MPC Markets Morning Call

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The MPC Markets Morning Call is a daily Australian stock market podcast hosted by Mark Gardner, Founder & CEO of MPC Markets. Published every weekday before the ASX opens, it covers overnight Wall Street moves, ASX sector outlooks, commodities, currencies, interest rates, and geopolitics ,everything Australian investors need to start the trading day. Mark brings nearly 30 years of experience across equities, derivatives, and structured investments. New episode every weekday morning. Subscribe for your daily pre-market briefing.

  1. 3h ago

    Chips Rally as Anthropic Files for IPO

    Anthropic has filed for IPO and chips are bouncing. Mark Gardner and Jonathan Tacadena break down what it means for markets on the MPC Markets Morning Call, 27 October 2026. In this episode: 0:00 Intro and general advice warning0:39 Chip stocks bounce, Tesla jumps on a Barclays upgrade1:45 Anthropic files for IPO: share classes, voting control, the lead brokers4:04 Losses, compute costs and convertible notes: what to look for5:12 Zscaler: profit taken at the first target, new target above $3006:06 Meta’s free cash flow and debt raise7:00 Global markets wrap and the Starlink threat to telcos8:56 Big earnings week and central banks10:24 Commodities: are the miners due a bounce?11:46 Fixed coupon notes: precious metals, lithium and Aussie blue chips14:08 ASX watch: Challenger, EOS and Kogan16:30 Free Mosaic platinum accessGet the free Mosaic platinum service, with four recommendation services and a new phone app, at mpcinvest.co/free-mosaic General advice only. Not personal advice. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. MPC Markets, AFSL 296877 via LeMessurier Securities as CAR.

    Chips Rally as Anthropic Files for IPO

  2. 1d ago

    Stocks Weighted Down by Oil Massive Week Ahead

    Stocks were weighed down Friday night by oil pushing toward 2026 highs (highest Brent/WTI settlement since late April), not by chips. Energy names rallied while the broader market stayed soft. Chips bounced and cybersecurity stocks lifted on the WordPress/PHP vulnerability. This week brings Australian CPI, hyperscaler earnings (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon), US Q3 GDP and core PCE, Fed/ECB/BoJ meetings, the UK budget, Israel elections and US midterms. With that many moving parts, the next couple of days are not the time to pile on risk. China stays in bear-market territory. Gold, silver and platinum eased; copper firmed; lithium and uranium still look oversold. Oil technicals are strong — a sustained break higher feeds diesel, inflation and a stagflationary impulse. We also flag the Fixed Coupon Notes (precious metals and lithium producers) that have seen strong interest and are rolling this week: quarterly cash coupons with a 40% barrier, available to wholesale and sophisticated investors only. General advice only. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Free Mosaic (recommendations, research, webinars, podcasts) through 2026: npcinvest.co/freeIncome solutions: mpcinvest.co/income New Morning Call every weekday. Subscribe so you don’t miss it.

    Stocks Weighted Down by Oil Massive Week Ahead

  3. 4d ago

    Worst Day Since June as Tech Goes Down with the Chip

    Nasdaq had its worst day since June as the AI and chip trade was aggressively unwound. Equal-weight S&P rose while the headline index fell, highlighting how concentrated the damage was. Mark Gardner covers: The sharp sell-off in chip and AI names (Meta, Lam Research, NVIDIA and others)Trump’s midterm campaigning and the growing NIMBY backlash against data centres over power billsSOX sitting on its 200-day moving average after a 27% decline from the highsWhy bond yields fell on recession fears tied to a potential slowdown in the data-centre build-outChina tech’s ongoing bear market and the practical AI angleOil jumping to a five-month high on Middle East embassy evacuationsWhy buying the first dip on big fallers has historically been a losing strategyRisk-off tone into the weekend. Bulls vs Bears this afternoon focuses on “The Rise of the NIMBYs.” Also: fixed coupon notes and free Mosaic access until year-end. General advice only. Not personal financial advice.

    Worst Day Since June as Tech Goes Down with the Chip

  4. 5d ago

    SpaceX Fires up AI as Tesla & Meta Beat

    SpaceX lit up the AI trade overnight while Tesla and Meta both beat after the bell. Chips bounced hard (Supermicro +9.5%, Nvidia and the rest green), Tesla free cash flow came in positive $1.53bn against a cash-burn forecast, and Meta’s Q4 guide beat consensus. AT&T sold off despite beating because SpaceX is positioning to be the phone company. Lam Research and Netflix disappointed after hours. Fed hike odds for the next meeting are down around 15%. UK inflation jumped to 3.5%. Oil remains above $100. Global indexes eked out gains, Nasdaq the biggest winner as the AI trade recovered from its brief scare. NextDC dropped 41% after a local power block that looks linked to their financing terms — the electrical engineering contractors that have been smashed look interesting value from here. Lithium names are trading near project value or ~2x book; critical minerals haven’t stopped being critical. ASX futures pointing to a steady open. Fixed Coupon Notes on precious metals miners and lithium producers (13–16%) plus Aussie blue chips (11.3%) — EOI closes Friday. Free Mosaic for the rest of 2026 at mpcinvest.co/freemosaic. General advice only. Seek professional advice.

    SpaceX Fires up AI as Tesla & Meta Beat

  5. 6d ago

    Oil Cools Dow Jumps as Earnings Deliver

    Oil spiked then faded and the Dow pushed higher overnight as US earnings did the heavy lifting. Mark Gardner covers the overnight session and the ASX open. Brent topped US$110 intraday on fresh Hormuz tanker attacks before settling ~1% lower. US pending home sales fell 7.3% — the worst since 2001. On earnings: GE sold off on a soft outlook with money rotating into healthcare and financials; Netflix –5%, Supermicro +12%, Intuitive Surgical –11%, Capital One +5%, with United and GM lower. SpaceX posted US$14.6bn revenue (up 161%) on AI and Starlink. Meta and Tesla report tomorrow. Chinese AI names look like value versus priced-to-perfection US tech. Metals mixed — silver, copper and platinum higher; lithium and uranium still soft. ASX: SPI futures +~30pts, NAB cutting 2,500 jobs, and CATL’s electric-truck battery-swap push is a lithium positive. Mark’s latest Livewire piece on the critical minerals sell-off: livewiremarkets.com (search Mark Gardner). Subscribe for a daily market wrap, and catch Bulls vs Bears for the weekly deep dive. General advice only. Prepared without taking into account anyone’s objectives or financial situation. Not personal advice. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. MPC Markets — AFSL 296877. ⚠️ Accuracy flags for your check: Short links: The audio says “npcinvest.co/income” and “npcinvest.co/freemosaic,” but your brand domain is mpcinvest.co (per your product links), so I’ve used mpcinvest.co/freemosaic. Please confirm the exact live short-links for the Mosaic free trial and the Income/FCN page (your records also show the full page as mpcmarkets.com.au/fixed-coupons) before publishing. FCN details (not included above as they’re a sales offer, not usually in the podcast description — tell me if you want them added): EOI close Fri 23 Oct, strike early next week; Aussie blue chips (BHP, CBA, Wesfarmers, CSL) ~11.3% pa, quarterly cash coupon; plus precious-metals miners (Pan American Silver, AngloGold, Barrick) and lithium producers (Albemarle, PLS, SQM); 24-month term, 8 payments, wholesale investors only. Livewire link: I used your contributor profile URL from memory rather than a specific article URL (the episode didn’t state one). Swap in the direct article link if you have it.

    Oil Cools Dow Jumps as Earnings Deliver

  6. Oct 19

    Tech Rebounds as Chips Snap 8 Day Slide

    Chips snapped an eight-day slide overnight, with Amazon leading tech higher (+5%) after Morgan Stanley tagged it a top earnings-season pick and Intel bouncing on a JP Morgan upgrade. CoreWeave found defenders despite debt worries, the banks lagged, and Tesla rose as Elon pledged a SpaceX share to every child in America. Phil and Mark also cover the worst start to a US earnings season since 2024 (Meta, Tesla and Lam Research all report this week), a quiet-but-green session across the indices, a busy M&A Tuesday, private equity’s steady shrinking of the ASX, and the latest moves across gold, silver, lithium and uranium. Plus: new Fixed Coupon Notes with expressions of interest closing Friday — ASX blue chips, US precious-metals miners and the big three lithium producers. Fixed Coupon Notes: https://mpcinvest.co/income Try Mosaic free to year-end: https://mpcinvest.co/freemosaic Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & YouTube. General advice only — opinion and commentary, not prepared taking into account your personal objectives. Please seek professional advice.

    Tech Rebounds as Chips Snap 8 Day Slide

  7. Oct 18

    Oil tops $100 AI Rout as Chips Sink for 8th Day

    Oil tops US$100 and Brent clears US$110 as the AI sell-off rolls on — chips have now fallen for eight straight days, their longest losing run since 2008, shedding more market cap than the entire ASX 200. Mark and Phil cover the AI unwind (Broadcom, Micron, AMD, Intel, Lam Research, Applied Materials, Oracle, and CoreWeave down ~12% Friday), why credit default swaps on AI debt are suddenly in focus, and the difference between secured, unsecured and convertible debt across the big names. Also today: bond yields falling on a safe-haven bid, the Nasdaq 100’s worst week in 18 months, the ASX benefiting from being “non-AI” (Pro Medicus, WiseTech), oil lifting Chevron to fresh highs while ASX energy names look stretched, and lithium and uranium down ~8% on the week. Plus the week ahead — Chinese GDP, RBA Assistant Governor Kent, FOMC next week — a big US earnings slate (Tesla, Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM, RTX, Netflix), and ASX M&A with Cleanaway and Reliance Worldwide. For the deeper dive on inflation and the AI credit crunch, check out Bulls vs Bears. Get Mosaic free for the rest of 2026, and submit your portfolio for a free review at the MPC Markets website. For professional use only. Not financial advice. Mosaic URL — the transcript gives two conflicting, garbled versions (“fbcinvest.co.au” and “npcinvest.com/freemosaic”). I’ve left a placeholder rather than guess. Your usual one appears to be mpcinvest.com — please drop in the correct free-Mosaic link.“NEXTDC” / Megaport — Phil mentions data-centre names; “Megaport” is clear, but the second (“XTCs”) is most likely NEXTDC (NXT) — confirm before relying on it. I kept it generic as “data-centre names” in the copy.S&P figure — the VTT garbles this as “down one point one… worst week for the S&P since June.” I’ve written “worst week since June” and left the exact % off; verify if you want a number in.Netflix broker note — Mark was unsure whether the cautious note was Citigroup or Barclays, so I left it out of the descriptions entirely.CoreWeave unsecured rate — transcript says “fifteen or sixteen percent”; I wrote ~15–16%.Flags to confirm before publishing (accuracy)

    Oil tops $100 AI Rout as Chips Sink for 8th Day

  8. Oct 15

    Rally Broadens as Investors Abandon Chip

    The rally broadens as investors abandon chip stocks for a seventh straight session. Mark and Friday Phil cover a session that was green everywhere except semis — Nvidia -1.8%, Dell down ~22% in three days — while gold and silver miners, lithium, healthcare and software led the “great rotation” higher. Also in today’s call: a hot US PPI print (+1.3% m/m vs +0.6% expected, ~6.3% y/y, hottest since March); the CoreWeave credit scare debunked (the 16% rate only applies to unsecured finance — weighted-average is ~8.3% — and Jensen Huang says rates are easing); why banks marketing Oracle CDS is worth watching; WiseTech +4–5% as Richard White is cleared of insider trading; the KOSPI down ~40% from its June high; and the big earnings run ahead (Tesla, Netflix, Intel, IBM, RTX next week; Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon the week after). New income / fixed coupon notes are now open — precious-metals miners (>13% p.a.), lithium (~16% p.a.) and the “True Blue Chips” CBA/BHP/Wesfarmers/CSL (~11% p.a.). Wholesale investors only. Free Mosaic subscription (to end of 2026): https://MPCInvest.co/freemosaic For professional use only. Not financial advice.

    Rally Broadens as Investors Abandon Chip
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The MPC Markets Morning Call is a daily Australian stock market podcast hosted by Mark Gardner, Founder & CEO of MPC Markets. Published every weekday before the ASX opens, it covers overnight Wall Street moves, ASX sector outlooks, commodities, currencies, interest rates, and geopolitics ,everything Australian investors need to start the trading day. Mark brings nearly 30 years of experience across equities, derivatives, and structured investments. New episode every weekday morning. Subscribe for your daily pre-market briefing.

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    2025 - 2026
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