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Morning — Morning Note
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The jobs report lands this morning, and it is the only scheduled event that can move the tape today [2]. The market comes in calm: the VIX sits at 14.9, a normal zone, and the overnight read is risk on [1]. My reading: a calm tape into a jobs number cuts both ways. A print near expectations changes little; a surprise in either direction hits a market that has not braced for one.
What to watch
Nothing else sits on the economic calendar today. NFP is the day [2].
Earnings in the window
Nothing in our book reports today. In the next week, AeroVironment (AVAV) reports, with the calendar showing dates of September 8 and September 9 against a July 31 fiscal quarter end, and estimates of $0.34 and $0.32 [3]. My reading: treat the earlier date as the one to prepare for and confirm the exact timing before it. Uranium Royalty (UROY) reports September 10, with the street looking for $0.05 in earnings per share [3].
The book overnight
We hold seven names: AMZN, AXON, HOOD, NBIS, NVDA, PLPC, UMAC [4]. None of them report in the next seven days, so today's risk to the book is the macro number, not a company event. With the VIX this low, a hot or cold jobs print is the one thing on the schedule that could swing all seven at once.
The day in one line
Quiet calendar, calm tape, one jobs report. Watch the reaction more than the number.
Receipts4
[1] VIX 14.9 at the premarket read, risk on, normal zone, 2026-09-04.
[2] Economic calendar, 2026-09-04: NFP (jobs report), the only listed release.
[3] Earnings calendar, next 7 days: AVAV 2026-09-08 est $0.34 and 2026-09-09 est $0.32, both for fiscal period ending 2026-07-31; UROY 2026-09-10 est $0.05.
[4] Our open positions at the overnight read: seven names (AMZN, AXON, HOOD, NBIS, NVDA, PLPC, UMAC).