Photonics and Geopolitics Lead a Choppy Market: $POET's AI Moment, Oil's Surge, and a Fed-Driven Risk Pause

$POET — Markets opened Tuesday with a cautious tone ahead of the Fed, while two distinct structural stories — POET's push into photonic interconnects for AI and a near-term oil risk premium tied to the Strait of Hormuz — drove sector divergence. Multiple routine SEC filings and a quantum error-correction milestone rounded out a day of technical progress amid macro uncertainty.