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Mode Mobile has reserved the Nasdaq ticker $MODE.
The company behind the EarnPhone, 490M+ users and $115M+ in revenue has reserved its ticker symbol ahead of a planned listing. The pre-IPO round is still open to retail investors.
Mode Mobile $MODE ticker reserved
Reserving a ticker is the step a private company takes when it intends to go public. Mode Mobile has stated an intent to list within the next 18 to 24 months. An intent to IPO is not a guarantee that one will occur, but it signals where the company is headed.
For now, the company is still private. Shares in the Regulation A+ offering are $0.52 each, with up to 20% bonus shares for early investors. More than 60,000 investors have already participated. The $0.52 share price deadline, after which the current price will not stay open.
490M+
users
$115M+
revenue
32,481%
3-yr growth
This is a paid advertisement for Mode Mobile’s Regulation A+ offering. Please read the offering circular and related risks at invest.modemobile.com. Mode Mobile recently received their ticker reservation with Nasdaq ($MODE), indicating an intent to IPO in the next 24 months. An intent to IPO is no guarantee that an actual IPO will occur. The Deloitte rankings are based on submitted applications and public company database research, with winners selected based on their fiscal-year revenue growth percentage over a three-year period. *Mode revenue and EBITDA numbers includes full year revenue and EBITDA of businesses acquired in 2025. Investing involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. This is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
— THE OPEN
   

Sunday evening, the U.S. and Iran announced a peace deal. Monday, the Dow set a record at 51,845. Brent crude plunged 4% to $83. The S&P 500 gained 1.79%.

On Polymarket, traders price the Strait of Hormuz returning to normal traffic by June 30 at 21%. Only 5 to 17 vessels transit per day against a pre-war norm above 100. The deal is signed. The waterway is not open.

This morning Kevin Warsh opens his first FOMC meeting. Tomorrow the dot plot drops. It was built on inflation data from a closed strait and $100 oil. Oil opened below $83. The projections are already stale.
01 Today
 
   
The Deal Is Done. The Shipping Lane Is Not. VIA POLYMARKET

The MOU was virtually signed Monday. Trump and Vance for the U.S., parliament speaker Ghalibaf for Iran. Terms: lift the naval blockade, reopen Hormuz, extend the ceasefire 60 days, readmit IAEA inspectors. Formal signing Friday, June 19 in Geneva.

IMF Portwatch still shows 5 to 17 daily transits against a pre-war norm above 100. War-risk insurance sits at 16 times baseline. No major shipping line has announced a return. Polymarket prices normal traffic by June 30 at 21%. The oil market flushed $4 off Brent on the headline. The shipping market has not budged.
   
Warsh Walks Into a Stale Dot Plot PER CME FEDWATCH

The FOMC opens this morning. CME FedWatch prices a hold at 97.4%. The dot plot is a chart showing where each Fed official expects rates at year-end. April’s version penciled in one cut. A Reuters poll of 102 economists found 72 expecting no rate change through 2026. Goldman pushed its first-cut forecast to 2027.

Those projections were assembled from data collected before Sunday’s deal. May CPI at 4.2%. PPI at 6.5%. Oil above $87 as recently as last week. The committee will project the economy it measured, not the economy forming this morning.
   
SpaceX’s Forced Buyers Are Still Buying

SPCX traded at $171.91 Monday, up 27% from its $135 IPO price four sessions ago. MSCI inclusion is effective June 29. FTSE Russell follows June 26. An estimated $15 to $20 trillion in passive assets must match the new index weight against a 4% float and a 180-day lockup.

Morningstar published a fair value of $63. The stock trades at $172. Passive money is price-insensitive: it matches the benchmark. The IRA that holds your broad-market ETF is already heavier in a $2 trillion company that lost $4.9 billion last year.
THE UNPRICED VARIABLE
Three markets repriced Monday. One did not move.
BRENT CRUDE
Monday close		 −4.0%
 
DOW JONES
Monday close · all-time high		 +1.25%
 
10Y TREASURY YIELD
Monday close · one-month low		 4.43%
 
HORMUZ DAILY TRANSITS
IMF Portwatch · pre-war norm: 100–140		 5–17
Oil repriced. Equities repriced. Yields repriced. The shipping lane did not. The 57-point gap between Polymarket’s year-end Hormuz odds at 78% and its June 30 odds at 21% is where the inflation story still lives. The dot plot that drops tomorrow was built inside that gap.
↑ Monday Up
Nasdaq (26,605, +2.77%)
S&P 500 (7,564, +1.79%)
Dow (51,845, all-time high)
  
↓ Monday Down
Brent ($83, −4.0%)
WTI ($80, −5.1%)
VIX (16.20, −8.4%)
02 Worth Knowing
 

This is not a peace-deal issue. It is a timing issue.

Oil can reprice in one session. Shipping cannot. Tanker routes, insurance premiums, naval escorts, port schedules, and cargo contracts move after the waterway proves it is safe, not after politicians announce it.

The Fed has the same lag. The dot plot is not a live market. It is a snapshot of projections built from the data officials had before the deal, before the oil break, and before any normal traffic returned to Hormuz.

That is the gap inside your portfolio. Equities priced relief. Bonds priced less inflation pressure. Polymarket still gives June 30 normalization only 21% odds.

The signal is not the signing ceremony. The signal is vessel count, war-risk insurance, and Brent staying below $83 after the cameras leave Geneva. Until those move together, the peace trade is early, not proven.

Today's Quote
“
I favor messier meetings. A good family fight.
— Kevin Warsh, Federal Reserve Chair · Senate confirmation hearing · May 2026
Tomorrow he runs his first family fight. The family is staring at a dot plot built on $100 oil. This morning oil opened below $83.
WORTH WATCHING

Wednesday, June 17, 2:00 p.m. ET — FOMC rate decision, dot plot, and Warsh’s first press conference. A shift from easing bias to neutral reprices the entire back end of the yield curve.

Friday, June 19 — Formal signing of the U.S.-Iran MOU in Geneva. If the text includes concrete strait-reopening terms, shipping insurers reprice. If vague, oil climbs back.

Week of June 22 — Rocket Lab enters the Nasdaq-100 on June 22. SpaceX joins the FTSE Russell 1000 on June 26. Two index reshuffles in one week, both pulling passive capital into aerospace.

The screens and the shipping lane do not see the same war. The dot plot resolves one question tomorrow. The strait resolves the other on its own schedule.

— The PrediXmarkets desk
For informational purposes only. Not investment advice.

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