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The @finviz_com Daily Digest is one of the best AI-driven market summaries throughout each trading day. Hands down. Here's the DD right now 👇 US stocks slide in broad risk-off move as Iran-linked energy attacks send Brent above $112, stoke inflation fears and narrow Fed rate-cut path $SPY $DIA $QQQ trade notably lower in a broad risk-off session as energy shocks pressure risk assets and bonds alike Brent crude $QA jumps past $112 and briefly tops $119 after Iran attacks Middle East energy infrastructure, including Qatar LNG facilities, fueling inflation concerns and repricing of Fed rate-cut expectations Energy outperforms with $XLE advancing, led by $LNG surging on soaring natural gas $NG prices tied to Qatar LNG disruptions and $VET rallying on the broader oil spike Materials sector drops more than 2% as higher energy and input costs raise concerns over production margins $FIVE spikes ~10% after beating Q4 estimates, posting strong comps and raising FY26 guidance and longer-term targets $ACN gains after a Q2 beat, even as forward guidance comes in softer $RIVN climbs mid-single digits on its robotaxi partnership with $UBER $MU falls despite a strong earnings beat as investors focus on heavy capex and tight supply commentary Gold and silver sell off as energy-driven inflation reduces expectations for near-term Fed rate cuts Major outlets including Yahoo Finance, Reuters, CNBC, and WSJ point to overnight energy shocks—not economic data—as the primary driver of today’s weakness

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MIDDLE EAST OIL & GAS RECONSTRUCTION WATCHLIST Who rebuilds when this war ends? Ranked by reconstruction relevance, not pre-war backlog, assembled by AI assistant, hopefully 95% accurate. PHASE 1: Emergency restart and damage repair (months 1 to 12 post ceasefire) 1. $SLB (NYSE) | SLB N.V. | Largest installed base of wellhead systems and production equipment across every damaged facility. Well restart, integrity assessment, corrosion monitoring after prolonged shut ins. Recently won $1.5B Kuwait Oil Company contract plus Oman contracts. Biggest regional footprint of any OFS company. 2. $HAL (NYSE) | Halliburton | Well intervention, cementing, completions restart. Holds the $2.5B Jafurah EPIC contract with Aramco. Dual HQ in Houston and Dubai. Critical for restarting shut in wells across Saudi and UAE. 3. $BKR (NASDAQ) | Baker Hughes | Gas turbine inspection, compressor recertification, gas processing equipment stress testing. Every gas plant shut down (Habshan, Shah, Ras Laffan) needs their turbomachinery services before restart. PHASE 2: Full reconstruction (years 1 to 5) 4. $TE (Euronext Paris) / $THNPY (OTC) | Technip Energies | Built most of Qatar's LNG infrastructure. 59% of revenue from Africa and Middle East. The Ras Laffan rebuild alone could be their largest contract in history. 5. $KBR (NYSE) | KBR Inc. | Brownfield EPCM specialists. Already supporting Aramco's Shaybah (attacked), Majnoon in Iraq, and Kuwait Oil Company. Damage assessment to design to reconstruction. 6. $FLR (NYSE) | Fluor Corporation | Major refinery rebuild expertise. Ras Tanura, SAMREF are historical Fluor client base. Also positioned for new bypass infrastructure EPC. 7. $SPM (Borsa Italiana) / $SAPMY (OTC) | Saipem | Deep Gulf NOC relationships. Merging with Subsea 7 to form Saipem7 with EUR 43B combined backlog. Offshore and pipeline repair in the Gulf runs through them. PHASE 3: New infrastructure that didn't exist before 8. $TS (NYSE) | Tenaris | World's largest steel pipe manufacturer for oil and gas. Post war bypass pipeline expansion means potentially hundreds of km of new pipeline. Massive pipe orders. 9. $WFRD (NASDAQ) | Weatherford International | Production restart, artificial lift, well services. Major contracts with PDO, KOC, Bapco. Positioned for the activity surge when operations resume. 10. $FTI (NYSE) | TechnipFMC | Subsea and surface wellhead systems. Essential for offshore Gulf infrastructure repair and new subsea pipeline connections. 11. $HP (NYSE) | Helmerich and Payne | Was scaling to 24 rigs in Saudi Arabia by mid 2026. Rigs are likely idle now. When drilling resumes expect a massive catch up surge. Rigs already in country. 12. $PTEN (NASDAQ) | Patterson UTI Energy | 15% stake in JV with ADNOC Drilling and SLB to drill 144 unconventional wells in UAE. That program restarts post war with urgency. 13. $NOV (NYSE) | NOV Inc. | Rig systems, drilling equipment, pipeline components. Equipment supplier to every company above. Picks and shovels play on the entire rebuild. Map by meforum.org