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Persistent Treasury settlements are draining liquidity, pressuring the stock market with more frequent and deeper declines on settlement days. Excess liquidity from the Fed's Reverse Repo facility is exhausted, forcing new Treasury funding to come from risk asset sales.
Intuit and other software leaders have suffered sharp re-ratings, with INTU down 50% from its 2025 peak and now trading at 15x forward earnings. AI disruption is accelerating market rotation, weakening the competitive edge of many software companies and favoring value-oriented sectors like industrials, energy, and midstream.
Global markets brace for another week of AI headlines. Focus shifts to Asia as New Delhi hosts the AI Impact Summit.
The S&P 500's recent 1.4% weekly decline highlights growing market complacency and signals a need for increased caution. My bear market probability model assigns a 25% chance of a bear market in the next 4–6 months, suggesting prudent cash-raising.
Inflation is easing, jobs are holding up, and growth is solid. But after years of high prices and with new risks emerging, declarations of victory feel premature.
The share of people ages 18 to 39 transferring funds to investment accounts every month has more than tripled over a decade.
After a positive jobs report for 2026, the CPI inflation report further confirms that this year is indeed on to a good start. Both the headline and core inflation levels indicate that PCE inflation is set to undershoot the Fed's projections, giving more room for a rate cut going forward.
Investors will get a better read on the health of consumers as Walmart reports its first quarterly results under its new CEO on Thursday.
Valuations have risen for many semiconductor-equipment producers — but some are still relatively cheap.
The core PCE inflation is expected to spike by 0.4% MoM in December, which would challenge the CPI disinflationary theme. The 2025 Q4 GDP is expected to slow to 3%, with a more significant slowdown in December, which could extend to Q1 2026.
Despite strong gains this year, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix shares are even less expensive than their U.S. counterparts.
New Fed governor Stephen Miran signals shift from data-dependent monetary policy as Kevin Warsh's nomination stalls amid political turmoil at the central bank.
By Kevin Flanagan Key Takeaways Kevin Warsh's nomination for Fed Chairman initially reassured bond markets by offering a known, crisis-tested Fed veteran with a reputation as an inflation hawk, reducing uncertainty at a critical juncture for monetary policy.
Investors are shooting first and asking questions later as the momentum trade gets swept up by concerns that AI could disrupt established industries like insurance and wealth management.
Insiders and retail investors are currently providing divergent signals about the market's direction, which should signal caution on equities. Corporate insiders and directors are selling stocks, and Warren Buffett built up a record cash hoard before exiting leadership at Berkshire Hathaway after 60 years at the helm.
AI is eroding business moats and accelerating competition across sectors. Digital and software businesses are seeing sharp valuation resets.
AI is suddenly driving big swings in stocks. It also could seep into central-bank policy decisions and the U.S. housing market.
Who needs interest-rate cuts when the labor market is looking healthy and inflation is cooling?
The S&P 500 faces heightened risk from a historically high FINRA margin balance ratio and the dominance of passive trading strategies. Elevated margin leverage and algorithmic trading create a momentum-driven market, amplifying volatility and the risk of sudden, forced selling.
January delivered the kind of mix investors and policymakers have been looking for: inflation cooled even as the labor market kept adding jobs. The US consumer price index rose 0.2% in January and was up 2.4% from a year earlier, while core inflation (which strips out food and energy) rose 0.
The pace of private equity and venture capital investment in application software slowed for at least three consecutive years amid rising concerns about the risks advances in AI could pose to software company growth. Alternative asset managers' exposure to the software sector was under the spotlight after an early-February sell-off of technology stocks.
For starters, the 'AI scare' is a catalyst exposing underlying market fragility. South Korea's KOSPI equities index surged another 8.2% this week, with major indices up 5.8% in Japan, 5.6% in Thailand, 4.9% in Turkey, 4.1% in Taiwan, 3.9% in Vietnam, 3.5% in Indonesia, 2.4% in Australia, and 1.9% in Brazil and Canada.
Japan's strengthened fiscal mandate is lifting global rate expectations and tightening marginal liquidity, creating a structural headwind for high-beta assets, including crypto. Strong US labor data alongside moderating inflation have reinforced expectations of no change at the March FOMC meeting, with the first rate cut window now pushed to summer.
U.S. job growth surprises to the upside. Japan election outcome boosts growth expectations.
Productivity gains by AI are now turning into fears of destruction for many firms, industries, and their components – look at tech and software, straight-up bleeding since October. Most of the assets that got beaten down last Friday attempted a rebound in this week's action.
Stock benchmarks are attempting a fresh rebound, powered by the soft CPI print. Markets were on quite a rout but are now pushing to recover.
This Week's Market Wrap: AI Moving Fast And Breaking Things
Stocks ended the day roughly flat despite a surprisingly cool inflation report.
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Dow 50,000 could mark an interim top as AI fears hit new industries and hopes for interest-rate cuts diminish.
The administration is weighing a plan that would ease tariffs on some consumer goods while protecting U.S. companies facing overseas competition.
"Bloomberg Real Yield" highlights the market-moving news you need to know. Today's guests: Schwab Center for Financial Research Chief Fixed Income Strategist Kathy Jones, JPMorgan Private Bank Global Head of Macro & Fixed income Strategy Alexander Wolf, TCW Generalist Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income Jerry Cudzil and Invesco Head of North American Investment Grade Credit Matt Brill.
The stock market, including the Dow Jones, mostly gained Friday. But the Nasdaq lagged.
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Market Domination Host Josh Lipton catches up on the day's top market stories ahead of the closing bell on February 13, 2026. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee sits down with Yahoo Finance Senior Fed Reporter Jennifer Schonberger to speak on January jobs data and the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation reading.
It's not just the software space that experienced profound volatility. Gold, silver and bitcoin all saw outsized moves throughout a wild week on Wall Street.
All three major U.S. stock indexes ended the week down 1.2% or more.
A key measure of inflation fell to nearly a five-year low last month as apartment rental price growth slowed and gas prices fell, offering some relief to Americans grappling with the sharp cost increases of the past five years.
January CPI rose just 0.2%, pushing annual inflation to a low 2.4% - the smallest monthly increase since July. Core CPI matched expectations at 0.3%, dropping the annual rate to 2.5%, with shelter cost declines supporting the disinflationary trend.
"Bloomberg Real Yield" highlights the market-moving news you need to know. Today's guests: Schwab Center for Financial Research Chief Fixed Income Strategist Kathy Jones, JPMorgan Private Bank Global Head of Macro & Fixed income Strategy Alexander Wolf, TCW Generalist Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income Jerry Cudzil and Invesco Head of North American Investment Grade Credit Matt Brill.
Inflation affects everything from grocery bills to rent, making the Consumer Price Index one of the most closely watched economic indicators. What does inflation mean at the micro level — specifically to your household?
Some of President Donald Trump's top allies in Congress have diverged from him in recent weeks. With the midterms approaching, Trump is grappling with polls showing low approval ratings overall and on key issues, especially the economy.
Billions of dollars in 2025 rate increases still haven't filtered into Americans' bills, according to one expert.
A dovish inflation report may not be enough to offset the market's AI slump.
The week started off strong for Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) nabbing record closes on Monday and Tuesday.
The explanation starts with the fact that many industries are undergoing changes, substantially altering their profit outlooks.
‘The Big Money Show' panel reacts to cooler-than-expected inflation data, falling energy prices and growing expectations for multiple Fed rate cuts in 2026.
The S&P 500 does better when the Dow industrials outperform the Dow transports.
Wall Street couldn't make sense of all that was swirling around AI this past week. Getting real was the thing that worked.