed hands for every put option. As of 10:22 a.m. ET, that ratio is over five to one.

It’s a big day for collectibles fans and gamers alike: beyond the “Pokémon TCG” drop, there are also new collections from “Yu-Gi-Oh!” and “Magic: The Gathering” being released and “EA SPORTS FC 26,” as well.

As we’ve written, “Pokémon” trading cards have been skyrocketing in value, and GameStop’s collectibles business has been accelerating. These are two sides of the same coin.

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Matt Phillips

IREN slips after JPM gives the stock its only “sell” rating

Bitcoin miner and AI compute power provider IREN slumped in early trading after JPMorgan analyst Reggie Smith cut his rating on the stock to “underweight” from “neutral,” citing downside risks for the stock after a rally that carried it up 100% over the last month and some 600% over the last six months.

Smith is the lone member of the sell side with an “underweight” (equivalent to a “sell”) rating, per Bloomberg.

“We estimate shares are pricing in a >1 GW colocation deal, which would be a deal of record scale and capex (>$10 billion), which is possible over time, but for now, creates more downside risk in shares than upside potential,” he wrote, as quoted by Bloomberg.

He set a price target of $24, which is both 50% higher than his previous target but also 48% below where the shares closed on Thursday.

Smith is the lone member of the sell side with an “underweight” (equivalent to a “sell”) rating, per Bloomberg.

“We estimate shares are pricing in a >1 GW colocation deal, which would be a deal of record scale and capex (>$10 billion), which is possible over time, but for now, creates more downside risk in shares than upside potential,” he wrote, as quoted by Bloomberg.

He set a price target of $24, which is both 50% higher than his previous target but also 48% below where the shares closed on Thursday.

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Home goods retailers slide as Trump rolls out new furniture tariffs

Furniture retailers were under pressure in early trading Friday after President Trump announced 50% tariffs on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, and 30% tariffs on upholstered goods. The new import duties are set to go into effect on October 1.

RH shares slipped nearly 4%, while Wayfair and Williams-Sonoma dropped about 3%.

The move follows warnings last month, when the White House told Reuters it was investigating furniture imports on national security grounds. The US imported $25.5 billion worth of furniture in 2024, up 7% from the prior year, with Vietnam and China accounting for about 60% of those imports, per Furniture Today.

For RH, the tariff hit comes at a difficult time. Earlier this month, the retailer trimmed its full-year revenue outlook to 9% to 11% growth, down from prior guidance of 10% to 13%, citing margin pressure from tariffs and housing market weakness. Wall Street had been looking for ~10% growth.

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Intel trades higher on TSMC investment talks and report on new Trump administration plans to boost US chip production

Intel has approached TSMC about potential investments or manufacturing partnerships, The Wall Street Journal reports, a day after Bloomberg reported that Apple was also in talks with the struggling chipmaker.

The outreach comes as Intel ramps up efforts to secure outside backers, following a $5 billion investment from Nvidia, a $2 billion injection from SoftBank, and an $8.9 billion (~10%) stake taken by the US government — which, so far, has paid off handsomely for Uncle Sam.

Separately, the WSJ also reports that the Trump administration is mulling plans to force companies to equalize their usage of chips produced domestically with those that are imported, or they could face tariffs. The potential measures could be beneficial for companies that have a large US foundry footprint or are in the process of boosting production stateside. As such, this report may also be buoying shares of Intel this morning, as well as fueling a rally in GlobalFoundries.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has been seeking partners to turn the chipmaker around, as the company trails rivals in AI chips and struggles to set up its supply chain. Earlier this year, Tan met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and TSMC chief C.C. Wei about “a partnership or joint venture,” per the WSJ.

Intel’s shares closed Thursday up 8.9%, reaching their highest level in more than a year, and were extending their gains in premarket trading Friday, up 5%. TSMC is down ~2% premarket.

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