YouTube's Finance Creators Are All Watching the Same Thing: The Strait of Hormuz Is Running the Market Right Now
From Bloomberg to Jeremiah Babe, the creator consensus is unusually tight: the Strait of Hormuz is the market's remote control
Ticker Ratings
| Ticker | Rating | Entry Price | Current | $ Gain | % Gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMG CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC | buy | $32.50 | — | — | — |
| MCD MCDONALDS CORP | sell | $311.70 | — | — | — |
| YUM YUM BRANDS INC | sell | $159.28 | — | — | — |
| GNRC GENERAC HOLDINGS INC. | hold | $205.94 | — | — | — |
| PFE PFIZER INC | buy | $27.39 | — | — | — |
| MRK Merck & Co., Inc. | buy | $119.85 | — | — | — |
| BMY BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB CO | buy | $59.28 | — | — | — |
| ARM ARM HOLDINGS PLC /UK | buy | $157.69 | — | — | — |
| META Meta Platforms, Inc. | hold | $592.30 | — | — | — |
| GOOGL Alphabet Inc. | hold | $290.08 | — | — | — |
| BRZE Braze, Inc. | buy | $21.59 | — | — | — |
| TSLA Tesla, Inc. | hold | $385.35 | — | — | — |
| NVDA NVIDIA CORP | hold | $178.04 | — | — | — |
| AAPL Apple Inc. | hold | $252.57 | — | — | — |
| AVGO Broadcom Inc. | hold | $317.91 | — | — | — |
| INTC INTEL CORP | sell | $47.00 | — | — | — |
| AMD ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC | hold | $219.90 | — | — | — |
If you watched any finance content this week, you got the same memo with different fonts: oil controls stocks, the Strait of Hormuz controls oil, and nobody controls the Strait of Hormuz. Schwab's Liz Ann Sonders put it bluntly — inverse correlation between Brent crude and the S&P 500 is the only relationship that matters right now. Oil drops, stocks rip. Brookings' Michael O'Hanlon told CNBC he's flat-out skeptical any of Trump's 15-point peace plan lands, calling Iran's mood one of revenge, not negotiation. Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren added the fun detail that Israel was still under rocket fire while Trump was declaring progress. Cool ceasefire, guys.
The 'Trump Put' is getting its own fan club. Kramer called out Wall Street 'ostriches' ignoring falling oil prices, Citi's Kate Moore validated the concept but warned markets are already pricing in too much good news, and a Schwab/CNBC panel noted the S&P 500's forward P/E compressed from a scary 23x to 20x — slightly less terrifying. Meanwhile Robinhood's Steve Quirk revealed retail traders underperformed the S&P this quarter mostly because crypto wrecked them, though they remain ahead over 2-3 year horizons. Retail: loses the battle, wins the war, classic arc.
Buried under all the geopolitics: $BRZE up 20% after beating estimates, $ARM surging 17% on its AGI CPU reveal with Meta as lead customer, and $SPXIPO SpaceX eyeing a $1.75 trillion valuation IPO. The Strait of Hormuz might be running the macro, but the micro keeps printing — if you can find the signal in all this noise.