🌎 +0.2% — the Treasury stepped into its own bond market
The Treasury will at least double buybacks of 10–30-year debt; the 30-year yield backed off 2007 highs and stocks rose 0.2%. Plus Fed minutes and Walmart.
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🌎 Nasdaq −1.3% — the AI trade sank; the registers rang
Chip stocks dragged the Nasdaq down 1.3% — while Target's comparable sales jumped 3.8%. Two readings of the same economy, decoded in plain words.
🌎 5.31% — the 30-year hasn't closed this high since 2007
The 30-year Treasury just closed above 5.3% for the first time since 2007. Oil rose, stocks slipped — and Home Depot's registers answered the surveys.
🌎 51 — the mood fell, and yields rose anyway
Consumer sentiment fell to 51 on inflation worries — yet bond yields rose. The needle inside a gloomy survey that markets actually read, in plain words.
🌎 −0.6% — the shopper changed the subject
The S&P 500 crossed 7,800 for the first time — then July retail sales fell 0.6%. The week's story flips from prices to spending.
🌎 3.4% — when the big number is already in the price
July inflation landed exactly on forecast. The board barely moved — and two AI stocks jumped 19%. What "priced in" means, in plain words.
🌎 $104B — the order book that answered a red Tuesday
Wall Street slipped into CPI morning — then CoreWeave and Super Micro posted enormous order books after the bell. How to read a backlog, in plain words.
🌎 WTI ≈+5% — Monday's real move wasn't in stocks
Wall Street slipped 0.1% while WTI crude jumped about 5% on the Hormuz standoff. When one market moves ten times the others, that's where the news landed.
🌎 CPI Wednesday — the week that tests the Fed story
July CPI lands Wednesday, PPI Thursday, retail sales Friday. How a beginner reads an inflation-heavy week after a jobs shock.
🌎 S&P 500 +0.6% to a record — on a bad jobs number
The US lost 23,000 jobs in July and the S&P 500 closed at a record anyway — Friday's close, and the logic behind it, in plain words.
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