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Jim Edwards__Business Insider |
Wall Street expects tech stocks to take a hammering this morning—again.

Wall Street expects tech stocks to take a hammering this morning.

For instance, the level of so-called lien subordination protection has doubled in a year.

No major central banks are expected to cut rates again this year, BofA predicts.

The market declined to demonstrate irrational exuberance despite upbeat remarks from the Fed.

“Earlier this month, markets shifted more towards a 'central back put' regime," Christian Mueller-Glissmann at Goldman wrote in a note to clients.

“The landscape has suddenly gotten a lot, lot, lot more complicated” for tech stocks going forward, Lisa Shalett says.

A series of earnings calls from tech companies has disappointed traders.

Absent federal data, investors shifted from risk-off positions into risk-on mode.

Wall Street wants to know if the stock market is partying like it’s 1999.

Investors are increasingly convinced that the Fed’s rate cuts are now locked in. The notion that the U.S. Supreme Court may rule that Trump’s...

The fear is that "the U.S. business environment and credit quality are in a poorer state than what data suggests," ING said in a note this morning.

“Anticipated investment levels are sustainable, although the ultimate AI winners remain less clear,” Goldman says.

JP Morgan's CFO Jeremy Barnum said: “A lot of the private credit actors are large, very sophisticated, very good at credit underwriting. So I don't...

“The poster child for the AI boom may be struggling to recruit new subscribers to pay for it,” said analysts Adrian Cox and Stefan Abrudan.

China holds an unexpectedly strong hand in the trade war, and the U.S.’s tariffs have been counterintuitively positive for China.

China holds an unexpectedly strong hand in the trade war, and the U.S.’s tariffs have been counterintuitively positive for China.

It’s not chaos but it’s not good.

The record-high price of gold suggests that a lot of investors want a hedge against an implosion in U.S. tech stocks. Yet some analysts are saying...

Gold surged over $4,000/oz, up 50% this year, driven by investor fears over government debt, a weaker dollar, a buying spree by China’s central...

As Bitcoin's price goes up, its relative volatility declines, a new analysis by Deutsche Bank argues, which makes Bitcoin more like gold.

There is a 67% chance that the U.S. federal government shutdown will last longer than 10 days, according to bettors on Polymarket—and for stock...

Big Tech companies used to buy in cash. Now they’re issuing debt, too.

The big question moving forward is, how long will the shutdown last?

France and the U.K. are the two countries flirting most with a credit crisis, analysts say.

“There is a risk that Goldilocks meets one of the three bears,” the bank says.

The good news: There are several loopholes in Trump’s proposal that mean the impact of the new taxes may be limited.

The good news: There are several loopholes in Trump’s proposal that mean the impact of the new taxes may be limited.

The party is likely to continue despite the fact that the U.S. stock markets are dependent on the fate of just seven—or maybe even just one—company.

Investors are wary of any sign that the Fed thinks “irrational exuberance”—as former Fed chair Alan Greenspan once called it—has kicked in.

“In the absence of tech-related spending, the U.S. would be close to, or in, recession this year,” George Saravelos says.

Investors are both bullish on equities as well as being afraid that there are major downside risks, Deutsche’s Henry Allen says.

The Fed says the economy will grow and unemployment will decline. So why did it cut interest rates on Wednesday?

The dollar has put in such a feeble performance this year that it has begun to hurt foreign investors in U.S. assets.

Markets will move on Wednesday after Wall Street parses Cook’s statement and his Q&A for clues about future rate cuts beyond Wednesday.

Here’s why stock investors seem to love trouble so much.

“Surging capex spending related to AI will likely prevent a major increase in the buyback payout ratio," the bank says.

The looming danger, Goldman says, is when Amazon, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle decide to reduce their capex.

"Gold is a store of value that doesn’t rely on institutional trust,” Samantha Dart says.

“Nvidia’s market cap is now larger than every country’s entire listed stock exchange apart from the US, China, Japan and India,” the bank said.

Top of the list of usual suspects is, of course, "uncertainty."

Nividia, Marvell Technology, and Super Micro Computer Inc., all showed unexpected weakness in August.

The dynamic is dragging the dollar lower, in reaction to President Trump's interference in the Fed, weak growth, and inflation risk, according to...

The prices-paid component of the ISM services survey often predicts where inflation will be three months from now, and right now it's 4%.

Some hopes emerged as investors focused on the Fed’s institutional strength.

The bond market flinched yesterday and stocks sold off.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes stablecoins will buoy the market for U.S. Treasuries, and the government will sell more short-term debt...

A company with a chatbot that often gets things wrong is somehow about to become the largest unicorn earth has ever seen. That does feel frothy.

“After the PPI spike yesterday, there has been some hawkish repricing of Fed expectations,” ING told clients.

The S&P 500 is up 10% this year, driven largely by tech companies that are spending heavily on AI.
