Long yields fell after the Treasury doubled its bond-buyback support. But $40 trillion of federal debt, hawkish Fed minutes and stubbornly high oil prices suggest the relief may be temporary. Wednesday looked calm—provided you only glanced at the major indexes. The S&P 500 gained 0.21%, the Dow added 0.22%, and the Nasdaq rose just 0.16%. […]
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The Nasdaq fell 1.33% as elevated borrowing costs, questions surrounding AI financing, and worsening housing data challenged the market’s most comfortable assumptions. Tuesday was not a market crash. It was an overdue reality check. Technology shares have spent months behaving as though high interest rates were somebody else’s problem. Oil has been treated as a
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Wall Street slipped as the 30-year yield hit a 19-year high, Hormuz diplomacy unraveled and Bitcoin treated the chaos as a feature. Monday did not deliver a crash. It delivered something more interesting: a disagreement. The S&P 500 fell 0.52%, the Dow lost 0.51%, the Nasdaq slipped 0.32% and the Russell 2000 declined 0.35%. The
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The week ended quietly near all-time highs. Underneath, the consumer weakened, Treasury yields climbed, oil heated up—and the market’s manufactured calm began to look rather less comforting. Friday looked like a shrug. The S&P 500 slipped 0.17%, the Nasdaq lost 0.28%, and the Dow fell 0.20%. Hardly a dramatic finish after the S&P had set
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A flat PPI sent the S&P 500 to a record, while a 5.22% Treasury auction, a $500 billion AI financing machine and record diesel margins made the celebration considerably less comfortable. Wall Street received three little gifts Thursday: a flat producer-inflation report, falling Treasury yields and permission to buy technology again. It did not waste
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Big Tech fell, and oil rose as AI credit worries and the Hormuz impasse grew louder beneath a deceptively quiet market. Tuesday’s closing numbers suggested an ordinary summer pullback. The S&P 500 fell 0.32%, the Dow lost 0.34%, and the Nasdaq declined 0.60%. The VIX slipped 1.16% to 15.28, hardly the signature of a market
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Stocks slipped as Nvidia turned to Wall Street, crude jumped 5%, and Hormuz diplomacy became a compensation dispute. Monday, August 10, 2026 Wall Street began the week confronting two enormous bills. Nvidia announced partnerships with six major financial institutions designed to raise more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure. Meanwhile, hopes for
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Stocks hit a record after payrolls fell by 23,000, while gold surged and Hormuz optimism returned. Friday, August 7, 2026 The U.S. economy lost jobs in July. Wall Street celebrated. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000, badly missing expectations for an 80,000 gain. Traders responded by reducing the probability of another Federal Reserve rate increase, buying
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Stocks slipped as Alphabet tapped the debt market, Treasury yields rose, oil rebounded, and the Hormuz “deal” looked less peaceful than advertised. Thursday, August 6, 2026 The AI boom has spent two years being treated as an earnings story. On Thursday, it became a funding story. Alphabet moved to raise as much as $25 billion
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