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The Early Bird Index today is 86.86.

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Arm Holding’s $ARM ( ▲ 13.63% ) overall good financial earnings results were ignored on Wednesday due to lower royalty revenue, which caused the stock to fall 6.40% in after-hours trading.

Financials: Arm reported earnings of 60 cents per share in the past quarter and revenue of $1.49 billion. Both were better than expected.

Early Bird’s Nest Egg Gains: Royalty revenue matters because it is the most scalable, recurring part of Arm’s business: once a chip ships with Arm IP, Arm gets paid again and again as that chip volume grows.

Final Thoughts: Arm’s stock was previously up over 100% this year.

Notable Earnings Today: Canadian Natural Resources (NYSE: CNQ), Coinbase Global (Nasdaq: COIN), Airbnb (Nasdaq: ABNB), Block (NYSE: XYZ), McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), ACM Research (Nasdaq: ACMR), CoreWeave (Nasdaq: CRWV), Block (NYSE: XYZ), Coinbase Global (Nasdq: COIN), DraftKings (Nasdaq: DKNG), Expedia Group (Nasdaq: EXPE), Lyft (Nasdaq: LYFT), Opendoor Technologies (Nasdaq: OPEN), Datadog (Nasdaq: DDOG), Affirm (Nasdaq: AFRM), Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT), SoundHound AI (Nasdaq: SOUN), Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB), Red Cat Holdings (Nasdaq: RCAT), Sweetgreen (NYSE: SG), Applied Optoelectronics (Nasdaq: AAOI), TripAdvisor (Nasdaq: TRIP), Papa John's (Nasdaq: PZZA), Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK), AAON (Nasdaq: AAON), Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), Arrow Electronics (NYSE: ARW), BCE (NYSE: BCE), Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX), Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY), Cars.com (NYSE: CARS), Celsius Holdings (Nasdaq: CELH), Charles River (NYSE: CRL), Cheniere Energy (NYSE: LNG), Cloudflare (NYSE: NET), Con Edison (NYSE: ED), Evergy (Nasdaq: EVRG), Gilead Sciences (Nasdaq: GILD), Howmet Aerospace (NYSE: HWM), HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS), Installed Building Products (NYSE: IBP), IREN Limited (Nasdaq: IREN), Kenvue (NYSE: KVUE), Lamar Advertising (Nasdaq: LAMR), MACOM Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: MTSI),  McKesson (NYSE: MCK), Mettler-Toledo (NYSE: MTD), Microchip (Nasdaq: MCHP), Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI), Pembina Pipeline (NYSE: PBA), Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), Somnigroup International (NYSE: SGI), Tapestry (NYSE: TPR), Toast (NYSE: TOST).

Notable IPOs Today: HawkEye 360, Inc. (NYSE: HAWK), Shreya Acquisition Group (NYSE: SAGU), Suja Life, Inc. Class A Common Stock (Nasdaq: SUJA), RoboStrategy, Inc. Common Stock (Nasdaq: BOT).

Notable Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns Ending Today: N/A.

Notable Economic Events Today: Jobless Claims (8:30 a.m. ET), Unit Labor Costs (8:30 a.m. ET), Nonfarm Productivity (8:30 a.m. ET), Construction Spending (10:00 a.m. ET), NY Fed 1-Year Consumer Inflation Expectations (11:00 a.m. ET), Consumer Credit (3:00 p.m. ET), Fed's Balance Sheet (4:30 p.m. ET).

Mixed financial results couldn’t stop DoorDash $DASH ( ▲ 1.1% ) from surging 10.70% in after-hours trading on Wednesday. The company experienced record membership signups in the quarter.

Financials: DoorDash reported earnings of 42 cents per share in the past quarter, which were better than expected. But revenue was just $4 billion, which was lower than expected.

Final Thoughts: It’s a reversal for DoorDash’s stock, which was down 23% this year.

Concerns over a weak outlook sank the tech real estate company Zillow Group $Z ( ▲ 2.27% ) by 5.71% in after-hours trading on Wednesday. Otherwise, Zillow reported good financial earnings results.

Financials: Zillow reported earnings of 19 cents per share in the past quarter and revenue of $708 million. Both were better than expected.

Final Thoughts: Zillow’s stock was already down 32% this year.

Oh, Snap: Snap issues cautious guidance as Perplexity deal ends, Middle East ‘geopolitical situation’ causes uncertainty (CNBC)

Next Problems to Solve: Spot Bitcoin ETFs solved access, but custody, advisors and plumbing still lag, panelists say (CoinDesk)

Good Question: Ether tests $2.4K as accumulators add 246K ETH: How high can price go? (Cointelgraph)

Pain at the Pump: Why gasoline costs 52% more in the US than it did before the Iran war (Associated Press)

Suspicious: Online sleuths are raising more red flags around suspiciously timed Iran-war oil trades (Business Insider)

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