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Iran Lit the Fuse. Bond Yields Handed Wall Street the Bill.
Oil climbed as US–Iran hostilities resumed. Treasury yields followed, stocks weakened, and Wall Street received another lesson in how quickly geopolitics becomes economics. What…
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Warsh Kicked Away the Punch Bowl. Gold, Bitcoin and Tech Spilled.
The Fed chair did not raise interest rates at Jackson Hole. He did something almost as disruptive: he convinced markets that another increase is…
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Nvidia Lit Up Wall Street. Geopolitics Stacked the Kindling.
The Nasdaq surged after Nvidia’s extraordinary guidance. Beneath the celebration, most sectors fell, bond yields remained high, and two separate conflicts moved closer to…
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Nvidia Beat. Inflation Stayed. The Bond Market Sent the Bill.
Stocks barely moved as inflation pushed yields higher. Then Nvidia delivered extraordinary numbers—and a reminder that the AI boom is increasingly expensive to finance.…
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Oil Blinked. Stocks Exhaled. Nvidia Now Holds the Match.
Ceasefire hopes pushed oil and bond yields lower, giving stocks some relief. But gold kept climbing, and the AI trade still faces its biggest…
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Bessent Gave Bonds a Bid. Tech Sold Off Anyway.
Yields fell, and gold and Bitcoin rose, but fresh doubts about AI economics kept the Nasdaq under pressure as Washington opened a new economic…
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Friday Bounced. Gold and Bitcoin Won the Week.
Stocks recovered on Friday, but Big Tech still finished the week bruised. Meanwhile, gold, Bitcoin and oil surged as investors questioned whether Treasury intervention…
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Treasury Bought a Day. The Bond Market Took It Back.
Long yields erased Wednesday’s relief, stocks sold off, and volatility rose. Bitcoin surged anyway—suggesting investors are not abandoning risk so much as questioning where…
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Treasury Bought Time. The Debt Kept Growing.
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…