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Wall Street entered Wednesday battered by five declines in six sessions and facing a Fed decision that looks certain right up until it happens. A rate increase is largely priced in, but the harder questions are not: whether Kevin Warsh plans to keep tightening, whether the bond market will settle down, and how long expensive money can coexist with America's costly AI boom. Cheaper oil offered some relief, while fresh economic data, tariff talks with China, and conflict in the Middle East kept the list of possible problems impressively well stocked. Investors may know what they expect at 2 p.m. What they do not know is whether they will still like it at 2:30.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The most important number in Tuesday's market is 5%. The yield on the 10-year Treasury crossed that threshold, reaching 5.041%, its highest level since 2007, before settling near 5.03%. That does more than make mortgages and corporate loans more expensive. It forces investors to reconsider how much they should pay for nearly everything.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Three central-bank decisions, oil above $108 a barrel and a sudden outbreak of caution among the most powerful figures in artificial intelligence will give investors plenty to digest this week. The economic calendar may be quiet on Monday, but the markets certainly are not.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Oil remains above $100, Treasury yields are flirting with 5%, and the Federal Reserve now looks increasingly likely to raise rates next week. August inflation data, released a few minutes ago, did nothing to ease the pressure: it actually gave policymakers more reasons to act.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Scott Bessent's attempt to calm the bond market has so far produced an awkward result: borrowing costs have risen further. The Treasury secretary is effectively arguing that investors are charging the United States too much to borrow. Bondholders have reached a different conclusion. They see persistent budget deficits, a growing debt burden, stubborn inflation and an economy strong enough to tolerate higher interest rates. If Washington wants their money, they would like better compensation. The latest PPI reading gives them another reason to demand it.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Oil is back above $100, turning an energy shock into an inflation threat, a bond-market headache and, increasingly, a political liability for the White House. Today's session is being shaped by the possibility that all three could get worse at once.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Brent crude is again flirting with $100 a barrel, forcing investors to confront a problem they thought would be contained by now. The war with Iran is entering its seventh month, inflation is still unsettled and the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates next week.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Christopher Waller bought investors some relief. America's labor market has now put it to the test.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Six months into a conflict that was supposed to be brief, Iran is proving more durable than Washington's forecasts, oil is back near $95 and traders are betting on a Fed rate increase. Add jumpy bonds, a strengthening yen and an earnings season in which even Broadcom can disappoint, and Wall Street has plenty to worry about. Snowflake's surge at least gives investors a little hope.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The most important number in markets today is 4.8%. That's roughly where the 10-year Treasury yield stands after climbing to its highest level since November 2023. It is getting dangerously close to 5%, a psychological threshold that tends to unsettle investors.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The first trading day of September is delivering a blunt message: Governments, companies and investors all compete for the same money. When public borrowing becomes more expensive, almost everything else begins to look less attractive.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The first week of September will test whether the stock market's strong year can withstand a less friendly mix of inflation, higher interest rates and renewed conflict in the Middle East. Investors will also get a crucial U.S. jobs report and earnings from some of the biggest beneficiaries of the technology spending boom.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Friday's session opens in New York with some degree of tension. Kevin Warsh is about to remind them that even excellent companies such as Nvidia must live with interest rates.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Nvidia has once again given investors what they wanted: spectacular growth, a confident forecast and fresh evidence that demand for artificial-intelligence computing remains stronger than the industry's ability to supply it. The stock climbed as much as 7% before Thursday's opening bell, helping Nasdaq 100 futures rise roughly 0.9%, while S&P 500 futures gained 0.4%.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Two events shape Wednesday's session. The first, the latest batch of economic data, has now delivered a mixed inflation reading. The second, Nvidia's results, comes after the closing bell. Can inflation ease without damaging growth? Can artificial intelligence keep producing the extraordinary expansion already reflected in technology valuations?Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Technology stocks are attempting to recover after Monday's semiconductor selloff, with Nvidia, Meta, Micron, Western Digital and Sandisk all gaining early in the session. But this is less a confident rebound than a cautious return to the scene of the accident. Investors are willing to buy the dip: they would simply like Nvidia to justify it first.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Our daily Wall Street column is back after a short hiatus! The final week of August will test three of the market's strongest convictions: that Washington can contain the economic damage from Iran, that inflation will cool without a painful intervention from the Federal Reserve, and that artificial intelligence can justify the extraordinary sums being spent on it. Scott Bessent, Kevin Warsh and Nvidia will each provide part of the answer.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The technology trade is roaring back on Friday, but the rebound is becoming more selective. Amazon is surging after delivering the kind of growth investors wanted to see, while Apple is falling due to supply shortages.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Prices cooled in June, but weak growth and expensive oil leave the central bank with an unusually awkward choice.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Oil is rising, Iran is back in the headlines, the Federal Reserve is preparing to announce its latest decision, and roughly 100 major American and European companies are reporting results. Microsoft and Meta Platforms report after Wednesday's close, followed later this week by Amazon and Apple. Their results will be judged less by headline revenue than by what their enormous AI budgets are producing.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Wall Street's artificial-intelligence boom has survived several scares since ChatGPT captured the public imagination in late 2022. Each time, investors decided that the rewards would justify almost any level of spending. Tuesday's session suggests that confidence is weakening again.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

A pause in the war with Iran has pulled oil back from $100 a barrel just as the United States enters one of the busiest market weeks of the year. The Federal Reserve will decide on interest rates Wednesday, the government will publish its first estimate of second-quarter GDP, and roughly one-third of the S&P 500 will report earnings. The Bank of England and the Bank of Japan will also meet, because apparently the calendar had a little space left.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Oil slipping back below $100 a barrel is enough to make Friday look calmer. U.S. stocks are set to stabilize after Thursday's sharp technology selloff, with the Dow leading the tentative rebound and the S&P 500 edging higher. The Nasdaq is barely moving after suffering its worst session in a month. Investors are dealing with three separate problems at once: an expensive technology sector, another round of tariffs and an oil shock that could complicate the Federal Reserve's job next week.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Brent crude is once again flirting with $100 a barrel, and this time the threat is coming from both ends of the oil trade's most important corridor. Iran has already turned the Strait of Hormuz into a dangerous and unreliable passage. Now the Houthis are trying to do the same at Bab el-Mandeb, the narrow gateway linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Alphabet reports after the close, and investors want more than another confident presentation about artificial intelligence. They want stronger cloud revenue, clearer evidence of commercial returns and some reassurance that capital spending will not keep rising indefinitely. The company has been given plenty of room to invest. The market is now asking to see the results.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Wall Street entered Tuesday with two reasons for optimism, neither especially sturdy. Semiconductor stocks were extending their recovery from a brutal selloff, while mediators were trying to revive a ceasefire between the United States and Iran. The Nasdaq was set to benefit most from that combination, though oil's return to around $90 a barrel suggested that investors were hardly convinced the Middle East crisis was easing.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

This week will test whether Wall Street's artificial-intelligence boom still has enough substance to support its enormous price tag. Alphabet's results on Wednesday will be the main event. Tesla, Intel, Texas Instruments, and IBM are also due to report. IBM enters the week under particular scrutiny after losing roughly a quarter of its value following a profit warning last week. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The artificial-intelligence boom has reached an awkward stage. Companies are still spending extraordinary sums, chipmakers are still reporting strong demand, and the technology may still transform large parts of the economy. Yet investors want to know: Where are the returns?Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Thursday's market offered investors two very different versions of the American economy. The first came from the economic data, which showed consumers still spending and employers reluctant to lay off workers. The second came from the semiconductor sector, where shares continued to swing as if the future of artificial intelligence had to be repriced every few hours.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

How much should investors celebrate cooler inflation when oil is climbing again and the Middle East is becoming more dangerous? For now, the answer appears to be: quite a lot.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

For weeks, investors had learned to treat the conflict between the United States and Iran as dangerous background noise. Official statements were issued, contradicted and sometimes reversed before markets had time to react. That habit is now being tested.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The coming week will test whether Wall Street's rally can survive three things it does not particularly enjoy: expensive oil, stubborn inflation and very high expectations.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The semiconductor trade has regained control of the market, though control may be too generous a word for a sector that has spent the week swinging between sharp selloffs and equally sharp recoveries. Today's session is centered on SK Hynix, whose Nasdaq debut is testing whether investors still have room in their portfolios, and their imaginations, for another very large AI-related bet. The South Korean memory-chip maker raised roughly $26.5 billion by selling American depositary shares at $149 each. It is the largest U.S. listing by a foreign company and, following SpaceX’s debut last month, the second enormous share sale in a remarkably short period. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The United States and Iran exchanged fire again overnight, with Washington saying it hit 90 military targets. Donald Trump said Iran had called him looking for a deal, though Tehran has not confirmed any new talks. That leaves investors with half-signals, official claims and silence from the other side. However, they do not seem too bothered, with futures up 0.3% for the S&P 500 and 1% for the Nasdaq.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Donald Trump arrived at the NATO summit and blew up the market's quiet summer script, declaring the Iran deal dead, reigniting fears around the Strait of Hormuz and dragging oil, inflation and the Fed back into the same sentence. For investors, today is no longer about AI fatigue or chip rotation, but about a rally suddenly forced to price in war risk and alliance drama.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Wall Street is opening with one eye on AI and the other on oil, which is not exactly the calmest way to start a Tuesday. Dow futures are up 0.3%, S&P 500 futures are flat, and Nasdaq 100 futures are down 0.8%, as Samsung's huge profit jump somehow managed to make investors more nervous about the chip trade, not less. After a year of spectacular gains, even great numbers now have to clear a much higher bar.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The calendar says summer has begun. The first full week of July opens with stocks sitting in an unusually comfortable place. European equities have just touched fresh highs, while U.S. indexes are close to their peaks after a strong second quarter. Oil has fallen back toward levels seen before the latest Middle East shock. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has resumed in size, with 160 vessels reported to have passed through last week. OPEC+ has added another 188,000 barrels a day to its August production targets.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Second-quarter earnings season begins in earnest the week of July 13, with about 100 major European and American companies set to report. PepsiCo gets an early turn on Thursday, July 9, which may not sound like the opening act of a grand market reckoning, but investors will take what they can get. After record highs at the end of the second quarter, equities have entered July looking a little restless. This morning, futures are in the green after June non-farm payroll data.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

After the strongest quarter for U.S. stocks in six years, investors are entering July with a familiar problem: the good news may have become a little too good. The S&P 500 rose 9.1% in the first half, including dividends. Europe did even better, with the Stoxx Europe 600 Total Return index up 10.3%. Japan's Nikkei jumped 39%. South Korea's KOSPI did something closer to levitation, rising 101%, helped by artificial intelligence enthusiasm and local policy shifts. That is the backdrop for today's softer session. U.S. stocks are set to open lower, European indexes have already slipped, and parts of Asia were mixed.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

For the last session of the quarter, stocks are edging higher, oil is no longer screaming, and investors are waiting for fresh labor-market data before deciding how much optimism is allowed. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are still on track for their best quarter in six years. The Dow is heading for its strongest quarterly gain since 2022. Not bad for a market that spent the past few months worrying about war, oil, inflation, AI spending, and the Federal Reserve.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Markets are treating the U.S.-Iran pause as permission to breathe again: oil is back near $72, stock futures are higher, and the Strait of Hormuz has been downgraded from global panic button to unresolved risk. That gives Wall Street room to return to its other obsession: deciding which parts of the AI trade still deserve the hype, and which ones simply got too crowded.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The Nasdaq's attempt at a rebound already looks shaky, as investors grow more impatient with the gap between massive AI spending and actual profits. Micron’s strong forecast briefly lifted the mood, but renewed pressure on chip stocks, Apple's price increases, and doubts around OpenAI's IPO plans have revived concerns that the AI trade may be running ahead of reality. At the same time, fresh tension around Iran is adding another layer of risk, even as falling oil prices suggest markets are still more focused on supply flows than geopolitical headlines.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

A cooler-than-feared inflation report gave markets the excuse they needed to rally, while stronger-than-expected consumer spending suggested the economy still has momentum. Micron's blowout results added fuel to the rebound, reminding investors that the AI boom still depends heavily on memory chips. Lower oil prices and falling bond yields helped the mood, while mixed corporate news showed that the rally was powerful but still selective.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

After two rough days for technology stocks, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are trying to regain their footing, helped by a modest rebound in chip names in anticipation for Micron. The memory-chip maker reports earnings after the close, and investors are treating the event as a useful test case for the AI boom. It sells into the infrastructure buildout that has powered the market's biggest story: cloud giants spending enormous sums on data centers, chips, servers, and everything else needed to keep artificial intelligence humming. When that story feels strong, Micron looks like a winner, but when investors start asking whether all this spending will earn a decent return, the company becomes a very visible place to worry.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

For months, investors have rewarded the suppliers of the AI boom, especially chipmakers, because their role is obvious. If everyone needs more computing power, someone has to sell the hardware. That part of the trade still makes sense. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index recently hit a fresh record and is up roughly 106% this year. But Tuesday morning, the mood has shifted.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

This week begins with investors trying to do two things at once: enjoy the rally and pretend it is not watching the Strait of Hormuz every five minutes. U.S. stocks enter Monday's session after a strong prior week, with the Nasdaq up 2.4% and technology once again doing much of the heavy lifting. The S&P 500 is comfortably above where it stood before the latest Middle East conflict began, and Europe's Stoxx 600 has already climbed back above its late-February record.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

A pause, a passageway, and a promise to keep talking. That's essentially what's included in the Iran-US agreement released a few hours ago. It extends the April ceasefire by another 60 days and restores full maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, without the extra charges that had become one more tax on an already nervous global economy. Brent fell again, sliding toward $77 a barrel, its lowest level since early March. For markets, the agreement is less a breakthrough than a badly needed reduction in one of the world’s most expensive risks.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Markets are trying to recover from a bruising selloff in chip stocks, helped by easing oil prices and hopes that a U.S.-Iran interim deal can calm inflation fears. But the bigger test comes from Washington, where Kevin Warsh's first press conference as Fed chair will show whether he can sound dovish enough for the White House without frightening bond investors.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

After Monday's record close for the Dow, investors seem happy to keep buying, with futures just slightly up. The Fed meeting is the main event today. It will be the first interest-rate decision under Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, and markets are treating it like a debut with unusually high ticket prices. The central bank is widely expected to hold rates steady at 3.50% to 3.75%, but the decision itself is not what matters most.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

This week begins with the possibility that a war may actually be ending. Washington and Tehran have confirmed the outline of an agreement to halt the conflict with Iran, extend the ceasefire, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. That is the main fact shaping today's U.S. session. Investors are repricing risk, oil, inflation, and the odds that the Federal Reserve may have a little more room to breathe. Oil prices are falling sharply, with Brent back near $83 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate near $80.Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.