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The market is making history, but not everyone is invited. On Tuesday, the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow all closed at record highs. The S&P 500 even finished above 7,600 for the first time. That sounds like a broad vote of confidence in the American economy. Look closer, though, and the picture is less democratic. A small group of technology and semiconductor stocks is doing most of the heavy l...

Wall Street is taking a breather, with futures down between 0.5% and 0.1%, after the S&P 500 posted eight straight winning sessions, matching a run from April 2025, and has reached another record. The Nasdaq has also been setting highs. This is happening while Brent and WTI crude are sitting in the $90-to-$95 range. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for mor...

Markets are entering June with momentum. May ended strongly, with major U.S. indexes at record highs after a run helped by big corporate earnings, hopes that the Middle East conflict might eventually cool, and the continuing belief that AI will keep creating winners. Global stocks have also been carried by the same force. After a shaky April, the MSCI World Index rose sharply again in May, marking...

Markets are ending May with a strange but powerful mix: huge enthusiasm for AI-linked companies, relief over lower oil prices, and a broader rally that has spread well beyond tech. The result is a market that looks confident. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Today's inflation report gave Wall Street a reason to breathe, but not much room to relax. Prices rose less than expected, yet the market's bigger problem is still coming from oil, Iran, and the risk that a geopolitical shock could undo the Fed's progress on inflation. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Micron and SK Hynix just did something remarkable. In the space of 24 hours, both memory-chip makers crossed $1 trillion in market value. It says a lot about where the artificial-intelligence boom has moved next. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Wall Street reopens today after Memorial Day, and the market is returning to a week that has already started without it. Europe traded while the U.S. and UK were away, and the message from investors was fairly clear: they are worried about the Middle East, but not worried enough to stop buying technology stocks. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more inform...

Stocks are moving higher. The Dow is building on Thursday's record close, the S&P 500 is on track for an eighth straight weekly gain: its best run since late 2023. Tech shares are again doing much of the work. Bond yields have eased after a rough stretch. And investors are preparing for a long Memorial Day weekend, which usually encourages a bit of housekeeping, a bit of caution, and a bit of...

Today's session had briefly looked as if it might build on Wednesday's rebound. Stocks had snapped a three-day losing streak, Europe had rallied sharply, oil had cooled, and Nvidia had done what Nvidia is now expected to do: report numbers so large they make normal corporate earnings look like a neighborhood bake sale. There was also the added excitement of a possible SpaceX IPO, with OpenAI not f...

Today's trading session has one obvious main character: Nvidia. The chipmaker reports after the close, and investors are treating the event less like a quarterly update than a market-wide health check, since the company is the clearest symbol of the AI boom. If its results are strong, and its outlook is stronger, it could give stocks the jolt they badly need after three straight tech-led declines....

What happens when the stocks that carried the rally begin to look expensive at the same time bonds start flashing warning signs? That is the uncomfortable setup facing U.S. equities this Tuesday. The pressure is most visible in chip stocks. Nvidia is down again before the open, on track for a third straight decline, just one day before it reports results. Micron, Seagate, and Western Digital are a...

Kevin Warsh is taking over the Fed just as the bond market is sending its first warning. This week, Wall Street gets a clear test: whether AI optimism, Nvidia's results, and a still-resilient consumer can hold up against $110 oil, rising yields, and renewed tension in the Middle East. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The Trump-Xi meeting was meant to reassure investors, but it fell short. The two leaders talked, and the summit avoided a major blowup, but markets were looking for more than careful staging and diplomatic smiles. They wanted signs that Washington and Beijing could ease pressure on the global economy. Those signs never really came. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentia...

Markets are rallying as Trump meets Xi, lifted by Nvidia, AI optimism, and hopes for a U.S.-China thaw. But Donald Trump goes to China with a weaker hand than he wants to admit… Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

April's hotter-than-expected producer inflation has turned this week into a test of whether markets can keep looking past rising prices after yesterday's sharp CPI surprise. With rate-cut hopes fading, oil still tied to the Iran conflict, and Trump heading to Beijing for trade talks with Xi Jinping, investors are facing a less forgiving economic backdrop. Stocks may steady today, helped by a chip...

Today's inflation report did not deliver a disaster, but confirmation that prices are still rising too fast, at exactly the wrong time. While headline inflation can be blamed on oil, war, shipping routes and bad luck, core inflation is harder to wave away. It tells us whether price pressure is spreading through the economy rather than simply arriving at the gas pump. So, today's data was not comfo...

Investors face a crowded calendar in the week ahead: a stalled U.S.-Iran peace effort, oil above $100 a barrel, fresh inflation data, a high-stakes meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing, and a corporate earnings season that has further cemented artificial intelligence as the dominant market narrative. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more...

This morning's US data gave investors a familiar problem: inflation remains sticky, wage growth looks firm, and the labor market appears too strong for the Fed to sound relaxed. At the same time, Big Tech earnings continue to show real resilience, leaving markets caught between solid corporate profits and an economic backdrop that argues against quick rate cuts. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiome...

Wall Street enters Wednesday with a full plate: the Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady, Jerome Powell is preparing what should be his final press conference as Fed chair, and four of the largest companies in America - Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta - will report earnings after the close. That is a lot for one trading day. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/poli...

Tuesday's session will test a market that has rallied despite little improvement in the risks around it. The conflict with Iran is still keeping pressure on oil, while the Fed is preparing to hold rates steady even as inflation risks become harder to dismiss. After a strong run for stocks, investors now have to decide whether earnings and the AI boom can carry the market through a more expensive a...

Monday's session is the opening act of what may be one of the most consequential weeks of the year for U.S. markets. The Federal Reserve meets on Wednesday. Jerome Powell is expected to hold what may be his final press conference as Fed chair. Big Tech earnings arrive in force. Oil is climbing again after U.S.-Iran peace efforts stalled.  Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de...

Wall Street is trying to regain its footing after a recent rebound began to lose some force. The S&P 500 and Europe's Stoxx 600 have risen in only one of the past four sessions. Investors are no longer buying everything simply because it has a ticker symbol and a pulse. But in one corner of the market, the mood remains almost aggressively enthusiastic: semiconductors. The chip sector has now p...

Futures are down this morning after a strong rally. Is this just a breather, or are investors starting to confront the possibility that even a shaky pause in the fighting will not prevent a broader economic hit? Another question is whether markets have been too slow to price in how far the damage could spread. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more informat...

On Wall Street, stock futures rose this morning as investors tried to shake off another bout of Middle East anxiety. The immediate excuse for optimism was Donald Trump's decision to prolong the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely. That reaction makes a certain kind of sense, since investors are exhausted: they want a story they can live with. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-con...

The U.S. and Iran are still wobbling between negotiation and confrontation, and the ceasefire is about to expire. Headlines have flipped so quickly from hints of calm to renewed threats that trading this market now feels less like investing and more like placing bets at a casino. Yet Kevin Warsh was the first name hanging over Wall Street this morning. His confirmation hearing to become the next F...