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Bonds, rates and inflation are stealing headlines from equities. Are ETF investors prepared?
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Nasdaq 100 forecast turns cautious as rising yields pressure tech stocks and fuel rotation across the US stock market.

Bonds, rates and inflation are stealing headlines from equities. Are ETF investors prepared?

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Burry, who rose to prominence after his bet against the subprime mortgage market was featured in “The Big Short,” pointed to evidence that an increasingly large amount of junk-bond debt and venture capital money is pouring into the AI sector.

U.S. Senators of both parties will unveil a bill on Tuesday aimed at countering Chinese sales of artificial intelligence tools overseas, according to a copy seen by Reuters.

After their ceaseless rally, semiconductors and Mag 7s are pulling back, imposing a stop in stock market euphoria. Feeling the pressure of the spike in yields, the Warsh Trade could prove more dangerous for overextended, tech-heavy stock markets.

U.S. gas exporters are asking Europe to delay the enforcement of a new methane emissions law until 2028, a top official of the national suppliers' lobby said on Tuesday, warning the regulatory risk is already holding back long‑term contracts with European customers.

The average rate on the 30-year fixed loan rose 7 basis points Tuesday to 6.75%. Sales of pending homes rose in April both month over month and compared with a year ago, according to a report Tuesday from the National Association of Realtors.

The latest sharp selloff in U.S. Treasuries may be far from over.

While Wall Street remains fixated on upcoming NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) earnings, the bond market may be flashing the more important signal.

The United States and Europe were at odds over the Trump administration's decision to ease oil sanctions on Russia.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday shifted his message for the Federal Reserve, suggesting he'll give some slack to incoming Fed chair Kevin Warsh after putting unprecedented pressure on the U.S. central bank for more than a year.

By Alex Evangeli Alex Evangeli has traded ETF products since 2007. He founded and led the fixed income trading business at Virtu Financial in Europe before relocating to New York to trade and lead the development of fixed income trading technology for the ETF block business.

Nate Peterson (@CharlesSchwab) talks about the mean reversion occurring in AI hardware and software. He talks about the technical set-up working in favor of software as AI chip stocks take a beating ahead of Nvidia's (NVDA) earnings.

Jeff Currie, co-chairman at Abaxx Markets, says demand for artificial intelligence is helping set up the commodities industry for a supercycle lasting a decade or more. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.

$38.9 trillion. That's the U.S. national debt as of May 15, marking a $2.7 trillion increase over the last year, according to Treasury Department data.

Four liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels were sailing to China from the U.S. and expected to arrive in June, according to data from financial firm LSEG, marking the first U.S. LNG cargoes to leave the U.S. and go directly to China during U.S. President Donald Trump's second term in office.

U.S. hedge fund Grizzly Research on Tuesday released a research report accusing Ottobock's majority shareholder, Hans Georg Näder, of wrongdoing. The company responded: "We categorically reject the statements and claims made in the report as well as the report's overall conclusion.

A Federal Reserve Bank of New York official responsible for implementing monetary policy on Tuesday said the central bank's current rate control toolkit would still work in a system allowing banks to hold fewer reserves.

Competitive dynamics shifting across indexing, says Burton-Taylor consultancy Revenues earned by index providers reached a record $7.2bn last year with strong gains for equity markets worldwide and rising investor demand for passive ETFs fueling growth for one of the finance industry's most profitable sectors.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon amid concerns over taxes and New York's business climate.

Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., joins ‘Mornings with Maria' to discuss the Senate's push to advance the CLARITY Act, America's race with China over rare earth minerals and the AI-driven energy boom reshaping Pennsylvania.

Equities are experiencing a "defensive" session for Tuesday, says Kevin Green. The sectors needed to thrust price action higher aren't participating in today's moves.

U.S. software stocks headed toward their fourth consecutive session of gains on Tuesday, attempting a comeback after being battered for much of the year on fears of disruption from artificial intelligence.

The amount of natural gas flowing to the nine big U.S. liquefied natural gas export plants looked set to hit a 16-week low on Tuesday even though QatarEnergy/Exxon Mobil's Golden Pass plant in Texas was on track to return, according to data from financial company LSEG.

The number of homes going under contract in the U.S. rose 1.4% in April, according to the National Association of Realtors' pending home sales index.

Stephanie Link, Chief Investment Strategist and Portfolio Manager at Hightower, Warren Pies, Cofounder and Strategist at 3Fourteen Research, and Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, say AI spending and resilient growth continue supporting markets despite higher yields and energy prices

The recent market rally, driven by large-cap tech and AI infrastructure, faces mounting risks from surging rates, inflation, and extreme valuations. Semiconductor names like INTC and AMD now trade at historically high multiples, with market concentration in tech reaching unprecedented levels.

The acceleration was due largely to another month of steeper prices for gasoline, though core measures of inflation remain contained.

US stocks moved lower on Tuesday as investors continued pulling back from semiconductor and technology stocks amid rising inflation concerns, elevated Treasury yields, and uncertainty surrounding the Middle East conflict. The S&P 500 fell 0.5%, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.57%.

The stock market has spent much of 2026 acting like the economy is bulletproof.

The factors that led to aggressive selloffs in riskier assets during past energy shocks are not currently in place, analysts at Deutsche Bank said.

The US is at the high end of its 20-year forward price-to-earnings multiple, but it is not the only highly valued market today. New Zealand is the most expensive, and Canada (in yellow) is also near the high end of its historic range.

Forty major food and agriculture groups, including Carlsberg , Diageo , Nestle and Mondelez , have signed a joint declaration to advance and scale regenerative agriculture, a non-profit network said on Tuesday.

As a result of the rising interest rate scenario in America, we continue to see the US indices struggle a bit overall. However, they are all in a longer-term uptrend.

By one measure, investors haven't been this bulled up on stocks since the heady days of the original meme-stock frenzy back in 2021.

I see rising long-term interest rates and persistent inflation as the greatest risks to stock valuations this summer. Despite geopolitical headlines, the rhetoric's market impact is fading, and any rally should be used to tactically reduce equity exposure.

Now that the Musk-Altman trial has reached a verdict, the two billionaires can turn their attention to readying their companies for the public market. Musk's SpaceX is expected to disclose its IPO prospectus as soon as this week, and Altman's OpenAI is gearing up to go public possibly later this year.

President Trump called off the planned attack to allow one last chance to make the deal with Iran. However, the deal is still unlikely, and the markets should brace for escalation.

The outlook for the quarterly dividends of the S&P 500 has substantially improved in the month since our previous snapshot. The large change in the forecast value for the most distant future quarter of 2027-Q2 is typical of the kind of volatility we see in dividend futures after the data for a new quarter first becomes available.

Despite Berkshire Hathaway's broad equity reductions, I remain optimistic on US equities' medium- and long-term prospects. Current S&P 500 and Nasdaq valuations are near historical averages, with forward P/Es of ~21.8x and 25.1x, suggesting no dangerous overvaluation.

Wall Street futures were heading deeper into the red ahead of Tuesday's opening bell, as investors remained unconvinced about reports on the latest US-Iran diplomacy efforts. Futures tracking the Nasdaq 100 pointed to an 0.8% drop, while S&P 500 futures were down 0.4% and those for the Dow Jones down 0.3%.

Investors are at the lowest cash levels since February 2024, just one sign that a market pullback could be coming this summer, warns a BofA survey of fund managers.

As semiconductor shares dragged down the Nasdaq-100 for a second day, quietly, software stocks appear to have found their groove.

Walk through a working-capital file at any non-bank small-business lender today. Almost nothing in it has been read by a person before it reaches the underwriter's desk.

UBS has suggested investors buy both government bonds and equities despite a sharp global sell-off in government debt triggered by inflation fears stemming from the war in the Middle East. Recent rises in bond yields have created an “appealing risk-return profile” for short- and medium-dated high-quality bonds, UBS chief investment officer Mark Haefele said, with the bank also maintaining a positive outlook for global stock markets.

There have been many questions about the use of AI in the modern world, and nowhere has that been more pronounced than in the creative industry. In the early innings of the AI revolution, entire swathes of the sector sought to insulate themselves from the changing landscape, ranging from strikes by Hollywood actors and writers to content licensing deals among news and media companies.

Siegfried Eggert, CEO of Grizzly Research, discusses the short seller's findings on German prosthetic maker Ottobock. Grizzly alleges that majority shareholder Hans Georg Nader's margin loan and Russia business endanger public shareholders.

Evercore strategists say as risks build for stocks, less-protected investors need more of these “all-weather” outperforming stocks.