This week in power × markets

the briefing · 2026-08-03

Congressional stock pickers keep gravitating toward the very exchanges and banks that federal regulators are actively watching, with Goldman Sachs leading the pack — nine members trading $GS as the CFTC, FTC, and SEC circle the same ticker.

• Financial-market plumbing dominates the convergence list: five members traded $ICE and four traded $CME while the CFTC and SEC signaled on both, five traded $MS and nine traded $GS amid CFTC/FTC/SEC activity, and four traded Robinhood ($HOOD) as the SEC lingered.
• Big Tech remains the bipartisan comfort food: 21 members each traded $MSFT (45 buys/29 sells) and $AAPL (30 buys/16 sells), with $MSFT carrying seven committee-sector overlaps and $AAPL four — meaning members trading sectors their committees oversee.
• On the notable-filings ledger, Nancy Pelosi disclosed an $AAPL sale of $5M–$25M, Chip Roy a matching $5M–$25M buy of $AESI, and Jefferson Shreve a $5M–$25M sale of $RILA.
• Insiders headed for the exits on July 31: entities tied to $NP unloaded roughly $635.6M and $REF holders including Yael Aflalo sold about $242M, while IQVIA CEO Ari Bousbib's circle ($IQV) disclosed ~$54.7M in open-market sales.

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