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the briefing · 2026-11-07

Federal contracting and market-structure signals keep landing on the same tickers congressional and executive-branch filers are trading — $ACN, $BA, $ICE — while Big Tech remains the default holding in Congress's disclosed trades this year.

• $ACN drew 9 members of Congress and 1 executive-branch filer (11 buys / 12 sells) alongside a Federal Contract signal, and $BA drew 7 members of Congress and 1 executive-branch filer (13 buys / 12 sells) alongside Federal Contract and USTR signals; $BAH shows 1 member of Congress and 1 executive-branch filer (3 buys / 4 sells) with a Federal Contract signal.
• Exchange operators landed on both sides of the ledger: $ICE saw 3 members of Congress and 1 executive-branch filer trading (9 buys / 8 sells) with CFTC and Insider Trades signals, and $CME saw 2 members of Congress and 1 executive-branch filer (6 buys / 5 sells) with a CFTC signal — a sector the Agriculture committees oversee, which is how a committee overlap is defined.
• Year to date, $AAPL leads by distinct filers with 20 members of Congress (17 buys / 17 sells, 7 committee overlaps), followed by $MSFT at 18 members of Congress (27 buys / 27 sells, 10 committee overlaps) and $NVDA at 15 (13 buys / 21 sells, 3 committee overlaps). Among notable single filings: a Spouse-owned $AAPL sale of $5M–$25M disclosed by Nancy Pelosi (House) and a Spouse-owned $AESI purchase of $5M–$25M disclosed by Chip Roy (House).
• Form 4s filed 2026-11-06 skewed heavily toward selling: roughly $325.8M in $INGM by Platinum Equity, LLC, about $99.4M in $AXP by Chairman and CEO Stephen J. Squeri, and about $80.1M in $RCL by Arne Alexander Wilhelmsen — against Baker Bros. Advisors LP buying roughly $35.0M of $MDGL and $24.3M of $KOD. All figures are shares × reported price from filings we parsed, unverified.

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