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What's Happening in Equities

Equity markets face competing pressures from fractured monetary transmission and structural shifts in how capital flows through markets. Rising Treasury yields now operate independently of crude prices, leaving rate expectations tethered to inflation data and Fed policy rather than energy cycles; simultaneously, yields approaching 5% compress equity valuations by raising discount rates on corporate earnings and making bonds more attractive relative to stocks. Political instability in Indonesia and talent emigration from emerging markets erode the growth narratives underpinning emerging equity valuations, while fragmentation of trading venues—tokenized stock platforms operating round-the-clock alongside traditional exchanges—splinters liquidity and complicates price discovery for retail and institutional traders alike. Within equities themselves, AI infrastructure providers like CoreWeave are beating revenue forecasts and raising guidance, signaling durable demand for GPU compute capacity, yet this strength coexists with reassessment of AI-driven valuations that have anchored recent market gains, creating divergence between infrastructure beneficiaries and the software and semiconductor names that drove the sector's earlier rally.

Equities cover stocks and ownership shares in publicly and privately traded companies across all sectors and geographies.

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