The Cue Report: week of Jul 13, 2026
Jul 20, 2026
Coverage: Jul 13 to Jul 20, 2026 · Share-price changes: Jul 13 to Jul 17, 2026
This issue reports Warren Buffett’s July 19 statement that he initiated Berkshire Hathaway’s purchase of Alphabet stock. It also covers Intel’s €5 billion, also reported as $5.7 billion, investment in Irish chip production, plus its use of a next-generation ASML High NA EUV tool for laptop chips. ICICI Bank’s Q1 net profit rose 15.9 percent year on year, and its shares rose 3 percent on July 20 after the Q1 results. Intel appeared in 16 stories, with coverage leaning positive overall, while the shares fell 7.8 percent between July 13 and July 17.
Where news and price parted ways
Coverage of these companies leaned one way overall, while their share prices moved the other way from Jul 13 to Jul 17, 2026. Both are shown without implying that one caused the other.
▲ means coverage leaned positive overall, ▼ that it leaned negative. A percent beside a company is its actual share-price return from Jul 13 to Jul 17, 2026. A lean is not a forecast.
- Intel (INTC)16▲-7.8%
- Qualcomm (QCOM)11▲-6.6%
- Morgan Stanley (MS)20▲-2.5%
- Royal Bank of Canada (RY)11▼+2.2%
Companies in focus
Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRK-A.US)
Warren Buffett said on July 19 that he initiated Berkshire Hathaway’s purchase of Alphabet stock. Berkshire Hathaway shares fell 1.2 percent from July 13 to July 17.
Intel Corporation (INTC.US)
€5 billion, also reported as $5.7 billion, will be invested by Intel in Irish chip production, with the reports tying the spending to rising AI chip demand and expanded manufacturing capacity in Europe. Intel also turned to a next-generation ASML High NA EUV tool to help make its laptop chips, after High NA EUV reached a readiness milestone with a first high-volume logic product. Intel’s US shares fell 7.8% from July 13 to July 17.
ICICI Bank Limited (IBN.US)
Q1 net profit rose 15.9 percent year on year at ICICI Bank. ICICI Bank shares rose 3 percent on July 20 after the Q1 results. The US ADR gained 1.7 percent from July 13 to July 17.
Also on the radar
The next subjects by weight that did not earn a section above, each led by its most informative story of the week.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.US)
Opinion This AI chipmaker is a double in three months. UBS sees more momentum ahead
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT.US)
Opinion JMP Securities upgrades Microsoft stock rating on AI transformation strategy
The week at a glance
These count what Cuebit read for this issue, not how eventful the week was. From the issue of Aug 10, 2026 the report reads a wider set of Cuebit's deliveries than earlier issues did, so the counts are not comparable with issues before it.
Most covered companies
The number is how many of the week's stories were about each company. n/a means no price series is available for that listing.
- Morgan Stanley (MS)20▲-2.5%
- Intel (INTC)16▲-7.8%
- ASML (ASMLF)16▲+1.0%
- Citigroup (C)14▼-8.1%
- Azul (AZULD)14▲n/a
- SMERY (SMERY)13▲-0.4%
- Royal Bank of Canada (RY)11▼+2.2%
- Qualcomm (QCOM)11▲-6.6%
Which way the news pointed
Companies whose coverage leaned most clearly one way this week. Companies with too little coverage to read anything into are left out.
▲ Leaned positive
- ASMLF12 stories
- AAPL9 stories
- MS6 stories
- INTC6 stories
- AZULD6 stories
- AMAT6 stories
▼ Leaned negative
- RY6 stories
- C6 stories
- WFC3 stories
- HSBC2 stories
- CICHY2 stories
- YASKY1 stories
Where the news landed
16 of the week's 103 stories named an explicit country or region. A story can name more than one, so these add up to more than 16.
- United States6
- Taiwan3
- China3
- Japan2
- Singapore1
- Middle East1
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