Market update for Monday August 3, 2026 Check out the Public app for incredible investing tools and to support the show (LINK) Follow us on Instagram (@TheRundownDaily) for bonus content and instant reactions. In today’s episode, Zaid covers: Why the U.S. government stepped in to support the Japanese yen AstraZeneca’s in talk over $400 billion merger with Bristol Myers Squibb Ferguson Enterprises joining the S&amp;P 500 Roblox’s had worst day even after earnings Fun Fact: Spider-Man: Brand New Day nearly broke the all-time box-office opening record

The US Bails Out the Yen, AstraZeneca Explores a Bristol Myers Mega-Merger

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Public.com presents The Rundown, your daily market update in 10 minutes. My name is Zaid Admani and today is Monday, August 3rd. In today's episode, we'll preview a stacked week ahead, including some big-time earnings and the July jobs report. We'll also explain why the US government just stepped in to buy billions of dollars worth of Japanese yen.

Then stick around to the end of the show to find out how close the new Spider-Man movie came to breaking a box office record. We got a great show for you today. Let's go. The markets are coming off a winning week with all three major indices jumping more than 1% last week, thanks to a late-week surge, especially from tech stocks. Some of the big winners last week include Amazon and Microsoft, which both surged more than 15%.

Overall, for the month of July, the S&P was down 0.1%, and the NASDAQ lost 3.2%. But given where we were at the start of last week, I think I can definitely take that. Now, looking ahead, many of the big tech earnings are behind us, but we're still in the thick of earnings season. In fact, this week is pretty stacked as well. We're hearing from Palantir, SpaceX, AMD, Uber, Disney, McDonald's, and many more. So we'll have a lot to talk about this week. Personally, I'm really looking forward to what SpaceX has to say in their earnings call. I think there's a lot riding on it.

Not to mention, we're also getting the July jobs report this week, which would give us more information on the health of the labor market. You know, the labor market could play a major role on what the Fed decides to do with interest rates.

The US Bails Out the Yen, AstraZeneca Explores a Bristol Myers Mega-Merger

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

The US Bails Out the Yen, AstraZeneca Explores a Bristol Myers Mega-Merger

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.