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December 24, 2025

Why Markets Are Growing Comfortable With Higher-For-Longer Rates

Investor behavior suggests restrictive policy is no longer seen as an immediate threat to growth or assets. Financial markets are sending a clear message: elevated interest rates, once viewed as a looming

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December 21, 2025

The Bond Market Is Sending a Cautious Equity Signal

Stable yields may reflect confidence in inflation control, but also skepticism about growth. Equity investors have taken comfort in the bond market’s recent calm, interpreting steady government yields as a sign that

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February 5, 2026

Policy Divergence Is Back—and Markets Are Underpricing the Currency Shock

Europe’s inflation is easing faster than America’s, but investors still seem reluctant to price what a renewed rate-and-growth split could do to stocks, bonds, and the dollar. The global “soft landing” narrative

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Are 5%+ Treasury Yields the Biggest Threat to the AI-Fueled Bull Market?

For much of the past two years, artificial intelligence has been the dominant force driving equity markets higher. Technology giants have delivered impressive earnings growth, semiconductor demand has surged, and investors have

October 2, 2026

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Treasury Yields Above 5% Could Become the Biggest Threat to Stocks

For much of 2026, investors have focused on artificial intelligence, corporate earnings, and economic resilience as the primary drivers of market performance. Yet a growing number of strategists now argue that the

September 24, 2026

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Fed’s Words May Matter More Than Today’s Rate Hike for Investors

Wall Street is waiting for the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision, but the most important market signal today may not be the rate itself. Investors have increasingly positioned for a 25-basis-point rate hike,

September 16, 2026

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The Fed Should Not Turn an Oil Shock Into a Rate Shock

With crude nearing $100 and hiring unexpectedly resilient, the Federal Reserve faces pressure to tighten policy, but reacting mechanically to an energy-driven inflation shock risks creating a second problem without solving the

September 8, 2026

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The Fed’s Inflation Warning Changes the Equity Math

Investors have spent much of 2026 treating resilient growth, artificial-intelligence spending and eventual monetary easing as compatible parts of the same bullish story, but renewed inflation pressure is making that combination harder

August 31, 2026

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Bond Markets Are Sending Washington a Warning

Rising long-term Treasury yields suggest investors increasingly care less about short-term rate cuts and more about the durability of U.S. fiscal policy. The most important market signal this week did not come

August 21, 2026

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Cooling Inflation Is a Reprieve, Not a Bull-Market Blank Check

Softer U.S. price data gives the Federal Reserve room to wait, but investors should resist treating a pause in tightening as the beginning of another easy-money cycle. The latest U.S. inflation numbers

August 13, 2026

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Record Highs Are Concealing a More Fragile Market

Wall Street’s resilience reflects strong earnings and artificial-intelligence optimism, but investors are underpricing the risks posed by expensive valuations, heavy capital spending and renewed energy inflation. The stock market’s latest record-setting advance

August 5, 2026

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The AI Sell-Off Is a Discipline Test, Not a Verdict

Investors are right to question the scale of artificial-intelligence spending, but abandoning the sector wholesale risks confusing financial scrutiny with technological failure. The global retreat from semiconductor and artificial-intelligence stocks is less

July 28, 2026

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The AI Trade Needed a Reality Check

The semiconductor selloff is less a verdict on artificial intelligence than a warning that even transformative technologies cannot justify unlimited prices. The sharp retreat in semiconductor shares should not be mistaken for

July 17, 2026

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Why Markets Are Growing Comfortable With Higher-For-Longer Rates

The Bond Market Is Sending a Cautious Equity Signal

Policy Divergence Is Back—and Markets Are Underpricing the Currency Shock

Are 5%+ Treasury Yields the Biggest Threat to the AI-Fueled Bull Market?

Treasury Yields Above 5% Could Become the Biggest Threat to Stocks

Fed’s Words May Matter More Than Today’s Rate Hike for Investors

The Fed Should Not Turn an Oil Shock Into a Rate Shock

The Fed’s Inflation Warning Changes the Equity Math

Bond Markets Are Sending Washington a Warning

Cooling Inflation Is a Reprieve, Not a Bull-Market Blank Check

Record Highs Are Concealing a More Fragile Market

The AI Sell-Off Is a Discipline Test, Not a Verdict

The AI Trade Needed a Reality Check

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