Financial Market News | Sunday Outlook

Last week gave the market its clearest evidence yet that AI revenue is real. The Mag-7 grew earnings 61 percent. Cerebras (CBRS) surged 68 percent on its IPO debut. Anthropic passed OpenAI in enterprise customers for the first time.

But last week also opened new questions. Five inflation prints beat expectations. Private credit moved through three crisis stages in five days. A new Fed chair was confirmed and the bond market tested him before he chaired a single meeting.

This week answers the harder question. Can the AI trade carry everything now running against it?

Nvidia (NVDA) reports Wednesday. Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) report Thursday. Housing data runs all week. The FOMC minutes arrive Wednesday. SpaceX's IPO prospectus could land any day.

Last week built the framework. This week stress-tests every layer of it.

Here are the six things that matter most.

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The stock reached $5.7 trillion in market cap last week. That is larger than the entire Japanese stock market. Data center revenue is expected near $73 billion for the quarter, up roughly 86 percent from a year ago. Options markets are pricing a move above 7.5 percent in either direction, more than double the average move after each of the past four quarters.

Gross margin guidance matters almost as much as revenue. The market now assumes Nvidia can scale without losing pricing power. Wednesday night is when that assumption gets tested.

The H200 chip story in China is also part of the call. The U.S. approved sales to roughly ten Chinese companies. Not one chip has been delivered. Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang is expected to address China directly.

Synopsys (SNPS), which makes the software tools used to design AI chips, reports Thursday. Its order book is the earliest leading indicator on whether chip complexity is still growing.

The Line 

Watch Nvidia's data center revenue guidance for the August quarter. A number above $78 billion confirms the cycle is still accelerating. Anything below $75 billion opens the conversation about whether the supply-side ceiling is closer than the market is pricing.

Retail sales last week were flat in real terms once gas station spending was removed. Michigan consumer sentiment hit a fresh record low. This week, four earnings reports test whether that was a signal or noise.

Walmart and Target cover the broadest slice of the American consumer. Walmart skews toward everyday goods and lower-income shoppers. Target skews toward discretionary and middle-income buyers.

TJX Companies (TJX) and Burlington Stores (BURL) are the off-price reads. When consumers trade down from full-price retailers, these two benefit first. Strong results at TJX and Burlington alongside weakness at Target would confirm the consumer split McDonald's (MCD) named two weeks ago.

Deckers Outdoor (DECK) and Ralph Lauren (RL) report later in the week. Both test whether premium consumer spending is still holding or starting to follow lower-income behavior downward.

The Line 

Watch Target's discretionary category performance. A decline in apparel and home goods alongside flat food confirms that the inflation squeeze is reaching the middle of the income distribution.

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The 30-year mortgage rate sits above 6.4 percent. Pending home sales arrive Tuesday. Building permits and housing starts land Thursday. Home Depot (HD) reports Tuesday and Lowe's (LOW) reports Wednesday. Toll Brothers (TOL) reports Tuesday as well.

Housing broke first when the Fed began hiking in 2022. It is the first place where the current bond market repricing should show up in behavior, not just sentiment.

Home Depot and Lowe's sell to both professional contractors and retail homeowners. Contractor volumes measure construction activity. Retail volumes measure whether homeowners are still spending. Toll Brothers builds luxury homes and its results are the best single read on whether higher-income buyers are still active or whether financing costs have finally reached them.

The Line 

Watch Home Depot's professional customer revenue. If contractors are pulling back on project volumes, the housing activity that supported consumer spending in early 2026 is softening. That adds another pressure point before Warsh's first rate decision.

The FOMC minutes from the most recent meeting release Wednesday. The committee Warsh inherited is the most divided in years. Officials split sharply on whether the next move should be a cut, a hold, or a hike. The minutes will show what each side argued before last week's inflation data made the case for cuts harder to defend.

Fed Governor Christopher Waller speaks this week. Governor Michael Barr speaks as well. Their public tone after a 3.8 percent CPI and 6 percent PPI print sets the framing for how the full committee approaches June.

The Line 

Watch the minutes for any mention of PCE and CPI divergence. If Fed staff raised it inside the committee discussion, the inflation conversation has already moved past the war explanation. That shifts the rate path in one direction only.

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SpaceX filed its IPO paperwork confidentially in April. The company is targeting a June 8 roadshow start. A public prospectus must land at least fifteen days before that. The filing could arrive any day this week.

When it does, it will be the most important single document in private markets this year. It will disclose Starlink revenue publicly for the first time. It will break out financials for xAI, the AI company SpaceX merged with in February. It will show the capital split between rocket operations and AI infrastructure, and reveal what the bridge loan repayment terms tied to IPO proceeds actually look like.

Cerebras surged 68 percent on its IPO debut last week, closing near $95 billion in market value. SpaceX is targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation. The Cerebras number becomes the floor for the conversation SpaceX's prospectus opens.

The Line 

Watch whether xAI financials are disclosed separately from Starlink. A standalone xAI revenue line converts the AI infrastructure thesis from narrative into a financeable business with a public comparable. That changes how every institutional investor models private AI companies they currently hold.

Two earnings reports test parts of last week's framework from opposite directions.

Workday (WDAY) reports Thursday. The company sells HR and financial software to large businesses. It sits directly in the path of AI-driven automation. Companies replacing workers with AI tools have less need for HR software licenses. Workday's results will be the first hard read on whether enterprise AI adoption is helping or quietly displacing the software layer that manages human workers.

Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) reports Monday. The defense and government technology contractor tests the demand side of the same question. Anduril doubled its valuation last week. Booz Allen shows whether that repricing is spreading through the broader defense and government AI ecosystem to the firms that run programs and deploy systems rather than build hardware.

The Line 

Watch Workday's net revenue retention rate. A number below 110 percent signals that enterprise customers are shrinking software spending as AI reduces headcount. That would be the first hard data point confirming AI is disrupting the software sector rather than expanding it.

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Last week built the framework. This week the measurements arrive.

Nvidia answers for a $5.7 trillion market cap Wednesday night. Four consumer earnings reports test whether the spending floor is holding. Housing data and two home improvement retailers test whether rising rates are finally changing behavior. The FOMC minutes show how divided the committee Warsh inherited really is. The SpaceX prospectus could file any day and reprice every AI private markets valuation the moment it does.

This week tests whether the market's new AI foundation is strong enough to carry the weight now building on top of it.