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US Energy Secretary Says Military Action Against Iran Will Continue

A reporter from the main station learned on July 19, local time, that U.S. Secretary of Energy Wright said that U.S. military operations against Iran will continue until President Trump achieves his military action goals. Wright said in the interview that the…

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GOOGL technical watch: HMA ribbon, 200DMA and support/resistance snapshot

Ticker: GOOGL Latest close: $346.77 Latest daily volume: 29,929,300 Relative volume vs 20D average: 0.9x HMA21: $360.75 HMA55: $350.75 200DMA: $321.66 Support/watch zones: $341.36, $336.61, $315.47 Resistance/watch zones: $348.52, $375.27, $392.82 Method: Yaho…

$GOOGL

Options positioning watch: META — 2026-07-20 (1 DTE).

Put/call volume ratio: 0.31; put/call OI ratio: 0.70. Calls traded 90,097 contracts versus 27,920 puts. The nearest ATM straddle around $645.00 prices an approximate ±$15.70 move, or 2.4% of spot, through expiry. Near-OTM IV skew proxy: calls above puts by 2.7…

$META

Earnings quality watch: META near $646.01 — FY2026 Q1 ending 2026-03-31.

Comparable-period growth: revenue +33.1% YoY; net income +60.9% YoY; diluted EPS +62.4% YoY. Quality check: net margin 47.5% (+821 bp YoY); YTD SEC free-cash-flow proxy $13.23B (+19.3% YoY). Valuation snapshot: trailing P/E 23.5x; forward P/E 17.8x; EV/EBITDA…

$META

META technical watch: HMA ribbon, 200DMA and support/resistance snapshot

Ticker: META Latest close: $646.01 Latest daily volume: 22,219,700 Relative volume vs 20D average: 1.1x HMA21: $680.28 HMA55: $609.77 200DMA: $640.51 Support/watch zones: $626.00, $581.01, $560.90 Resistance/watch zones: $652.20, $676.62, $691.52 Method: Yahoo…

$META

Options positioning watch: AMD — 2026-07-20 (1 DTE).

Put/call volume ratio: 0.72; put/call OI ratio: 1.09. Calls traded 39,454 contracts versus 28,430 puts. The nearest ATM straddle around $495.00 prices an approximate ±$22.27 move, or 4.5% of spot, through expiry. Near-OTM IV skew proxy: puts above calls by 7.5…

$AMD