Premarket Briefing — Thursday 2026-06-18 (US Eastern)

Run context: pre-market, ~08:55 ET, post-FOMC reflex rally + Apple-Intel partnership announcement overnight. S&P futures +0.9%, Nasdaq +1.5%. Your daily briefing, brought to you by SignalDeck.live.

⚠ Macro context — Apple-Intel deal is the WHOLE story today

Three forces stacking risk-on:

• Trump announced via Truth Social this morning that Apple has agreed to work with Intel. INTC up +9.4% in pre-open trading. Mega-cap structural news — Apple foundry pivot away from TSMC exclusive dependency. Layers on top of the 6/11 BAC double-upgrade to Buy + repor…