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The Closing Edge #40

The chip streak ended on Monday, and the AI trade spent the rest of the week learning what its spending actually costs: Meta's first cash outflow in a decade, Lam's "constrained," SpaceX's $40 billion quarter, a ten-year that fell 17 basis points on a Thursday because people wanted somewhere to hide. Oil at $117 did the rest. Here is the week in one argument, and the four things next week that settle it.

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The Closing Edge #33

The ten-year touched 5.36 percent, it’s highest since 2002, and the minutes of the September meeting said another hike is likely before year-end. The S&P and the Nasdaq gave back Tuesday's records, the Russell fell for a fourth day, and the bid went to pharma rather than to the small caps the rally keeps leaving behind. After the bell, Levi beat on earnings and raised its outlook, and Applied Digital posted a quarter driven mostly by tenant fit-out.

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The Closing Edge #31

For four sessions, the highest Treasury yields in twenty-four years set the terms, and the major averages bled toward a losing week. Then September payrolls landed at a third of what the Street expected, the October-hike trade fell from a coin flip to one-in-seven, and Friday ripped. The averages still closed the week red. The bond market, pointedly, did not rally.

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